I'm so excited to have one of my photographs chosen to compete in OffBeat Magazine's Best Louisiana Music Photography of 2013 contest. My entry is of Ben Perrine, son of musicians Debbie Davis and Matt Perrine. The five photographs with the most "likes" by Monday, December 16th, will be printed in OffBeat's January 2014 issue. So, follow the link, "like" the ones you really like- you can even "like" them all. The competition is steep and only four days left to vote/like. Thanks!
"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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