Five Points is a valuable source of rich and interesting poetry and prose, and we encourage all libraries to consider adding Five Points to their permanent collection.
We are represented by Ebsco and Harrassowitz library agencies, and Five Points is indexed by the MLA Directory of Periodicals, The American Humanities Index, and the Index of American Periodical Verse.
Five Points is ranked in the top ten magazines in the nation by Every Writer’s Resource. Works first published in Five Points have been selected to appear in Best American Short Stories, Best American Poetry, O’Henry Prize Stories, Pushcart Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the South, Utne Reader, Harper’s, and Poetry Daily. Previous contributors include Richard Bausch, Ann Beattie, Frederick Busch, Edward Hirsch, Barbara Hamby, David Kirby, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Joyce Carol Oates, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Christine Stewart, Martin Walls, Charles Wright, and many others.
Please contact us for additional information about adding Five Points to your library’s permanent collection.