Juliet Cook's Blog, page 173

cross-posting from the bloody ooze

bells and whistles?

So I just happened upon a bad review of the 2008 Blood Pudding Press chapbook w i n g'd by Kyle Simonsen. Personally, I love the chapbook (duh, I published it); indeed, I recently reread it for my own pleasure and reliked it just as much as I did more than a year ago. Not so for reviewer Melinda Wilson. She was very much less than impressed.

This review was written last month, but I wasn't alerted to it (I sent review copies to coldfront a while ago); I just stumbled upon it to

segments

A little over a month ago, I applied to be a freelance writer for the Onion News Network. This involved a fairly extensive and time consuming application process, but I was glad to give it a good shot. A few days ago, I found out I didn't get the job, which was a bit disappointing, but not terribly surprising, as I'm sure competition was tough, plus part of the application process involved writing a script, which is an area in which I have little to no experience. Heck, I don't have much come

seven minutes in heaven

It's already been described as 'outrageously pungent' by poet & critic Adam Fieled.

Now my new print poetry chapbook PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR has elicited a comparison to the Lunachicks. Say what?

Yes, poet Kate Durbin said the series of Slumber Party Scandals within the chapbook reminded her of this Lunachicks song--'Light as a Feather':



Does this mean my poems are like the soundtrack for some kind of crude after-dark roller derby?

Put on your striped thigh highs, listen to the song, buy the boo

Tongue Like a Stinger

My latest e-chapbook, Tongue Like a Stinger, has just been published by Wheelhouse Press. Please feel free to check it out here:

http://www.wheelhousemagazine.com/chapbook/cook.pdf

A sort of hybrid of older work with new material, this chapbook might appeal to those who find some of my latest poetry a little too visceral or in-your-face for their liking. The 'Tongue Like a Stinger' collection is slightly more subtle; not a lot more subtle, just slightly.

It's about birds and bees and fur and tentac

magician assistant failure

Bad dreams this morning about uncomfortable dentistry with pokey wires in uneasy proximity to my gums and then it suddenly it shifted from dentist chair to inside a formidably spiked metal container. I was a magician's assistant and the trick failed; they couldn't figure out how to free me from this device. The magician was just standing in the aisle amidst the audience, on his cell phone, asking someone on the other end what course of action to try next, to get me out.

He asked, 'Should we just

MAR vs. MARS

I just submitted a few of my new poems to the Mid-American Review, which is of note because the Mid-Am Review is published at Bowling Green State University, which is where I earned my undergraduate degree--a BFA in Creative Writing--back in the mid 1990s. Despite this little connection, I have never before submitted to the publication.

Back when I was an undergrad, I read a few issues and it seemed dull to me at the time. Like older people writing nature poetry, of which I was not a fan. In more

PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR

My latest poetry chapbook PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR is now available from Spooky Girlfriend Press in a VERY limited edition print run of only 25 copies. They are only $3.00 each!

Heck, at that rate I might buy some of them myself and resell them for $33.00 after licking the nipples and sticking on some googly eyes!

So if you want one on the cheap, you'd better buy it now before I do!

The picture atop my words here is an image of the cover art by Alexis Dietz, but on the real chapbook, it appears

the birds are freaking out

Okay, so maybe my pieces that Andrew Borgstrom posted on his blog today are not exactly 'thingees'. They're more like poems of sorts that I wrote to him in response to his 'Dear Myna' poem that is currently #13 on Thirteen Myna Birds. I told him he could do whatever he wanted with them and he posted them on his blog.

So visit Thirteen Myna Birds at http://13myna.blogspot.com/ and read #13 and then click on Andrew's name, which will link you to his blog, where you can read my response pieces. The

fancy peckers

Happened upon this very pretty, fun looking website called Fancy Find, which has an appealing feature called Toybox Tuesdays, which is presently offering up (amongst other delectable offerings) a wondrous mermaid poem by Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom, which originally appeared upon Thirteen Myna Birds. I thought I'd share so that the poem could be experienced again, in a frilly pink new context:

http://fancyfind.com/2009/07/07/toybox-tuesday-july-7-2009/

Speaking of Thirteen Myna Birds, the latest fligh

bloody jiggling jello squares (misshapen)

Yes, this same posting also appears upon the Bloody Ooze. I'm multi-tasking, okay? Maybe I should re-title this blog 'CandyDishDoom's More Businesslike Fratneral Twin'. Or maybe not.

Anyway, this review makes me really happy. I was having a not-so-hot day yesterday and this review came to my attention right before bed, whereupon my mood substantially improved and now I'm starting today in good spirits. I think that more good poetry news will be on its merry way very soon, so stay tuned.

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