NEW! Juliet Cook is peculiarly thrilled to have a creepy collaborative clown poem appearing in Horror Sleaze Trash!

"...in which a strained 
amalgamation of Snow White’s Stepmother applies a ton of clown makeup
to cover up her aging face, then stares at her evil clown head until
every mirror cracks, the glass breaks through the windows,
the windmill splits in half, revolving clown heads drip with blood"

in Alex S. Johnson and Juliet Cook's creepy collaborative clown poem, "Greasepaint Inferno", which is now making an appearance within Horror Sleaze Trash HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2024/06/29/juliet-cook-and-alex-s-johnson/

NEW! Juliet Cook's Non-relaxed "Relax" poem is appearing in the March Issue of Ghost City Review!

Juliet Cook's non-relaxed "Relax" poem is appearing in the new March Issue of Ghost City Review!

"They want their own

eyes to be as red as mine."

Here's a link to the poem - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry0324/2024/3/17/juliet-cook

And here's a link to the whole issue - https://ghostcitypress.com/march-2024-1

NEW! Two of Juliet Cook's creepy poems are hiding behind the walls in the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

"I can pretend my house has turned into a giant
green goat shaped hot air balloon that protects
and serves an unlimited number of grasshoppers

before it pushes me over the edge
and I splatter down hard. From sweet to bloody
oblivion. Synapses massacred."

Juliet Cook has two new creepy poems inside the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD...

HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook

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Also, under her two poems, you can click on "Learn more about these poems" and read some of her thoughts.

HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/cook-about

For example...

"Women bleed and bleed until the menstrual blood stops, their bodies age, and they speed race closer to death. If you didn't get chased to death and chainsawed or stabbed or bludgeoned or otherwise eviscerated when you were younger, then it won't be long before your body starts eviscerating itself. Then you will die. Then you will only exist in a few other people's memories, perspectives, and (mis)interpretations.

Perhaps my poetry exaggerates these matters, but it's true that the real me not existing anymore is terrifying to me.

I hope that parts of me might still exist in my poetry, even if it tends towards the negative."

NEW in Maudlin House - "Real Live Balloon Animals" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"The blood is thick and heavy

and it’s going to explode,
then grow new life behind the walls. 



Then break the mirror,

drip down from the ceiling"

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

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

New Review of House on Fire

An amazing new review of "House on Fire", Susan Yount's 2014 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, thank you to AJ Huffman and Sein und Werden!

"House on Fire, a 25-page chapbook by Susan Yount, is a verbal mixture of pastoral imagery and apocalyptic Armageddon bombs. Yount has created a modern, almost Wizard of Oz feeling that takes us way beyond Kansas in this simplistically powerful, yet emotionally intense collection of poetry.

The visceral portrait of everyday horrors juxtaposed against the speaker's personal horrors, the kind of horrors that prefer to remain hidden behind closed doors, hang like a tornado-ready to consume everything in their path at any moment. Readers are immediately swept up in the storm, our hearts and minds twisted with empathy and outrage at the scenes before us."

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW by A J Huffman here:
http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/yount.html

Then buy the book here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Thirteen Myna Birds is new again - with Love & Lust & Horror & Surgical Instruments

Thirteen Myna Birds is actually 15 Myna Birds this time!

Paige Theriot at the top AND the bottom - and in the midst, a coagulating conglomeration of  Sean McPherson, Adam Fieled, Michael Lee Johnson, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Valerie Loveland, Jeff Brandt, & Laura Zeng.

Here's a small fusion mix created with words/lines from the current innards:

"dense vacuum - quiet earnestness - green tinted glass - heart lightning flashed - body's corners - beneath your nails - jumps into ether - dolls melting - whiskey yell - bandages curve into waists and hips - pincurls undulating - a tray of surgical instruments - radiating skull - venomous heel spurts - cradling the underpinnings"

 Here's the bloggy style link -  http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Blood Pudding Press/Horror Couture

My Blood Pudding Press etsy shop has become part of a Team called Horror Couture!

When I was invited to join this Team I felt excited but worried that I might not fit in, because I don't have much blatantly horror-esque stuff available for sale in my Blood Pudding Press shop. I have hand-designed poetry chapbooks, vintage doodads, and ephemera.

BUT I do think some of my poetry is horror-esque in it's own odd way.

In much of my older poetry, I liked to bake horrific confections. I don’t like vanilla snack pack pudding poetry; I like blood pudding poetry.

I like poetry that borders the unappetizing, poetry that borders the grotesque, poetry that borders the pornographic and horrific. I am attuned to a sense of revolting, bodily-based horror associated with femaleness and I have a desire to birth this horror or abort it or deconstruct, reconstruct, or vivisect it.

As far as my newest poetry is concerned, my very latest chapbook 'POST-STROKE' is based on a real-life horrific health issue I suffered from (and am still suffering from). I had a carotid artery dissection, aneurysms, a stroke - and now have a Stent and Aphasia.

Also, I even designed a new sexy hot pink Venus Fly Trap Card (with poetry snippets) in honor of the Horror Couture group!

Lovely? Poisonous? Horror-ific in its own odd way? You decide.



See more about the Venus Fly Trap card here:http://www.etsy.com/listing/69587846/sexy-hot-pink-venus-fly-trap-handmade

See more about POST-STROKE here:http://www.etsy.com/listing/68522600/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook

X.O.X. Juliet Cook