Juliet Cook's Blog, page 12

A few recent photos and comments about my poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

Thank you very much to Jason O'Toole for sharing my newest poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" on Twitter and saying this about it:

"Mail day brought the new chapbook by the extraordinary @nonvanilla - she's not only an excellent poet - she produces beautiful chapbooks and supports other poets.

The poems are among @nonvanilla Juliet's best. It's relentless, searingly honest, and plays with your emotions." photo by Jason O'Toole

And thank you very much to MISH for recommending "red flames burning out"

"Mish Recommends: I'm working intensely on a new poetry collection, and these are my inspirations, among others: EROTIC by Alexis Rhone Fancher, RED FLAMES BURNING OUT by Juliet Cook, and THE COMPLETE POEMS by Anne Sexton. I highly recommend all three books."

photo by MISH






















And thank you very much to Collin J Rae aka StickingittoU for sharing and commenting on "red flames burning out" on Instagram

photo by Collin J Rae

My red flames burning out poetry chapbook (published by Grey Book Press in April 2023) is available from Grey Book Press HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

It is also available in my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

my red flames burning out is now available HERE...

I have now added my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press in April 2023) into my own Blood Pudding Press shop, in case anyone wants to purchase it in conjunction with a Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

Of course it is also still available from the publisher, Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR, a NEW poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook is coming soon from Gutter Snob Books and is now available for preorder!

My Gutter Snob Books poetry chapbook, "CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" is now available for you to RESERVE YOUR COPY (limited edition) and will exist in July! Thank you very much to Gutter Snob and poet/editor Michele McDannold!Here's what Michele McDannold posted (including a photo) which also includes the preorder link!***LAST but certainly not least, the FINAL title from Gutter Snob Books --Contorted Doom Conveyor by Juliet Cook-- can be reserved now. Cover Art by Juliet! signed, limited edition...book releases 7/23https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of print and online publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including "Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails" (The Poet's Haven, 2019), "The Rabbits with Red Eyes" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2020), "Histrionics Inside my Interior City" (part of Ghost City Press's Summer Micro-Chapbook Series, 2020), and "red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023). She also has another new chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" forthcoming from Ethel Zine & Micro Press (tentatively in October 2023).Cook's first full-length poetry book, “Horrific Confection", was published by BlazeVOX. Her most recent full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018.Cook's own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks.
Cook also sometimes creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.

NEW! Three new poems are making an appearance in the Spring 2023 Issue of Misfit Magazine!

"Some blood is the color of canned cranberry sauce;
other blood is darker inside
and keeps on growing into its own color."
(the beginning of my poem "Thirteen Mice")

I am delighted to have three poems included in the NEW Issue No. 36, Spring 2023 of the fabulous Misfit Magazine!

Two new individual poems by me and one collaboration by j/j hastain and me!

Thank you very much to editor Alan Catlin and all the other poets involved!

Part of Catlin's Introduction to Misfit 36 - "To combat this free form absurdity, malaise, dread, etc. is why we write and read poetry. We have a wide, eclectic range of poets representing all kinds of diversity in voice, tone, and intent. There are the deeply personal poetry of sexual assault to the wildly experimental of Cook and hastain with a little bit of everything else in between."

A link to my and j/j's poems - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-36/Cook.html

A new flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here! Happy Poetry Month!

It's been a little while since a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived, but now it is finally HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

The second of this year!

Happy Poetry Month! https://13myna.blogspot.com/
New poetry by Gale Acuff, F.J. Bergmann, Terry Trowbridge, E. Martin Pedersen, Beret LaBrecque, Michael Grover, Daniel Snethen, David Henson, Mike Hackney, and John Grey!
"they'll all go to Heaven when they croak but I'll go to Hell, at least I'll be special in some way - the black wings of the newborns are torn so they cannot fly - in the flower garden of goodbyes - Lurking toxins accumulating, molecule by molecule, invisible doom seeping up - grisly, no pretty words just drops of blood - as she stands before me in her bloodied apron - Fingernails cut scars across our innocence - A statue shows us frozen in agony - Straining to escape our fate - Now we're all still alive but already I'm alone and it doesn't matter where - drive me toward the pit of flaming oil - the signals of risk, like a nocturnal animal seen fearless and staggering at noon - See the battles going on around them - I mean, so much blood students smear it on themselves - the poor cat who got mauled trying to sneak her way past - Would you think you knew me better if you could see my past and future? - I have not been terrified of dying in a long time - But I am terrified of how numb I am to the idea of dying - Solipsism incarnated in balloons - sleeping with rats on the Commons - I find myself astride Envy and change horses in midstream..."
Read the new flock HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Delighted to have my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" featured at Creative Writing at Leicester!

Delighted to have my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press, April 2023) featured at Creative Writing at Leicester!

(Thank you very much to Jonathan Taylor!)

Check it out here - https://creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2023/04/juliet-cook-red-flames-burning-out.html

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You can find out more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Or you can contact Juliet to find out more and/or purchase a copy directly from her).

Me holding a copy of the new poetry anthology "Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink"!

Me holding a copy of "Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink", edited by Kara Dorris (published by Southern Illinois University Press).This is a poetry anthology, featuring more than 25 different poets, offering poems, short essays, and writing prompts.I am delighted to be included, with three poems ("Deadly Doll Head Dissection" - "Self Portrait as a Slab on a Slab" - "Un-sided Self Portrait"), my essay ("Broken Doll Hands that had to Grow New Fingers") and my writing prompt ("Try It Yourself(ie): Word Control").I am delighted to be in the company of many other wonderful and amazing and unique poets (and their poems, essays, writing prompts).You can find out more and/or purchase a copy for yourself (or possibly for your classroom if you're a writing or English teacher) here - http://siupress.siu.edu/books/978-0-8093-3906-8
Here is a snippet from a back cover blurb by Petra Kuppers - "They also invite you into their fold: each poet offers prompts to the reader, as well as essayistic thoughts, de-mystifying and re-mystifying these acts of (inter)corporeal magic."

Me holding my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

Me holding my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press this month, April 2023.

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"...I might take more photos of the moon,
of the ice clinging to half-dead branches, but
then I might have a seizure on the frozen ice,
bang my head into frostbitten blood."

in one of my Internal Suffocation poems within the chapbook

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You can find out more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Or you can contact Juliet to find out more and/or purchase a copy directly from her).

The chapbook costs $8 (which includes shipping, within the USA).

My new poetry chapbook, "reds flames burning out" has now been added to Goodreads!

A couple nights ago, I added my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press this very month, April 2023) to Goodreads, HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131983564-red-flames-burning-out

Anyone who receives and reads the chapbook, please do feel free to rate it and/or review it on Goodreads!

Late last night (or early this morning) on Twitter, I was delighted to see this photo by Joe Nasta that said, "This afternoon I read “red flames burning out” by Juliet Cook on the bus".

It can be exciting and exhilarating and wonderful to find out when someone is reading your book! Also Joe Nasta rated the book on Goodreads. 

photo by Joe Nasta

My NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" is now one week old and still needs new homes!

Happy Poetry Month 2023!

This is another cover photo of my NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press in April 2023.

I am also sharing a photo scan of the poem in the middle of the chapbook, one of 20 poems within the collection.

The collection incudes...

“Broken doll fingers bulging their way out of blubbering chicken wire. Losing parts of one’s self and growing new parts in the form of self-created nightmares, body and brain malfunctions, seizures and other divorces from parts of past reality. Pitching standard traditions in the trash, wrapped in drying blood. Creepy bird’s nests and fear of impending death, yet still continuing to create one’s own sizzling and burning red fire.”

This new chapbook is now one week old and still needs new homes. 

You can find out more about the new chapbook HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me.