HORRIFIC CONFECTION-The Poetic Pursuit of Juliet Cook

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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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).

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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.

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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!)

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, 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!

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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!

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

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Juliet is very excited to have received a new acceptance of her poetry chapbook, "red circles into nothing" from Clare Songbirds Publishing!
More details to come closer to the time of publication!

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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!

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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

Tell me a secret

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

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! 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 new chapbook, a long with many more.

32 pages of poetry in this collection, newly available from The Poet's Haven, HERE - https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159

UPDATE! You can also now acquire this book 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.)

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

NEW in Octopus Review #7 -
some of my art!

Delighted to have some art up in the new Octopus Review #7, along with other art and poetry! Thank you very much to Vin Whitman for creating another new Octopus!

HERE - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/04/octopus-review-7.html?fbclid=IwAR12nwfkHvtaWjlyGh6hZph_xXWo4cj9aqnMrKRZwUPrQbt5uCTnmepSbKM

NEW in Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland - "Hansel and Gretel 2019" by me and j/j hastain

"A needle pulling thread through the back
of children's heads is hoping
to replace brain waves
with tiny new fingers for the maggots."

inside j/j hastain and I's poem, "Hansel and Gretel 2019", which is day SEVEN HUNDRED and NINETY EIGHT at WINEDRUNK SIDEWALK: SHIPWRECKED IN TRUMPLAND

read more HERE - http://winedrunksidewalk.blogspot.com/2019/03/day-seven-hundred-and-ninety-eight.html

Happy strange March!
NEW in Ppigpenn! - 1 poem by me and two poems by j/j hastain and me!

One poem by me, "Burnt Pepper" - and two collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me, "Edible (or Inedible) In and Out" and "Wasting away in a giant trap full of carcasses" are now up at Ppigpenn!

HERE - https://ppigpenn.blogspot.com/2019/02/julietcook-is-grotesque-glitter-witch.html?zx=59905d8756eb93a9

New in Rabid Oak Issue 11 -
Two collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me!

...and instead
place my attention
intentionally on the balloon.
One member of the family
is blowing it up
while the other
is letting the air out
while someone hidden behind
the tree keeps repeating,
“Objects in mirror are closer
than your married name”.

But I never changed my name.
I just pretended to be married
to a swan.

My family pretended the swan
was a swamp creature.

Two poems by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook included in Issue 11 of Rabid Oak HERE - https://rabidoak.com/issues/issue-11/two-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/

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/

NEW in Ex-Spec Po -
Four Collaborative poems by
j/j hastain & me!

"Weary of dominant men,
raining a storm to invade
the orange haired cesspool.

He's the one
who suggested waterboarding
ought to be legal.
An eye for an eye
until everyone's eyes are gone."

j/j hastain and I have four collaborative poems appearing in Ex-Spec Po!

The lines above are from the poem, "He Never Liked Different Colored Eyes Anyway".

Read more HERE - https://medium.com/the-operating-system/a-collection-of-collaborations-by-juliet-cook-and-jj-hastain-33c486819ea0

Happy New Year 2019!
j/j hastain and I have a new poem in Rogue Agent!

"Egg cups filled with small lunatics
scrambling out of cracked urns,
seeking a new shell."

In "FRANKENSTEIN’S WIFE WEARING TORN LINGERIE" by j/j hastain and me, in Rogue Agent

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

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!

NEW in Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland - "Pepper"

"All he wants to do is destroy
in order to feel like his body is stronger.
He can't control his own body, so he'll control others.
He wants to be the boss of broken body parts."

in my poem, "Pepper", in Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland today

more here - https://winedrunksidewalk.blogspot.com/2018/12/day-six-hundred-and-eighty-five.html

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!

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"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.

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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

Just in time for Halloween, MALFORMED CONFETTI has found its way into the Blood Pudding!

Just in time for Halloween, I have now added a copy of my new Malformed Confetti poetry book to my Blood Pudding Press etsy shop!😈

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_1

(The book can still be acquired from the press that published it, Crisis Chronicles Press, too, here -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html)

Just in time for Halloween 2018 and the rest of the 2018 holiday season and beyond, my Malformed Confetti has been added to my Blood Pudding Press!

Malformed Confetti is my second individual full-length poetry book, which has arrived in October 2018!

100+ pages. Poems ranging from 2008-2015.

Cover art created by Simona Candini.

Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole.

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press!

If you would like to acquire the book directly from the press that published it (Crisis Chronicles Press), you can do so here -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

At Blood Pudding Press, the same price is being charged, but you're receiving your copy directly from the author, who will hand sign the book for you.

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Here's a little more about Malformed Confetti, that appears in the About the Author section in the back of the book:

Juliet Cook has been writing poetry for more than 25 years. Her poetry has appeared in a small multitude of magazines, both online and in print. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including a collaboration with j/j hastain called "Dive Back Down" (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), an individual collection called "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective, 2018), and with another individual collection, "Another Set of Ripped Out Bloody Pig Tails" forthcoming from The Poet's Haven.

Cook's first full-length individual poetry book, “Horrific Confection”, was published by BlazeVOX in late 2008, ten years ago now. Her more recent full-length poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", is a collaboration with j/j hastain published by Hysterical Books in 2016. Her MOST recent individual full-length poetry book is this one, "Malformed Confetti".

The poems within "Malformed Confetti" range from 2008 to 2015. In early 2010, Cook suffered from an unexpected Carotid Artery Dissection, which lead to an Aneurysm which lead to a Stroke. Later in 2010, while on the brink of divorce and temporarily living with her parents, Cook began to assemble and submit an earlier version of this manuscript. As time went on, she revised it, added more recent poems, and rearranged it, forming it into a dissected but interconnected discombobulation of pre-stroke and post-stroke work.

Cook's poetic style has undergone changes over the years, but her passion for poetry lives on.

Cook also sometimes creates semi-abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.

Cook also runs her own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, which sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes sells art.

Happy October! NEW in Bone & Ink - Invasive Dead Leaf

"Maybe I'd rather be eaten
on the inside, instead of chewing off
someone else's head in less than ten minutes.

Dead leaf, devil's flower, I don't believe
in these judgmental gods that escalate
the hate in a different direction."

within my poem "Invasive Dead Leaf", NEW in Bone & Ink Press

read more HERE - https://www.boneandinkpress.com/single-post/2018/10/21/Invasive-Dead-Leaf-Juliet-Cook

NEW in FLAPPERHOUSE #19 - Two collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me!

New FLAPPERHOUSE, #19 – Fall 2018

"Mutant rats, evil deer, chemtrails, voodoo, gravitrons, clouds of mass destruction,and so much more: FLAPPERHOUSE #19."

j/j hastain and Juliet Cook have two collaborative poems - “How to Grow Rat Teeth” and “The Moon Made Out of Bloated Cheese” appearing within this FLAPPERHOUSE.

HERE - https://flapperhouse.com/zine/19-fall-2018/

NEW in Bone & Ink Press!
One collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me!
One collaborative poem by Michael Bernstein and me!

"...Leech pits, leech festivals,
leech fairs in which the new Queen Leech
dissolves her progeny in a flurry of teeth,
the muck whirring furious and blind all around,
using more ripped off flesh to create
dripping crowns of thorns with more
suckling leeches dangling from the tops
of heads. A new form of crucifixion."

in the poem "Leeches" by Michael Bernstein and Juliet Cook, in Bone & Ink Press

more HERE - https://www.boneandinkpress.com/single-post/2018/09/12/Two-Poems-by-Juliet-Cook-w-jj-hastain-and-Michael-Bernstein

NEW in the final issue of Arsenic Lobster!
One poem by me AND two collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me!

"Another barbecue pit filled with
human flesh.

Some people will eat it,
some will photograph it
for research purposes.

Some people will run away screaming
and then the next day,
they’ll pretend it never happened.

They will convince themselves
it was a dream because
they can’t remember what the burning flesh smelled like."

inside the poem "Seasoned and Sliced", by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, inside the new Arsenic Lobster

read more HERE - http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1content.html

Happy September! My poem, "And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing" is up at The Rye Whiskey Review today!

Have a drink of this poem of mine and decide for yourself whether it's bad or good - and then spit it out or poor it down the drain or have another drink of it.

"And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing" at The Rye Whiskey Review, HERE - http://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2018/09/and-if-that-mockingbird-dont-sing-by.html

Happy August! New poem in Rag Queen Periodical!

"...how the hell am I supposed to power myself out of my own
repetitive conundrum into some sort of straightforward pathway?

I’d repeatedly crash. My own darkness would be marooned.
My own limbs would break through a broken mirror, another ex
traction of myself from inside my own curvilinear folds.
I know I won’t stop folding. I know I won’t sit still inside
someone else’s vehicle while I am still alive."

the end of my poem, "I Am Not Straightforward Movement", appearing in Rag Queen Periodical, Issue Two

read more here - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2018/07/26/1-Poem-by-Juliet-Cook

NEW! The 20th Anniversary Issue of Unlikely Stories has arrived

The 20th Anniversary Issue of Unlikely Stories has arrived and includes three collaborative poems by j/j hastain and I, as well as creative tons of other poetry/art/stories and more!!!

The lines below are from j/j and I's poem, "Star Spangled Bullets".

Dive into more HERE - http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/concrete-entrenchment-star-spangled-bullets-and-while-the-veil-is-thin

"Can sponge cake and blood go hand in hand
even though cake doesn't have hands
or the standard definition of wings?
Yes because two hands cup around the cake
and the blood runs between.
Some people look away from the blood.
Some people can't stop looking into it."

Happy July! New poems in Ghost City AND in Stirring's HOT MESS!

"Side effects may include abnormal
discoloration of everyone's tongues
turning into cannon balls,
flinging magma at the proprietor
who called us all dogs,
tried to cut off our burning tails,"

inside the poem "Flying Knives and Entrails", by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, inside Ghost City.

more HERE - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry-41/2018/6/30/julietcookand-jj-hastain

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"One month you Instagram me;
the next month I'm deleted and replaced
with instant coffee.
Maybe we have different taste buds
and different ideas
about amusement park rides.

I used to enjoy the quick release
of a roller coaster plunging down fast
and the escalating screams.
My shut eyes were filled with haunted house
strobe lights of terrified delight.
Now it feels more like a downward spiral
leading closer to death,"

inside the poem "Whether the escalator is moving up or down, it can still tear us apart" by Juliet Cook, inside the HOT MESS Issue of Stirring

more HERE - www.stirringlit.com/new-page-2

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 in The Octopus Review #5! Two poems!

The Octopus Review #5 has arrived and I'm delighted to have two poems inside! The issue begins with my little "Pisscake" poem - and then my longer poem, "To Serve and Protect (Out of Order)" appears further down among the different shaped Octopus arms and hearts and other parts.

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"Apply some trendy cupcake frosting over my bleeding lips
and spew it out. Batter up,
splatter down, (be)rate
someone else's cupcake color, size and shape and then
piss all over another face."

inside my poem "Pisscake"

read more HERE - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-octopus-review-5-summer-18.html

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

Another NEW poem in The Rising Phoenix Review!

"They said I was acting
like a hyper martyr
when all they wanted to do was control"

from the poem "Signs of the New Sun God", by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, in The Rising Phoenix Review

HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2018/05/20/signs-of-the-new-sun-god-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review!

"My socks are slinking themselves
down into the grave.

An orphanage of toes covered up
and left behind.
Replaced with younger legs
thinking of song lines from roads walked in other lifetimes.

Sometimes the microphone turns into a scalpel
and I begin to cut away
all of the shitty choices I made in the past.
I can’t cut them all out of my brain, but
I can modify the collages."

inside the poem "Inner Slinky" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, which appears inside The Rising Phoenix Review

HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2018/05/10/inner-slinky-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical!

"Heavy voltage electricity through
which another new life form
might emerge."

inside the poem "Ripped Gills Atomized into Lightning" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, which appears inside the NEW Rag Queen Periodical - ISSUE ONE: SELF Cadaver!

HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2018/05/01/Ripped-Gills-Atomized-into-Lightning-by-Juliet-Cook-jj-hastain

NEW for National Poetry Month,
at Cuyahoga County Public Library,
Juliet Cook's poem "Chicken Corset"

"...I might as well toss my chicken
feed inside a cracked flask
and chug it, attempt to convince myself
that I can create my own"

from my poem "Chicken Corset"

read more HERE - https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Services/William-N-Skirball-Writers-Center/Read-Write-30-Days-of-Poetry/30-Days-of-Poetry/April-2018/Chicken-Corset.aspx

NEW in YES, POETRY!

"Maybe it's better than missing
the parts I loved. Part of the problem
is that half of what I love is bad for me
and it feels like the only way
to tone down one bad habit
is to get involved with another."

from my poem "Rivulets", at YES POETRY today!

read more HERE - http://www.yespoetry.com/news/juliet-cook-poetry

THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES.

NEW! White Stag Journal /
Behind The Presses!

I am incredibly delighted to be included in the new White Stag Journal BEHIND THE PRESSES issue, which shares poems from poets who are also editors!

My poem, "Out of Control" appears alongside poems by Lisa Marie Basile, Kristy Bowen, Megan Burns, Jeff Chon, Anthony Frame, Nichole Goff, Isobel O'Hare, Carleen Tibbetts, and Robert Andrew Perez.

Thrilled beyond belief to be a part of this!

(Also, I love the piece of art that appears next to my poem!)

Read some poetry HERE - http://www.whitestagpublishing.com/issue-one--the-editors.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/

NEW in Moon Cycle Magazine!

"I can’t control the bees, growing into
an escalating swarm,
stingers aiming towards my half-dead heart,

the other half diving underneath
the boiling point until it sizzles."

from my poem "Dropping Point", which appears in the Pink Moon issue of Moon Cycle Magazine, HERE - https://www.mooncyclemag.com/2018/03/30/pink-moon/

NEW in Winedrunk Sidewalk!

Delighted to have my poem,"Flowers are Worth More than Females", appearing in WINEDRUNK SIDEWALK: SHIPWRECKED IN TRUMPLAND today

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"Ripped out rampion made her worthy
of having to give up
what was inside her
own womb."

read more HERE - http://winedrunksidewalk.blogspot.com/2018/03/day-four-hundred-and-fifteen.html

Happy March! New poems in the Ohio Poets Issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry AND new poems in the March Issue of Rogue Agent

Delighted to start off the month of March with two of my poems appearing in two different wonderful literary magazines!

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"Out of my blood drenched trench where I'm not good enough
at choosing between periods

or question marks. I keep on trying
o re-position myself into something new. "

inside my poem, "Not Settling Down" in Glass

read more here - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2018/march/cook-not.html

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"White refrigerator filled with white needles. White bedding. White cage."

inside my poem, "White Is My Least Favorite Color" in Rogue Agent

read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook

NEW in Maudlin House!

"The blood is thick and heavy
and it’s going to explode,
then grow new life behind the walls."

inside the poem "Real Live Balloon Animals" by Juliet Cook & j/j hastain, now up at Maudlin House

partake of more HERE - https://maudlinhouse.net/real-live-balloon-animals/

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/