Five Points, Vol. 20, no. 1

Summer

"Everybody has a role to play; whatever you like is connected to something you’re not paying attention to yet. That’s the fun and unending satisfaction of figuring it out as you go."
—Joshua Weiner

Table of Contents

Poetry

  • Mark Jarman
    • Eating Octopus
    • Near Cape Lookout
    • Providence
  • Anne Marie Macari
    • Tidal
    • The Room 
    • I Feel the Need of a Deeper Baptism
  • Wyn Cooper
    • False Compasses
    • Go
  • Jill Bialosky
    • from Asylum
  • Kathy Nelson
    • I Never Thought My Mother
    • I Walked into the Snow
  • Rick Hilles
    • The Perplexities of Time & Space at Last Explained (Eventually, Amid Rain Delays)
    • Mission Statement
    • Song for the Vultures
  • Lance Larsen
    • Making a Kingdom of It
  • Stuart Dischell
    • Action in the Pacific
    • White Horse Pike
  • George Scarbrough
    • Poems

Fiction

  • Nicholas Delbanco
    • Two Part Invention
  • Amber Wheeler Bacon
    • We Were Vessels
  • Pamela Painter
    • Cochineal

Essays

  • Evanthia Bromiley
    • Ricochet
  • Scott Hightower
    • Marcelle, Queen of the Barn
  • Denise Duhamel & Julie Marie Wade
    • Three Wishes
  • Donna Coffey Little
    • The View from Exile Mountain: George Scarbrough in Spacetime

 Translation

  • Luigi Pirandello translated by Marella Feltrin-Morris
    • Our Memories

Art

  • Ashley Kauschinger
    • Our Brother

Special Feature: Hot Rocks: Songs and Verse #11

  • Ernest Suarez
    • An Interview with Joshua Weiner
  • Joshua Weiner
    • The Mandolin
    • Zero to the Bone: Thelonious Monk, Emily Dickinson, and the Rhythms of Modernism
  • Lisa Russ Spaar
    • Mars Madrigal
    • Meeting Madrigal
    • Hatchlings Madrigal
    • River Birches Madrigal
    • Ruby-Crowned
    • Kinglet Madrigal
  • Ryan Wilson
    • Behind the Music
  • Kevin Saylor
    • “Five Types of ‘Like a Rolling Stone’”
  • Marco Antolín
    • The Search for Inspiration and Poetic Apprenticeship: Philip Levine on Translating Antonio Machado and Learning from Garcia Lorca
  • Derek Ellis
    • Returning 
    • If This Were a Parable
  • Mark Edmundson
    • Clinton Contemplates 2020 Presidential Run
  • Diana Senechal
    • Translating an Understanding of Poetry Itself: Tomas Venclova’s “Pestel Street”
  • Leila Philip
    • A Sense of Oneness withSprSun and Stone