Juliet Cook is a poet and the editor/publisher of a one-woman indie press, Blood Pudding Press, which specializes in poetry and artsy little misfit offerings.
She also edits Blood Pudding Press's spooky sister, an online blog-style literary magazine called Thirteen Myna Birds, which is always accepting submissions. MALFORMED CONFETTI! Malformed Confetti has officially arrived! It is Juliet Cook's second individual full-length poetry book, published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018! It contains 100+ pages of poetic peculiarities ranging from 2008-2015! Cover art by Simona Candini. Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole. * Listen to the creepy Book Trailer video for Juliet's Malformed Confetti! (Thank you ever so much to the darkly delicious Susan Yount for creating this fabulous spooky video!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcdyX864Ic&feature=youtu.be * October 17 was my birthday and it was a wonderful day to have in my hands some copies of my "Malformed Confetti!" The evening of October 16 included my book launch poetry reading at Art on Madison! Thank you again to Crisis Chronicles Press for publishing the book. 🖤 Thank you to Art on Madison for hosting the reading. 💗💜 * You can acquire your very own copy of the book from Crisis Chronicles Press here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html Also, if anyone would like a hand-signed copy of the book, you can acquire one directly from Juliet by sending $15.00 to Julietcoo@gmail.com via paypal (along with your address) and I will mail you a copy. OR by purchasing a copy from my Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1 *** Juliet's poetry chapbooks include 'The Laura Poems' (2006), 'Girl Gang' (2007), and 'Planchette' (2008), all published by Blood Pudding Press -- plus 'Gingerbread Girl' (2008) published by Trainwreck Press out of Canada -- the online chapbook 'PROJECTILE VOMIT' (2008) published by Scantily Clad Press - the print AND online chapbook 'MONDO CRAMPO' (2009) published via the dusie kollektiv 3 -- the print chapbook, 'PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR' (2009) published by Spooky Girlfriend Press (SOLD OUT) -- the online chapbook, 'Tongue Like a Stinger' published by Wheelhouse (2009) - a sequence of six short poems called (B)URN (2009) published as an e-chapbook by Gold Wake Press - the print chapbook FONDANT PIG ANGST (2009) published by Slash Pine Press - the print AND online chapbook Soft Foam (2010) published by Blood Pudding Press via the dusie kollektiv 4 - and the English/Italian translations poetry collaboration between Juliet Cook & Letizia Merello ANGEL FACE TRAILER (2010) published by Blood Pudding Press. POST-STROKE was Juliet's first 2011 poetry chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press for dusie kollektiv 5 and is now available online too here (just click Cook): http://www.dusie.org/issue12.html Thirteen Designer Vaginas was Juliet's second 2011 poetry chapbook, published by Hyacinth Girl Press. POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP was Juliet's first 2013 poetry chapbook, published by Grey Book Press. RED DEMOLITION was Juliet's first 2014 poetry chapbook, published by Shirt Pocket Press. MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM is a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole, published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2015. DIVE BACK DOWN is a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, published by Dancing Girl Press in 2015. FROM ONE RUINED HUMAN TO ANOTHER is Juliet's first 2018 poetry chapbook, published by Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective. * DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) was self-published in print by Juliet's own Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9, in 2019 - and is now also available as a free online PDF from the Dusie Kollektiv, HERE - http://www.dusie.org/Cook--DARKPURPLEINTERSECTIONS.pdf ! * "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" was published by The Poet's Haven, in 2019! * "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" was published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, in March 2020! * "Histrionics Inside My Interior City" was part of the Ghost City Press Summer Series in June 2020! * Feel free to find out more about Juliet Cook and Blood Pudding Press via the following sources: -Juliet's personal/poetry blog-- http://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com -The Blood Pudding Press blog-- www.bloodyooze.blogspot.com -The Blood Pudding Press shop-- www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com Tell me a secret
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"From a fabulous creature to a throw away/
poison-induced creme brulee paraclete..." New! Four collaborative poems by Darryl Shupe and Juliet Cook appear in Issue No. 33, Fall 2021 of MISFIT!Four of Darryl Shupe and my strange and creepy collaborative model fair poems are now making an appearance in the new Fall 2021 Issue of Misfit Magazine!
Model Arts and Crafts - Model Hog Heaven - Art Barn Torture - Like A Tortured Clown Funny. This concession stand serves as a confessional booth for the models who misbehave. For the models who try to talk instead of just silently screaming inside their heads. For the models who think their brains are worth more than breadcrumbs. (from Model Hog Heaven) Read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-33/cook&shupe.html New! Three individual poems by Juliet Cook and three collaborative poems by Darryl Shupe and Juliet Cook are newly up at Fevers of the Mind!I am delighted to share three of my individual poems AND three collaborative poems by Darryl Shupe and me that are newly appearing in A Poetry Showcase at FEVERS OF THE MIND.
HERE - https://feversofthemind.com/2021/11/21/a-poetry-showcase-by-juliet-cook-and-collaboration-with-darryl-shupe-when-noted/ New! Juliet Cook's poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch An Attack" appears in Writing In A Woman's Voice today!"I think I hear something hissing,
then buzzing inside one of my ears then flying out of a shrunken corsage that turned itself into a nest of angry paper wasps who weren't invited to the popular dance." in my poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch an Attack", appearing today in Writing In A Woman's Voice read more HERE - https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post_22.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR02-kFdfpa0ZUh-mHWgkzVPBakW-2ALfrUUbHB8R9VHLw2TfS7JBJcge7U New! Three collaborative poems by Juliet Cook and Darryl Shupe in Menacing Hedge!I am delighted to share the new Fall 2021 Issue of Menacing Hedge, in which Darryl Shupe and I have three of our collaborative poems appearing, surrounded by lots of other creative oddities!
The three collaborative poems are entitled, "Deep-fried Model Faces Sold Here", "Double Deep-fried Giblets", and "Bloody Rubber Chicken" and are part of a small series we're working on. "We fuck heads, we hack heads, we dump heads, we fling more heads into the dirty land of bloodstained stew pots set to boil. We eat greasy fair food while we wait for more decapitated heads to turn into more garbage." (from the poem "Deep-fried Model Faces Sold Here") Partake of more of our poems HERE - http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2021/entry-cook-shupe.php Read the whole issue HERE - http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2021/index.php NEW! My poem "Passenger Seat" appears in Issue 1 of DEAD SKUNK!"Driving his cremains into unknown territory,
10 miles from a cheap hotel filled with unruly remnants of life..." I am delighted to have my poem "Passenger Seat" appearing within Issue 1 of DEAD SKUNK! The first two and a half lines appear above. You can read the rest HERE - https://www.deadskunkmag.com/passengerseatjulietcook NEW! My poem "Throwing It Away Doesn't Mean It Didn't Happen" is newly up today at Writing In a Woman's Voice!Today another poem of mine, "Throwing It Away Doesn't Mean It Didn't Happen" is up online at Writing In A Woman's Voice!
*** "It's your fault for pulling an ex-friend's hair out of the bathtub drain and placing the hair on a condescending letter as if you were better than them because you didn't shove your own hair down that drain. Instead you obsessively hacked your own hair off and stuck it inside a tiny garbage can with the bathroom door locked." read more HERE - https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2021/09/blog-post_16.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR3ajcUqcsPWYl4KaWVXxuigcQaHvElvcX_TMPVGE29f_-K3rKIPHiDulXA NEW! My poem "Does Lard Go Bad?" is newly up today at Writing in a Woman's Voice"Because pregnant bellies are so sexy,
but a flabby middle-aged gut is the total opposite of life. Because the bodies you rolled your eyes at 20 years ago are now you" in my poem, "Does Lard Go Bad?', newly up at Writing in a Woman's Voice read more HERE - https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2021/09/blog-post_15.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR28itmtbXrKMRBK2Rl1Z71OHuupWAlONQja1Ts-lsewysAYHR4-4dKzoc0 NEW! A collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and Charles Cicirella AND a collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and john compton in Scapegoat Review Fall 2021!Delighted to share the NEW SCAPEGOAT REVIEW FALL 2021, which includes a collaborative poem by Charles Cicirella and me -“Here's My Passive Aggressive Ponytail." AND a collaborative poem by john compton and me -"A Cherry in the Eye" - AND lots of other poems, visual art, and flash fiction! Dive into it all, HERE -http://www.scapegoatreview.org/fall-2021/scapegoat-review-fall-2021-main
NEW! A Conversation with Poet-Publisher-Artist Juliet Cook AND three of my poems at Cultural Daily!Thank you very much to Mish (Eileen) Murphy for interviewing me a second time for Cultural Daily about poetry, publishing, and art!
Here's a link to the conversation - https://www.culturaldaily.com/conversation-with-poet-publisher-artist-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR3e9R9bl8sW_sEg8uFmBZCMAGLQ5Ukxt8AVClxYfOyv2Wl4wi2fIg56cpY And thank you also to Cultural Daily's Poetry Editor Alexis Rhone Fancher for selecting three of my poems to appear there on the same day! Here's a link to the poems - https://www.culturaldaily.com/juliet-cook-three-poems-2/ New! Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records features me reading two of my poems with creepy sound effects!Thank you very much to Drew Coomer's Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records for featuring me reading two of my poems - "Red Glass Ceiling" and one of my Flesh World poems in LLGFR #36!
I love the sound effects he surrounded the poems with including the Red Room/Black Lodge phonetics in Flesh World! I also love the red stop light cover art! Give it a listen HERE - https://lostlonggoneforgottenrecords.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/juliet-cook-red-glass-ceiling/?fbclid=IwAR26YI_wc2IMo7eLsyTZDBf4t1dg-yj94rgWBY_R8r3z9mXjUVqZ8RjJhF4 New! My Exploding Lunchbox Filled With Bloody Marshmallow Fluff is inside the HAUNTED DOLLHOUSE!My Exploding Lunchbox Filled With Bloody Marshmallow Fluff is part of the HAUNTED DOLLHOUSE SEASON today!
Read it if you dare, HERE - https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/haunted-dollhouse-season-2/exploding-lunchbox-filled-with-bloody-marshmallow-fluff-by-juliet-cook/ New! My poem "My Teeth Have Been Loose For Years" appears in Rogue Agent, Issue 77!"If this is another recurring bad dream,
then where does it come from? Why won't the inside of my head stop screaming as I choke on my own baby teeth?" part of my poem MY TEETH HAVE BEEN LOOSE FOR YEARS, in the NEW Issue 77 of Rogue Agent! read more HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2 New! My poem "Some of the Dolls Hide in the Basement" in The Rising Phoenix Review!"The doll whose owner used to
hand stitch her clothes until that owner decided to cut off all the doll’s fingers. The doll with the stick figure heart written on her torn shirt and then erased." part of my poem, "Some of the Dolls Hide in the Basement', in The Rising Phoenix Review read more here - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2021/07/05/some-of-the-dolls-hide-in-the-basement-by-juliet-cook/ New! A collaborative poem by me and Martin Willitts Jr in Coffin Bell!"At least I tried to persevere,
by preserving the broken parts but some of these broken parts are dead. Contaminated evidence of ongoing trial and error." Darkly delighted to have a collaborative poem, "Not Enough Variegation", by me and Martin Willitts Jr. appearing in Coffin Bell! read more HERE - https://coffinbell.com/not-enough-variegation/ New! Another one of my FLESH WORLD poems in Sein und Werden"You keep your mask on
as you drip with red ink inside. Dizzy and submerged in another blood bath." the beginning of one of my "Flesh World" poem, which I am excited to have appearing within the Crime Scene of the new Spring 2021 Locus Delicti issue of Sein und Werden read more HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring21/page8.html New! Another one of my FLESH WORLD poems in OyeDrum"In your dreams, cornfields with tiny ears
won’t listen to your screams." from one of my FLESH WORLD poems, newly appearing today within OyeDrum Magazine read more here - https://oyedrum.com/flesh-world-by-juliet-cook-poetry/ New! Two of my poems appear in the new issue of Misfit Magazine! - "Some people want to remove your eyes" and one of my FLESH WORLD poems...I feel pretty strongly about these two poems of mine that appear in the new Issue No. 32, Spring 2021 of Misfit Magazine!
Some people want to remove your eyes" and one of my FLESH WORLD poems. http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-32/cook.html NEW! The Lunch Bucket Brigade Zine #4 (with three of my new FLESH WORLD poems inside it)!Delighted to have 3 of my new FLESH WORLD poems inside The Lunch Bucket Brigade Zine #4, alongside poems by Sara Sarna, Sophia Ashley, Nnadi Samuel, Michael Grover, and John Dorsey!
Thank you very much to poet/editor Dan Denton. You can get a copy for only $5 via the link below (and you can also get other Lunch Bucket Brigade Zines 1-3 and other chapbooks). https://noduckstudios.com/store/lunch-bucket-brigade-zine-4 NEW! A collaborative poem by Martin Willitts Jr and me appears in Pinky Thinker Press Issue No. 2Martin Willitts Jr. and Juliet Cook have a collaborative poem, "My Computer is Plotting Against Me", surrounded by all sorts of other interesting art and writing in Pinky Thinker Press, Issue No. 2!
(Our poem appears on page 6. ) "...I get ads for machines that mass produce kittens on conveyor belts. I get spam, literally that fake meat, pouring out of the motherboard." read more HERE - https://www.mignolo.art/ptp NEW! The Lunch Bucket Brigade #3 is now available and includes one of my Museum of Impending Death poems!Happy to have one of my Museum of Impending Death poems included in the Lunch Bucket Brigade #3, now available for only $5!
"Available now: LBB Zine #3. Packed with 10 poems from 10 poets. Packed with fire, steam, and blue collar grit and beauty. It’s a damn good issue. Featuring poetry by Kayla Marie Williams, Kerry Trautman,Brian Rihlmann, Joshua Gage, Jim Landwehr, Josh Olsen, John Dorsey, Juliet Cook, Sue Blaustein & Dan Denton. Artwork by Keith Scasny. $5. Free shipping. Support local poets." https://noduckstudios.com/store/the-lunch-bucket-brigade-zine-3?fbclid=IwAR2nyDCBmEoLlN9riDXDZIRfW4-2RQTIkOPTWKhwnfcizg2sSLTQzH_ElQM NEW! A collaborative poem by me & John Compton is in the BEDROOM at Pink Plastic House!"until they popped out and started crawling
under the bed" in John Compton and my collaborative poem, "I Never Promised You a Clean Bedroom" in the BEDROOM of Pink Plastic House Partake of more HERE - https://kristingarth.com/ Ethel Volume 6 is now available online and includes my poem, "Red Glass Ceiling""And you need to bleed out the madness screaming inside you.
Feel it drip and drip and drip into a wine glass. Fill yourself back up, temporarily. You think you're always a work in progress, attempting to raise yourself up to the top of the ceiling. And then crash down." part of my poem, "Red Glass Ceiling", which appears in Ethel Volume 6, which you can now read all of online, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com 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 A NEW publication of an OLD poem
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