Juliet Cook's Blog, page 6

NEW! I am peculiarly thrilled to have a creepy collaborative clown poem appearing in Horror Sleaze Trash!

"The oldest of the clowns forms the apex of a rotting and sadistic pyramid in which hellbent volcanic ash pours out of the mother clowns mouths like a gravy vat of drying blood."

in Alex S. Johnson and I's creepy collaborative clown poem, "Greasepaint Inferno", which is now making an appearance within Horror Sleaze Trash HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2024/06/29/juliet-cook-and-alex-s-johnson/

NEW! I am delighted to have four collaborative poems appearing in the latest issue of Misfit!

Delighted to have four collaborative poems appearing in the new Issue No. 38, Spring 2024 of Misfit!

Two poems by Daniel G. Snethen and me - and two poems by j/j hastain and me.You can read them and many more poems HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-38/Cook.html***
Another implosion of stagnation
leads toward further deterioration.
Metallic trash inside your head
replicates itself and now there are two
of You hiding behind the trash.

But the first You has succumbed
to ferric oxidation of the psyche
and the second You is bent
against following suit and yearns
to become one with a garbage can.

Your mom is a hysterical burn barrel
with complications during delivery.
Her voice either sizzles at You
or takes You out.
in the poem "Retrogradation of You" by Juliet Cook and Daniel Snethen

NEW! I am excited and delighted to have two poems appearing in the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden!

I am excited and delighted to have two haiku poems appearing in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Sein und Werden!

The theme of this issue is To Settle a Score and it's the 20th anniversary issue of this magazine! Here is one of my two poems, called "VIOLENT DREAD" and if you visit the link to the magazine (below the poem), it appears next to an art piece called "SELF-PORTRAIT (UNDEFINED HORROR)" by Julie Blankenship. I love the poem and art piece next to each other.
***VIOLENT DREADEvery bit of depthshot down into dread. Psychobabbling brooks with hooks.If internal angstinternally combusts, eyeswill explode. My heada human-sized bloodbath of burnt dumplings. Sauced out. Splattering your plate.http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinund... hard to believe that this is the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden and that I've had creative work appearing in this literary magazine (on and off) ever since Sein und Werden began. Sein's creator, primary editor, and writer Rachel Kendall and I first got to know each other on xanga (a blog platform that hasn't existed for years). It's hard to keep a literary magazine alive for this long, so cheers to Rachel. This issue also includes some Interviews with Rachel, such as an Interview about The Storied History of Sein und Werden. I shall stop my babbling for now, but again, I'm delighted to be included in this 20th anniversary issue and will place a link to the whole issue below...http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/index.html

Happy June from Blood Pudding Press! Have you seen the new White Octopus chapbook?

Happy first week of June!

Now newly available in my Blood Pudding Press shop (and less than a week old), is the poetry chapbook, "White Octopus" by Davide Nixon!

The first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2024!

12 poems brimming with creepy speculative horror, grotesque creatures, and other peculiarities.

Find out more and acquire a copy in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

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"the old dead house
is finally
getting a rise
out of rain
and pain,
and sarcophagi brain-
a rummaging rodent
through fields,
climbing like corn,
climbing like
spiders on cocaine,
climbing with broken legs"

in the poem "Goodbye in August"

NEW Blood Pudding Press 2024 Poetry Chapbook! WHITE OCTOPUS by Davide Nixon!

"Where has my
heart gone?
Down with the
black seaweed
into the trench-
it is gone."

in the poem "White Octopus"

in the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook,
WHITE OCTOPUS by Davide Nixon!

The first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2024, available in two different cover art options!

Find out more and acquire your copy in the  Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

NEW! My poem "Sleep Deprivation Becomes You" is having trouble sleeping in Buffalo 8!

I'm sharing this kind of late at night, because it's just been one of those off-kilter sort of days, BUT I am very excited to have a poem appearing in the new volume 3 of buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

This poem, "Sleep Deprivation Becomes You" actually seems like a good poetic partial description of my mental/emotional state lately. Sigh.

But I am pleased to have it making an appearance inside buffalo 8!

Read it HERE - https://buffalojournal.tumblr.com/post/749736210759647232/sleep-deprivation-becomes-you

NEW! My short poem "Sweet Tooth" is making an appearance in the new issue of Rogue Agent!

Delighted to have my short haiku poem "Sweet Tooth" appearing in the NEW May issue 110 of Rogue Agent!

Wishing you all a happy and poetic May!

Dive in to the latest issue of Rogue Agent HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/

NEW! My poem "Snow Angel Position With Dread" is making an appearance in Pinky Thinker Press!

"The cow was an unborn fetus.
The snow was a giant womb.
I needed to lie down
in snow angel position
and mimic the dreadful truth.
Give birth to something nobody wanted."

The end of my poem "Snow Angel Position With Dread", which appears in Issue 11 of Pinky Thinker Press.

Read the whole poem on page 27 here - https://www.mignolo.art/ptp

Read and check out other poems, fiction, and art too.

Nine Books About Your Life: JULIET COOK (Interview by Nicholas Alexander Hayes)

Nine Books About Your Life: JULIET COOK

Interview by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
(Thank you very much to Nicholas for interviewing me on Your Impossible Voice.)READ THE INTERVIEW HERE - https://www.yourimpossiblevoice.com/juliet-cook/

My "red flames burning out" is ONE YEAR OLD!

It's hard to believe my "red flames burning out" poetry chapbook is already One Year Old!

It still feels new and time flies by way too fast.I am still excited about it and it is still available from its publisher Grey Book Press HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titlesAND from my very my own Blood Pudding Press HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetryYou can also read more about it at Grey Book Press HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocationHappy One Year Anniversary to these flames that are still burning...