Juliet Cook's Blog, page 8

NEW! One individual poem by me AND two collaborative poems by Daniel G. Snethen and me appear in Misfit!

Happy New Year! I am delighted to have poems appearing within the wonderful Misfit Magazine again, surrounded by all sorts of other wonderful poets!

Issue No. 37, Winter 2024 includes my poem, "Hagfish Slime" AND two collaborative poems by Daniel Snethen and me, "Broken Balloons Seep Out of Our Mouths" and "Cosmic Conundrum of Camel, Cherub and Leech"! Thank you very much to Misfit and Alan Catlin!

http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-37/cook&snethen.html

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"The closest I'll get
to becoming stuck
in a sort of container
is a fish being carried
through a thundering fair.
A slimy hagfish
on top a hot funnel cake.

Screaming instead of
quietly swimming
as they try to swallow me
or throw me away
or place me inside
where they think I belong today."

in my poem "Hagfish Slime"

Read more via the link above.

Me and Darryl on New Year's Eve shortly before 2024 and shortly after 2024.

me and Darryl on New Year's Eve shortly before 2024
me and Darryl on New Year's Eve shortly after 2024

My 2023 Poetry Chapbooks on Goodreads

Just a note that my three 2023 poetry chapbooks (as well as other poetry chapbooks/books of mine) are also listed on Goodreads, so if you read them this year, next year, or anytime, you can also feel free to rate and/or review them if you are so inclined 🖤🙃🖤

Here are Goodreads links to the three 2023 chaps:

"red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131983564-red-flames-burning-out

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" (Gutter Snob Books, summer 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174348259-contorted-doom-conveyor

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, December 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203818234-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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Also, here are links to where each chapbook can be acquired:

"red flames burning out" is available here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

Or here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" is available here - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is available here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

Or inquire directly from me.

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Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, brimming with poetry! 

Darryl and Me, Christmas 2023

(Photo taken by my sister Amanda)

My Three New Poetry Chapbooks in 2023!

It is most certainly not every year that I end up having three different poetry chapbooks published by three different small presses, but that happened in 2023 and for that I am excited and grateful.

This year had its sadness and difficulties and I feel like I didn't write enough new poetry, but I was lucky enough to have some of my poetry published within literary magazines and inside these three darkly delightful little books.

Thank you to the people and small presses that believe in me and my poetry.

"red flames burning out" was published by Grey Book Press in April 2023 (find out more here http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/)

"Contorted Doom Conveyor" was published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023 (find out more here - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140)

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was very recently published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023 (find out more here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook) My three new poetry chapbooks in 2023

A few lines from (and a few more photos of) my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"...

"She doesn't see what she doesn't want to see. Part of me
can pretend I don't see it either. Another glass
figurine stained with blood, but we keep on pretending
it's red paint, at least until it dries. The color quietly darkens,
then starts cracking into broken pieces. But I didn't throw it
directly at anyone's face. I didn't throw it on the floor."

in my poem "Glass Figurines Stained With Blood", in my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023). 

You can find out more about and/or acquire a copy of this chap for yourself or a friend via the links below (or if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from me, let me know...)...:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

 

 

I have received my own copies of my new chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"! Yay!

I am very excited that I have now received my copies of my newest poetry chapbook, Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023)!

Thank you very much to Ethel Zine & Micro Press!

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Find out more and consider acquiring a copy for yourself or a friend via Ethel, HERE (and/or you can also check out my last two blog posts to find out a bit more...)...:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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"Damned ecosystem inside
a malformed crayfish crawling out of
this doll's mouth.

The doll's insecticidal eyes.
The doll's hysterical orifices.
The doll's tiny doom portal opening."

in one of the FLESH WORLD poems, within my new chapbook

Happy (or hideous) December! Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is looking for new homes!

Happy December 2023! I am extremely excited, delighted, and thrilled to have my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" officially available from the wonderful independent press, Ethel Zine & Micro Press!

"Dissociativeidentity disorder hides in the corner

ofyour bedroom, hoping to break itself out of your face

andrip the flesh off

someonewho doesn't believe

yourpower. Listen. All you wanted

 

wasenough alcoholic ingredients

foran unending supply of Bloody Marys,

whileyou watched the female lion bite deep

intoa larger creature's neck."

in my poem, "I'll Eat You" 

 

28 poems are waiting to creepily crawl their way into your brain or be given as a gift to a friend.

Find out more and/or acquire my latest strangely crafted poetic mess HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

Happy first day of December! "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" (my new poetry chapbook) is now available!

"In this diorama, a mental conflagration
is connected with the speed of the ceiling fan.
It turns itself off and on, grows into an over rotating form of abuse.

A repetitive malformation in which
her arms are forced behind her back in bed again.
Her sheets are ripped off to strangle her."

(in the poem "Invaded Cores")

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Happy first day of December 2023! I am extremely excited,delighted, and thrilled to have my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth isMoving Backwards" officially available from the wonderful independent press,Ethel Zine & Micro Press, as of today!

Just in time for the holidays and the New Year, at least for those of you whohave peculiarly quirky gift lists involving strange, dark, emotionally twistedpoetry.

The 28 poems in this collection are filled with internal and external violenceand abuse, chaotic horror and entrapment, humans trapped behind walls or inbeds, dolls thrown down the stairs and hiding in partially contained places,dolls pretending to be humans, humans pretending to be dolls, humans fusedtogether with evil.

Some of the inspiration for some of the poems partlyderived from Twin Peaks. 15 poems in the collection have the title "FLESHWORLD", which comes from the name of a magazine in Twin Peaks. But thereare other titles too and other inspirations and insinuations too, including my own experiences, thoughts, and feelings doused into dark red poetry.

Dive into my latest strangely crafted poetic mess HERE:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards cover art
Ronette Pulaski/Phoebe Augustine

Happy last day of November! Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself Issue 5 is here!

"It was you who chose to replace the keyhole
with an open wound of red paralysis

with a never ending void of broken glass
hovering above the child's doll.
Then the doll gave birth
to another headless crustacean
and another, and another and yet another ad infinitum."

from "Paint It Red" by Juliet Cook and Daniel G. Snethen

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I am delightedto have two collaborative poems appearing in Issue 5 of Alice Says Go FuckYourself, the Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Ghost Stories Issue, which alsocelebrates the one year anniversary of this magazine! Brimming with strange poetry,horror stories, art, interviews and more! My collaborative poem withDaniel G. Snethen is called "Paint It Red". My collaborative poemwith j/j hastain is called "And Then Rise". There is darkly wonderfulcover art by Lauren Gordon, creepily wonderful poetry by Sarah Nichols, JayaGandhi, Valerie Loveland and more! Thank you to editors Fox &Cee!

Click on Issue 5 here, if you dare! - https://agape-editions.com/alice-says-go-fuck-yourself/?fbclid=IwAR3nl3l2R0ZEdifH8WSVCHl1bV-dVCevOULUSV39qMuVYBD3gaV0pgRthCc