Talking Poetics #34 : Juliet Cook (a new interview about poetry)!

 A Talking Poetics interview/conversation with Juliet Cook about poetry-related subject matter is up at the ottawa poetry newsletter today. Thank you very much to rob mclennan for asking these questions.
http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/12/talking-poetics-34-juliet-cook.html

New! GUEST issue fourteen : The Entanglement Issue

GUEST issue fourteen : The Entanglement Issue : guest-edited by Michael Sikkema, with work by Sue Bracken, Andrew Brenza, Megan Burns, Juliet Cook, Amanda Earl, Robert Martin Evans, Nathan Hauke, Jessie Janeshek, E.J. McAdams, Meredith Quartermain, and Claudia Coutu Radmore!

You can acquire your own copy of this new issue for $5 + postage / + $1 for Canadian orders; + $2 for US; + $6 outside of North America

https://guestpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2020/11/issue-fourteen-entanglement-issue-guest.html

NEW! Juliet Cook's poem "Dried Out" is inside EXCUSE ME Mag!

EXCUSE ME Mag No. 4, FALL, 2020: The BLOOD & BAD TIMES (which includes Juliet Cook's poem "Dried Out") is now available.

Find out more and/or acquire a copy for yourself HERE (PDF $2 or print $5) - http://franticflicker.com/

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"All our heads are expected to fit

in the same positions. Universal

death from multi-colored butterfly

to stomped on moth."

NEW inside The Haunted Dollhouse - The Skeletons Won't Burn Underwater by Juliet Cook and Martin Willitts Jr!

Some of Martin Willitts Jr. and Juliet Cook's skeletons are fracturing The Haunted Dollhouse...

"But I'm not their owner

nor in control of their desire to revitalize.

I underestimate their power

and how angry they feel"

Read more HERE - https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/

or HERE - https://www.instagram.com/p/CGQurCzB2iO/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&fbclid=IwAR00pgU8PxBSza8WooTD4X4vRdNvOaAqx-5P0YQ5MRXCGephvLymB-hyXGo

NEW! Juliet Cook's poem "Industrial Carousel" appears within The Rising Phoenix Review!

"Try this pill until you run out of power.
Let your body and brain get used
to this manufacturer’s version of this pill,
and then you will be switched to another
like your brain is just a light switch
like your brain is just a plug
like your brain is just a hole in the wall
hotel room with a bath tub that doesn’t work anymore."


from Juliet Cook's poem, "Industrial Carousel", making an appearance in The Rising Phoenix Review

read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/27/industrial-carousel-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Tarot Card Shark, a collaborative poem by Martin Willitts Jr and Juliet Cook appears in The Daily Drunk!

Thank you to The Daily Drunk for accepting the collaborative poem "Tarot Card Shark" by Martin Willitts Jr. and Juliet Cook, to appear within its Terror Taco Tuesday theme (in which every poem had to include terror or tacos...)! 

A cad is always a cad even when a cadaver

Read the rest by clicking the link below! 

https://thedailydrunk.com/f/tarot-card-shark

NEW! This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader by Juliet Cook & Martin Willitts Jr is up at The Rising Phoenix Review!

The escape hatch is gone
because he removed it
without permission or approval.

within the poem, "This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader" by Juliet Cook and Martin Willitts Jr, newly appearing within The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/10/this-rotten-trumpet-is-our-leader-by-juliet-cook-martin-willitts-jr/

A NEW Summer Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is Here!

The NEW Summer flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ 

Offering 13 poems by Mark J. Mitchell, Tom Montag, Eryn Tan Zhi Ying, Kristin Garth, Willa Jarnagin, Cat Russell AND 2 pieces of art by MISH

Magnolia Swirl by MISH

"All your glory’s hidden by folded masks - Scents of sharp sterile swabs - Moths batter themselves against the tent - Talons will tear a coverlet in pink - grey matter splattered upon the wall you beat your head against - Merciless ravaging of life - We are twins in different universes - the halos of tarnished angels - the slow decay of bodies - the sweetness of an imagined kiss - where each of us holds to this strange broken world - when those loud fires came into her dreams - Tomorrow another mask"

NEW! The May Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!

The Fairy Spirit of the Amaryllis by MISH

The NEW May flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here, filled with poetry/art by Eileen Murphy, Sara Lefsyk, Patrick Hurley, Sarah Nichols, MISH, and Sara Minges!

"during this time of pandemic - Sky is cloudless; birds don't sing - and the days Are quiet as death - gargling instead of brushing teeth - I’m transcribing documents that were written by ghosts with feathers and dust - Shift managers and supervisors demand and take - take these new pills and calm down - the control module has been jammed by fragments - a doll falling out of a tree - faster than cancer - we were wearing the dress of altered states - I was rolling around in some flowers with vomit in my hair - the shape of spilled fluid - enter the final labyrinth - every sky ends with nameless colors - flowers carry sickness here - I speak the language of darkness - we carry the burdens of ourselves and our sisters - I had on the face of an animal over the mask of a girl"

Take a flight with the flock, HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

NEW! One of Juliet Cook's Museum of Impending Death poems lives inside The Haunted Dollhouse!

"The large black cloud looms and grows
into an impending tornado. The lights all go out."

inside one of my Museum of Impending Death poems, which is now inside The Haunted Dollhouse...

HERE - 

https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/

(It can also be viewed and read on Instagram, HERE - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_YFJ0LBm3q/)

NEW in Burning House Press - A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

Secretaries shampooing
the latest hair style,
then cutting it,
burning it,
sticking bits of burnt hair as bookmarks
in between the crumbling pages
that have been tearing themselves apart
with every turn.

inside the poem, "A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, appearing in Burning House today!

read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2020/03/22/a-fairy-tale-covered-in-underwater-ashes-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/#more-19601

Happy (Disturbingly Dark) 2020 from Thirteen Myna Birds! Dive into this new flock (the first of 2020) and try not to drown!

The first Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2020 has arrived and it is sad, dark, unsettling, spooky, and filled with dolls!

Sad broken hooked dolls filled with black holes and death!

Offering poetry and art by Daniel Snethen, Sandra Feen, John Grey, MISH, John Sweet, Ashley Cox, Eileen Murphy, Aaron Pride, and Wayne F Burke.

"through enameled bobbing horses against the centripetal force - You’re awakened in early light by blood dripping from the ceiling - Something's Up - the sound of baby bones breaking - in broken-down beds - I am a terminal node branched away from the circuit of perfection - my eyes crash through their sockets and I flail at the darkness - sometimes it hurts to be alone - Nurse, can you up the pain meds?"

Read me please - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

lost boy by Ashley Cox and MISH

NEW in Burning House Press - The New World Doll Dresser by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"...Hollyhock dolls with prisms in their eyes
and corpses hiding under their dresses
until the dresses rot away.
After all, every doll dies,
but first they sacrifice a human."

within the poem "The New World Doll Dresser" by Juliet Cook 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 the January 2020 issue of Ghost City Review! - OTHERWORLDLY FORCE FIELD by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"A herd of deer across the street stare at me, as if
trying to determine if I'm friend or foe
but I don't know the answer. What if I'm rabid?
All I know is I want my hair to be the color of a fawn,
but it just keeps turning white."

from the poem "OTHERWORLDLY FORCE FIELD" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook

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

NEW in Pink Plastic House (a tiny journal) - Keychains as Treats by Juliet Cook!

""I imagined them eating human feet
that tried to escape from the pen
in which they were planted.""

in Juliet Cook's 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/

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"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." 🖤