by Megan Sexton · July 09, 2019
We are delighted to announce Kathy Nelson as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work will be published in the Vol. 20, no. 1 issue [...]
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by Scott Hightower · May 17, 2019
“THE MIRACLES” Amy Lemmon: C & R Press, 978-1-949540-00-0, $16.00 Writing is a socially charged, personal art. It is a direct line from the artist’s mouth [...]
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by Mark McGovern · April 28, 2019
Manual labor, recurring dreams, and difficult coworkers are just some of the things that help me connect with “Freight Dreams” by John Poch. The essay, published [...]
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by Ross McWaters · May 07, 2019
In the Vol. 18, no. 2 issue of Five Points, Kirk West recalls the blues scene in Chicago during the late 60s in his piece, “Blues [...]
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by Nise Jones · May 03, 2019
It’s frightening—a life not known, the constant wonder about what the future might hold. Even worse is being caught up in it all and forgetting [...]
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by Justin Nguyen · April 30, 2019
There’s something I have in common with “Easeful Death,” featured in Five Points, Vol 11, no.3. An ugly feeling, one that lurks in the backseat of [...]
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