Showing posts with label collaboration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collaboration. Show all posts

7/6/21

New! A collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and Martin Willitts Jr in Coffin Bell!

Darkly delighted to have a collaborative poem, "Not Enough Variegation", by Juliet Cook and Martin Willitts Jr. appearing in Coffin Bell!

"But then every color expels itself
inside out from a kaleidoscope"

https://coffinbell.com/not-enough-variegation/

5/11/19

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

"In this theater, fishnet stockings
are replaced with fish hooks
in certain rows.
In other rows,
the director is aiming
to create his own mermaid bodies."

9/12/18

NEW in Bone & Ink Press - "Dark Princess" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook AND "Leeches" by Michael Bernstein and Juliet Cook

"The exhibition staged in a black hole, 
the pummel of raw gravity collapsing the catwalk
in a neutron slop, an implosion of logic, 
slick and burning green and just because
the ghosts became ants doesn't mean 
they can't turn red again and then grow
into the size of moray eels and steal
more life. Their crystalline fangs bear down, 
existence itself rending to tatters in a slimy death roll"

within the poem, "Leeches" by Michael Bernstein and Juliet Cook, one of two collaborative poems appearing in Bone & Ink Press today

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

4/21/18

2/9/18

A few more photos from the Words Made Visible Reception

Adding a few more photos from the Lit Youngstown Words Made Visible Reception (February 3, 2018).

These photos were taken by Melanie Rae Buonavolonta.
Darryl and Juliet looking at art inspired by poetry.

Ceramic art, created by Sean Staser, inspired by Juliet Cook's poem, "Every Hole is Broken".

Juliet Cook reading her poetry

11/15/17

NEW in Bad Pony - a collaborative poem by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook

"As in I creep and slink along,
a way of towing the line
when the line is so long
and I want to create my own song
and I want to create my own formula
for spontaneous combustion being drawn out in a longform
tirade until my fingers finally turn..."
from the poem Peristalsing Pistil, by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, appearing within the NEW issue of Bad Pony

11/10/16

from A Red Witch, Every Which Way

"my so called partner starts
eating them before they're ready.
It feels like every time I eat
it pulps out out immediately,
it explodes itself inside me
instead of growing all the way.

I'm starting to hate my body.
The only way I can control it is if I starve,
stop planting, stop hanging
my art on my own hooked walls."

from the poem "Broken Burial", within the full-length collaborative poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain (published by Hysterical Books)

"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is available within my Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/473901408/new-a-red-witch-every-which-way-2016?ref=shop_home_feat_1

2/10/15

Lines from Swarm Two within MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"...but what is real anyway? Hole punch thighs, hole punch eyes,
hole punched fritillaries falling down. Ashes ashes we
used to think we were interesting. Now we are nothing
but rotten fritters that would eat until nothing remains.
You want to crush my indigo mana from those yellow stripes
and deliver me unto no maker. Why am I heathen to this..."

from the poem "Swarm Two", within the new chapbook MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html



9/26/14

New Collaborative Poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook in Crisis Chronicles!

Even if I break again and again
I will re-grow, re-birth,
create
new shapes
new directions.
Redefine this fodder.
Fold me out of the line,
not into it.


from the collaborative poem "anti-mold momentum" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, newly published by Crisis Chronicles

8/4/14

First Poetry Publication of August!

Three collaborative poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook are now appearing within New Manifestos, along with lots of other odd goodies too!

Here's a few lines from one of those three collab poems, "A Multitude of Red Ring Fingers":

"Then we dreamed our own nest
not filled with birds or bate but
blood. We could rest there all
morning
afternoon
evening
mowed and loaded with all kinds of fur.
Made up fur is no more faux than real fur
is ready to be
hot flax seed
oil drenched with blood.

Red torrential downpours of
fetus wings. Ring finger
slough. Cut it off

and see
what is
inside
me

this
trough of strange

transcendence"



6/23/14

New ILK! (Including two collaborative poems by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain)


"Reconstructed glitter cavern
with explosive devices inside

A cave in a mouth
Unexpected

Some thought they were extinct,
but some new the strange truth –
part of that
trilobite
was going
to come back to life

as a twin"


A few lines from "Access Achieved Then Denied", one of the two collaborative poems by  Juliet Cook and j/j hastain that are now up at the new Issue 14 of ILK (we are your kind).

Read more here - http://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-fourteen/juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/

12/7/13

New Poetry Chapbook Interview

A new chapbook/collaborative interview of Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, conducted by Laura Madeline Wiseman!

"I wanted to start a collaboration with Juliet to explore the aspects of life that I have been afraid to confront. I wanted to scare myself, really. It became apparent pretty fast that our combined style of writing was doing just that." 

Robert Cole


 "...since as an individual writer I seem to use similar content and even similar words a lot, I really enjoyed receiving lines that included words that don’t usually pop out of my poetry brain (like scrimshaw and sultans and puppies) and integrating that stuff into the same forum as my kind of words (like egg cups and tentacles and a blow torch) and probably creating new kinds of descriptions for both of us."

Juliet Cook


Read more here-http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/blog/2013/12/07/the-chapbook-interview-juliet-cook-robert-cole-on-collaborative-chapbooks/

7/10/13

Summer 2013 Menacing Hedge

The new summer 2013 issue of Menacing Hedge offers surrealist poetry and fiction and interviews and more by oodles of interesting writers, including five collaborative poems by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and Robert Cole!  

Within the Menacing Hedge, you can read the poetry and fiction while LISTENING TO THE WRITERS read them.  

Read read read, listen listen listen - and then create some of your own poetry and art. 

Here - http://menacinghedge.com/summer2013/index.php

(These five poems by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole are from their forthcoming collaborative poetry chapbook, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014).  

6/13/13

lots of little poetry portals

"I don't think poetry can be "found" by picking up a rock or a dead bird off the ground and simply calling it poetry and that's IT - but I do think poetry/art can be unexpectedly yet significantly inspired by such findings. For me, something about the visual imagery of bird fetuses and the thoughts then provoked in my mind can stimulate poetry/art. Same with other sorts of small things that many people would overlook and/or would find unworthy of much consideration and/or would find grossly unappealing. The tendency to ignore things like that makes me wonder WHY. Is it because of being easily grossed out? Is it because small odd things are inconsequential to the mainstream? Is it because of fear of death, fear of demise, fear of being crushed by something larger, fear of non-existence?"

A snippet from an interview with Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook (about dead birds, art, poetry, publishing and more), which appears within the new issue of Sein und Werden, here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/index.html

The interview also brings up Cook's recent collaborative work with Robert Cole – and a collaborative poem by the two of them, “Churning Codex Portal”, appears in this issue of Sein as well. 

“Churning Codex Portal” is a poem from their collaborative chapbook, “Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm”, chosen to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014.

A few more poems from that chapbook are soon to appear online within “Black Heart Magazine” and “Menacing Hedge” (via which you will be able to hear them read some of the poems too).

Also  a new individual poem by Juliet Cook is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait). 

5/14/13

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM collaboration


Delighted to make a small annoucement that Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and her collaborative creepy young yumhead poet creature, Robert Cole had their new collaborative poetry chapbook - MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM - accepted for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press, to be published next year! 

Hyacinth Girl Press published Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vaginas in 2011 and now will be publishing her again (together with Robert Cole) three years later.

I imagine that Hyacinth Girl Press will make an official announcement after they choose all the new chapbooks they're going to publish next - but as of right now, they are still accepting and reading chapbook manuscript submissions, throughout the month of May.

5/13/12

NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook!



The NEWEST (and first of 2012) Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook is writhing and undulating with peculiar poetic morsels.

It's spooky, strange, nightmare-ish innards offer idioglossia's (individual and collaborative) from Kelly Boyker, Margaret Bashaar,  Daniel M. Shapiro, Jessy Randall, Suzanne Grazyna, Kathy Burkett, Douglas Burkett, PoetJoe H. Gallagher, Juliet Cook, and Michael Smith.

33 poems in a ghostly blood bath of Blood Pudding.

Find out more & buy one within the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here:


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Oozing like the innards of questionable pulsating desserts!

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id·i·o·glos·si·a
1.
a private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins.
2.
a pathological condition characterized by speech so distorted as to be unintelligible. 




7/17/08

CARNIVORACIOUS is now available

CARNIVORACIOUS is a hand-designed poetry chapbook collaboration betwixt Suzanne Grazyna and Juliet Cook. Each poet contributes five poems, all of which are inspired by carnivorous plants.

If you want to stick your finger in a Venus Flytrap, get bitten by a Cobra Lily, and drown in a succulent Pitcher Plant, you’d best act extra-fast, because only seven copies of this super limited edition collection will be made available for sale through Blood Pudding Press!

The cover is dangerously bedazzling, the ribbon binding is hot pink seam or black eyelash lace, the design flourishes are flirting with disastrous demise, and the innards will dissolve you in their acids. To see more details, images, or to make a snatch, please visit http://www.bloodpuddingpress.etsy.com/.

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"cook and grazyna delight at every turn in this twisted morsel sure to nibble upon your fleshy parts, sucking you in to be frenziedly frisked by such fronds, rapturous at every rapacious rhizome, happily devoured with each bite of the botanical. "

Nicole Cartwright Denison, poet