Meeting the Sealey Challenge
by Liz Garcia · September 24, 2025If you’re a writer, you have at some point received the advice to read, read, read. William Faulkner’s statement, in a 1956 Paris Review interview, to [...]
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“Somehow we got out of there alive / though we didn’t quite return:” On Kiki Petrosino’s WITCH WIFE
by Caroline Crew · September 24, 2018Kiki Petrosino’s third collection, Witch Wife, begins with the self-reflexive invocation, “Self-Portrait.” This poem ranges its language from the opening line’s keening question, “Little gal, who [...]
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Philip Levine: Beyond the Blue Collar
by Greg Emilio · November 07, 2016“Now I too am among the stars.” [...]
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Revival of the Spirit
by Charles Bailey · April 28, 2016The last dregs of my undergraduate college days are closing in. It is a melange of sleepless nights, anxiety, and molehills of coursework that would disturb [...]
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Morning (and Mourning) in “Time To Go”
by James Brady · April 26, 2016What is it you like about morning? The freshness of the leaves under the golden glow? The odd, indefinable scent of the waking woods? The crisp [...]
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Connecting with Andrea Hollander Budy’s “Thanksgiving”
by Whit Bolado · April 25, 2016In her poem, Thanksgiving, first published in Five Points Vol. 12, No. 3, Andrea Hollander Budy delivers a scene familiar to me, and many others, I can only imagine. [...]
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