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Poetry Readings & Writings

Dana Guthrie Martin, author of the poetry chapbook, 'The Spare Room', which was recently published by my Blood Pudding Press, was live on the Joe Milford Poetry Show this evening. During this show, she read quite a few pieces from 'The Spare Room' (as well as some sections from a quirkily delightful in-progress collaborative poem between her and Nathan Moore). She's really an excellent reader, plus listening to these poems read aloud (and the related conversation between Dana and Joe Milford)...

New Millenium Interview

Didi Menendez, poet, artist, & editor/publisher extraordinaire of such publications as MiPOesias and Oranges & Sardines is posting interviews with various poets she has published this decade on a blog called 'Poetry: The First Ten Years of the New Millenium'. The ones I've read so far are pretty interesting and she put up a whole small slew of new ones today, including an interview with me:

http://goss183.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/juliet-cook/

In the time between me responding to her q's and her...

Midwestern Gothic

Here's a little video of me reading 'Midwestern Gothic' at a poetry reading at Macs Backs Books a couple months back. This poem is the first piece from my new FONDANT PIG ANGST chapbook, which can now be acquired directly from the publisher, Slash Pine Press, at http://slashpinepress.blogspot.com AND/OR from my etsy shop at http://www.BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com. For more details on the book, please see my previous entry.

Blood Pudding Press for the holidays

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com

Indie poetry makes great alternative stocking stuffers! Yum!

Twin Peaks frame of mind

Since I can't afford to buy all the Twin Peaks-related items on my wish list, I created a small gallery of several of them just for fun. Semi-superficial interlude? Maybe. It looks pretty, though.

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade
BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com

Who Wants Fondant (and other goodies)?

And not only fondant, but $5.00 FONDANT PIG ANGST?



Slash Pine Press finished hand stitching my new poetry chapbook, FONDANT PIG ANGST, this weekend and it is now available for only $5.00 online or by mail. For more details on how to acquire, please see the Slash Pine Press website at http://slashpinepress.blogspot.com/.

From the site: "Slash Pine Press is pleased to announce the release of our first chapbook of poems, Juliet Cook's dynamically gut-wrenching, Fondant Pig Angst. I feel confident ...

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...