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
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"From a fabulous creature to a throw away/
poison-induced creme brulee paraclete..." 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 Happy 2020! I have a creepy NEW poem in the kitchen at Pink Plastic House (a tiny journal) - Keychains as Treats!"Every leg gets cross-stitched into position
in this factory. You are told to sit still at the table you’ve been assigned and either eat what’s right in front of you or be eaten after your own feet are cut off and hooked to a chain." in my poem "Keychains as Treats" which appears in Pink Plastic House a tiny journal today! (Yesterday it was on Instagram; today it's in the tiny journal). Here's what poet/editor Kristin Garth says about it and you can read more and decide for yourself, HERE - https://kristingarth.com/ *** "Today in the Pink Plastic House (a tiny journal) we will visit the kitchen. Bring your appetite for a bit of grotesque glitter witch magic because Juliet Cook is cooking and she is serving "Keychains as Treats," and they are intense." 🖤 NEW in Thimble Literary Magazine - Doll's Eyes Could Kill by Juliet Cook"...We are not all house pets
looking for an owner or a groom or someone to wash our hair. We want to own ourselves." in my poem "Doll's Eyes Could Kill", in the NEW VOL. 2 NO. 3 of Thimble Literary Magazine read more HERE - https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2019/12/18/dolls-eyes-could-kill/ NEW in Burning House Press - 3 Poems by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain!j/j hastain and I have three poems up at Burning House Press today, within the Labyrinth! Thank you to Guest Editor Dhiyanah Hassan!
Sometimes I wonder whose semi-secret shit list I’m on and why. Maybe I’m just paranoid. I have my own scars, my own forms of damage control, but not quite enough time to get it right or trust my own impulses. Read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2019/12/12/3-poems-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/ Very excited to receive a 2019 Pushcart Prize Nomination!Delighted to find out and announce that j/j hastain and Juliet Cook's long collaborative poem, "Myth Owls Targeted At Evil" has been nominated for a 2019 Pushcart Prize by Misfit Magazine!
http://misfitmagazine.net/?fbclid=IwAR0i6lGXhUaLHxO7YOh3V1yUja0WDl2knu0rjJwxQWd40QST12hxvS2lwJs NEW in Burning House Press - "Every Room Whispers Itself into Your Ear""This room is for the disobedient whores
to be stabbed and wrapped in plastic and then placed in an ornamental circle." in my poem, "Every Room Whispers Itself into Your Ear" at Burning House Press (NO MACHINE WITHOUT A GHOST theme, guest edited by Mauve Perle Tahat, with art by Moriah M. Mylod) read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2019/11/14/every-room-whispers-itself-into-your-ear-by-juliet-cook/ NEW in Elephants Never! A collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me - Until They Are Well Done"Everyone decomposes in the end,
so you might as well turn yourself in to a tree with leaves that will drop in different directions." the beginning of the poem "Until They Are Well Done", by j/j hastain and me, appearing within this week's Elephants Never! Happy Halloween! read more HERE - https://elephantsnever.com/until-they-are-well-done/ NEW in Rabid Oak Issue 16 - my Snake Fingers!"I tried my best to turn you on, but I couldn’t.
Five minutes of porn turned you on more than me, so my snake fingers learned how to lie down beside you and fantasize about someone else and use my own fingers on myself until I couldn’t stop hissing." Issue 16 of Rabid Oak is newly up, offering 15 different voices, including a "Snake Fingers" poem by me, of which the last few lines appear above. Hiss into more, HERE - https://rabidoak.com/issues/issue-16/ NEW in Misfit Magazine! "Myth Owls Targeted At Evil" by me and j/j hastain!"Back to this dungeon full of contests and judgments.
In this chamber, the scores are based on body types and weight equating to life and death." j/j hastain and I have a long collaborative poem called "Myth Owls Targeted At Evil" appearing within Issue No. 28, Fall 2019 of Misfit Magazine, surrounded by all kinds of other poems too. Read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-28/cook&hastain.html?fbclid=IwAR3Q7JYyoBUFD6JJalcN7ecVivIqUFKfqziMwKeV9MqSqxChWHhh_IfBKUI Ethel Volume 4 is now online as well as in print!The current issue of Ethel is now up on the website, in addition to being available as a handmade zine!
It includes a poem by me and j/j hastain, among lots of other creative goodies! HERE! - https://www.ethelzine.com/current-issue 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 -
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