Happy New Year from Five Points!
by Megan Sexton · January 01, 2013Well, it’s officially 2013, so why not ring in the new year with a poem? The Old Year by John Clare *** The Old Year's gone [...]
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Featured Prose: Amish in a Time of War by Lauren Groff
by Megan Sexton · December 05, 2012Amish in a Time of War, by Lauren Groff Ten miles out of Lancaster, they slow to an idle behind a buggy that sends up plumes [...]
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Let’s Talk About Performance
by Mike Saye · November 28, 2012The performance of poetry is something we tend to let fall to the wayside during the writing process. In my experience, reading a poem out loud [...]
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In Memory of Ellen Douglas
by Megan Sexton · 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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Review: Natasha Trethewey’s “Thrall”
by Christine Swint · October 17, 2012Coinciding with Natasha Trethewey’s appointment as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States is the launch of her fourth collection of poetry, Thrall (Houghton Mifflin [...]
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Literature Reading: Anya Silver and Hugh Sheehy!
by Megan Sexton · October 03, 2012Five Points is proud to announce an upcoming reading featuring Anya Silver and Hugh Sheehy! The reading is FREE to the public and will take place [...]
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