I'm thrilled to have five photographs and a short story, "Zahara and Her Sultans," in this issue of MiCrow with so many talented people: Lynn Alexander, Walter Bjorkman , Ron Burch, Sara B. Chaney, Erin Cole, Aleathia Drehmer , Michelle Elvy, Kristin Fouquet , Jack Galmitz, Joseph P. Grant, Abha Iyengar, Laurie Kolp, Len Kuntz, Kate Mahony. Thomas Morgan, Rouschwalawe, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Jessamyn Smyth, Janice D. Soderling, Joanne Spataro, John Swain , Cynthia A. Williams, and Angel Zapata, Michael J. Solender.
"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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