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, 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 is now also available as a free online PDF from the Dusie Kollektiv, HERE - http://www.dusie.org/Cook--DARKPURPLEINTERSECTIONS.pdf ! * NEW! "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" is newly published by The Poet's Haven, as of end of May 2019! * 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! My New Micro-Chapbook, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City" is alive!
Imagine hysterical organisms
filled with contorted demons filled with delirium. Spiders with baby heads crawling up thighs, hissing their way inside. Imagine a constellation of rotten dolls shimmering with glittery glass with a black hole not too far away. Today, June 23, 2020, my new Micro-Chapbook, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City" is alive, thank you to Ghost City Press! I love Ghost City and I am delighted to be included within the 2020 SUMMER MICRO-CHAPBOOK SERIES! You can read my less than 15 pages of Histrionics here - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city?fbclid=IwAR3lDG5A_L11_0v_-3T9Uvl4GX2u2mClInnLFcXfcBk4nFwv7LaO1IB4xRU 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 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 in Mineral Lit Mag - a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me!"Red neck, blue neck, let's pin the tail on
the purple. Hit the piñata sporting the face of a new trajectory attack. Then intervene by shifting the italics in the opposite direction; by replacing every other m with a w and every other man with a wolf." in the poem "Falling Down Off the Bar Table" a collaborative poem by Juliet Cook & j/j hastain, making an appearance in Issue 4.2 of Mineral Lit Mag https://www.minerallitmag.com/falling-down-off-the-bar-table-by-juliet-cook-and-8203jj-hastain.html#/ (You can read all of Issue 4.2 HERE - https://minerallitmag.com/issue-42.html#/ ) 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." 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! Thank you very much to Rachel Kendall for including my poem! 🖤🖤🖤 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? -
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