Juliet Cook's Blog, page 40
April 12, 2020
A few more lines inside The Rabbits With Red Eyes...
"All he wants to do is destroy
in order to feel like his body is stronger.
He can't control his own body, so he'll control others.
He wants to be the boss of broken body parts."
in my poem "Pepper", within my newest poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes", available from Ethel Zine & Micro Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
Also available within my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2
in order to feel like his body is stronger.
He can't control his own body, so he'll control others.
He wants to be the boss of broken body parts."
in my poem "Pepper", within my newest poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes", available from Ethel Zine & Micro Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
Also available within my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2
April 9, 2020
Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds! The NEW April flock has arrived with 20 NEW poems for your reading pleasure!
Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds! The new April flock is HERE, including TWENTY NEW POEMS!Poetry by Martin Willitts Jr., Rachel J. Fenton, J. MacBain-Stephens, Paul Brookes, Scott Ferry, J.C. Mari, Kristin Garth, and John Compton!https://13myna.blogspot.com/
April 5, 2020
A NEW Review of my new poetry chapbook - The Rabbits With Red Eyes!
"A beautifully crafted and meticulously stitched little book that speaks volumes on its bright white pages. Poetry vociferous in honesty and violent in imagery leaves typed tracks across a heart of blemishes while shrinking into its own stew of consciousness. Here is emoting to the fourth degree, crispy and well singed, tempestuously supple on the inside."A delightful new review of my new poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press). Thank you very much to Janie C.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3250422719?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1
***You can acquire your own copy of The Rabbits With Red Eyes directly from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
You can also acquire a copy directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2
***You can acquire your own copy of The Rabbits With Red Eyes directly from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
You can also acquire a copy directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2
March 27, 2020
The Rabbits With Red Eyes has now been added to Goodreads!
I have now added my new poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" (published by Ethel Zine and Micro Press) to Goodreads.
March 25, 2020
Step Inside My New Poetry Chapbook - The Rabbits With Red Eyes
"It was locked inside
a cage, high above the ground
until its hair grew long enough
to reach close to the bottom.
Can you imagine how it feels
to extend your own hair
to the point of hitting the bottom
of an unknown land
and then watch someone else climb up,
drag you down to their level
and expect you to treat them
like they've given you the ultimate reward
by informing you that you belong to them?"
inside my poem "Flowers are Worth More than Females"
within my new poetry chapbook, The Rabbits With Red Eyes, published by the wonderful Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in March 2020 and available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
(Or if you'd like to purchase one directly from me, just ask me)
a cage, high above the ground
until its hair grew long enough
to reach close to the bottom.
Can you imagine how it feels
to extend your own hair
to the point of hitting the bottom
of an unknown land
and then watch someone else climb up,
drag you down to their level
and expect you to treat them
like they've given you the ultimate reward
by informing you that you belong to them?"
inside my poem "Flowers are Worth More than Females"
within my new poetry chapbook, The Rabbits With Red Eyes, published by the wonderful Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in March 2020 and available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
(Or if you'd like to purchase one directly from me, just ask me)
March 22, 2020
NEW in Burning House Press - A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes by me and j/j hastain
Always drowning in one way
or another. Another pretty little straight jacket
inside another shot glass,
that evolves into an ongoing Martini,
leading closer to an underwater body bag.
inside the poem, "A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes" by j/j hastain and me, appearing in Burning House today!
read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2020/03/22/a-fairy-tale-covered-in-underwater-ashes-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/#more-19601
or another. Another pretty little straight jacket
inside another shot glass,
that evolves into an ongoing Martini,
leading closer to an underwater body bag.
inside the poem, "A Fairy Tale Covered in Underwater Ashes" by j/j hastain and me, appearing in Burning House today!
read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2020/03/22/a-fairy-tale-covered-in-underwater-ashes-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/#more-19601
March 21, 2020
NEW in Ghost Bible - my poem "Animals" surrounded by many others!
Excited to announce the new Ghost Bible is alive!Filled with poetry by lots of different poetry people and including my poem, "Animals"!Just click on the GHOST BIBLE ISSUE 1.pdf to read it.HERE! - https://ghostbible.tumblr.com/
March 19, 2020
My NEW poetry chapbook, "THE RABBITS WITH RED EYES" is now available via Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!
Delighted to announce that my new poetry chapbook, "THE RABBITS WITH RED EYES" is now available via Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!
You can find out more about it and acquire your very own copy HERE: https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
You can find out more about it and acquire your very own copy HERE: https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook
March 18, 2020
Different styles of expression in difficult times
I think it's wonderful for us to have people to communicate with (and even more so during this recent social isolation due to the Coronavirus), but I think we should also try our best to be aware that different people communicate differently.
With me, for example, I don't tend to instantly write back in-the moment (although sometimes I do depending on my mood, my time frame, what I am or am not in the middle of working on, and various other factors), I don't tend to be a casual chatter (although once in a great while I do), I don't text much, I don't talk on the phone much (except to about two people)...
I do enjoy ongoing, long-ish online communication with a few friends - but even that has its time limits for me, because I have a rather slow process when it comes to just about everything.
Some people are a lot faster and more sudden and more in-the-moment than me - and that is fine. We're all different and should try our best to respect each other's differences, as well as similarities.
We don't all communicate the same way or directly in-the-moment. With me it depends what mood I'm in and what I'm focusing on, because I've never been good at multi-tasking or talking to several different people at the same time or directly focusing on a bunch of different things at the same time - and if I try, I tend to get frazzled and edgy and concerned that I'm not focusing closely enough on ANYTHING.
I don't like to feel rushed or forced. I like to maintain my own pace and space.
Sometimes I'm in the mood to communicate with others. Other times, I'm in the mood to focus on nothing but reading or writing poetry. Other times, I need some quiet time and space to myself to process things my own way, on an individual level, before I focus on communicating with others again.
Partly due to the recent focus on and stress-fest related to the Coronavirus pandemic, I feel like I've recently gotten a little less productive, less focused, and more edgy - so if it takes me a little longer than usual to communicate with friends, it doesn't mean I'm rudely ignoring you. It probably means I'm trying to focus on my own process of handling things and catching up on some things I've fallen behind on and not lowering my immune system by working in too many different directions at the same time.
We all have our own process, we all have our own preferred forms of communication and expression and self-preservation - and reaching out to others and reaching out to ourselves.
With me, for example, I don't tend to instantly write back in-the moment (although sometimes I do depending on my mood, my time frame, what I am or am not in the middle of working on, and various other factors), I don't tend to be a casual chatter (although once in a great while I do), I don't text much, I don't talk on the phone much (except to about two people)...
I do enjoy ongoing, long-ish online communication with a few friends - but even that has its time limits for me, because I have a rather slow process when it comes to just about everything.
Some people are a lot faster and more sudden and more in-the-moment than me - and that is fine. We're all different and should try our best to respect each other's differences, as well as similarities.
We don't all communicate the same way or directly in-the-moment. With me it depends what mood I'm in and what I'm focusing on, because I've never been good at multi-tasking or talking to several different people at the same time or directly focusing on a bunch of different things at the same time - and if I try, I tend to get frazzled and edgy and concerned that I'm not focusing closely enough on ANYTHING.
I don't like to feel rushed or forced. I like to maintain my own pace and space.
Sometimes I'm in the mood to communicate with others. Other times, I'm in the mood to focus on nothing but reading or writing poetry. Other times, I need some quiet time and space to myself to process things my own way, on an individual level, before I focus on communicating with others again.
Partly due to the recent focus on and stress-fest related to the Coronavirus pandemic, I feel like I've recently gotten a little less productive, less focused, and more edgy - so if it takes me a little longer than usual to communicate with friends, it doesn't mean I'm rudely ignoring you. It probably means I'm trying to focus on my own process of handling things and catching up on some things I've fallen behind on and not lowering my immune system by working in too many different directions at the same time.
We all have our own process, we all have our own preferred forms of communication and expression and self-preservation - and reaching out to others and reaching out to ourselves.
March 14, 2020
NEW in Squawk Back!
"Sometimes sardine cans
are loaded
with leeches,
dripping."
Accepted late last night and already published late tonight! A collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me AND an individual poem by me are now up at Squawk Back!http://www.thesquawkback.com/2020/03/jjj.html
are loaded
with leeches,
dripping."
Accepted late last night and already published late tonight! A collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me AND an individual poem by me are now up at Squawk Back!http://www.thesquawkback.com/2020/03/jjj.html
