Revival of the Spirit
by Charles Bailey · April 28, 2016The last dregs of my undergraduate college days are closing in. It is a melange of sleepless nights, anxiety, and molehills of coursework that would disturb [...]
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Berwyn Moore to Receive the James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by admin · June 15, 2015We are thrilled to announce Berwyn Moore as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her poems will be published in the Volume 17, number [...]
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More Cinema: On Alien, PTA, and Los Angeles
by Jamey McDermott · January 26, 2015Alien is my favorite movie. There have been challengers over the years—Brazil, Chungking Express, and Blue Velvet, to name a few—but I can’t shake that first [...]
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In Memory of Ellen Douglas
by admin · November 14, 2012The Los Angeles Times has posted a lovely piece in memory of Ellen Douglas (whose real name was Josephine Ayres Haxton), a National Book Award nominee [...]
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In Memory of Louis Simpson
by admin · September 19, 2012Five Points was saddened to hear about the recent passing of Louis Simpson, who died last Friday at the age of 89. Mr. Simpson, a Pulitzer [...]
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Five Points Earns 5-Star Review from “The Review Review”
by admin · August 22, 2012The Review Review (I’m not kidding–that’s really the site’s name) has published a stellar 5-star review titled “Where Beautiful Writing Converges” for Five Points’s Spring 2012 [...]
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