Picture
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.
 
*

Juliet's first full-length poetry collection--HORRIFIC CONFECTION--was published as a free ebook by BlazeVOX in 2008--and was also available in print (the print versions are now sold out).


*

NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! 
​
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, the first month of 2015.

DIVE BACK DOWN is a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, published by Dancing Girl Press in November of 2015!

NEW! FROM ONE RUINED HUMAN TO ANOTHER is Juliet's first 2018 poetry chapbook, published by Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective! 
​
*

NEW! 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 late April/early May 2019 - and will soon be published as a free online PDF from the Dusie Kollektiv!

*

NEW! "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" is newly published by The Poet's Haven, as of end of May 2019! 

*

Juliet is very excited to have received a new acceptance of her poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" from Ethel!  
More details to come closer to the time of publication! 

*

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

​Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed!
A four-way split anthology, featuring poetry by Puma Perl, Dianne Borsenik, Jeannette Powers, and Juliet Cook is newly available from Stubborn Mule Press, as of September 2019!

23 pages of poetry each by Puma Perl, Dianne Borsenik, Jeanette Powers, and Juliet Cook! 💜

Published by Stubborn Mule Press.

Gorgeous cover art by Amy Scherer. 

​Find out more and/or acquire your own copy HERE - https://stubbornmulepress.bigcartel.com/product/heaven-we-haven-t-yet-dreamed?fbclid=IwAR3JXKtgvZU5zOyM7uk_ep3ntw2jF5cwCXll_hphfR5QwW7kD1U6iGbX8Iw

(update - I have now added a copy of this book to my Blood Pudding Press shop too, in case anyone would like a copy hand-signed by me -https://www.etsy.com/listing/738135607/new-heaven-we-havent-yet-dreamed-is-a?ref=shop_home_active_1)

New!  Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails is a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook (published by The Poet's Haven) - officially available May 31, 2019! 


"You never know what’s boiling out of the girl’s
locker room, but it probably involves breasts
too big and breasts too small and at the end of each
gym class, that teacher steps up and asks which
girl will stand on the stage and dance a cheer. "

in the poem "Firecracker firecracker boom boom splatter paint", which appears within this newchapbook, along with many more.

​32 pages of poetry in this collection, which can be acquired from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/701084408/another-set-of-ripped-out-bloody?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

New! DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is a new poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook (published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9) - 2019!

"Maybe you didn't want to bloom where you were planted.

Maybe you wanted to escape from where you were planted,
create your own individual space that doesn't leave you
stuck in the same position,
nailed into the same cross-shaped ground.

And so from the ground up and down, you elongate
into different circle shapes.  You expand and grow
your own fairy tale pie filled with maggots
that will choke to death or drown in between
the red filling unless they learn to fly."

As a small sample, the beginning of the first poem within Juliet Cook's NEW "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" poetry chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollktiv 9!

Newly available in print HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

(Soon to be available as a free PDF too. Stay tuned.)

Happy October! A NEW poem by me and j/j hastain is up at Rogue Agent Issue 55!

"We don't wrench out every bite of pie filling
because that would debilitate the crust.
We don’t try to unearth our whole life’s story in the memoir
about how we felt the first time we watched E.T.
We don't maintain the exact same flavor forever.
Connective tissue eventually rips apart;

flutters down from the scaffolding
and lands in its own new space."

from the poem "FOR CLASSIFICATION PURPOSES" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, at Rogue Agent Issue 55

HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/cook-hastain-2

​A NEW Poetry Interview with Juliet Cook is up on Cultural Weekly! So are three poems!

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy for conducting this Cultural Weekly Interview with me about poetry!

https://www.culturalweekly.com/interview-writerpublisher-juliet-cook/

***

Also at Cultural Weekly are Three Poems by me!

https://www.culturalweekly.com/juliet-cook-three-poems/

NEW! One of my poems appears in the September 2019 issue of Ghost City Review!

"In this one, the interrogation chamber is a swimming pool
filled with purple blood. My mouth opens,
then turns into a dilapidated drain"

from my poem OXYMORONIC LIMBS, appearing in the September 2019 issue of Ghost City Review!

read more HERE - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-82/2019/9/15/juliet-cook

NEW! ​Really System Issue Twenty Three includes one of my poems!

"The bedroom light bulbs turn into doll heads.
Perennial bulbs that open and shut their mouths,
depending on whether the light is on or off."

ISSUE TWENTY THREE of Really System has arrived - and includes my poem, "When I was a little girl, I threw a rock at a crab and accidentally killed it"

read the rest here - http://reallysystem.org/issues/twentythree/when_i_was_a_little_girl_i_threw_a_rock_at_a_crab_and_accidentally_killed_it/

***

This poem also appears within the new collaborative poetry book, "Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed" - https://stubbornmulepress.bigcartel.com/product/heaven-we-haven-t-yet-dreamed?fbclid=IwAR3JXKtgvZU5zOyM7uk_ep3ntw2jF5cwCXll_hphfR5QwW7kD1U6iGbX8Iw

NEW! Octopus Review #8 includes two of my poems (which also appear in my Blood Pudding Press chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS)!

"Brimming with broom legs,
with bruises and veins, 
uneven blood flow, pulsating heart beats
underneath my skin. I cut myself 
shaving again, because the veins 
bulged into the razor blade.
 
The ever alternating landscapes
of quantifiable feminism.
Blood 
then mental evaporation
then excavation from underneath the cuts."
 
Juliet Cook is delighted to have a few poems appearing in Octopus Review #8! - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-octopus-review-8.html?fbclid=IwAR08uim76Ha3FGzhy-uPFlb8PM95EAfo_QAxACHjcL88MVdfBDd4k_Ng53U
 
The two poems within Octopus Review #8 also appear within Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9 and available in its entire creepy little hand-designed print chapbook incarnation, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW in Menacing Hedge, Summer 2019 -
​Four of My Poems!

"And so from the ground up and down, you elongate
into different circle shapes. You expand and grow
your own fairy tale pie filled with maggots
that will choke to death or drown in between
the red filling unless they learn to fly."

I'm delighted to have four new poems in the new Summer 2019 issue of Menacing Hedge!

HERE - https://www.menacinghedge.com/summer2019/entry-cook.php

***

These four poems also appear within my recent poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS, which you can see and find out more about here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

​NEW in Ghost City Review - "Please Respond" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"the foliage starts on fire inside the oven.
The worlds last redwood forest appears there,
singing songs from the perspective of prized trees,
blood spewing out of their broken branches,
bird nests screaming, biohazardous wings."

in the poem "PLEASE RESPOND" by Juliet Cook & j/j hastain, in the new July issue of Ghost City Review

more HERE - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-89/2019/7/6/juliet-cook-and-jj-hastain

NEW in South Broadway Ghost Society -
​Juliet Cook's mental regurgitation

"I saw myself fainting and falling down into a continually sucked pool of my own blood while burning in hell."

inside my "mental regurgitation", in South Broadway Ghost Society today.

More HERE - 
 https://soboghoso.org/2019/06/14/mental-regurgitation-juliet-cook/

​NEW! 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

NEW in Maudlin House - "Wow Bob Wow" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain!

"Imagine all of the apples meant
to be bobbed,
being eaten by a random circus performer
named Bob
and then being spat
into confessional booths,
core after core split into pieces."

In Juliet Cook and j/j hastain's collaborative poem,"Wow Bob Wow", which appears in Maudlin House - https://maudlinhouse.net/wow-bob-wow/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare&fbclid=IwAR1HD9V_6AnidgOq3kQ9bU615wow82KP8_NYXYVI5wTlXsDdyYOgTgNmiWQ

NEW in MANTICORE - Hybrid Writing From Hybrid Identities - collaborative poetry and art by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain and many more!

"...Her breast milk
caused spiders to grow,

create larger more detailed webs
than the ones the children read about"

"MANTICORE - Hybrid Writing From Hybrid Identities" is a new Anthology (published by Sundress Publications), filled with tons of hybrid writing and art, including a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, followed by one of our collage art pieces right after our poem, plus another of our college art pieces at the end of the collection, before everyone's bios!

Each of our collage art pieces are titled using lines from our poem (SHE SAYS TO HERSELF "I AM" and YELP COMES OUT).
​
Our poem is titled THE DARKNESS TURNS BRIGHT.
​
MANTICORE - http://www.sundresspublications.com/manticore.pdf

NEW in BARNHOUSE Journal - "Her Mother Took Her to the Next Door Neighbor's Pig Roast" by Juliet Cook!

 "All she was worth was being stuck
in one contained space, with the wire threaded through,
with her pig tail cut off and given away
to the highest bidding dog.
 
With her butt torn into pieces by the snarling crowd."

Inside my poem, "Her Mother Took Her to the Next Door Neighbor’s Pig Roast", appearing in the NEW O H I O Loves You (a national poetry month feature issue) in BARNHOUSE Journal, on the last day of poetry month!

Read more HERE -https://ohiolovesyou.tumblr.com/post/184535190206/her-mother-took-her-to-the-next-door-neighbors

NEW in Bone & Ink - Combustible Shift by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"Stretch marks create their own dance move
in which you want to maneuver your way out
of your flesh and all its moth holes.
​
You can’t help but want to move out of
the fatty strobe, create your own 
strobe light, pour out the well
and mix up the bar
until piñatas are in every martini."

inside j/j hastain and I's poem, "Combustible Shift", newly up at Bone & Ink, HERE - https://www.boneandinkpress.com/single-post/2019/04/12/Combustible-Shift-Juliet-Cook-and-jj-hastain

NEW in South Broadway Ghost Society -
2 poems by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

​"We’re going to start a riot
in which we suck the leeches out of the straws
and fling them at those who think they should be in control
of our blood. We’ve got a lot to show them

about blood. It can’t be owned."

j/j hastain and I have two poems up at south broadway ghost society today!

read more HERE - https://soboghoso.org/2019/04/10/slumber-party-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

NEW in Deluge NO. 12 -
Pajama Bottoms for Flying Ghosts of the Underworld by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"The birds got jealous
and called home
by landing on my head,
pecking out an eye,
using the open space as a receiver"

within j/j hastain and I's poem, "Pajama Bottoms for Flying Ghosts of the Underworld", which I am delighted to have appearing in Deluge NO. 12!
read more HERE - http://www.radioactivemoat.com/juliet-cook--jj-hastain.html

Juliet Cook talks about embodied poetry
and writing Malformed Confetti (a new interview in Rogue Agent)!

"...aspects of my poetry could be read as excessive, complex, and redundant in a strangely elaborate sort of way. I think those ideas suit me, my personality, and my poetry. Occasionally, I've had times of wondering and worrying if my unintentional redundancy and repetition indicates that I am stuck in some sort of stagnant plateau or purgatorium, but it's not like I don't move up and down, sometimes in different directions; it's more like my overall structure is a misshapen, slightly digressive circle shape that moves around, slightly mutates and diverges,  has small surges, and changes over time."
​
a tiny part of my interview

Delighted to have this interview about my poetry writing process and other poetic thoughts/feelings (and about my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti) appearing within the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent, surrounded by poetry!
​
Juliet Cook talks about embodied poetry and writing Malformed Confetti, HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

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!
***
​
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

NEW chapbook! -
​From One Ruined Human to Another by Juliet Cook - published by Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective Press! 

​I am incredibly excited and delighted to announce that I have a NEW poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another", newly published and newly available from Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective! 

This is my first new poetry chapbook to be published within the last three years!

For those of you who don't know my poetry, it isn't very pretty. Little girls coalesce into blobs of blood with ripped out hearts. Contaminated tissue, bible cysts, evil spells, slimy pus, disbelief in love, dead birds, dead hearts and other broken parts, doll torsos with broken heads, giant rat traps, stars filled with teeth broken from the molars, at least three different poems with pussy in them, lots and lots of blood and lots and lots of holes.

The chapbook contains 26 hideous pages worth of poems created by me AND two pieces of fantastically wonderful cover art created by poet/artist Craig Firsdon (one on the outside front cover and one on the inside front cover).

If you're into my poetry (or are interested in checking it out), please support the press that chose to publish it!  For only 5 bucks plus shipping, you can get yourself a copy from CWP Collective Press and have a hand-designed book of 25 dark red poems and two fabulous pieces of unique art right in front of you. 

HERE! - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

 

​NEW Interview! Backstory of the Poem "ARTERIAL DISCOMBOBULATION"
​ by Juliet Cook

"...Was that a bodily tremor or
a body bag streamer?"

Delighted to be included in Chris Rice Cooper's Backstory of the Poem, which focuses on one specific poem and how the poet wrote that specific poem.

My poem focused on is "Arterial Discombobulation".

HERE - https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/05/18-backstory-of-poem-arterial.html

NEW! LOVE CAN BE A CHOKECHERRY / AN INTERVIEW WITH POET JULIET COOK

"She describes her style as, “emotional hailstorms (based on and derived from thoughts/feelings/memories) that are redirected and reshaped into poetry, sometimes more direct and other times more abstract. Often on the dark side.”"

(Thank you very much to Bekah Steimel and Shannon Steimel for conducting this interview with me!)

Read the interview in its entirety (or just read parts of it, if you'd like), starting with a poem HERE - https://bekahsteimel.com/2018/04/22/love-can-be-a-chokecherry-an-interview-with-poet-juliet-cook/

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
​

Interview at This Choice!

A podcast interview of Juliet Cook (about poetry and other stuff) is up at This Choice, HERE - https://renpowell.com/2016/12/01/this-choice-juliet-cook/

Interview with Juliet Cook at THE BOOTH!

I am extremely excited to share "Writing that disturbs the bodies of the mind: An Interview with Juliet Cook" now up at THE BOOTH at Hermeneutic Chaos!

You can read my answers to questions about grotesque writing, collaborative writing, and my forthcoming second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, coming soon from Crisis Chronicles Press.

https://theboothblogsite.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/writing-that-disturbs-what-disturbs-bodying-the-mind-with-juliet-cook/