Juliet Cook's Blog, page 14

A new flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here! Happy Poetry Month!

It's been a little while since a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived, but now it is finally HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

The second of this year!

Happy Poetry Month! https://13myna.blogspot.com/
New poetry by Gale Acuff, F.J. Bergmann, Terry Trowbridge, E. Martin Pedersen, Beret LaBrecque, Michael Grover, Daniel Snethen, David Henson, Mike Hackney, and John Grey!
"they'll all go to Heaven when they croak but I'll go to Hell, at least I'll be special in some way - the black wings of the newborns are torn so they cannot fly - in the flower garden of goodbyes - Lurking toxins accumulating, molecule by molecule, invisible doom seeping up - grisly, no pretty words just drops of blood - as she stands before me in her bloodied apron - Fingernails cut scars across our innocence - A statue shows us frozen in agony - Straining to escape our fate - Now we're all still alive but already I'm alone and it doesn't matter where - drive me toward the pit of flaming oil - the signals of risk, like a nocturnal animal seen fearless and staggering at noon - See the battles going on around them - I mean, so much blood students smear it on themselves - the poor cat who got mauled trying to sneak her way past - Would you think you knew me better if you could see my past and future? - I have not been terrified of dying in a long time - But I am terrified of how numb I am to the idea of dying - Solipsism incarnated in balloons - sleeping with rats on the Commons - I find myself astride Envy and change horses in midstream..."
Read the new flock HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Delighted to have my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" featured at Creative Writing at Leicester!

Delighted to have my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press, April 2023) featured at Creative Writing at Leicester!

(Thank you very much to Jonathan Taylor!)

Check it out here - https://creativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2023/04/juliet-cook-red-flames-burning-out.html

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You can find out more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Or you can contact Juliet to find out more and/or purchase a copy directly from her).

Me holding a copy of the new poetry anthology "Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink"!

Me holding a copy of "Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink", edited by Kara Dorris (published by Southern Illinois University Press).This is a poetry anthology, featuring more than 25 different poets, offering poems, short essays, and writing prompts.I am delighted to be included, with three poems ("Deadly Doll Head Dissection" - "Self Portrait as a Slab on a Slab" - "Un-sided Self Portrait"), my essay ("Broken Doll Hands that had to Grow New Fingers") and my writing prompt ("Try It Yourself(ie): Word Control").I am delighted to be in the company of many other wonderful and amazing and unique poets (and their poems, essays, writing prompts).You can find out more and/or purchase a copy for yourself (or possibly for your classroom if you're a writing or English teacher) here - http://siupress.siu.edu/books/978-0-8093-3906-8
Here is a snippet from a back cover blurb by Petra Kuppers - "They also invite you into their fold: each poet offers prompts to the reader, as well as essayistic thoughts, de-mystifying and re-mystifying these acts of (inter)corporeal magic."

Me holding my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

Me holding my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press this month, April 2023.

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"...I might take more photos of the moon,
of the ice clinging to half-dead branches, but
then I might have a seizure on the frozen ice,
bang my head into frostbitten blood."

in one of my Internal Suffocation poems within the chapbook

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You can find out more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Or you can contact Juliet to find out more and/or purchase a copy directly from her).

The chapbook costs $8 (which includes shipping, within the USA).

My new poetry chapbook, "reds flames burning out" has now been added to Goodreads!

A couple nights ago, I added my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press this very month, April 2023) to Goodreads, HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131983564-red-flames-burning-out

Anyone who receives and reads the chapbook, please do feel free to rate it and/or review it on Goodreads!

Late last night (or early this morning) on Twitter, I was delighted to see this photo by Joe Nasta that said, "This afternoon I read “red flames burning out” by Juliet Cook on the bus".

It can be exciting and exhilarating and wonderful to find out when someone is reading your book! Also Joe Nasta rated the book on Goodreads. 

photo by Joe Nasta

My NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" is now one week old and still needs new homes!

Happy Poetry Month 2023!

This is another cover photo of my NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press in April 2023.

I am also sharing a photo scan of the poem in the middle of the chapbook, one of 20 poems within the collection.

The collection incudes...

“Broken doll fingers bulging their way out of blubbering chicken wire. Losing parts of one’s self and growing new parts in the form of self-created nightmares, body and brain malfunctions, seizures and other divorces from parts of past reality. Pitching standard traditions in the trash, wrapped in drying blood. Creepy bird’s nests and fear of impending death, yet still continuing to create one’s own sizzling and burning red fire.”

This new chapbook is now one week old and still needs new homes. 

You can find out more about the new chapbook HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

Me, April 2023

 

Poetry poetry poetry! A NEW chapbook, a three year old chapbook, and a forthcoming chapbook!

Still very excited that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" was accepted for publication by Ethel a year ago and is tentatively forthcoming this October 2023! ALSO, still very excited about my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" that was published by Ethel in 2020 and is still available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes AND ALSO still very excited about my NEW chapbook "red flames burning out" that was published by Grey Book Press less than a week ago and is available HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/ red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, April 2023)


The Rabbits With Red Eyes (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, March 2020)

Poetry poetry poetry! A NEW chapbook, a two year old chapbook, and a forthcoming chapbook!

Still very excited that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" was accepted for publication by Ethel a year ago and is tentatively forthcoming this October 2023! ALSO, still very excited about my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" that was published by Ethel in 2020 and is still available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes AND ALSO still very excited about my NEW chapbook "red flames burning out" that was published by Grey Book Press less than a week ago and is available HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/ red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, April 2023)


The Rabbits With Red Eyes (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, March 2020)

My NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" is now newly available from Grey Book Press!

"Some people might not like being called
unmistakably unstable, but I don't mind.
Because that's the way I roll
cracked eyeballs out of broken doll head holes and hell,
the broken pieces still have brains to fill
with fury and onward activity no matter how
many times they're knocked down.
Because that's the way I roll,
unable to be trapped into further oblivion.
I use gum wrappers to cover ripped out teeth
and a threesome of crooked fingers."
in the poem "My Dolls Aren't For Hunting"

My NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", as of April 2023, is now HERE, thank you to Grey Book Press! It is $8.00.
Find out more HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/
And then buy one HERE! - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Ten years ago, Grey Book Press published my "Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop" chapbook and now ten years later, "red flames burning out" has become part of the Grey Book Press family! I am very excited and Happy Poetry Month and I truly hope that some of you will buy one!)