Five Points, Vol. 19, no. 3

Winter 2019

"I would say that writing gives me the greatest pleasure of anything in life, that writing is what is fulfilling for me; there is nothing else in life like it when it is happening, and that when it is happening it is just a matter of stepping aside."
—William Gay

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Edward Hirsch
    • The Elevated Train
    •  Chemistry Lesson
    • Waste Management
  • Gregory Fraser
    • One Sunday Dusk
    • Brown
    • The Boss
  • Chad Davidson
    • Putting In
    • Pluto
    • Comet
  • Katherine Soniat
    • Telemachus Seeking
    • Penelope’s Womb
    •  A Son is Born
  • John Poch
    • Santa Maria la Blanca
  • Heather Sellers
    • Bush Gardens
  • Alison Prine
    • Drive Home 
    • Wishbone
  • Chris Ketchum
    • Disordering
  • Barbara Hamby
    • Ode on the Diner
    •  Ode to Neruda’s Hats in Isla Negra
  • Pablo Medina
    •  Love Machine
  • Elaine Sexton
    • This
  • Sharon Dolin
  • Mike Good
    •  On Dragon’s Tooth, October 2015
  • ChristopherBuckley
    • After Tu Fu
  • Cameron A. Lawrence
    • The Recent Fires
  • Anna Lena Phillips Bell
    • Everal

Fiction

  • Benjamin Paloff
    •  52°24’20.7’’N 16°55’43.6’’E
  • Karin Cecile Davidson
    • Bobwhite
  • Tess Allard
    •  Inscrutable Beast
  • Terese Svoboda
    • A Close One

Essays

  • Julia Glass
    • “FRAGO” by Phil Klay
  • Charlotte Matthews
    • Book Mending
  • Lenore Myka
    • Storylines

Interview

  • J.M. White
    • An Interview with William Gay

Portfolio

  • William Gay
    • Paintings
  • Dawn Major
    • A Window into William Gay: A Southern Author, 
                      A Southern Painter