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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.



 

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 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.


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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!)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYcdyX864Ic&feature=youtu.be

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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. 
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Thank you to Art on Madison for hosting the reading.
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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


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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. 
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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 !

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"Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" was published by The Poet's Haven, in 2019!

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"The Rabbits With Red Eyes" was published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, in March 2020!

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"Histrionics Inside My Interior City" was part of the Ghost City Press Summer Series in June 2020!

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NEW! "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was accepted by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, to be published in October 2023!

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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

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"From a fabulous creature to a throw away/
poison-induced creme brulee paraclete..."

​New! A poem of mine is appearing in the Spring 2022 Issue of Scapegoat Review!

"Maybe your microfear invisibly grew inside
your own head until it had to find a way out
and then its ghosts invaded
your own microwave, which suddenly
kept repeatedly restarting itself
for 4 seconds at a time, trying to heat up baby food.
 
Baby food for 4 seconds, baby food for 4 seconds,
expired, invisible baby food for another 4 seconds.
You try to turn it off, but then
it starts again."

in my poem "MENTAL METEOR SHOWER", which appears in the new Spring 2022 Issue of Scapegoat Review!

read more here - http://www.scapegoatreview.org/spring-2022/juliet-cook


New! Three new poems of mine are appearing in
​A Thin Slice of Anxiety!

​ "I love gazing upon live chicken wattles
and photographing their clucking faces,
but I'll still eat their legs.
I told you I need wings
to be boneless. I need birds to be dead"


Delighted to have three poems appearing in A Thin Slice of Anxiety!

http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2022/03/poetry-selections-from-juliet-cook.html


New! Three new poems of mine are appearing in the Terror House ("Death Will Always Exist," "Field Dressing Fantasy," and "Body Captivity")!

"Death might happen all of the sudden
whether you want to admit it
or not. Then the rest of you will be shattered
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into pieces of other’s interpretations instead
of your own..."


You can read more HERE - https://terrorhousemag.com/exist/

New! ​A collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me, SUBLIMINAL BODY JEWELRY IS THE NEW LEADER , is newly appearing in BigCityLit!

"Within one week, three nose rings flew out of my nose,
hit the floor and quickly dispersed.
A month later one of them submerged
from the carpeting and sky rocketed up to the ceiling
like a tiny UFO. It wanted my nose to join it.

Next thing I knew I was missing my vertebrae,
sequined maggots were stitched to the top of my ears
and invertebrate inventory was being conducted
on my hair..."


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I am delighted to have a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me, "Subliminal Body Jewelry Is The New Leader" appearing in the new issue of BigCityLit! 

The lines above are the beginning of the poem and you can read more by clicking this link - https://nycbigcitylit.com/article/subliminal-body-jewelry-is-the-new-leader/

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.
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(from Model Hog Heaven)
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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!

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"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!
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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. 2

Martin 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.
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$5. Free shipping. Support local poets."
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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
​in Sein und Werden's Of Human Bondage Issue

The NEW issue of Sein und Werden includes an OLD poem of mine called "FOOTAGE".

My poetry style has changed to certain extents over the years.
I think I used to be more language-based and now I'm more emotions/thoughts/feelings based. Plus of course some of my emotions/thoughts/feelings have changed over the years too. I think most if not all of my styles can be mental, visual, and horrific in one way or another.

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/winter20/page39.html?fbclid=IwAR06ZdF47Yy-

​NEW! GUEST issue fourteen : The Entanglement Issue includes 4 of my poems! 

Delighted to have four of my Museum of Impending Death poems appearing in GUEST issue fourteen : The Entanglement Issue : guest-edited by Michael Sikkema, alongside work by Sue Bracken, Andrew Brenza, Megan Burns, Amanda Earl, Robert Martin Evans, Nathan Hauke, Jessie Janeshek, E.J. McAdams, Meredith Quartermain, and Claudia Coutu Radmore!

Thank you very much to Michael Sikkema and rob mclennan!
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You can acquire your own copy of this new issue for $5 + postage / + $1 for Canadian orders; + $2 for US; + $6 outside of North America
https://guestpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2020/11/issue-fourteen-entanglement-issue-guest.html

NEW! My poem "Dried Out" is inside EXCUSE ME Mag!

EXCUSE ME Mag No. 4, FALL, 2020: The BLOOD & BAD TIMES (which includes Juliet Cook's poem "Dried Out") is now available.

Find out more and/or acquire a copy for yourself HERE - 
http://franticflicker.com/

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"All our heads are expected to fit
in the same positions. Universal
death from multi-colored butterfly
to stomped on moth."

​NEW! Two of my Museum of Impending Death poems AND a collaborative poem by me and Martin Willitts Jr appear in Sublunary Review!

"Everything we touch
could be destruction."


Read more HERE - https://www.sublunaryreview.com/home/musem-of-impending-death-and-my-journal-has-never-been-the-same

​NEW! Three of my Twin Peaks inspired poems are making an appearance in DIAGRAM 20.5!

I am delighted to have three Twin Peaks inspired poems appearing in the new issue 20.5 of DIAGRAM! 

"INVADED CORES" ❤️- "CAPTIVE COHABITATION" 💙- "IN MY DEATH BAG"
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http://thediagram.com/20_5/cook.html

"Like a contorted ejaculation,
a liquid miasma hurls out of his mouth,
hovers in the air and then
flings itself at my face.
It sticks to my skin like a death mask
and laughs and laughs and laughs."



NEW! FEARLESS 72 includes two of my poems!

Darkly delighted to have two of my poems appearing in the new issue of FEARLESS #72! Happy late night Halloween and beyond! 

My Bridal Meat Doll makes a creepy appearance on page 12.

My Fiery Arena is sizzling on page 27.

Lots of other darkly delicious offerings too!

Read the fearlessness HERE - https://archive.org/details/fearless-72/mode/2up

NEW inside The Haunted Dollhouse - The Skeletons Won't Burn Underwater by me and Martin Willitts Jr!

Some of Martin Willitts Jr. and my skeletons are fracturing The Haunted Dollhouse...

"But I'm not their owner
nor in control of their desire to revitalize.
I underestimate their power
and how angry they feel"



Read more HERE - https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/

or HERE - https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQurCzB2iO/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&fbclid=IwAR00pgU8PxBSza8WooTD4X4vRdNvOaAqx-5P0YQ5MRXCGephvLymB-hyXGo

NEW in The Kill Your Idols issue of Sein und Werden!

Appearing in the new Kill Your Idols autumn issue of Sein und Werden is one of my Museum of Impending Death poems accompanied by several of Collin J Rae's Pandemic Portraits.

Take a look HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn20/page23.html
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NEW in Madness Muse Press - one poem by me AND one collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me!

Welcome to Week #1 of Madness Muse Press created by its new poetry editor, John Compton.

This issue includes all kinds of poetry and I'm happy that my poem "Trapped Animals" and a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me, "Reloading Demolished Installation" is a part of the Madness!

Dive in and read some new poetic offerings, HERE - https://madnessmusepress.com/2020/09/27/1224/

NEW! My poem "Industrial Carousel" is up at The Rising Phoenix Review!

"Sometimes I feel like I’m on a bad dream carousel,
moving in rickety circles, taking turns
sitting on different unnatural broken animals.
A never ending damaged carnival ride.
Every horse has different side effects.
The only think they all have in common
is they’re all fake and will eventually break,
make you start over again and make you pay."


from my poem, "Industrial Carousel", making an appearance in The Rising Phoenix Review


read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/27/industrial-carousel-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Tarot Card Shark, a collaborative poem by Martin Willitts Jr and me appears in The Daily Drunk!

Thank you to The Daily Drunk for accepting the collaborative poem "Tarot Card Shark" by Martin Willitts Jr. and me, to appear within its Terror Taco Tuesday theme (in which every poem had to include terror or tacos...)! 

He writes so many love letters,
he will soon forget which ones were for you.

He gets tired of you and fills your drink
with rat poison, but gives you the wrong drink,

confusing you with his other lover
who loves low-fat milk.


Read the rest by clicking the link below! 
https://thedailydrunk.com/f/tarot-card-shark

NEW! This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader by me & Martin Willitts Jr is up at The Rising Phoenix Review!

There is no cure. We no longer desire to be cured.
We rather infect as many as we can, so we are all alike:
crushed plastic doll heads
in blood-splattered, contaminated rain
bending like trumpets someone sat on.

Soon nobody will have their own instruments.

within the poem, "This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader" by Juliet Cook and Martin Willitts Jr, newly appearing within The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/10/this-rotten-trumpet-is-our-leader-by-juliet-cook-martin-willitts-jr/

NEW! July is upon us and Sein und Werden has re-emerged and includes one of my  Museum of Impending Death poems!

"the newborns might be stillborns
stored inside pickled egg containers."

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July is upon us and Sein und Werden has re-emerged!
I'm delighted to have one of my Museum of Impending Death poems appearing in this new Summer 2020 Issue, Le Retour!


I love the art next to my poem - Entombed By Their Hate by Walter Savage!
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Thank you very much to Rachel Kendall for including my poem!
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http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer20/page7.html

​NEW! A Collaborative poem by Martin Willitts Jr and me, "Stung By Misunderstandings" is making an appearance in TERSE.

"...Her insides were being replaced
even though she had never asked for anyone else
to repair her..."


Feel free to read more HERE - https://tersejournal.com/2020/06/22/stung-by-misunderstandings-by-juliet-cook-by-martin-willitts-jr/

NEW! Two of my Museum of Impending Death poems are in Misfit Magazine!

Happy to have two short Museum of Impending Death poems making an appearance in the Summer 2020 issue of Misfit!

http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-30/cook.html

​NEW! A Museum of Impending Death poem by me AND a collaborative poem by Martin Willitts Jr and me are up at Eighteen Seventy (writing from the fringe)!

Happy to have one of my Museum of Impending Death poems appearing in Eighteen Seventy (writing from the fringe)!
https://eighteenseventy.poetry.blog/2020/06/10/museum-of-impending-death/

Also happy to have one of my collaborative poems with Martin Willitts Jr. appearing in Eighteen Seventy (writing from the fringe)!
https://eighteenseventy.poetry.blog/2020/06/10/many-times-we-are-stung-by-juliet-cook-and-martin-willitts-jr/

​NEW! 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

​NEW! One of my Museum of Impending Death poems is in Rogue Agent Issue 63!

"Maybe it's your fault because you ate a rancid peach.
Maybe it's your fault because you didn't apply
enough bleach or because you didn't drink
enough bleach or because you drank too much.


Maybe it's your fault because you held an unwashed doll's hand."


In one of my Museum of Impending Death poems, appearing within Rogue Agent Issue 63!

more HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook

​NEW! Three of my Museum of Impending Death poems appear in Burning House Press!

"inside a nightmare of a rusty game of musical chairs
in which we are stumbling, hobbling, falling down,
​while trying to walk in circles,
competing for the chairs
that keep disappearing."

Three of my Museum of Impending Death poems are up at Burning House Press today!

HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2020/05/18/three-poems-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Another One of my Museum of Impending Death poems appears in Across the Social Distances!

"These evil ghosts spit dirt onto my face.
These bloody clown mouths won’t stop screaming.
I know I don’t really matter anymore in the midst of all this noise."


One of Juliet Cook's Museum of Impending Death poems now appears within Across the Social Distances!
​

HERE- https://acrossthesocialdistances.tumblr.com/post/617415868998090752/museum-of-impending-death-by-juliet-cook

​NEW! One of my Museum of Impending Death poems lives inside The Haunted Dollhouse!

"The large black cloud looms and grows
into an impending tornado. The lights all go out."

inside one of my Museum of Impending Death poems, which is now inside The Haunted Dollhouse...

HERE - 
 https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/

(It can also be viewed and read on Instagram, HERE - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_YFJ0LBm3q/)

NEW in (the newly re-awakened) Can We Have Our Ball Back? -
​FIVE NEW POEMS!

3 weird poems by me

1 weird collab poem by me & Martin Willitts Jr

1 weird collab poem by me and Darryl Shupe

All newly appearing upon the newly re-awakened
Can We Have Our Ball Back?


HERE - https://canwehaveourballback.org/f/juliet-cook?fbclid=IwAR3qwlSNrHiLkiLAyGLKBAMdeTnIvwCSsvEClc93nwYpjqzVksK-d3ceUts

3 Museum of Impending Death poems

1 Stuck Inside the Cubicles Inside Our Minds poem

1 Like a Close Relative of an Asshat poem

NEW in the Museum of Poetry -VIRAL CONTAGION!

My VIRAL CONTAGION poem is alive within the
Museum of Poetry!

Thank you very much to poet/editor Michael Grover!


"Walking to pick up my seizure pills.
A car drives by, spits poison from the window.
Either I explode or I keep on walking
and pretend I'm still alive as I turn into a coughing zombie,
then pass the virus on to the next character."
​

read more HERE - ​https://museumofpoetry1.blogspot.com/2020/05/viral-contagion-brain-drain-video-game.html


NEW in Burning House Press - A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes by me and j/j hastain

"A blow up doll
stuck inside
a fish gizzard,
grinding for hours"


inside the poem, "A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook
, in Burning House Press!


read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2020/03/22/a-fairy-tale-covered-in-underwater-ashes-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/#more-19601

​NEW in Ghost Bible - my poem "Animals" surrounded by many others!

Excited to announce the new Ghost Bible is alive!
​
Filled with poetry by lots of different poetry people and including my poem, "Animals"!

Just click on the GHOST BIBLE ISSUE 1.pdf to read it.

HERE! - https://ghostbible.tumblr.com/ 🖤

NEW in Squawk Back - poetry by  me and j/j hastain

"I will slowly be sucked dry
until all I really am
is a repetitive art installation
inside a tiny constellation
of dead glitter."


A collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook AND an individual poem by Juliet Cook are now up at Squawk Back!

http://www.thesquawkback.com/2020/03/jjj.html 🖤💓

​NEW in Burning House Press - The New World Doll Dresser by me and j/j hastain

"Take me into the basement and use that voice on me.
Magnetize me until the mold goes away.
Sub-layers for the submissive who never wanted
a dominant and really just wanted a doll..."

within the poem "The New World Doll Dresser" by me and j/j hastain, up at Burning House Press's VISION issue
 🖤
read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2020/01/14/the-new-world-doll-dresser-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

NEW in Ghost City Review! - OTHERWORLDLY FORCE FIELD by me and j/j hastain

"...you don't know how many fangs I have
hiding behind my left eye. And I don't know
exactly what my own fangs might do if
we died tomorrow and in the afterlife
only ate peanut brittle made from
memories of broken bridges."

from the poem "OTHERWORLDLY FORCE FIELD" by j/j hastain and me

delighted to have this poem appearing in the NEW January Issue of GHOST CITY REVIEW and excited to read the rest of the issue 
​🖤💙🖤

HERE - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-120/2020/1/10/juliet-cook-and-jj-hastain

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

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/

​Delighted to announce that my Malformed Confetti has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

​I am excited and delighted and very happy to announce that my full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (recently published by Crisis Chronicles Press in October of 2018) has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs for honoring my book in this way!
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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop (if you would like a hand-signed copy), HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you again to Crisis Chronicles Press!

​Excited to receive a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem within my Malformed Confetti! Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press!

Delighted, excited, and thrilled to receive a new Pushcart Prize nomination from Crisis Chronicles Press for my poem, "assembly line doll head roach hotel", which appears in my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs and congratulations to the other nominees!

***

"assembly line doll head roach hotel" was previously published online by ACTION YES (here's a link to the archives with that poem, preceded by another poem, which also happens to appear within my Malformed Confetti book) - http://actionyes.org/issue12/cook/cook1.html

"assembly line doll head roach hotel" also previously appeared in my chapbook, "Fondant Pig Angst", which was published by Slash Pine Press, but is no longer available.

Both of those publications happened 8 or 9 years ago.

***

Now the poem appears within my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, which was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press - which includes poems from 2008 -2015 - and which can be acquired via Crisis Chronicles Press, here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 
OR via my own Blood Pudding Press, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

12 or 20 (small press) questions with Juliet Cook on Blood Pudding Press

A 16 question interview about Blood Pudding Press!
Thank you very much to rob mclennan for inviting me to answer his interview questions.

HERE - ​http://robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2017/09/12-or-20-small-press-questions-with_15.html

Poetry Spoken Here, Episode #48 including Juliet Cook

You can listen to Juliet Cook talk about poetry and creative flow and brain wave quirks AND hear her read 5 of her poems.
​
Thank you very much to Charlie Rossiter for Poetry Spoken Here.
https://soundcloud.com/poetry-spoken-here/episode-48-juliet-cook-and-paterson-light-and-shadow-reviewed
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