“Spring Sonnets” by Don Yorty
by Scott Hightower · October 23, 2019(Indolent Books, 978-1-945023-22-4, 2019, $19.99) Don Yorty notes that he started writing a large set of sonnets shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. They [...]
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LITTLE-KNOWN OPERAS, Patrick Donnelly
by Scott Hightower · September 11, 2019LITTLE-KNOWN OPERAS, Patrick Donnelly (Four Way Books, 9781945588310, 2019, 15.95) In one of the opening poems of Patrick Donnelly’s “Little-Known Operas” an-eater-of-songbirds covers his head to [...]
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Announcing Kathy Nelson as the Winner of our James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by Megan Sexton · July 09, 2019We are delighted to announce Kathy Nelson as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work will be published in the Vol. 20, no. 1 issue [...]
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AMY LEMMON: “THE RISK OF MAKING THIS ABOUT ME”
by Scott Hightower · May 17, 2019“THE MIRACLES” Amy Lemmon: C & R Press, 978-1-949540-00-0, $16.00 Writing is a socially charged, personal art. It is a direct line from the artist’s mouth [...]
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Connecting with John Poch’s “Freight Dreams”
by Mark McGovern · April 28, 2019Manual labor, recurring dreams, and difficult coworkers are just some of the things that help me connect with “Freight Dreams” by John Poch. The essay, published [...]
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Remembering the Blues
by Ross McWaters · May 07, 2019In the Vol. 18, no. 2 issue of Five Points, Kirk West recalls the blues scene in Chicago during the late 60s in his piece, “Blues [...]
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