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A NEW Review of my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"The speaker’s corporeal self has become almost an enemy, attacking the speaker like a traitor."from Eileen Murphy's review of my poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", which appears in the new issue of Tinderbox Poetry Journal! - http://tinderboxpoetry.com/review-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my-black-doll-head-irises-by-juliet-cook

You can acquire your very own copy of DARK PURPLE, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

The NEW June flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!

hibiscus #11 by MISH"I am the rusty fence wrapped around the graveyard - all week the rainsoaked pavements have been white with second-hand sunshine - treading your breath - I watch you fly off without me - I was supposed to be your island not the sea you drown in - Pain receded to an ache, then to nothing worth noticing - My heart is full of dust - The wet was water, was pus, was blood, was stink - I should never have told her that I wrote any poetry."
The new June flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived, offering art by MISH and poetry by Ann Kestner, DS Maolalai, Michael A. Griffith, and Brittany Sabatino!All HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

NEW Dark Particle Press!

What used to be called Cringe-Worthy Poet's Collective has re-branded and changed its name to Dark Particle Press - so now my 2018 poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" is among the Dark Particles.

https://darkparticlepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails (2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by The Poet's Haven) has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

Friday May 31 2019 was the official release date of this new poetry chapbook, "Another Set Up Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails"! 24 poems by Juliet Cook! Cover art by Craig Firsdon! Published by The Poet's Haven! It has now been added to the author's Blood Pudding Press shop here. 

Get a copy from The Poet's Haven here, for only $6 - https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159 

OR get an author-signed copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop for the same price here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/701084408/another-set-of-ripped-out-bloody?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

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"Your fake pig legs have to be small
enough to fit into a lunchbox."

a few lines from the first poem in the collection,"Submission Guidelines".

A NEW mini-review of my "Projectile Vomit", an E-chap published more than 10 years ago (published in 2008 by Scantily Clad Press)!

"I highly recommend this book unless you have a fear of tuna."
From a new mini-review of "Projectile Vomit", an E-chap of mine that's more than ten years old!
(One interesting factor involved with me reading older poetry of mine that I haven't read much in recent years {since I'm rather frequently writing new poetry and reading other people's poetry} is that it can backtrack me to certain memories of myself in the past. For example, one of the poems in this collection, "Bubble Wrap" backtracks me to my mid to late twenties when I was focused on my own bones, was disgusted by chicken bones, wanted to be unnaturally skinny so that as many bones stood out as much as possible from my own skin, and had fainting spells. Below are a few lines from my "Bubble Wrap")
"In the bubble wrap was: sneaky ice cream, chicken bones with gory rivulets of flesh still clinging, small mounds of carnage building up almost automatically, dog shit, leaky toilet, clanging pipes, expanding hips, horror movie music, knives, flesh, fainting, long distance relationship, public transportation, boiling water bubbles.  It was bubble wrapped beaks and wings"
Thank you to Jason Denness for this review, of which you can read more HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2836858082

NEW in South Broadway Ghost Society - mental regurgitation!

My "mental regurgitation" appears at South Broadway Ghost Society today.
(Usually I write poetry, but this piece is more like a flash fiction/exaggerated fictional essay about hideous leeches.)
HERE - https://soboghoso.org/2019/06/14/mental-regurgitation-juliet-cook/