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I'm delighted to have four photographs from my "Phobic Portraiture" series published in Issue 63 of Rogue Agent Journal . I highly recommend reading the poignant poetry throughout the issue. Powerful and honest. Many thanks to editor, Jill Khoury!

Ringing in the new year/decade with Right Hand Pointing's Issue 136, part 2 , with poems of the months of the year. Since I don't write poetry, I was delighted they published my photograph, "Aout." Many thanks to editor and publisher, Dale Wisely!

The new issue of Light is available: Neglected . I'm thrilled to have my photograph "Attic Squat" included alongside stunning photography and haunting poetry.

The Spring issue of Hobo Camp Review is live! There's stellar poetry and prose, book reviews, and an interview. I'm delighted to announce my photograph, "Temporary Neighborhood," was selected for the cover. Many thanks to the dedicated editor, James H Duncan!

I'm pleased to announce I'll have a table at this year's bookfair. If you're in town, stop by and say, "hi." I haven't participated since the 2011 bookfair.  Poet David Rowe visits me at my table during the 2011 New Orleans bookfair.  (photo by Mark Folse )

                          

"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...

If You Forget Me I want you to know  one thing.  You know how this is:  if I look  at the crystal moon, at the red branch  of the slow autumn at my window,  if I touch  near the fire  the impalpable ash  or the wrinkled body of the log,  everything carries me to you,  as if everything that exists,  aromas, light, metals,  were little boats  that sail  toward those isles of yours that wait for me.  Well, now,  if little by little you stop loving me  I shall stop loving you little by little.  If suddenly  you forget me  do not look for me,  for I shall already have forgotten you.  If you think it long and mad,  the wind of banners  that passes through my life,  and you decide  to leave me at the shore  of the heart where I have roots,  remember  that on that day...

Montmartre Cemetery, Paris. copyright 2013 Kristin Fouquet Read terrific fiction and poetry and view some of my Parisian Graveyard photographs throughout the magazine. Celebrate the 75th issue of Danse Macabre   simply by clicking here .

I'm honored to have been the inspiration for a poem by Mercedes Webb-Pullman entitled "The Photographess." Thanks, Mercedes, for writing it and Adam Henry Carriere for publishing it. The link is here:  http://www.dansemacabreonline.com/#!__dm-59/poetry

The Poetry Bomb is a former U.S. military practice bomb. The artifact will be completely converted into a beautiful object filled with poetry from around the world. When finished, it will have a primo paint job just as if it were a classic car, complete with pin-striping. It will also have a window or portal that will open and close making it possible to not only see inside of the piece, but to take poems out at performances to read out loud, and to add future submissions. Once converted, I will take The Poetry Bomb on tour across the United States, and then, who knows? Plan on beginning the tour in late April of 2010. It was mentioned in The New Yorker and I hear it may be making a stop at Chez Fouquet in New Orleans. Find out more here .