Juliet Cook's Blog, page 125

Three of my poems in Italian translation

Three of my poems in Italian translation by Alessandra Bava. Read the original poems too.
Thank you very much to Alessandra Bava.

http://www.patrialetteratura.com/tre-poesie-inedite-di-juliet-cook-con-la-traduzione-di-alessandra-bava/

Final Day of They Talk About Death featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

Evanescent fragments
of skin stuffed
with your personality
surrounded by objects,
debris, flowers.
from the poem "Taxidermy" by Alessandra Bava
from day FIVE of Alessandra Bava's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, They Talk about Death, being featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!
Read more here - http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/12/26/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death-5/
Procure Bava's chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Merry Xmas! Day Four of They Talk About Death Featured at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

"Treading in the cold winter skyline,your spirit soars as a pearl gray crow."
from today's shared poem, "Madame Bowery" by Alessandra Bava.
from day FOUR (Christmas!) of Alessandra Bava's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, They Talk about Death, being featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!
Read more here -http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death-4/
Procure Bava's chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1
MERRY CHRISTMAS! 

Day Three of They Talk About Death Featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

"... How many times
have your azure eyes laid their
stare on them, cussing lines at the
world? The poet’s table is coarse, set with
bowls of steaming ink, with forked tongues
feeding on Truth, and visionary imagination."

from today's shared poem, "Rimbaud’s Spoon and Fork" by Alessandra Bava.

from day THREE (Xmas Eve!) of Alessandra Bava's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, They Talk about Death, being featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

Read more here - http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death-3/

Procure Bava's whole chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Happy Creative Xmas/Artmas/Poetmas!

Day Two of They Talk About Death featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

tied to a living pillar in the
profane sanctuary of Poetry

from today's shared poem, "St. Baudelaire" by Alessandra Bava.

from day two of Alessandra Bava's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, They Talk about Death, being featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

Read more here - http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/12/23/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death-2/

Procure the chapbook for yourself (or a poetry loving friend) here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1

I have two new poems within the new FLAPPERHOUSE

"Centipedes will start maneuvering up
out of that disposal, dripping red,
but still crawling."

from my poem, "DOMESTIC MINI-HORROR", within the new FLAPPERHOUSE

FLAPPERHOUSE #4 (Winter 2015) is now available! - http://flapperhouse.com/zine/4-winter-2015/

They Talk About Death by Alessandra Bava is the featured author/poetry chapbook at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed this week!

"The garden is still dark and warm, dawn
will come but not for me"

from Alessandra Bava's poem "The Murder of Stars", within her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, They Talk About Death.

Alessandra Bava is the Wardrobe's Best Dressed featured author this week!

Read the whole poem here -
 http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death/

Purchase the chapbook here - http://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Submissions now closed

Submissions are now closed for the latest Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest and I have lots of exciting reading (and re-reading) to do!

Less than two days left to SUBMIT TO THE BLOOD PUDDING PRESS CHAPBOOK CONTEST!

Less than two days remain to submit your chapbook manuscript to the Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest!  Submissions close after midnight tomorrow, as soon as December 20 turns into December 21.
Read about the details here - http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2014/11/blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

Choose Books for Xmas!

I love Alessandra Bava's blog post about choosing books for Xmas, especially indie books and poetry books by women writers!And to make it even better, she names some presses I adore, including {dancing girl press & studio}, Hyacinth Girl Press, Misty Publications, and my own Blood Pudding Press (and more)!And to make it even better times three (!!!) she recommends one of my own poetry chapbooks (Thirteen Designer Vaginas, published by Hyacinth Girl Press) AND two poetry chapbooks published by my Blood Pudding Press (Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel by Margaret Bashaar - and House on Fire by Susan Yount) as great holiday gifts!Read Bava's blog post for more suggestions, here - http://poetryrulesbyalessandrabava.blogspot.com/2014/12/choose-books-for-xmas.html?m=1In addition to Bava's wonderful recommendations, I would also like to recommend HER chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press, "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1