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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...

A New Spring Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE!

Happy end of March, launching into April's Poetry Month with a new flock of Thirteen Myna Birds!

Poetry and art by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Wayne F Burke, MISH, Kathryn Burkett, Merritt Waldon, Alex S. Johnson, and E. Martin Pedersen!All HERE: https://13myna.blogspot.com/
the sun breaks through chunks of obsidian - to look at her drawings of flying penises - poisoned river raging in her quivering heart - metal smile awash in her spurting blood - torn apart and in darkness - In darkness my body feels less exposed - I’m tangled up with my invisible-but-evil twin - Her motionless body on the bed - not lifeless—not yet - We’ve all been poisoned - The culturally relevant now like pink Elephants & clowns - He’s got a secret fishing hole, which he currently can’t get to - She sees stars behind shaded eyes - gatekeeping foam while bodies sleep on beach blankets, tented blue dimensions - In a multidimensional multireality Multiconsciousness dream of the future - steel teeth chewing through - all strange parades of weightless flesh packed in black vinyl - In a language no one speaks - as the long shadows crawl and the tide comes in - Vibrating with muses On the edge of midnight...
L'Inferno by MISH

I am extremely excited to have FOUR NEW POEMS appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Extremely delighted to have FOUR NEW POEMS appearing within Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Here's the editors description of the poems - The orbitoclast, a tiny hammerhead shark tap tapping us into place. “I was walking through a parking lot” leads us inevitably, somehow, to “I wasn’t sure if I was human anymore.” A standard red horror. In these poems by frequent contributor Juliet Cook, medically-induced terror finds us where we live

Here's a few lines from the poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar" -

I wasn't sure if I was human anymore.
Maybe I was a goose in labor,
giving birth to a subhuman or else   
I was in the middle of aborting my own brain
inside another terrible dream, trapped 
underneath a seeping blue machine
shaped like a giant pill container
with cracked slots that don't keep anything inside.

And here's where you can read all four poems! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-2  

Also, underneath the four poems, you can click on a link to learn a little bit more about the poems, such as what inspired them...

NEW! My Non-relaxed "Relax" poem is appearing in the March Issue of Ghost City Review!

Delighted that my non-relaxed "Relax" poem is appearing in the new March Issue of Ghost City Review!

"They will suddenly stab me,
then tell me I'm the one
who is filled with animosity
just because I didn't stay silent."

Here's a link to my poem - https://ghostcitypress.com/poetry0324/2024/3/17/juliet-cook

And here's a link to the whole issue -  https://ghostcitypress.com/march-2024-1

NEW! Darkly delighted to share a new poetry chapbook acceptance from Cul-De-Sac OF BLOOD! REVOLTING!

Darkly delighted and creepily thrilled to share that I have a new poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING" accepted by Cul-De-Sac of Blood, forthcoming this fall!