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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

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!