Five Points, Vol. 12 No. 2

Fall 2008

From Philip Schultz, “I always thought if I gave up poetry it would lead to happiness, because I was always writing about how unhappy I was, and it turned out to be the opposite.”

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Jim Harrison
    • Mapman
    • Early Fishing
    • Fibber
    • On Horseback in China
    • Sunday Discordancies
    • My Leader
  • Philip Schultz
    • The Real Reason
  • Sam Pereira
    • Dog & Father
  • Kate Daniels
  • Christopher Buckley
    • Poverty
    • Looking West from Montecito, Late Afternoon
    • Guess Work
  • John Poch
    • Ocean
  • Billy Collins
  • Laurence Lieberman
    • Visible Snarl of the Monolith
  • Robert Claiborne Morris
    • Terminal Rain

Fiction

  • Rosellen Brown / Wedding of the Week
  • Melanie Sumner / Emergence
  • Stay Grimes / Zig Zag Lane
  • Julia Glass / The Price of Silver

Essay

Interviews

  • André Bernard / An Interview with Philip Schultz
  • Andrea Carter Brown / An Interview with Mark Doty

Portfolio

  • Nancy Marshall / Andalusia