Juliet Cook's Blog, page 169

new poetry chapbook from Blood Pudding Press

The latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook has arrived in all its startlingly provocative glory and is now available in the press's etsy shop at www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com.

This chapbook is one of the winners of the first Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest.

The Spare Room by Dana Guthrie Martin is an artfully woven and disturbingly resonant suite of twenty poems that mix myth with real life in unlikely ways and draw uniquely thought provoking parallels between torture scenes, sideshow...

"icing with amputation"

Slash Pine Press has just sent out an email announcing that my newest poetry chapbook, FONDANT PIG ANGST, is now available for pre-order for only $5.00. If you would like me to forward you a copy of this email, which includes an attached form to order by mail, please feel free to let me know. They will also begin offering an online ordering option via their website (www.slashpinepress.blogspot.com) within the next few days. Here is an excerpt from the email announcement by Joseph P. Wood, co-...

poltergeists or psychokinesis?

Is a Poltergeist a Ghostly Interference or a Manifestation of a Suppressed Female Psyche?

A variation on the theme of my fondness for bloody telekinetic females and a brief exploration of cultural unease with female blood.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2402712/is_a_poltergeist_a_ghostly_interference.html?cat=34



"The link between femininity and the harboring of otherworldly power signals a cultural anxiety about the very nature of being female and gestures towards a historical view of ...

poetry research (vaginas & poltergeists)

Today I typed myself into a search engine (I do this from time to time; let's just call it "poetry research") and happened upon this bizarre page called Vagina Connoisseur that randomly features a quote from one of my poems:

http://vaginaconnoisseur.com/

What the heck is going on here? I didn't willingly contribute my quote to this site. Does this have something to with my designer vagina poetry or maybe my new hair cut?

While I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this, I can't say I'm entirely...

prayers for children, possibly blasphemous

Because possibly blasphemous is the best.

I'm not quite sure why I'm still up, though. Getting almost too bleary-eyed to type articulately. Plus, I have PMS. Plus, I'm not exactly convinced by my latest hair cut. BUT. That aside.

I'm here to say that my dog's newest lover is an entire bolt of fabric in a garish fake red velvet. I have the photos to prove it. Soon, I'll be blackmailing my own dog.

Also wrote a new designer vagina this evening, partly inspired by a childhood memory, although that ...

awkward insertion of meat hook

If you were desiring a more peculiar tease about FONDANT PIG ANGST then what I offered below, you're in luck. You can now read a book blurb from a robot.

I came to Juliet Cook's collection, Fondant Pig Angst, for glimpses into what it means to be human. I navigated my way through the detritus of the living -- took silk in my mouth, floated in a vat of tapioca, awkwardly inserted the meat hook. Cook's voice has disemboweled my assemblage, replaced my casing's wires with warped strings. If I am ...

It's coming!

FONDANT PIG ANGST coming soon!

See the Slash Pine Press blog:

http://slashpinepress.blogspot.com/2009/11/its-coming.html

In other news, my new hair cut kinda makes me look like a cockatoo.

ever so slightly belated Halloween treats

Happy November.

I wasn't feeling very well yeterday (drank the wrong mixer the night before), so didn't manage to make mention here of a few little Halloween treats of the poetic variety.

Firstly, my poem 'The Paper Dolls' debuted at Abjective on Halloween. Abjective publishes one poem/story/text every Saturday and how delightful for me that my Saturday was Halloween. Read the poem here:

http://www.abjective.net/

Secondly, I published a special Halloween edition of Thirteen Myna Birds last nigh...

my latest designer vagina in diagram

Okay for those of you perverts who are reading this because of the title, but aren't in the know, my designer vaginas are poems--and the diagram is an uber-fabulous online poetry magazine.

It's one of my favorite online poetry magazines, so I'm extremely pleased to have one of my designer vaginas doing its designer vagina thing in the new issue, 9.5, surrounded by other fine poems and weird diagrams and suchlike.

http://thediagram.com/9_5/cook.html

If this poem whets your appetite in some strang...

Your chance to support an independent film

New Columbus-based independent film company, CutThroat Entertainment is putting the finishing touches upon their upcoming short horror movie, BREAK. The film is set to hit the screen December 3 as part of an exclusive premiere party at the Park Street Patio. This premiere party will include the first showing of the film, the chance to interact with cast & crew in the flesh, and other exciting morsels of entertainment. Tickets are currently on sale and now CTE is also seeking sponsors for th...