Juliet Cook's Blog, page 171

Halloween-esque pre-season preview

Hey lovers of the Halloween season and scary fun and dark poetry!

Need some Halloween celebration ideas (for parties, snacks, crafts, & more) for your kids, your kids at heart, and your canine kids? Check out my latest article, if you please:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2208073/best_of_ac_content_on_halloween_activities.html?cat=74

Desirous of a darkly poetic Halloween season gift for a creative special someone? Consider At night, the dead: a slim and stylish poetry tome by Lisa Cic...

Virtual Book Tour wrap up/Blood Pudding Press update

The final review of Read Write Poem's Virtual Book Tour (of Lisa Ciccarello's poetry chapbook 'At night, the dead:' published by Blood Pudding Press) was contributed by Ren Powell, editor of Babel Fruit magazine.

Some excerpts from this review:

"Lisa Ciccarello's chapbook is an example of why poetry books are important as works of art. That is, 'poetry book' distinct from 'book of poems'.

...as with any charm, the context of the repetitive whole is mesmerising.

The vague references to...

IS THERE PIG IN FROSTING?

I was having one of those slow, achey, icky days in terms of personal physicality and productivity (um, maybe that is pretty much just an overly wordy way to say I have one of my headaches), BUT I must make mention of some extra-special excitingly delightful news I have received. Er, actually, you can read the news for yourself on the Slash Pine Press blog:

http://www.slashpinepress.blogspot.com/

Just in case you don't feel like leaving my blog until after you've read this whole entry: the...

CutThroat Entertainment

I've been doing some promotional writing for a fun new Columbus, Ohio based independent film & media company called CutThroat Entertainment. Their latest film, a horror movie called BREAK, recently wrapped filming and final preparations are now in the works for a special premiere party, circa Halloween!

Since Halloween is not so very far away, I thought I'd share my promo piece about BREAK for those who might be interested--and if you're anywhere near the Columbus, Ohio area, I'll share more s...

(B)URN

I feel more popular today than yesterday, although I still feel unattractive. Go figure.

Enough of that angst, though. I'm writing to announce that a very new sequence of six short poems called (B)URN has just been published as an e-chapbook by Gold Wake Press, here:

http://goldwakepress.org/2009/09/11/juliet-cook-burn/

This is free to read online and it will likely take you less than 10 minutes to do so, so please do feel free to partake and let me know what you think. Read some other Gold Wake...

self portraits

I'm pleased as spiked punch to report I have three new self-portrait poems online in the wonderful latest issue of Oranges & Sardines (Poets & Artists), hereabouts:

http://www.poetsandartists.com/

I must admit I never quite expected to see my name immediately following Billy Collins's name in the bios section of a literary magazine--and that's for more reasons than one. Ahem.

In any case, I can hardly wait to partake of the entire issue in all its poetic and visual art glory. Yum!

I think the iss...

new poetry

I'm pleased as spiked punch to report I have three new self-portrait poems online in the wonderful latest issue of Oranges & Sardines (Poets & Artists), hereabouts:


In any case, I can hardly wait to partake of the entire issue in all its poetic and visual art glory. Yum!

I think the iss...

I love autumn

It makes me feel like wearing lipstick--and reading--and writing poetry--and drinking Turkish coffee--and wine. I'll add more text later, I hope, probably about the poetry. We're visiting upstate New York this weekend, the Adirondacks. Pretty area; should be a good change of pace. I have to pack, as I am a very slow packer, but all I really want to do is work on poetry and feel like I'm swooning on the brink of an altered state.

my designer vaginas are (a)live

Diode is one of my favorite online poetry magazines, so I am especially excited and pleased that they were the first publication to ride my designer vagina action.

By designer vaginas I mean poems. Diode has published a sequence of three in their second anniversary issue, which just went live today at http://www.diodepoetry.com/

I also had a poem in their first anniversary issue and this is a most succulent breed of deja vu.

This issue is so good, too. I already read it in its entirety (I sneakily

meat curtains & banana curls

A few recent search terms that have led to this blog have been 'pretty peckers' and 'Nellie Oleson banana curls'. The latter is most likely related to some mention of my short series of Nellie Oleson poems (one of which is supposedly forthcoming in 'Side of Grits' and one of which was just accepted for the premiere issue of 'Bone Bouquet' and a few others of which are crying out for revision), but don't ask me about the former.

You can ask me about meat curtains, though, or at least about my r...