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Connecting with Andrea Hollander Budy’s “Thanksgiving”

by Whit Bolado · April 25, 2016

In her poem, Thanksgiving, first published in Five Points Vol. 12, No. 3, Andrea Hollander Budy delivers a scene familiar to me, and many others, I can only imagine. [...]

When Kate Daniels’s “When I Became the Muse” Became My Muse

by Kalyn Hardman · April 15, 2016

Today you can do almost anything on the internet—video chat with a friend who recently moved to Bangkok for work, discover the meaning of trap and [...]

Following “Instructions to the Coast”

by Josh Ruby · April 15, 2016

A wonderful poem dense with imagery, “Instructions to the Coast,” first published in Five Points Vol. 15, No. 1&2, by Kevin Cantwell is a piece that [...]

Sitting at “White Heron Pond”

by whitney cooper · April 13, 2016

In our busy lives, we all come to long for peace and rest. In David Baker’s “White Heron Pond,” this is exactly what we find. Reading [...]

Connecting with Kim Addonizio’s “Storm Catechism”

by stephanie brooks · April 13, 2016

Each spring one of the first rhymes my mother taught me—the classic, “April showers bring May flowers” runs through my mind. If you’ve lived east of [...]

Loving with Ann Townsend’s “Love Poem, Unwritten”

by Linda Tran · April 11, 2016

These three words, “I love you,” roll off our tongues so easily these days, years. To family and friends. To significant others. But with our friends [...]