Connecting with Kim Addonizio’s “Insomnia Song”
by Sophia Tone · March 23, 2023Girlbosses will hate this poem. I am not a girlboss—in fact, I tend to the apathetic side of the spectrum. But I still feel the pressure, [...]
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David Bottoms, Georgia’s former poet laureate, dies at 73
by Megan Sexton · March 16, 2023It is with deep sadness we share that David Bottoms died on Friday, March 10. David joined the Georgia State faculty in 1982 and retired in [...]
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Connecting With “Becoming A Child” by George David Clark
by Jireh Hodges · January 31, 2023As a college student a semester away from graduation, the reality of my adult life is looming ever closer. It’s hard to face the fact that [...]
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Madame Bovary: What is food if you can’t consume it?
by Karen Sims · September 26, 2022by Karen Sims Madame Bovary is a food novel: food echoes itself across the narrative, and Flaubert uses food to highlight the characters bourgeois angst. However, [...]
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James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by Megan Sexton · September 21, 2022We are pleased to announce that Susan Browne of Chico, California, has been awarded the Five Points 2021-2022 Five Points James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her [...]
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Interview: Maud Casey on CITY OF INCURABLE WOMEN
by Jada Ford · April 20, 2022City of Incurable Women by Maud Casey is a symphony of words and photographs; in the following interview, the author discusses her writing process, the history [...]
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