The Five-Two

From co-creating The Lineup to founding The Five-Two , my goal has been not to glorify, but to bear stark witness to crime. Published ...

Lineup #3 contributor Patti Abbott offers an original poem for Day 27 of 30 Days of The 5-2 .

Michigan writer and Lineup #3 alum Patricia Abbott offers another look at "Eating Pears" by Kim Welliver on Day 21 of 30 Days of ...

I'm pleased to have contributed an original poem, "Hushed", to a new anthology edited by Thomas Pluck, thirty-nine stories and...

As you may know, The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly has its roots in The Lineup: Poems on Crime . Author, blogger, and poet Nigel Bird discusses ...

Lineup #3 alum Patti Abbott discusses Chad Haskins' "Apparition". See the full 30 Days of The 5-2 schedule .

For the third stop on the So Dark For April blog tour , Lineup alum Patricia Abbott praises the poetry of Charles Harper Webb .

Just out from eBook publisher Untreed Reads is an anthology of forty-two stories of murder, mayhem, and more set around superstore chain Meg...

Lineup 3 contributor Patricia Abbott sent in this photo of members of her writing group. Lineup contributors and fans, if you have pho...

Poet, bookseller, and author of the Clay Blackburn P.I. series: Crime writers and poets have a deep understanding of what Lorien Niedecker...

Patricia Abbott is the Derringer Award-winning author of more than 60 short stories and the poetry chapbook "Next to the Serengeti Bal...