Five Points, Vol. 19, no. 2
Summer 2019"I’ve always kept one foot out of the academy. This has always been a conscious act on my part. Physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally. I refuse to let the academy have me in any kind of whole way."
—Nikky Finney
Table of Contents
Poetry
- Nikky Finney / Hot Bed #11
- Ann Townsend / Errors of Beauty /
- The Abattoir
- The Space We Made That Had No Name
- George Kalogeris / Hades
- Grackle
- Liz Robbins / Circle K Bouquet
- Cynde Gregory / Muguets
- Robert Wrigley / Green Lacewings / Crescendo
- Allison Hutchcraft / So I Try to Picture the Priests
- David Lehman / Second Wind /Waterloo
- Gerald Stern / Blue Hills Road
- Miss Steiner, Her Glasses
- Red and Swollen
- The Time
- Dan Veach / Translations from the Chinese
- Gregory Fraser / The Good News
- Translation the First
- Fatherland
- Terese Svoboda / The Anchors Speak
- Kristin Robertson / Bottle Tree
- Billy Collins / 3-Piece
- Vita Contemplativa
- Carl Dennis / Primitive
- Taije Silverman / The Absolute Door
- Poem without Antigone
Fiction
- Maud Casey / A Heartless Child
- Ivy Goodman / Toreador
- Andre Dubus / Madeline Sheppard
Essays
- E. Shaskan Bumas / Elvis Island
- Beveryly Donofrio / Icon
Interview
- Elizabeth J. West / An Interview with Nikky Finney
Portfolio
- PamLongobardi / “Prophetic Objects” and “Evidence of Crimes”
- Randy Malamud / Commentary
Special Feature: Hot Rocks #10
- Mike Mattison & Ernest Suarez / Introduction
- Jenny Xie / The Seer and the Unseen
- Francesco Ciabattoni / Dante’s Song of Joy in Paradiso 10–14
- T. R. Hummer /“On a Jet to the Promised Land”:
Riding the Lyric Turbine - John Savoie / The Sound of Sonnets: “Tangled Up in Blue”
- Al Basile / Blues Primeval
- C.C. Reid / Into the Dusk-Charged Air
- Stephen Cushman / Charles Wright, Outside the Mailroom