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Juliet Cook doesn't fit inside an Easy-Bake Oven and rarely cooks.
She does write poetry.
Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications.
Cook's tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes creates other art, such as abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.
Blood Pudding Press's spooky little sister is an online blog style literary magazine called Thirteen Myna Birds.
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Cook's personal blog - https://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/
Cook's Blood Pudding Press blog - https://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/
The Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress
Thirteen Myna Birds - https://13myna.blogspot.com/
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Some of Cook's latest publications appear below - and at the top of this page, you can click on sections to check out more of her poetry publications, her chapbooks, her full-length books, some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, and more. Thank you for taking a look.
She does write poetry.
Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications.
Cook's tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes creates other art, such as abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.
Blood Pudding Press's spooky little sister is an online blog style literary magazine called Thirteen Myna Birds.
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Cook's personal blog - https://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/
Cook's Blood Pudding Press blog - https://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/
The Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress
Thirteen Myna Birds - https://13myna.blogspot.com/
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Some of Cook's latest publications appear below - and at the top of this page, you can click on sections to check out more of her poetry publications, her chapbooks, her full-length books, some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, and more. Thank you for taking a look.
NEW! Two of my creepy poems are appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!
Usually when I have new poems up, I share a few lines from one of the poems, but this time I'm sharing Cul-de-sac of Blood's description of my poems because I love their description!
Furthermore, after you read the two poems, if interested you can click on "Learn More About These Poems".
Here's what Cul-de-sac said about my poems:
"Rotting bear dolls & chicken brains erase our heads & replace them with images of themselves, & though we might not have a name for this process, Juliet Cook’s poems show us what it feels like to find ourselves somewhere between foreground & background."
Read the poems HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-3
Furthermore, after you read the two poems, if interested you can click on "Learn More About These Poems".
Here's what Cul-de-sac said about my poems:
"Rotting bear dolls & chicken brains erase our heads & replace them with images of themselves, & though we might not have a name for this process, Juliet Cook’s poems show us what it feels like to find ourselves somewhere between foreground & background."
Read the poems HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-3
NEW! Four of my Poems are making an appearance inside
A Thin Slice of Anxiety!
"They want us to join another group.
Fit in. Assume their assumptions
are new. Act as if their spastic consultations
are truly shocking. Type more short
circuited, almost automatic praise
to the latest leader of this crazed bandwagon.
Secondary members get cut off
or caught up in the outrage
of fluctuating speculative membranes.
Glistening fluid spews itself out
from underneath the latest console,
gets swallowed up then re-harvested"
I am delighted to have four poems making an appearance in A Thin Slice of Anxiety!
Read more HERE -http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2024/09/poetry-selections-from-juliet-cook.html?m=1
Fit in. Assume their assumptions
are new. Act as if their spastic consultations
are truly shocking. Type more short
circuited, almost automatic praise
to the latest leader of this crazed bandwagon.
Secondary members get cut off
or caught up in the outrage
of fluctuating speculative membranes.
Glistening fluid spews itself out
from underneath the latest console,
gets swallowed up then re-harvested"
I am delighted to have four poems making an appearance in A Thin Slice of Anxiety!
Read more HERE -http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2024/09/poetry-selections-from-juliet-cook.html?m=1
NEW! My Theme Park of Garbage is making an appearance inside Trailer Park Quarterly!
"Brains can’t conjure any more
ghosts from the leaking sink holes."
in my poem "Theme Park of Garbage", which I am delighted to have making an appearance in Trailer Park Quarterly Volume 15 (and looking forward to reading all the other poems too)! Yay!
Here's a link to my poem - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-15/juliet-cook/
Here's a link to the whole issue - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-15/
Happy reading!
ghosts from the leaking sink holes."
in my poem "Theme Park of Garbage", which I am delighted to have making an appearance in Trailer Park Quarterly Volume 15 (and looking forward to reading all the other poems too)! Yay!
Here's a link to my poem - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-15/juliet-cook/
Here's a link to the whole issue - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-15/
Happy reading!
NEW! And now I have two more collaborative poems up at
Unlikely Stories!
Two more collaborative poems appearing at Unlikely Stories, by Daniel Snethen and me - "Paisley Purpled Political Head Rotation" and "Until All Hope Is Gone".
"Then chug-a-lug and she turned
frantic. The owls are not what they seem
and soon its hair color will change
into too many cigarettes.
Tenderlings linked together.
Into the whirring factory sound
of a gigantic pez dispenser pumping out
paisley coated candy cigarettes of myriad color
while pathetic pontificating politicians
postulate pointless propaganda."
read more HERE -https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/paisley-purpled-political-head-rotation-and-until-all-hope-is-gone
"Then chug-a-lug and she turned
frantic. The owls are not what they seem
and soon its hair color will change
into too many cigarettes.
Tenderlings linked together.
Into the whirring factory sound
of a gigantic pez dispenser pumping out
paisley coated candy cigarettes of myriad color
while pathetic pontificating politicians
postulate pointless propaganda."
read more HERE -https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/paisley-purpled-political-head-rotation-and-until-all-hope-is-gone
NEW! I am delighted to have two collaborative poems making an appearance in Unlikely Stories!
"Backtracking vertebrae work their way up
to my broken neck, break through dead skin
turn themselves into even more hair trails
I am becoming the opposite of a celestial body
Implosions morphing into explosions morphing
into internal locomotion, growing giant worms"
Very excited to have two collaborative poems "Momia's Metamorphoses" and "Momia's Mauled Metamorphoses" by Alex S. Johnson and me appearing in Unlikely Stories
Read more here:
https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/momias-metamorphoses-and-momias-mauled-metamorphoses
to my broken neck, break through dead skin
turn themselves into even more hair trails
I am becoming the opposite of a celestial body
Implosions morphing into explosions morphing
into internal locomotion, growing giant worms"
Very excited to have two collaborative poems "Momia's Metamorphoses" and "Momia's Mauled Metamorphoses" by Alex S. Johnson and me appearing in Unlikely Stories
Read more here:
https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/momias-metamorphoses-and-momias-mauled-metamorphoses
NEW! I am peculiarly thrilled to have a creepy collaborative clown poem appearing in Horror Sleaze Trash!
"...in which a strained
amalgamation of Snow White’s Stepmother applies a ton of clown makeup
to cover up her aging face, then stares at her evil clown head until
every mirror cracks, the glass breaks through the windows,
the windmill splits in half, revolving clown heads drip with blood"
in Alex S. Johnson and Juliet Cook's creepy collaborative clown poem, "Greasepaint Inferno", which is now making an appearance within Horror Sleaze Trash HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2024/06/29/juliet-cook-and-alex-s-johnson/
amalgamation of Snow White’s Stepmother applies a ton of clown makeup
to cover up her aging face, then stares at her evil clown head until
every mirror cracks, the glass breaks through the windows,
the windmill splits in half, revolving clown heads drip with blood"
in Alex S. Johnson and Juliet Cook's creepy collaborative clown poem, "Greasepaint Inferno", which is now making an appearance within Horror Sleaze Trash HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2024/06/29/juliet-cook-and-alex-s-johnson/
NEW! I am delighted to have four collaborative poems appearing in the latest issue of Misfit!
Delighted to have four collaborative poems appearing in the new Issue No. 38, Spring 2024 of Misfit!
Two poems by Daniel G. Snethen and me - and two poems by j/j hastain and me.
You can read them and many more poems HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-38/Cook.html
"Grey with whiskers but unable to scream
and pluck the whiskers out like your mom did
with hers in the bathroom mirror.
You know we all rot. You know you will rot too,
but you're trying to convince yourself that somehow
the other You will become immune or transform.
And transform it does, into the Ticktockman,
wearing red and black piebald leotards,
and You scream, though you have no mouth
and two of your gelatinous eyes are stuck shut."
in the poem "Retrogradation Of You" by Daniel G. Snethen and me
Two poems by Daniel G. Snethen and me - and two poems by j/j hastain and me.
You can read them and many more poems HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-38/Cook.html
"Grey with whiskers but unable to scream
and pluck the whiskers out like your mom did
with hers in the bathroom mirror.
You know we all rot. You know you will rot too,
but you're trying to convince yourself that somehow
the other You will become immune or transform.
And transform it does, into the Ticktockman,
wearing red and black piebald leotards,
and You scream, though you have no mouth
and two of your gelatinous eyes are stuck shut."
in the poem "Retrogradation Of You" by Daniel G. Snethen and me
NEW! I am excited and delighted to have two poems appearing in the
20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden!
I am excited and delighted to have two haiku poems appearing in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Sein und Werden!
The theme of this issue is To Settle a Score and it's the 20th anniversary issue of this magazine!
Here is one of my two poems, called "VIOLENT DREAD" and if you visit the link to the magazine (below the poem), it appears next to an art piece called "SELF-PORTRAIT (UNDEFINED HORROR)" by Julie Blankenship. I love the poem and art piece next to each other.
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VIOLENT DREAD
Every bit of depth
shot down into dread. Psycho
babbling brooks with hooks.
If internal angst
internally combusts, eyes
will explode. My head
a human-sized blood
bath of burnt dumplings. Sauced out.
Splattering your plate.
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/page31.html
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It's hard to believe that this is the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden and that I've had creative work appearing in this literary magazine (on and off) ever since Sein und Werden began. Sein's creator, primary editor, and writer Rachel Kendall and I first got to know each other on xanga (a blog platform that hasn't existed for years). It's hard to keep a literary magazine alive for this long, so cheers to Rachel. This issue also includes some Interviews with Rachel, such as an Interview about The Storied History of Sein und Werden.
Again, I'm delighted to be included in this 20th anniversary issue and will place a link to the whole issue below...
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/index.html
The theme of this issue is To Settle a Score and it's the 20th anniversary issue of this magazine!
Here is one of my two poems, called "VIOLENT DREAD" and if you visit the link to the magazine (below the poem), it appears next to an art piece called "SELF-PORTRAIT (UNDEFINED HORROR)" by Julie Blankenship. I love the poem and art piece next to each other.
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VIOLENT DREAD
Every bit of depth
shot down into dread. Psycho
babbling brooks with hooks.
If internal angst
internally combusts, eyes
will explode. My head
a human-sized blood
bath of burnt dumplings. Sauced out.
Splattering your plate.
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/page31.html
***
It's hard to believe that this is the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden and that I've had creative work appearing in this literary magazine (on and off) ever since Sein und Werden began. Sein's creator, primary editor, and writer Rachel Kendall and I first got to know each other on xanga (a blog platform that hasn't existed for years). It's hard to keep a literary magazine alive for this long, so cheers to Rachel. This issue also includes some Interviews with Rachel, such as an Interview about The Storied History of Sein und Werden.
Again, I'm delighted to be included in this 20th anniversary issue and will place a link to the whole issue below...
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/index.html
NEW Poem in Buffalo 8!
"Sleep Deprivation Becomes You"!
"Sleep deprivation
becomes microwave radar.
Radiation sounds
sizzle and explode.
Temporal lobe mass attack."
in my poem "Sleep Deprivation Becomes You", in the new issue of buffalo (x8)
read more here - buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/749736210759647232/sleep-deprivation-becomes-you
becomes microwave radar.
Radiation sounds
sizzle and explode.
Temporal lobe mass attack."
in my poem "Sleep Deprivation Becomes You", in the new issue of buffalo (x8)
read more here - buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/749736210759647232/sleep-deprivation-becomes-you
NEW! My short poem "Sweet Tooth" is making an appearance in the new issue of Rogue Agent!
Delighted to have my short haiku poem "Sweet Tooth" appearing in the NEW May issue 110 of Rogue Agent!
Wishing you all a happy and poetic May!
Dive in to the latest issue of Rogue Agent HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue110
Wishing you all a happy and poetic May!
Dive in to the latest issue of Rogue Agent HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue110
NEW! My poem "Snow Angel Position With Dread" is making an appearance in Pinky Thinker Press!
"The cow was an unborn fetus.
The snow was a giant womb.
I needed to lie down
in snow angel position
and mimic the dreadful truth.
Give birth to something nobody wanted."
The end of my poem "Snow Angel Position With Dread", which appears in Issue 11 of Pinky Thinker Press.
Read the whole poem on page 27 here - https://www.mignolo.art/ptp
Read and check out other poems, fiction, and art too.
The snow was a giant womb.
I needed to lie down
in snow angel position
and mimic the dreadful truth.
Give birth to something nobody wanted."
The end of my poem "Snow Angel Position With Dread", which appears in Issue 11 of Pinky Thinker Press.
Read the whole poem on page 27 here - https://www.mignolo.art/ptp
Read and check out other poems, fiction, and art too.
NEW! Nine Books About Your Life: JULIET COOK
(Interview by Nicholas Alexander Hayes)
An Interview about me and books from (more than) Nine different perspectives!
(Thank you very much to Nicholas Alexander Hayes for inviting me to participate in this Interview at Your Impossible Voice.)
READ THE INTERVIEW HERE - https://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/juliet-cook/
(Thank you very much to Nicholas Alexander Hayes for inviting me to participate in this Interview at Your Impossible Voice.)
READ THE INTERVIEW HERE - https://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/juliet-cook/
NEW! I have Four New Poems in Cul-de-sac of Blood!
I am extremely delighted to have FOUR NEW POEMS appearing within Cul-de-sac of Blood!
Here's the editors description of my poems - The orbitoclast, a tiny hammerhead shark tap tapping us into place. “I was walking through a parking lot” leads us inevitably, somehow, to “I wasn’t sure if I was human anymore.” A standard red horror. In these poems by frequent contributor Juliet Cook, medically-induced terror finds us where we live.
Here's a few lines from my poem "I Don't Like Primary Colors" -
"Little ghost tongues
try to splash out
of the water,
then slash themselves
into skulls,
marooned.
Sink back down."
And here's where you can read all four poems! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-2
Also, underneath the four poems, you can click on a link to learn a little more about the poems, such as what inspired them.
Here's the editors description of my poems - The orbitoclast, a tiny hammerhead shark tap tapping us into place. “I was walking through a parking lot” leads us inevitably, somehow, to “I wasn’t sure if I was human anymore.” A standard red horror. In these poems by frequent contributor Juliet Cook, medically-induced terror finds us where we live.
Here's a few lines from my poem "I Don't Like Primary Colors" -
"Little ghost tongues
try to splash out
of the water,
then slash themselves
into skulls,
marooned.
Sink back down."
And here's where you can read all four poems! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-2
Also, underneath the four poems, you can click on a link to learn a little more about the poems, such as what inspired them.
NEW! My Non-relaxed "Relax" poem is appearing in the March Issue of Ghost City Review!
I am delighted that my non-relaxed "Relax" poem is appearing in the new March Issue of Ghost City Review!
"They will suddenly stab me,
then tell me I'm the one
who is filled with animosity
just because I didn't stay silent."
Here's a link to my poem - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry0324/2024/3/17/juliet-cook
And here's a link to the whole issue - https://ghostcitypress.com/march-2024-1
"They will suddenly stab me,
then tell me I'm the one
who is filled with animosity
just because I didn't stay silent."
Here's a link to my poem - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry0324/2024/3/17/juliet-cook
And here's a link to the whole issue - https://ghostcitypress.com/march-2024-1
NEW POETRY CHAPBOOK FORTHCOMING THIS FALL 2024!
REVOLTING to be published by Cul-de-sac of Blood!
Darkly delighted and creepily thrilled to share that I have a new poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING" accepted by Cul-De-Sac of Blood, forthcoming this fall! Stay tuned!
(Also, my three recently published 2023 poetry chapbooks can be viewed in the JULIET'S CHAPBOOKS part of this website, linked to near the top and HERE - https://julietcook.weebly.com/juliets-chapbooks.html)
(Also, my three recently published 2023 poetry chapbooks can be viewed in the JULIET'S CHAPBOOKS part of this website, linked to near the top and HERE - https://julietcook.weebly.com/juliets-chapbooks.html)
Another NEW (Mini) Review of Juliet Cook's newest poetry chap., "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"!
"This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability."
Thank you very much to James Lawson Moore for his mini-review (and photo) of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023).
Read his whole review below and consider getting a copy of this chapbook for yourself (or for a poetry loving friend) from one of the links below.
From the Ethel shop - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook
From the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new
"Juliet’s new chapbook is a limited run, handmade release, out by Ethel Zine & Micro Press. The poems therein are as much influenced by Twin Peaks as they are by the poet’s own inner turmoil. This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability. This is a book that cannot be missed.
Juliet Cook is JLM approved, with a bottle of Coke."
Thank you very much to James Lawson Moore for his mini-review (and photo) of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023).
Read his whole review below and consider getting a copy of this chapbook for yourself (or for a poetry loving friend) from one of the links below.
From the Ethel shop - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook
From the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new
"Juliet’s new chapbook is a limited run, handmade release, out by Ethel Zine & Micro Press. The poems therein are as much influenced by Twin Peaks as they are by the poet’s own inner turmoil. This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability. This is a book that cannot be missed.
Juliet Cook is JLM approved, with a bottle of Coke."
A NEW BOOK ESSAY REVIEW of Juliet Cook's newest poetry chap., "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"!
"Bob is first a noun, a person dissected—and, not by coincidence, also an evil spirit out of Twin Peaks—then the word becomes a verb as the subject dives under the surface. Words like “core” and “bleed” explode with ambiguity. Finally, we interrogate the scene from an external perspective and unravel a multiplicity of meanings and hidden reality behind the curtain of previous images. The poems of Your Mouth is Moving Backwards are ceaseless in their symbolic excavation, constantly diving below the surface."
A snippet from a phenomenal, intense, in depth, detailed, and wonderful review by Mike Bagwell at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press)!
Thank you very much to Mike Bagwell and the Philly Chapbook Review.
You can read more HERE - https://phillychapbookreview.org/violence-of-craft-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook/
You can acquire the chapbook through its publisher here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards
OR from the poet's Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new
A snippet from a phenomenal, intense, in depth, detailed, and wonderful review by Mike Bagwell at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press)!
Thank you very much to Mike Bagwell and the Philly Chapbook Review.
You can read more HERE - https://phillychapbookreview.org/violence-of-craft-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook/
You can acquire the chapbook through its publisher here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards
OR from the poet's Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new
NEW! The latest Misfit Magazine includes one individual poem by Juliet Cook -
two collaborative poems by Daniel G. Snethen and Juliet Cook - AND a review
by poet and Misfit editor Alan Catlin of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook,
"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR"!
I am delighted to have three poems appearing in the wonderful Misfit Magazine, surrounded by all sorts of other wonderful poetry!
Issue No. 37, Winter 2024 includes my poem, "Hagfish Slime" AND two collaborative poems by Daniel Snethen and me, "Broken Balloons Seep Out of Our Mouths" and "Cosmic Conundrum of Camel, Cherub and Leech"!
"The closest I'll get
to becoming stuck
in a sort of container
is a fish being carried
through a thundering fair.
A slimy hagfish
on top a hot funnel cake."
in my poem "Hagfish Slime"
read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/cook&snethen.html
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Also appearing in the Winter 2024 Issue of Misfit Magazine is a review of my poetry chapbook, Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023)!
Thank you very much to Alan Catlin for this uniquely wonderful review!
"So how do you know you are in the crazy world of Juliet Cook? Just step onto the doom conveyor belt and you enter a world of dolls, pieces of them, whole ones, effigies, doll graveyards, of a sort, and well just about anything you can think of short of Anne’s porcelain doll collection (Anne as in Anne Rice who famously collected some pretty scary ones). Basically, Juliet’s world is one of hallucinatory conjunctions, Bob Dylan surreality from his early Rimbaud infused years, sick bags, like Nick Cave, free floating dread like being in a David Cronenberg movie, watching a “Naked Lunch” while lying on Freud’s couch ( Sigmund or Lucien’s, take your pick), under the influence of a peyote dream, high flying whiles suffering new pill side effects. Juliet’s voice is decidedly and uniquely her own. I love it."
Read more reviews in the latest Misfit HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/received.html
Get a copy of my Contorted Doom Conveyor HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140
Or get a copy directly from me (via the Blood Pudding Press shop) HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry
Issue No. 37, Winter 2024 includes my poem, "Hagfish Slime" AND two collaborative poems by Daniel Snethen and me, "Broken Balloons Seep Out of Our Mouths" and "Cosmic Conundrum of Camel, Cherub and Leech"!
"The closest I'll get
to becoming stuck
in a sort of container
is a fish being carried
through a thundering fair.
A slimy hagfish
on top a hot funnel cake."
in my poem "Hagfish Slime"
read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/cook&snethen.html
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Also appearing in the Winter 2024 Issue of Misfit Magazine is a review of my poetry chapbook, Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023)!
Thank you very much to Alan Catlin for this uniquely wonderful review!
"So how do you know you are in the crazy world of Juliet Cook? Just step onto the doom conveyor belt and you enter a world of dolls, pieces of them, whole ones, effigies, doll graveyards, of a sort, and well just about anything you can think of short of Anne’s porcelain doll collection (Anne as in Anne Rice who famously collected some pretty scary ones). Basically, Juliet’s world is one of hallucinatory conjunctions, Bob Dylan surreality from his early Rimbaud infused years, sick bags, like Nick Cave, free floating dread like being in a David Cronenberg movie, watching a “Naked Lunch” while lying on Freud’s couch ( Sigmund or Lucien’s, take your pick), under the influence of a peyote dream, high flying whiles suffering new pill side effects. Juliet’s voice is decidedly and uniquely her own. I love it."
Read more reviews in the latest Misfit HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/received.html
Get a copy of my Contorted Doom Conveyor HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140
Or get a copy directly from me (via the Blood Pudding Press shop) HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry
Happy End of 2023! My Three New Poetry Chapbooks in 2023!
It is most certainly not every year that I end up having three different poetry chapbooks published by three different small presses, but that happened in 2023 and for that I am excited and grateful!
Thank you to the people and small presses that believe in me and my poetry.
"red flames burning out" was published by Grey Book Press in April 2023 (find out more here http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/)
"Contorted Doom Conveyor" was published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023 (find out more here -https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140)
"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was very recently published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023 (find out more here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook)
Thank you to the people and small presses that believe in me and my poetry.
"red flames burning out" was published by Grey Book Press in April 2023 (find out more here http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/)
"Contorted Doom Conveyor" was published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023 (find out more here -https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140)
"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was very recently published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023 (find out more here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook)
Talking Poetics #34 : Juliet Cook (a new interview about poetry)!
A Talking Poetics interview/conversation with me about poetry-related subject matter is up at the ottawa poetry newsletter. Thank you very much to rob mclennan for asking me these questions.
http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/12/talking-poetics-34-juliet-cook.html
http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/12/talking-poetics-34-juliet-cook.html
An Interview with me about poetry stuff, conducted by Michael Sikkema, appearing in periodicities!
"To express rather than repress. To explore my own thoughts and feelings. To extract some of the negativity out of my system. To release parts of my own repetitive streaks. To blow up my own self-created mental balloon animals. To reveal parts of the real me. To possibly connect my thoughts and feelings with others who might relate."
Me answering some interesting poetry questions from Michael Sikkema - and the interview was published by rob mclennan at periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics.
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/michael-sikkema-interview-with-juliet.html?fbclid=IwAR115rZYzLhibJrhRDlWRLZCJb5m9VWukaYHgfiM8cgjEISx66eANpM5Yis
Me answering some interesting poetry questions from Michael Sikkema - and the interview was published by rob mclennan at periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics.
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/michael-sikkema-interview-with-juliet.html?fbclid=IwAR115rZYzLhibJrhRDlWRLZCJb5m9VWukaYHgfiM8cgjEISx66eANpM5Yis
Poet Spotlight: Juliet Cook on dolls, body, and uncomfortable poetry
"In some ways, some parts of society view and treat girls/women like dolls, with implications that our faces and bodies are more appealing than our brains. In other ways, some people find some dolls to be creepy and scary and disturbing. In other ways, most dolls stay the same size and shape for their entire existence and can only be changed by how they’re dressed or made up — unless you actually rip a doll apart and put it back together in a different way. I think I try to incorporate elements of all these aspects of dolls in my poetry."
I have an Interview up today, focused on my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" and lots of other poetry stuff too.
Thank you very much to Andrea Blythe for including me in her Poet Spotlight!
HERE - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/11/poet-spotlight-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR1aJQeRKvnEdsuOxJ0-FTY0qjRkl-a0hDfC0vl2fMx4sG_sKpaAXC1f-Oc
I have an Interview up today, focused on my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" and lots of other poetry stuff too.
Thank you very much to Andrea Blythe for including me in her Poet Spotlight!
HERE - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/11/poet-spotlight-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR1aJQeRKvnEdsuOxJ0-FTY0qjRkl-a0hDfC0vl2fMx4sG_sKpaAXC1f-Oc
Wowbwell Rainbow Interviews Me!
Wombwell Rainbow Interviews: Juliet Cook!
Read Cook's answers to some writing/poetry questions by clicking the link below.
https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/01/17/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-juliet-cook/
Read Cook's answers to some writing/poetry questions by clicking the link below.
https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/01/17/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-juliet-cook/
