Juliet Cook's Blog, page 18
October 16, 2022
My last photo of me before I turn 50
Me on Saturday October 16, 2022. One of the last photo(s) I took of myself before I turn(ed) 50. 😱 But I'm still 49 for a few more minutes and I'm still 49 in this photo. I certainly don't feel old and I'm certainly not saying 50 is old, but it feels pretty weird that's going to be my age in about 1 minute (and before this photo gets done downloading itself...yep, it just hit midnight)...
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October 13, 2022
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October 9, 2022
October 6, 2022
One Minute Poems (An Audio Anthology From Rancid Idols Productions)
Also, wishing a creatively wonderful Happy Birthday to Colin Dardis!
I'm looking forward to listening to all these poems!
"Out today for National Poetry Day, a special audio anthology of One Minute Poems from poets around the world, free to download via Bandcamp.
https://rancididols.bandcamp.com/album/one-minute-poems
There is power in brevity, so enjoy these short but powerful pieces. Many thanks to everyone who contributed!"
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My poem, "These days, nobody else's wrinkle repair will work for me." also appears within my poetry chapbook "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" (Blood Pudding Press and Dusie Kollektiv 9, 2019)
Available here in print - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/dark-purple-intersections-inside-my
Available here online for free - http://www.dusie.org/Cook--DARKPURPLEINTERSECTIONS.pdf
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September 26, 2022
New! A live poetry reading this Saturday, October 1st!
This Kaleidoscope at Kavé poetry reading is coming up this Saturday, October 1 at 1:00 PM, at Kavé Coffee Bar in Barberton!
It's in honor of Cat Russell's new poetry book called Kaleidoscope, which is coming out tomorrow from Venetian Spider Press!
Cat will be reading and so will Sandra Feen and Monica Babcock and Juliet Cook (me).We'll all have books available for sale too. Weather permitting, the reading will be on the rooftop!https://fb.me/e/1ZKY1Nu45September 25, 2022
September 24, 2022
Me one month before turning 50...
Me, my white hairs, my corn dog, and an empty crowd (at the Ashland County Fair, September 23, 2022, photo taken by Darryl)...
September 23, 2022
The NEW Fall Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE!
The darkly delicious NEW Fall flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE! Brimming with ghastly interpretations of hideous fairy tales combined with real life mini-terrors! Happy Fall filled with poetry/art from Olivia Loccisano, M. Anthony C., MISH, Kristin Garth, Oisin Farraige, John Grey, and Jason Ryberg!
"Listen carefully! - Here is a remedy and a warning for you - Dark transport, from that ranch to home - and your pinkish dress must cover your knees for this puppet has come to play - Joyful undulation bobbing - in blisters and wool, they cry out and gasp - The tree trunks have faces - I don’t know what that says about their equipment - the dough was made of girlish flesh - What lies between, beneath, The turbulent stillness - The wind’s howl gives voice to what a trespasser feels inside - as opposed to the more garden variety near death / life flashing right before your eyes - I hate this hospital - The worker’s dead skin chewed by mini mouths - each leaf of grass flames Its torpid whip on my sight - It’s a sort of merging that takes place - books and new bruises - You have no idea how they tortured me in the basement..."Read more HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/(this art piece is "Sunset in a parallel world" by MISH, which appears in the new Myna Birds flock)
September 2, 2022
NEW! One of my Internal Suffocation Poems in the WITHER issue of vulnerary magazine!
My poem appears at the bottom of this issue accompanied by lots of other wonderful poems.
Happy September!
Read some poetry HERE - https://www.vulnerarymag.com/blog/wither
"Creepy bird's nests grow underneath my eyes
like an expanding sign that the baby birds died."
August 15, 2022
Darryl and Juliet
Darryl and me at Uncloistered Poetry Live (August 13, 2022, at The Attic on Adams in Toledo, OH) (photo taken by Sandra Feen)
