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| "Fouquet Chocolatier" copyright 2013 Kristin Fouquet All is well here at Chez Fouquet in New Orleans. We were fortunate to be spared the wrath of Barry and didn't even lose electricity. Many thanks for the concern and all the wishes- it means a lot. So, as we get back to normal here, I am thinking of Paris. Happy Bastille Day! #BastilleDay
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"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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