Five Points, Vol. 12 No. 3

Fall 2009

From J. D. McClatchy, “What I think of as distinctly American in [my poems] is their interest in the idea of Elsewhere, and their obsession with the self.”

Table of Contents

POETRY

  • Rodney Jones
    • The Eviction
    • The Trip to Opelika
    • The Moons: Notes on the Formation of Self
    • North Alabama Endtime
  • J. D. McClatchy
    • Trees,Walking
  • Jane Hirshfield
  • David Baker
    • Middling
    • Pseudo acacia
  • Andrea Hollander Budy
    • Thanksgiving
  • Carl Dennis
    • Mission to Ganymede
    • Other Options
  • Kim Adonnizio
    • In the Lonely Universe
    • There Seems No Way to Get at It
    • Storm Catechism  
  • Lauren Watel
  • Wesley McNair
    • For My Wife
    • November 22, 1963

FICTION

  • Ann Beattie / Apologies to Auden
  • Celia Dovell Bell / One Hundred Names for the Sea
  • Alice Hoffman / Owl and Mouse
  • Melanie Rae Thon / Retreating Light
  • Ed Falco / Candy
  • Alexandra Marshall / Come and Get Me  

ESSAY

INTERVIEW

  • Peter Campion / An Interview with J. D. McClatchy

PORTFOLIO

  • Saul Leiter / Photographs
  • Lincoln Perry / Illustration