JULIET COOK'S POETRY
Juliet Cook's poetry has been published in Diagram, Diode, Octopus, Prick of the Spindle, Sein und Werden, Womb, and many other fine online and print sources.
She is a Pushcart Prize Nominee and one of her poems was selected for inclusion in Sundress Publications Best of the Net 2007 Anthology.
A listing of some of her literary magazine publication credits can be perused below.
Links to selected recent online publications can be browsed to your right.
Juliet Cook’s selected publication credits:
online—
-27 Rue de Fleures
-Abjective
-Action, Yes (coming soon)
-Apocryphal Text
-Blossombones
-Bone Bouquet (coming soon)
-Cherry Bleeds
-Counterexample Poetics
-Death Metal Poetry
-Decomp
-Denver Syntax
-Diagram
-Diode
-Ditch
-Dusie
-Everyday Genius
-FutureCycle Poetry
-Half Drunk Muse
-Hit and Run Magazine
-Instant Pussy
-Kulture Vulture
-Lamination Colony
-Listenlight
-Little Red Leaves
-Melusine
-Miporadio
-O Sweet Flowery Roses
-Octopus
-Oranges & Sardines
-Otoliths
-P.F.S. Post
-Poems Niederngasse
-Poetry Super Highway
-Prayers for Children
-Prick of the Spindle
-Rain Fade
-Robot Melon
-Scapegoat Review
-Sein Und Werden
-SIR!
-Spooky Boyfriend
-Thieves Jargon
-Turntable & Blue Light
-Venereal Kittens
-Viadellebelledonne
-Wheelhouse
-Wicked Alice
-WOMB
print—
-Anathema Review
-Angelflesh
-Artisan, a Journal of Craft
-A Trunk of Delirium (coming soon)
-Black Cross
-The Black Fly Review
-Columbia Poetry Review (coming soon)
-ECTOPLASMIC NECROPOLIS (published by Blood Pudding Press)
-Finery
-Fledgling
-Frisson
-Furry Chiclets
-FutureCycle Poetry
-[GROWLING SOFTLY] (published by Blood Pudding Press)
-Instant Pussy
-little white poetry journal
-The Madman’s Diary
-Medicinal Purposes Literary Review
-Miller’s Pond
-Mind Purge
-Mudfish
-New Delta Review
-No Exit
-Oranges & Sardines
-The Plastic Tower
-Poetry Motel
-Ragshock
-Sein Und Werden
-Sorry for Snake
-The Sierra Nevada College Review
-The Silt Reader
-Skidrow Penthouse
-SPIDER VEIN IMPASTO (published by Blood Pudding Press)
-Taiga
-Talus and Scree
-Tears in the Fence
-Tight
-Twisted Nipples
-The Vinyl Elephant
-Wayne Literary Review
-Weave Magazine
-Wicked Alice print annual
-Wicked Mystic
-Zero Ducats
anthologies/special projects—
-COMBATIVES Volume Two #1 (a companion to the online journal H_NGM_N, featuring the work of a single author).
-FROTTAGE (coming soon)
-Le Pink-Elephant Press Second Annual Bookmark Series
-Nuit Blanche: Poetry for Late Nights (presented by the Royal Sarcophagus Society Press)
-We Don’t Stop Here (a chapbook of poems inspired by David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’; presented by The Private Press)
special awards—
New Delta Review’s Eyster Prize Winner in Poetry-1995
Honorable Mention in Artisan, a Journal of Craft poetry contest-1997
Honorable Mention in Artisan, a Journal of Craft poetry contest-1998
1st place winner in Dublin Arts Council poetry contest-1998
Pushcart Prize nominee-2007
Selected for inclusion in Best of the Net 2007 Anthology (Sundress Publications)--2008
Honorable Mention in the 2008 Ronald Wardall Prize (Rain Mountain Press)--2008
Winner of Slash Pine Press Open Reading Period; chapbook FONDANT PIG ANGST coming soon--2009
*SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS*
My third appearance in the woman-centric Melusine, with a poem in newly-launched issue 1.3:
http://www.melusine21cent.com/mag/node/113
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Queer Adult Content Warning! Three of my poems included in the delicious blasphemy at Prayers for Children. On your knees and open your dirty little mouths:
http://www.prayersforchildren.be/issue1.htm
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A Halloween treat--my poem featured at Abjective:
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My latest designer vagina on display in diagram:
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Three of my self portraits (stuffed peppers, queer cane toads, and sugary sponges) at the wonderful Self-Portrait issue of Oranges & Sardines (Poets & Writers). Read me:
http://issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/poetsandartists_self-portrait
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Three of my designer vaginas in diode:
http://www.diodepoetry.com
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A rather squalid poem sequence sizzling in the new Melusine:
http://www.melusine21cent.com/mag/node/74
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I'm on page 307 in the doozy of a Dusie Issue 8!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6654316-dusie-issue-8
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Bloody ballet slippers, sinister subdermal implantation, pomosexual blubber, and more in my two new poems now published by the Scapegoat Review. Into the stew pot!
http://scapegoatreview.com/
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http://www.turntablebluelight.com/
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A poem from 'Horrific Confection' and a review of one of my last year's chapbooks are now oozing out of the seams of MELUSINE:
http://www.melusine21cent.com/mag/
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My poetry makes it Italian debut, accompanied with succulent translations by Letizia Merello, in Viadellebelledonne:
http://viadellebelledonne.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/juliet-cook-tradotta-in-italiano-da-letizia-merello/
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Check out a few new pieces in the jam-packed latest issue of Wheelhouse:
http://www.wheelhousemagazine.com/poetry.html
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Someone made a strange example out of me at Counterexample Poetics:
http://counterexamplepoetics.blogspot.com/2009/02/giggle-or-gurgle-her-voice-sounds-like.html
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Mucilage, a tainted Stewardess Dress, and a harvested penis are amongst the strange offerings awaiting you in the latest Apocryphal Text:
http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/apocryphal_text_3.htm
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Watch me float around like some kind of abstract medusa in the mythological issue of blossombones:
http://www.blossombones.com/current.html
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Follow my trailing threads at listenlight:
http://www.listenlight.net/18/
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Rip open the oversaturated lingerie, rip out the writhing tongue, rip off the lid of the stainless steel platter; it’s the ‘Philias & Fetishes’ issue of ‘Sein Und Werden’ including some sicko poetry and a new review of my full-length book, ‘Horrific Confection’:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/3_3/fetish.html
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SIR! Would you like some head?
I'm the last head on the right in the second row--and you might not be able to tell from looking at me, but I can open my mouth really wide:
http://www.sir-magazine.org/issue1.html
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The new issue of WOMB POETRY: Skeins & Schisms inlcudes three of my newer poems.
Penetrate if you dare:
http://www.wombpoetry.com/index.html
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-Maybe SPOOKY BOYFRIEND 2 will woo you. Maybe he will spit some poisoned candy in your face. How the heck should I know?
http://spookyboyfriend2.weebly.com/
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-The varied ingredients feature robots, sasquatches, cakes, hideous eggs, plenty of pepper, and lascivious tongues wagging in my two new poems published by ‘Robot Melon’ issue five—aquatic sheetmetal venture capitalism. If tempted, press the button:
http://www.robotmelon.com
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-Follow the garbled tones of the sideshow barker to the Memento Mori themed issue of Sein Und Werden and read my slightly macabre poesy therein:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/3_2/index.html
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-Partake of a warped yet apt MONDO CRAMPO poem and lots more goodness, too, in the first anniversary issue of fine online literary magazine, diode:
http://diodepoetry.com/v2n1/index.html
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-An interview with me regarding some of my perceived correlations between poetry and visual art awaits your curious eyeballs at the Oranges & Sardines blog. Check it out, lovers:
http://orangesandsardines.blogspot.com/2008/07/interview-with-poet-juliet-cook.html
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-The first ever ‘Spooky Boyfriend’ wants to woo you and boo you and oh so creepily sniff at you from its odd little orange and green nook. Take a peek if you’re not a fraidy cat:
http://spookyboyfriend1.weebly.com/index.html
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-A hideous equation of a poem of mine is appearing now in the new online issue of 'Sein Und Werden' themed SEIN, COSEIN, TANGENT. My poem is juxtaposed adjacent to the succulent Suzanne Grazyna's poem and I think the two pieces complement each other squelchingly well. Look into these two seeping poems and some of the other squirmy innards, hereabouts:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/3_1/page31.html
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-Two new poems are in the midst of some strange sock hop, sandwiched between the scrumptious Nicole Cartwright Denison and sassy Brooklyn Copeland in a roomful of other lovely and bon bon yummy ladies like Kristy Bowen, Brandi Homan, Jayne Pupek, & more in the new issue of ‘blossombones’:
http://www.blossombones.com/current.html
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-Three of my poems are all up in your grille at P.F.S. Post. Maximum Post-Avant:
http://artrecess.blogspot.com/2008/05/juliet-cook-ohio-usa-three-poems.html
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-Taste my 'International' bubble-wrapped flavor in 'ditch, the poetry that matters':
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/julietcook.htm
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-Buy yourself a new three-hearted bathing suit made out of extra-special polymers and get ready to swim through the black ink and red ink and strange perfumes and suspicious slits of light in 'OCTOPUS MAGAZINE #10'. This issue is oozing at the gills with poetry worth experiencing and I am the third little black dot in the top row. Click me and let my eight arms do perverse things to you:
http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue10/main.html
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-Eat my grasshopper guts! Erm, I mean, a lovely little selection of my poetry is now collected into an extra-special PDF file adorned with a mutant grasshopper as Volume Two, #1 of COMBATIVES, a special project available from the literary magazine H_NGM_N. Please feel free to partake and let me know which poem you liked the best or hated the most or wanted to mate with or wanted to spit on or whatever. 'Lovely' might not be exactly the right word, so feel free to fling a word of your choice in my direction. Click and let the gut-licking fun begin:
http://www.h-ngm-n.com/combatives/
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-foot fetishism or cautionary tale or both or neither? Slip on my poem 'Daphne's Pink Pantyhose' at the oh so stylish and ooh la la ish 'Little Red Leaves':
http://littleredleaves.com/LRL2/LRL2.html
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-My poem 'Some Explanations for Fainting Goats' is now enacting it's stiff-legged, death-esque dance moves in the Best of the Net 2007 Anthology:
http://www.sundress.net/bestof/
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-partake of three new poems in the 1st ever issue of new literary magazine 'blossombones' (the first poem 'Hippomancy', happens to be a piece from my latest chapbook, 'Planchette'):
http://www.blossombones.com/winter08/cook_w08.html
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-insidious cheese balls, flesh tone nylons, pet birds, penises, cupcake papers & more--is it some kind of weird fetish party?--or is it five of my poems in DIAGRAM, the bone-chilling (and maybe even bone-crushing) issue 7.5:
http://thediagram.com/7_5/
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-a few of my semi-anthropomorphic birds and slightly disquieting haunted girls are fluttering and convulsing in 'Prick of the Spindle', volume 1.2:
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/pages/vol.1.2/poetry.htm
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-one poem from my series 'Planchette' plus one extra-tentacular bonus poem in the twisted twin themed CLOWNS & GHOSTS issue of Sein Und Werden. My poems are in the ghost space. Look into their mesmerizing, paranormal eyes:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/2_2/index.html
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-two pieces cavorting amidst an odd cacophony of morsels in 'otoliths':
http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2007/07/issue-six-southern-winter-2007-geof.html
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-'Some Explanations for Fainting Goats' prancing stiff-legged in 'Prick of the Spindle', volume 1.1:
(this poem has now been selected for inclusion in Sundress Publications 2007 BEST OF THE NET Anthology)
(this poem has now been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.)
http://www.prickofthespindle.com/poetry/1.1/cook/some_explanations_for_fainting_goats.htm
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-the fifth poem from THE SHRINE SEQUENCE (and the second claustrophobic doll head poem) vise-gripped into 'Sein Und Werden' (the REJECTAMENTA issue):
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/2_1/page12.html
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-a hot & bloody pop culture poem (and a black hairnet) at 'Thieves Jargon':
http://www.thievesjargon.com/index.php?issue=152
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-my poem 'Pink Bird' inspired by the unbearably cute misfit-esque art of Kendra Binney (and accompanied by two of Binney's images) in 'Sein Und Werden' (the ARTIFICE issue):
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/twelve/page16.html
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-my mischievous mutineer ovaries poem at the FutureCycle Poetry site (leave my ovaries a comment or a snack--they just might like chocolate chip scones):
http://www.futurecycle.org/JulietCook1.aspx
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-three peculiar yet steamy poems in 'listenlight', alongside six other extra-spicy contributors:
http://listenlight.net/08/cook/
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-various tasty collaborative projects (including poetry, photography, art, flesh, sex, death, succulence--and a review of my poetry chapbook, 'The Laura Poems' ) in 'Sein Und Werden' (the COLLABORATION issue):
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/eleven/index.html
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-two poems in 'Venereal Kittens', an e-poetic collective with nine lives:
http://venerealkittens.blogspot.com/2006/11/juliet-cook.html
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-an extra-special poetry interview (accompanied by three poems) in ‘Sein Und Werden’ (the DUENDE issue):
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/eight/page17.html
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-an occultish miaou poem in ‘half drunk muse’:
http://halfdrunkmuse.com/archives/a/cook/unanswered/