Confab with a Contributor: Ethan Chatagnier
by Soniah Kamal · October 13, 20141) “Every Face Was in the Crowd,” featured in Five Points Vol. 16, No .1 , is the story of an art student who struggles between the [...]
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Check Out The New Five Points Web Site!
by Megan Sexton · October 02, 2014It’s been eighteen years since the first issue of Five Points was published. A lot has changed on the literary landscape since then. The verbs “to [...]
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Melodically Challenged: GSU’s Poetry Radio Show
by Mike Saye · March 17, 2014Every Sunday afternoon from 2:00pm to 4:00pm, students from Georgia State University’s Creative Writing Program compile a program of contemporary, traditional, classic, slam, and avant-garde poetry [...]
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Mat Play: On Writing and Yoga
by Kathleen Kraft · February 03, 2014I sometimes find writing about the asanas (poses or postures) perplexing because there’s an ineffable quality in the practice, one that feels pre-linguistic. The feeling takes me back [...]
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Shaving,
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Other Ironies
Best American Essays
by Megan Sexton · November 05, 2013Five Points is pleased to announce that James Rioux’s essay “Tattoos, Death Metal, Shaving, and other Ironies” has received the title of Notable Essay in the [...]
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Featured Poem: “A Man’s Little Heart’s Short Fever Fit” by Thomas Lux
by Megan Sexton · October 10, 2013It’s been a while since we’ve had a featured poem on our blog, so what better time than today, with the release our newest issue right [...]
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