Brevity Photographs

I have ten photographs in Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. This was an interesting project for me because the editor requested that my photos would not "illustrate" the individual essays and if a connection between them did emerge that it would be an instinctual or transitory one. Click on an essay title to read and view the result of this arrangement.

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Perpetual Poetry: Words Inspiring Words, a review

"Reading Karen Lillis" copyright 2014 Kristin Fouquet Perpetual Poetry: Words Inspiring Words a review of The Paul Simon Project by Karen Lillis I have a confession to make. I am not a poet. I write fiction and I believe writing poetry is a completely different process. I love reading good poetry, but I am in no way a poetry scholar. These are the reasons I usually do not review poetry chapbooks. The Paul Simon Project by Karen Lillis is only my second exception to this rule. Influenced by Simon’s words and music on the album Still Crazy After All These Years , Lillis duplicates the song titles for her poems in this collection. Some follow a similar path as the subject of the song; others venture in their own direction. The album’s title song inspires a poem which mimics the melancholy and sentimentality of the original. Yet, she pumps it up with a contemporary edginess and gender reversal. In “M...

"Where Photography Meets Collage" Opening Reception

I'm so excited to have my surrealist postcard collage, "Wish You Were Here in Pensacola," included in this extraordinary exhibit, "Where Photography Meets Collage." The exhibit runs at the gallery June 12- July 28, 2024. I hope you can make it!

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