3/19/24

NEW! Juliet Cook has FOUR NEW POEMS appearing within Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Juliet Cook is extremely delighted to have FOUR NEW POEMS appearing within Cul-de-sac of Blood!


Here's the editors description of the poems - The orbitoclast, a tiny hammerhead shark tap tapping us into place. “I was walking through a parking lot” leads us inevitably, somehow, to “I wasn’t sure if I was human anymore.” A standard red horror. In these poems by frequent contributor Juliet Cook, medically-induced terror finds us where we live


Here's a few lines from the poem "I Don't Like Primary Colors" -


"Little ghost tongues
try to splash out
of the water, 
then slash themselves
into skulls,
marooned.
Sink back down."


And here's where you can read all four poems! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-2  

Also, underneath the four poems, you can click on a link to learn a little bit more about the poems, such as what inspired them...

3/18/24

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

1/30/24

Another NEW (Mini) Review of Juliet Cook's Newest Poetry Chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"

"This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability."

Thank you very much to James Lawson Moore for his mini-review (and photo) of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023).

Read his whole review below and consider getting a copy of this chapbook for yourself (or for a poetry loving friend) from one of the links below.

From the Ethel shop - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

From the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

"Juliet’s new chapbook is a limited run, handmade release, out by Ethel Zine & Micro Press. The poems therein are as much influenced by Twin Peaks as they are by the poet’s own inner turmoil. This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability. This is a book that cannot be missed.

Juliet Cook is JLM approved, with a bottle of Coke."


1/26/24

A NEW Book Essay Review of Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" - Violence of Craft: Your Mouth is Moving Backwards by Juliet Cook Reviewed by Mike Bagwell at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review

A phenomenal, intense, in depth, detailed, and wonderful new Book Essay Review by Mike Bagwell at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review of Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press)!

Here's one small piece of the review. You can read more via the link below that.

And then below that are links to where you can acquire the chapbook.

"The cover’s disembodied mouth and layers of facial abstraction stared up at me from a blood-red page as if ready to cry out. And as I read, food and candle wax inhabited the pages as readily as the poet’s words. The book became my own, just as its violence became my own. Every aspect of this book reflects its subject. Your Mouth is Moving Backwards is a thorough and fun examination of the grotesque made exquisite by its handbound form."

Read more HERE - https://phillychapbookreview.org/violence-of-craft-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook/

You can acquire the chapbook through its publisher here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

OR from Cook's Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

1/10/24

The first Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2024 is HERE!

The first Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2024 is HERE! https://13myna.blogspot.com/


Offering a twisted mass of poetry by A.M. Potter, D.E. Shupe, Joshua St. Claire, Diane Funston, Taylor Nuñez, Wayne F Burke, and Ken Poyner!

"My guts are bleeding and I'm lonely - Winter is a dragon not long slain - The clay is cracking, flaking, peeling - melody died in my throat - love is an abandoned ship - God's love is abuse - carries dissonance in fifths - cutting it up in slivers makes everyone spill their hearts out - the bleached phalanges of a trembling, titanic hand - only those ghastly phalanges know - enigmas dance behind forever closed eyelids - move through deep space in a planetary system - My hands are bound by a sky that has been dark for days - Soon, the metal, plastic And foam might appear - The radiator cries, but all else is still - the hourglass stops crying - The sky has been dark for days - as I pray for light to break the grey..."


1/9/24

Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is now available in the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press in December 2023) has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too, in case anyone would like to purchase one in conjunction with another chapbook there... Here is a link to that listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new


Of course it can also still be purchased directly from Ethel Zine & Micro Press too, here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards ***


"He thinks he can make it up to you
by suddenly replacing you

with an eyeless, mouthless mannequin,
silently positioned against your closed garage door
like an unasked for reminder or a secret test.

She thinks she can make it up to you
by telling you to rip off its head
and immediately toss it in the garbage can.

As if all of this is easy
as long as you don't speak for yourself."

in the poem "
Some People Want to Remove Your Eyes"

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1/4/24

A NEW Review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR!

Also appearing in the Winter 2024 Issue of Misfit Magazine is a review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023)!


Thank you very much to Alan Catlin for this uniquely wonderful review!


"So how do you know you are in the crazy world of Juliet Cook? Just step onto the doom conveyor belt and you enter a world of dolls, pieces of them, whole ones, effigies, doll graveyards, of a sort, and well just about anything you can think of short of Anne’s porcelain doll collection (Anne as in Anne Rice who famously collected some pretty scary ones). Basically, Juliet’s world is one of hallucinatory conjunctions, Bob Dylan surreality from his early Rimbaud infused years, sick bags, like Nick Cave, free floating dread like being in a David Cronenberg movie, watching a “Naked Lunch” while lying on Freud’s couch ( Sigmund or Lucien’s, take your pick), under the influence of a peyote dream, high flying whiles suffering new pill side effects. Juliet’s voice is decidedly and uniquely her own. I love it."

Read more reviews in the latest Misfit HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/received.html

Get a copy of Contorted Doom Conveyor HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or get a copy directly from Cook (via the Blood Pudding Press shop) HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry


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And also appearing within this Winter issue of Misfit (as noted in the blog post below this one) is a new poem by Juliet Cook and two new collaborative poems by Daniel G. Snethen and Juliet Cook HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/cook&snethen.html

1/3/24

NEW! One individual poem by Juliet Cook AND two collaborative poems by Daniel G. Snethen and Juliet Cook appear in Misfit!

Happy New Year! I am delighted to have poems appearing within the wonderful Misfit Magazine again, surrounded by all sorts of other wonderful poets!


Issue No. 37, Winter 2024 includes my poem, "Hagfish Slime" AND two collaborative poems by Daniel Snethen and me, "Broken Balloons Seep Out of Our Mouths" and "Cosmic Conundrum of Camel, Cherub and Leech"! Thank you very much to Misfit and Alan Catlin!

http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/cook&snethen.html


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"My only group is the un-
popular poets who don't brag
about their book sales
or haggard entrails
or latest lines of wisdom
in between rotten polished toenails."

in the poem "Hagfish Slime" 

read more via the link above...

12/27/23

Juliet Cook's 2023 Poetry Chapbooks on Goodreads

Just a note that Juliet Cook's three 2023 poetry chapbooks (as well as other poetry chapbooks/books of hers) are also listed on Goodreads, so if you read them this year, next year, or anytime, you can also feel free to rate and/or review them if you are so inclined...


Here are Goodreads links to the three 2023 chaps:


"red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131983564-red-flames-burning-out

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" (Gutter Snob Books, summer 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174348259-contorted-doom-conveyor

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, December 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203818234-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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Also, here are links to where each chapbook can be acquired:

"red flames burning out" is available here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

Or here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry


"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" is available here - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is available here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

Or inquire directly from Cook.


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Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, brimming with poetry!