Connecting with Viet Dinh’s “Substitutes”
by Linda Tran · April 12, 2017The turbulent firing of machine guns in the heart of Saigon during 1968 terrified my grandmother. The first day of the bloodbath was the only day [...]
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Floating the Boat
by Lindsay Green · March 30, 2017This is the first in a series of pieces on “A-Town Oddities” I wrote for Five Points Literary Journal, featuring unusual and intriguing sites in Atlanta [...]
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Put Us on Your #AWP 2017 Dance Card!
by Megan Sexton · January 19, 2017Join us for readings from the Five Points Flash Fiction issue, edited by Josh Russell, featuring: Kim Chinquee Michael Griffith Michael [...]
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No Regrets with “Things I’ve Done Since She’s Stopped Calling” by Laura Dave
by Linda Tran · February 06, 2017The motto of life: you don’t know what you’ve lost until you’ve lost it. It’s a global feeling from the loss of tiny trinkets to huge [...]
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Connecting with Moya Cannon’s “Chauvet”
by Taylor D'Amico · January 25, 2017Drawing from ancient cave paintings found in the Chauvet cave in France, Moya Cannon’s poem Chauvet, first published in Five Points Vol. 9 No. 3, speaks to [...]
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Beauty Is Embarrassing
by Hannah Doyle · January 25, 2017The title “Beauty Is Embarrassing” comes from a documentary about artist Wayne White (a fun watch, especially if you like Pee-wee’s Playhouse), but this post is rather [...]
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