NEW! One of Juliet Cook's 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 Juliet Cook's 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

Some more copies of Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails have found new homes!

Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails next to some other poetry books, received and photographed by John Burroughs.





Darryl Shupe received his copy of Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails and added a little pig on top.

Craig Firsdon received his copies of Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails, for which he created the cover art!

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Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails was published by The Poet's Haven! Cover art by Craig Firsdon! 24 poems by Juliet Cook!

Get a copy from The Poet's Haven HERE, for only $6 - https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159

Or contact Juliet, if you would like to acquire a copy directly from her. 🖤

Or contact Craig, if you would like to acquire a copy directly from him. 💜

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."

From Juliet Cook and j/j hastain's poem "Wow Bob Wow", which is now up at Maudlin House!

HERE - https://maudlinhouse.net/wow-bob-wow/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SocialWarfare&fbclid=IwAR1HD9V_6AnidgOq3kQ9bU615wow82KP8_NYXYVI5wTlXsDdyYOgTgNmiWQ

Malformed Confetti has found another new home - in a library!

Malformed Confetti by Juliet Cook (published by Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018) has recently been added to THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY. Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs.

https://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/newarrivals.asp?id=poetry 

So now you can borrow this book from the library. 💗

Of course, if you want your very own copy to keep (or give as a gift), you can acquire one 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, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook is a NEW 2019 poetry chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9.

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is HERE! -  https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

This new poetry chapbook contains 30+ pages of interconnected/intersected poems, with content based on wanting to escape control and the ongoing dying of love.  It could possibly be perceived as a negative confessional with glimmers of cracked, broken doll parts designed into new doll parts so they can keep living their own way, even if their way changes.

The chapbook cover is hand-designed and hand-bound, with various different colors available, with or without insect or worm stickers.  The colors and variations are too many to name, but if you have a particular preference for your chapbook's cover, please let me know in the Notes section. The color cover variations are mostly light tan variations, light purple variations, and light grey variations. They can have worm stickers added, insect stickers added, both, or no stickers at all. Any specific preferences or questions, let me know in the Notes.

Furthermore,if you'd like to acquire this chapbook from a source other than etsy (like via paypal for example), let me know that too.

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Cook was involved with the Dusie Kollektiv 3,4, and 5 and is delighted to be involved again. The Dusie Kollektiv 9 is a Tribute to Marthe Reed.

Sometime in May 2019, the Dusie Kollektiv will be publishing free online PDF files of the various members chapbooks, but Cook also created this print version of her chapbook and will be mailing copies to other Dusie members in May.

For those who are not involved with Dusie and would like a hand-designed print copy of this chapbook, here it is - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

As a small sample, here is the beginning of the first poem within the collection:

"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." 

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If you are interested in acquiring one or two of Cook's earlier Dusie Kollektiv chapbooks:

You can get Dusie Kollektiv 4's "Soft Foam" - https://www.etsy.com/listing/59222402/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_6

You can get Dusie Kollektiv 5's "POST-STROKE" - https://www.etsy.com/listing/69547229/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_3

You can get both of the above together - https://www.etsy.com/listing/278408054/two-blood-pudding-pressdusie-kollektiv?ref=shop_home_active_

NEW in BARNHOUSE Journal - "Her Mother Took Her to the Next Door Neighbor's Pig Roast" by Juliet Cook!

"Her loose lips would have an apple shoved inside and then a sharp spit."

Inside Juliet Cook's 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

poetry mini interview (part five)

Juliet Cook is up at poetry mini interview again (Very short interviews with poets, Conducted by Thomas Whyte), where poets offer 5 short answers to 5 short questions, one per week.

Here's her FIFTH and final answer - http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2019/04/juliet-cook-part-five.html

(I must have answered this question a while ago, because NOW one of the chapbooks I refer to has had its name slightly changed to "Dark Purple Intersections (inside My Black Doll Head Irises)" and it is DONE and will be revealed VERY SOON - AND the other chapbook I mention, "red circles into nothing" was recently accepted by Clare Songbirds Publishing - AND I created ANOTHER new chapbook and had that one accepted too!)

NEW in Bone & Ink - Combustible Shift by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"That breast was just an implant
anyway.

It can be replaced
with a death's head moth
or death's door itself."

inside j/j hastain and Juliet Cook'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! Octopus Review #7!

Juliet Cook has some art up in the new Octopus Review #7, along with art by Chandra Alderman, poetry by Pris Campbell, Matt Borczon, and Jennifer Behling and more!  Thank you very much to Vin Whitman for creating another new Octopus!

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

poetry mini interview (part one)

Starting today, Juliet Cook is up at poetry mini interview (Very short interviews with poets, Conducted by Thomas Whyte) where she offers 5 short answers to 5 short questions, one per week. Here's part one - http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2019/03/juliet-cook-part-one.html

The March Flock of Myna Birds has arrived!

One day before March is upon us, the March flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!

Offering new poetry by Chelsea Margaret Bodnar, Deirdre Gainor, Steve Sibra, Mike Croghan, Catfish McDaris, Susan Mahlburg, and Robert Okaji

two doors lead into hell - a sunken corpse lost in the darkness - a wildflower drooling blood - Dead and almost dead - A lone mouse cruised through the rooms every evening at dusk - Concealer of tinsel and convex mirrors - careless in its dips and swaggers as the voltage sang beneath and above it - did I dream there were words?- why is there an old photo in the back of my sock drawer? - whispering of the forbidden - The overgrown and tongue-speaking night - and gumbo with sweet human meat - obscure the chained dogs - the stakes were steep for me - My horoscope of dirt - Everything that we love -- it grows old, withers and dies.

HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

The First Myna Birds flock of 2019 has arrived with 15 Myna Birds!

The First Myna Birds flock of 2019 has arrived with 15 Myna Birds!

Creative beaks and wings and things by Eileen Murphy/MISH, Michael A. Griffith, Karen L. George, Dustin Pickering, Valerie Loveland, and John Grey

shiny, pointy party hats - pass through these ghosts - Something fleshy falls on my plate - Our U.S. president is a monster - Every stair I meet, I imagine falling, because I can tell the future - I repeatedly press the stop button - tiptoe toward pale blue - as a magic horse in the wind - The sun rises, vibrates light into inky night - Doubt is the flower that grows in my heart - Is it still a bomb if it clicks instead of ticks?

HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

enchanted forest by MISH

Tentacular Splatter PRINT (newly added to the Blood Pudding Press shop)

A small (4 x 6 photo-sized) print version of Juliet Cook's recently completed painting, collage art, hybrid creature, Tentacular Splatter, has been newly added to the Blood Pudding Press shop.

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/674316373/tentacular-splatter-print-4x6-print-of-a?ref=shop_home_active_3

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

"Barrels of guts
inside sludge trucks.
Garden whores yelling
at the drivers
to dump them
as fast as humanly possible.

But they're not human.
They are lunar
lunges with fish
dying inside the musculature
of their thighs."

j/j hastain and Juliet Cook have four collaborative poems appearing in Ex-Spec Po today!

The lines above are the beginning of the first poem.

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

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

"When I'm dead, the creation
of my art won't exist anymore.
Grey fragments will exist from my cremation,
but what if nobody wants to save them?"

The beginning of the poem, "FRANKENSTEIN’S WIFE WEARING TORN LINGERIE" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, inside the NEW Issue 46 of ROGUE AGENT

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