Juliet Cook's Blog, page 124

New MUTANT Blurb

Pouch has called MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (Hyacinth Girl Press, January 2015) by Robert Cole and me, "A Burroughs-esque sci-fi odyssey. The kind of nightmares we WANT to have."Read more below and thank you to Pouch and Bradley K Meyer  smile emoticon ***Issue One contributor Juliet Cook has a recent chapbook co-authored with Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015). We read it & we liked it. A Burroughs-esque sci-fi odyssey. The kind of nightmares we WANT to have. Some of our favorite bits:
'In the moist throng of our sexual misunderstanding, they invented a way to filter dead skin from bad memories.Later we searched the trash for the filter, collected the slum in our fingers, ate it whole like a pinch of moss.' - from Fins and Scalpel
'Paper tornadoes all over the place.
The telegraph reads DON'T
stop DON'T stop DON'T stopDON'T you dare! The aftermath
is never good enough.' - from Stop the Madness!
Elegantly bound. Consider checking it out:
http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/purchase.html#chapbooks

The Blood Pudding Press 2015 chapbook contest results!

I know I had indicated with the contest guidelines that at least three finalists and two winners would be chosen - and each of the two winners would have their chapbooks published and would receive thirteen free copies of their chapbook. Similarly to last year, it felt nearly impossible for me to narrow it down to only naming five though, so I doubled that and am naming TEN - four Semi-Finalists, three Finalists, and THREE WINNERS.

I will only be publishing the three winners, but I truly hope that the Finalists and Semi-Finalists soon find a press that chooses their manuscripts to publish too. In fact, there were handfuls of chapbooks that very much deserve to be published that didn't quite make it into my top ten list, because I received so many oodles of high quality submissions.
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Here are the Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest results - from four Semi-Finalists to three Finalists to the THREE WINNERS.
Four Semi-Finalists:
Clarissa Jakobsons - Camille Claudel: Montdevergues Asylum
Stephanie Lane Sutton - Revocation
Kelly Andrews - Kingdom of Lust
Yu-Han Chao - Notes to a White Bell


Three Finalists :
Paul David Adkins - War Stories
Winnona Elson Pasquini - AND THE STARS FROM THE SKY ARE RIPPED
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens - Jeanne


The Three Winners (in the order I plan to publish them):
! Lauren Gordon - Fiddle Is Flood  (to be published in March)
! Matthew J. Hall - Pigeons and Peace Doves (to be published in late May/early June)
! Nicole Rollender - Bone of My Bone (to be published in late August/early September)


Thanks again to everyone and big congratulations to the three winners!

New in Stitches

Blood Pudding Press poet and art creature, Lisa M. Cole and I have a small art-oriented interview appearing on page 37 of the new Stitches. 

The artsy image near the top of that page is a photo of the art piece I created and used upon the cover design of Lisa Cole's contest winning 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "RENEGADE//HEART".

http://www.stitches-digital.com/publication/frame.php?i=242834&p=38

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After you partake of the Stitches, you might want to take a look at and get yourself a copy of RENEGADE//HEART, within the Blood Pudding Press shop here 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-2013-blood?ref=shop_home_active_2

(Psst. Plus, there are various pieces of my painting/collage art hybrid creatures available in the Blood Pudding Press shop too.)
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ALSO, stay tuned for the results of this year's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook contest, coming soon!

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

Both sides of the back/front cover of the new MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM poetry chapbook, a collaboration by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, published January 2015, by Hyacinth Girl Press.

Cover art by Christen Baer. 

Get yourself a copy here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

First New Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2015!

The first new Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2015 is alive (and almost dead at the same time). It's a sad and scary, somewhat real, somewhat haunted hybrid creature of human to non human horror. Poems (and a flash fiction piece) by Sarah Lilius, Tracie Morell, Alexis Fancher, Charles Cicirella, Gwendolyn Kiste, and John Grey are all here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

"When is a promise like a bayonet? - A throb of walls - her smooth slit floats in the fluid - pricking my neck - Streams of scarlet seeped into the snow - a grumbling engine load - melting broken crayons - We make our own beds, and then we lie in them or we don’t - The moon is a tombstone."

Poetry Life Force! More January Poetry News!

Despite some distressing and unexpected and difficult to deal with and mentally challenging glitches going on, I am still working on poetry stuff and feeling good about that.

Finished preparing a rather large assortment of chapbooks for mailing, reading submissions for Thirteen Myna Birds and Blood Pudding Press (although admittedly a little behind where I'd like to be, but I am still working on it), and excited to have years worth of my poetry be part of the Crisis Chronicles Press 2015 line up later this year (my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!)!! and to have one of my short poems be positioned next to a unique artsy drawing (and other poems and other drawings), in ANTENNAE THE ANTENNAE, new from Green Panda Press!

Plus a new Winter issue of Menacing Hedge just went live and includes some individual poems by me, as well as some collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me, here - http://www.menacinghedge.com/winter2015/

Plus my new collaborative chapbook with Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, with awesome cover art by Christen Baer, is now available from Hyacinth Girl Press, and I'll bet I'll be getting my copies in the mail soon.

If it wasn't for the delights of poetry and art, I'm pretty sure I'd go bonkers (in a non-poetic way) - but lucky for me, that will never happen (unless some non-poet creature eats out my brain).

Snippet from MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purple..." 
in MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

the new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole, now available from Hyacinth Girl Press, here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

(see more details, if you dare, in the blog post below this one) 

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM! A new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, January 2015)

Very excited and creepily delighted to announce a new collaborative poetry chapbook by me and Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, freshly published and now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!The twisted mutant innards of this creature are a peculiar fit for an utterly unique and creative and somewhat disturbing New Year!The hideously awesome cover art was created by Christen Baer and offers different art on the front AND the back!Below are a few poem lines from the MUTANT and below that is a book blurb by Laura Madeline Wiseman.***"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purplewhere the light at the end of the tunnel
is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.He/she/it can no longer speak for itself,
but the semi-rigamortised mouth spews out
unexpected pitcher plants, partially digested."some lines from the poem "Churning Codex Portal"***"Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm swarms with unexpected delights for the sybil nymph, the cryogenic witch, the blue goddess and more. Here the body with its twisted wings, heart strings, and sticky salivary gland salutations, is a body that knows Nobody can touch us anymore and nobody can save us. Whose body you wonder? Are they Human? Truth is, as Cook and Cole explain, You decide. How do you decide? You enter with the collaborating pair into an incomplete metamorphosis where you’re commanded DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T you dare! and told homeless men walk around with sporks. So sit back and allow Cole and Cook to place the napkin just so, for Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm purrs with language play, with surprising imagery, and with an attention to sound that will razzle dazzle the neurons in this thrilling new collaborative chapbook."- Laura Madeline Wiseman***Get yourself a copy from Hyacinth Girl Press here! - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

NEW Poetry in POUCH! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! The new POUCH has two of my poems in it and lots of others too! - http://pouchmag.com/issue1.html 

My first publication of 2015 on the first day of 2015.  :)

Best of 2014 (in the Literary World)

Up The Staircase Quarterly has published TEN DIFFERENT LISTS BY TEN DIFFERENT WRITERS/EDITORS about THE BEST OF 2014 in the literary landscape. My list might be a tad long for a list and maybe a tad overly personal, but...Thank you to everyone/everything on my list for helping 2014 ooze with creativity.http://www.upthestaircase.org/best-of-2014.html