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We are delighted to be participating in the New Orleans Bookfair again. This year, Le Salon Press will offer books of literary fiction, b&w photographs, and postcards by Kristin Fouquet. We are excited to welcome original photography by Oliver Fouquet and original artwork by Leo Chenevert!
Hope you can make it on Saturday!
**UPDATE** 12/7/18 Tomorrow! Rain or shine... okay rain, but it's indoors at the amazing Gasa Gasa! Sport that fancy trenchcoat and those golashes or shrimp boots you never get to don in the sunshine and support local writers and artists! Art makes the perfect gift for yourself or others! We'll be offering books, photographs, illustrations, and postcards. Find my table and tell me I sent you! www.neworleansbookfair.com www.gasagasa.com |
"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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