The Sealey Challenge: How Does it Help?
by Liz Garcia · September 24, 2025William Faulkner’s stated in a 1956 Paris Review interview to “Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.” Though I [...]
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The James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by Olivia Ivings · May 28, 2025We are pleased to announce that Sean Sutherland has been awarded the Five Points 2025–2026 James Dickey Prize for Poetry. His work will be published in Vol. 24, no. [...]
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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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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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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. [...]
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Announcing Benjamin Gucciardi as the winner of the 2020–2021 James Dickey Poetry Prize
by Megan Sexton · June 02, 2021We are delighted to announce Benjamin Gucciardi as the winner of the 2020-2021 James Dickey Prize for Poetry. His work will be published in the Vol. 21, no. 2 issue [...]
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