Juliet Cook's Blog, page 126

An older poem of mine, with the name of this month

DECEMBER
I concoct a collage of mulled spices to arousea numb tongue. It’s paralyzed. My pendulumthat used to sway.  How it fluctuates
from disengaged doorknob danglingto bronze fruit. Glossily, brazenlybegging to be picked.  Better than
sticking my head in the oven. Too morbid. Blue flamesheat the samovar and I feel the steamy contours.Sizzling beads.  Sugar and spice and silt
a dark residue in the bottom of a mug. A numb tonguebleating. Needing to be unfrosted. Pierced. Decoratedornately as white paper in a snowflake cutting contest.
Catch this on your tongue. A bladecreating tiny confetti. Bronze fruit begging to bea bomb.  Shiny words that sway
with a heavy rhythm. With a heady flavorlike spiced, spiked tea. Savory cinnamon, clove, and orange zestsparkling on my tongue.  Arousing the pendulum.

A Little More Than One Week Left to Submit to the Blood Pudding Press Chapbook Contest!

A LITTLE MORE THAN ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your poetry chapbook to Blood Pudding Press and have it considered for unique, delightful, delicious, twisted, hand-bound poetic dark dessert by the Blood Pudding creatures!

Here are the details of the matter -http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2014/11/blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

NEW Sein und Werden - Now We Are Ten!

Partake of the new issue of Sein und Werden, Now We Are Ten, in celebration of the publications tenth year! 

Every single piece is entitled "Now We Are Ten" and their are offerings of work by Robert Cole, j/j hastain, Suzanne Grazyna, and many more...including a poem by ME, here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/winter14/contents.html

NEW Review of "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava (Blood Pudding Press 2014) AND it would make a grand holiday gift!

"They Talk About Death is a slim chap of 13 poems, and yet the emotions they rouse from the reader are … HUGE. Recommended."

the end of a new review in which EILEEN TABIOS Engages "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava at the new Galatea Resurrects

read the engagement here - http://galatearesurrection23.blogspot.com/2014/12/they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra-bava.html

then consider purchasing "They Talk About Death" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_active_3

"They Talk About Death" is a poetry chapbook that would make a grand holiday gift for certain poetic creatures in your life!

New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

Cook has created a manic blur of a speaker, a ghost of a woman who sees herself in the assumed reflections of some common and somewhat catastrophic objects.  In "Head Twists" we see the first of these reflections as being a "headless manikin."  The speaker is looking at herself in such an image, pondering if such a headless "manikin might be more level headed than the current twisting me." 
from the beginning of a new review of Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook, RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014), by AJ Huffman at Sein und Werden
read the rest here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/red_demolition.html
buy the chapbook from Shirt Pocket Press here - http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

or from Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014?ref=shop_home_active_3

A New Collaborative Poem is Stirring!

"I knew that I 
was in a drought
with cast iron replacing the thighs
with no more liquid dripping out."
from "Clots Push Over the Edge", a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, appearing within the new December issue of Stirring: A Literary Collection
partake of more here - http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/cookj.htm

Me reading at Monday at Mahall's (December 1st)

Thank you very much to emcee John Burroughs for inviting me to be one of the featured readers (along with Clarissa Jakobsons and Baraka Noel) at Monday at Mahall's December 1st.

In this small sequence of two photos, I've temporarily removed my stomach to celebrate.

Happy Off-Kilter Holidays from Thirteen Myna Birds!

Happy Holidays brimming with darkly delicious stuffing and broken wish bones from Thirteen Myna Birds!At the top of the flock are all new offerings by Mitchell Krockmalnick Grabois, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Dean Knight, Paul Tristram and Daniel Snethen. At the bottom of the flock older pieces still remain from Hannah E. Phinney and Joris Soeding."I am a horror film - even the letter O can be beaten - goons hit me with a digital night stick, sprayed my face with digital mace - become vicious - snapped off their noses and eyelashes - face breaks more - a massive crack in the middle of it - looks like it is falling off - too tall for the front door - There’s too much in her face for me to wake up to - don’t know what rain is but I think it’s like crying."Here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Buy Hand Made Non-Commercial Treats for the Holiday Season & Beyond (and consider entering the Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest)

Hey there poetry/art/creative peeps, remember to buy non-commercial, self-created, hand-made, unique items on Black Friday (and before and after), for the holiday season and beyond, including for more non-mainstream special occasions you create yourself.

Take a peek at the Blood Pudding Press shop for poetry chapbooks, other pieces of one-of-a-kind art, and other artsy ephemera -http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

While you're visiting etsy, take a look at oodles of other shops too.

And while I'm speaking of Blood Pudding Press and chapbooks, I shall also mention again that Blood Pudding Press is currently accepting poetry chapbook submissions, looking for two winning poetry collections to be published next year!

Find out more details about the chapbook contest, here -http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2014/11/blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

Monday at Mahall's featuring Juliet Cook, Clarissa Jakobsons & Baraka Noel

Exactly one week from today, the evening of Monday December 1st!