Juliet Cook's Blog, page 23

NEW! The December Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE!

The NEW December Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived! Featuring visual art by MISH and poetry by Elyse Hart - Kaci Skiles Laws - Jeremy Szuder - DS Maolalai - Jessica Purdy - Paul Ilechko - Andrew K. Peterson - Vin Whitman.

The simmering mosquito larvae - controlled by the powers of his sorrow - all stretched and making ruts - made a house a home, a home a prison - sometimes I get clocks & mailboxes mixed up - how not to get stuck - and spoiled with cigarette ends - and acid and roasted pig - a dry field, broken open - leaving behind a bitter scrawling of goodbye - I have a hole inside me where love ought to be - cold as broken glass pieces - choose to be unpicked - all the uncomfortable people - the condition that makes them laugh at inappropriate times - the people who couldn't escape - Every root tries to grab hold - blackness feathering the strings - They drown the white horse - flaunting belly until the regurgitation of death - the horse’s nostrils fill with mudRead it HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/ "Hibiscus Abstract" by MISH

A NEW (mini) Review by J. Marc Harding of my poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

"This poetry is addictive and I'm going to need more. Read this."

J. Marc Harding

Another new (mini)review of my "Malformed Confetti" poetry book (published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) 💜

Thank you to J. Marc Harding

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4352228489?book_show_action=false 

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Find out more about Malformed Confetti and consider acquiring a copy for yourself via Crisis Chronicles Press here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or via Amazon here - https://www.amazon.com/Malformed-Confetti-Juliet-Cook/dp/1640929738

Or from my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_9

New! Four collaborative poems by Darryl Shupe and me in Issue No. 33, Fall 2021 of MISFIT!

Four of Darryl Shupe and my strange and creepy collaborative model fair poems are now making an appearance in the new Fall 2021 Issue of Misfit Magazine! 
Model Arts and Crafts - Model Hog Heaven - Art Barn Torture - Like A Tortured Clown Funny.

Two Industrial Arts models heads fused together,
jaws welded into an experimental act of inertia.
Their brains were off-kilter anyway,
before their necks were snapped.

So what if they're dead? Now they can be parts
of something greater, parts of the whole art barn.
This barn reeks of death.

(from Art Barn Torture)
Read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-33/cook&stupe.html

Happy First Day of December!

December is not my favorite month, but maybe this December is attempting to convince me to think differently. Because late last night/early this morning, the first late night/early morning of December 2021, this was the sky I saw outside my front yard.

A NEW Review by Vin Whitman of my poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

"This is a magnum opus of gore, so if you don't like smears, streaks, spills and spews perhaps this is not for you. I rather enjoyed it though. Juliet Cook harnesses her wild streams-of-consciousness into powerful rivulets of alliteration and rhythm. There is also a healthy dose of clever wordplay, which made the auditory centers of my brain sing."

the beginning of a wonderful new review by Vin Whitman of my poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", of which you can read the rest by clicking below...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4350020263?book_show_action=false#_=_ ***

You can find out more about Malformed Confetti and consider acquiring a copy for yourself (or as a holiday gift for a friend) via Crisis Chronicles Press here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or via Amazon here - https://www.amazon.com/Malformed-Confetti-Juliet-Cook/dp/1640929738

Or from the authors own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_9

A Black Friday through Cyber Week Sale in my Blood Pudding Press Shop!

My Blood Pudding Press shop has a special Black Friday through Cyber Week Sale going on, in which a lot of the items in the shop (Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, art, and more) are 20% off from NOW until December 1st.

Visit the shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

New! Three individual poems by me and three collaborative poems by Darryl Shupe and me are up at Fevers of the Mind!

I am delighted to share three of my individual poems AND three collaborative poems by Darryl Shupe and me that are newly appearing in A Poetry Showcase at FEVERS OF THE MIND. HERE - https://feversofthemind.com/2021/11/21/a-poetry-showcase-by-juliet-cook-and-collaboration-with-darryl-shupe-when-noted/

New! My poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch An Attack" appears in Writing In A Woman's Voice today!

"Even if I dislike or disagree, I have a hard timethinking I can end something by quickly hitting a button,
tossing them into an online pile of trash.
Maybe I give too many multiple choice chances
to rancid meat or maybe I don't give enough.

Maybe I am too messed up and broken
and divided into conflicted fragments"
in my poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch an Attack", appearing today in Writing In A Woman's Voice (thank you very much to editor Beate Sigriddaughter) read more HERE - https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post_22.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR02-kFdfpa0ZUh-mHWgkzVPBakW-2ALfrUUbHB8R9VHLw2TfS7JBJcge7U

This is also what 49 looks like

Me at 49 without the doll head (a photo I took of myself on my phone)

This is what 49 looks like

This is what 49 looks like 👀

(a photo of me on my 49th birthday, taken by Darryl)