Philip Levine: Beyond the Blue Collar
by Greg Emilio · November 07, 2016“Now I too am among the stars.” [...]
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Connecting with Madison Smartt Bell’s “April 1863”
by Ally Wright · October 24, 2016War has never seemed to me something I could write about. Worthy of being written about, obviously, but too grand for my never-having-been-to-war brain. How do [...]
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Confab with a Contributor: Ethan Chatagnier
by Soniah Kamal · October 13, 20141) “Every Face Was in the Crowd,” featured in Five Points Vol. 16, No .1 , is the story of an art student who struggles between the [...]
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Mat Play: On Writing and Yoga
by Kathleen Kraft · February 03, 2014I sometimes find writing about the asanas (poses or postures) perplexing because there’s an ineffable quality in the practice, one that feels pre-linguistic. The feeling takes me back [...]
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Shaving,
and
Other Ironies
Best American Essays
by Megan Sexton · November 05, 2013Five Points is pleased to announce that James Rioux’s essay “Tattoos, Death Metal, Shaving, and other Ironies” has received the title of Notable Essay in the [...]
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Featured Poem: “A Man’s Little Heart’s Short Fever Fit” by Thomas Lux
by Megan Sexton · October 10, 2013It’s been a while since we’ve had a featured poem on our blog, so what better time than today, with the release our newest issue right [...]
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