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| "Members' Exhibition Opening with Kristin Fouquet" copyright 2012 James Thiebaud
Here I am laughing and looking insanely happy with my two photographs at the Members' Exhibition opening on June 9th. I've learned the exhibit has been extended until July 22nd. So, if you're in New Orleans, you can pop by the New Orleans Photo Alliance's gallery on St. Mary to view it. If not, the show is now online at the website here:
http://neworleansphotoalliance.org/exhibitions.php?id=34 |
"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...
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