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NEW from Blood Pudding Press! - Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon - the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015!

The first new Blood Pudding Press contest winning poetry chapbook of 2015, Fiddle is Flood by Lauren Gordon, has arrived!It offers twenty-two unique and powerful poems, inspired by Little House on the Prairie!Semi-abstract and gorgeously emotional, fabulously crafted, with an utterly one-of-a-kind approach, this content is worth multiple reads.It is also charmingly wonderful to hold this hand-designed chapbook in all its cover art glory and yarn binding.The cover art was created by the poet herself. Here are a few sample lines for you, from the poem, "Then I'm A Woman, Full and Fleshed":
The dizzy drawersthat shut and open         swing and wing a dither      dizzy lousy drawers
I will not vomit in my very own pantrywhere flour flies corn meal slidesinto bucking waves awash I wonder       dizzying drawers
Read more by purchasing a copy of this chapbook for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop here -  http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

A Poetry Reading In Columbus Ohio, Monday March 23, featuring Juliet Cook

In less than a week, Monday March 23 at 7:00 P.M., I will be the featured reader at the Poetry Forum poetry reading in Columbus Ohio - at Bossy Grrls Pin Up Joint.

(This is a reschedule of my featured reading there that had been initially scheduled to happen February 23, but had to be cancelled. Now it shall be happening.)

Another New Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Though not a collection for the faint of heart, there is much beauty to be found in these painful poems. The gorgeously grotesque imagery and musicality of lines like “Twisted doll head inside blood drenched meringue.” and “The dead skin moss slumped then slithered; spread our limbs apart/ then bred them into new chrysalis.” is undeniable."from a new review written by Kathy Burkett of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)

Read the review in its entirety here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1175490268?book_show_action=false

Get yourself a copy of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM from Hyacinth Girl Press here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

New Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

This book is writhing with its own secrets; its own masks; its own messes. This is a place “where the light at the end of the tunnel/is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.”

from Lisa M. Cole's new review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaboration by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)read more here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2015/03/mutant-neuron-codex-swarm.htmlpurchase the chapbook from Hyacinth Girl Press here -http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

A new piece of my writing is HERE

I have a new piece of writing up at Terminal Books today, "Why?" - http://terminalbooks.com/why/

NEW Thirteen Myna Birds, before February ends!

The Thirteen Myna Birds flock has been freshly updated and offers new poetry by Jessica Lindsley, Martin Willitts Jr., Michael Lee Johnson, JT Williams, Luke Jeffrey Wilkinson, and Mitchell Krockmalnick Grabois here! - http://13myna.blogspot.com/
"a disaster of blood petals - watch the hands waving distress flags - like a reverse mapmaker - moonlight cracks open - the moon burns - lacerated throat of the skyline - the ghosts got replaced - sunset hemorrhaging - impeded by grey"

I AM NO LONGER the Featured Reader for The Poetry Forum in Columbus this coming Monday February 23!

Hey friends, me being the featured reader at the Columbus Poetry Forum reading this Monday February 23 at Bossy Grrl's has now been postponed because of weather related issues.  frown emoticon They're still running an Open Mic though.If/when my featured reading event is rescheduled, I will let you know.

I am the Featured Reader for The Poetry Forum in Columbus this coming Monday February 23!

For any poet friends who live in or near Columbus, Ohio, this coming Monday, February 23, starting at 7:00 P.M., I will be the featured reader (with two different 20 minute sets) for The Poetry Forum reading series, at Bossy Grrl's PinUp Joint (2598 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio).

Hope to see a few friends there.  :) 

Some New February Poetry Treats! (better than silly Valentine candies)

I'm very excited to have a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me appearing within the new Ghost Proposal Issue 5, here - http://ghostproposal.com/
Also, one of my FLAPPERHOUSE Winter 2015 poems is newly featured on their website, here - http://flapperhouse.com/2015/02/11/multicolored-blood-poetry-by-juliet-cook/
Yippee for February poetry news and hopefully more to come soon.
Poetry is better than silly little Valentine candy, after all. 

Lines from Swarm Two within MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Nobody can save us. You nest above my door frame.
The twitching window needle. The taker and giver
of twisted hives buzzing out every sick hole.
You paint my house in foam. Fear is to groan in a sea
of Rabies the Drooler. I fear drowning by way of wasp
that would bite holes until nothing remains of the real me."

from the poem "Swarm Two", within the new chapbook MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)

http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html