Juliet Cook's Blog, page 31
November 17, 2020
Me, November 2020, an uncomfortable month...
Me this month looking all whatever. Haven't had a salon haircut or dye for quite a while (close to a year?), but recently, my mom cut my bangs and trimmed the rest of my hair, out on my front porch, both of us with masks on. Later when I brought my black flower inside from the porch, there was a bunch of human hair hanging from the petals.
This month has felt like a pretty massive stress fest and I feel behind with everything (especially reading and writing), questioning humanity, anxious, worried, borderline depressed sometimes, physically uncomfortable with my own body, and fucked up.
Some people are annoying me to death with their clueless carelessness and lack of respect for others. I sort of want to get into more detail about that but I won't (yet).
Parts of me annoy myself too.
It bothers me that I haven't finished a new poem for a while or submitted much poetry (if any) this month. I have two assembled poetry chapbook manuscripts that are just sitting around inside my own computer, not being submitted anywhere. I should probably just publish one of them myself, but I don't know.
I'm thinking I might finish a new short series of poems sometime this week. I found a place I want to submit them too, but first I have to finish them.
I have some cool owl photos I took at a park a few weekends ago but haven't shared yet. Does anyone care about anyone other than themselves? I think some people do, some people don't. Maybe the owl does. I don't know.
Lately, I have a hard time going to bed and a hard time getting up.
I hate the idea of individual people suffering and dying in hospitals by themselves while tons of other people just don't seem to care very much.
November 12, 2020
NEW! Three collaborative poems by me and Martin Willitts Jr appear in Misfit Magazine!
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"Some might label a few of my skeletons as borderline
personality disorder or downright insane, but
I call them force fields of special powers,
semi-contained inside small bony bodies."
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read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-31/cook-willitts.html
Partake of the entire issue - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-31/index.html
November 9, 2020
NEW! My poem "Dried Out" is inside EXCUSE ME Mag!
EXCUSE ME Mag No. 4, FALL, 2020: The BLOOD & BAD TIMES (which includes my poem "Dried Out") is now available!
Find out more and/or acquire a copy for yourself HERE (PDF $2 or print $5) - http://franticflicker.com/
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"Another constellation of blood
raining down
then melting
into the land of uncaring."
NEW! Two of my Museum of Impending Death poems AND a collaborative poem by me and Martin Willitts Jr appear in Sublunary Review!
Sublunary Review includes two of Juliet Cook's Museum of Impending Death poems and a collaborative poem by Cook and Martin Willitts Jr.
"Everything we touch
could be destruction."
HERE - https://www.sublunaryreview.com/home/musem-of-impending-death-and-my-journal-has-never-been-the-same
November 5, 2020
i saw god cooking children / paint their bones by john compton (Blood Pudding Press, 2020) has found a new home!
John Burroughs received new books today, including the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" with poems by john compton, cover art by Sandra Feen, and an inside review/blurb by Burroughs himself!
Here is Burroughs' review:
"I keep devouring this chapbook over and over because john compton’s work richly rewards repeat readings.
i saw god cooking children / paint their bones showcases the best of it with delightfully rich detail, fine turns of phrase and lean and engaging true tales.
Blood Pudding Press’ wonderful handcrafted artistry gives you another reason to want to keep picking it up.
But instead of going on and on about how much I like this collection, I encourage you to procure your own copy and see what I mean."
—John Burroughs, Ohio Beat Poet Laureate, 2019-2021, and author of Rattle and Numb.Thank you to John Burroughs for this photo and his review
November 1, 2020
NEW! Three of my Twin Peaks inspired poems are making an appearance in DIAGRAM 20.5!
I am delighted to have three Twin Peaks inspired poems appearing in the new issue 20.5 of DIAGRAM!
"INVADED CORES" ❤️- "CAPTIVE COHABITATION"
