Morning (and Mourning) in “Time To Go”
by James Brady · April 26, 2016What is it you like about morning? The freshness of the leaves under the golden glow? The odd, indefinable scent of the waking woods? The crisp [...]
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Connecting with Andrea Hollander Budy’s “Thanksgiving”
by Whit Bolado · April 25, 2016In her poem, Thanksgiving, first published in Five Points Vol. 12, No. 3, Andrea Hollander Budy delivers a scene familiar to me, and many others, I can only imagine. [...]
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In His Own Words: The Original Poetry of Rumi Translation Sensation Coleman Barks
by David Revzin · April 22, 2016If you have ever fallen under the spell of the words of the Sufi poet Rumi, and those words were in English, chances are good that [...]
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When Kate Daniels’s “When I Became the Muse” Became My Muse
by Kalyn Hardman · April 15, 2016Today you can do almost anything on the internet—video chat with a friend who recently moved to Bangkok for work, discover the meaning of trap and [...]
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Following “Instructions to the Coast”
by Josh Ruby · April 15, 2016A wonderful poem dense with imagery, “Instructions to the Coast,” first published in Five Points Vol. 15, No. 1&2, by Kevin Cantwell is a piece that [...]
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Sitting at “White Heron Pond”
by whitney cooper · April 13, 2016In our busy lives, we all come to long for peace and rest. In David Baker’s “White Heron Pond,” this is exactly what we find. Reading [...]
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