Juliet Cook's Blog, page 83

For National Poetry Month, at Cuyahoga County Public Library, my poem, "Chicken Corset"

In celebration of National Poetry Month, at Cuyahoga County Public Library, here is my poem, "Chicken Corset" - https://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/Services/William-N-Skirball-Writers-Center/Read-Write-30-Days-of-Poetry/30-Days-of-Poetry/April-2018/Chicken-Corset.aspx

The New April flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here!

"Whether in the Black Lodge, Screaming outside - worm lips moving - I’ve earned those black hearts on my headdress - there’s been an accident on the road ahead and all you can see are the lights - You celebrate angrily - Full of nothing But male doms On FetLife - A man with tattoos of stars and moons on his face - breathless wind of dust and waning moons - Only buzzards fly in these stale skies - Rusty lava in the arteries not the lamp - I really did believe those were tiny people encased in that orb - Don't forget to celebrate this doom anniversary - the eyes of the deceased being carried away down some tunnel - Whatever it was, it was everywhere now, shared around, not just personal."The April flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived! Brimming with strange new suns and moons and peculiar tunes of art/poetry by Eileen Mish Murphy, Wayne F. Burke, Thursday Simpson, Nate Maxson, Vin Whitman, John Grey, and Michael A. Griffith.Dive in HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/ The red queen (MISH)

NEW in YES, POETRY - "Rivulets" by Juliet Cook

"Maybe I'm a dumb cliché.I have my own thoughts, but I tone them downbecause they're overly anxiousand frenzied and obsessive and compulsiveand I wake up feeling embarrassedby my own brain.
I could call it a deluge,but that would make it sound more powerfuland important than it actually is."from my poem "Rivulets" at YES POETRY today!read more HERE - http://www.yespoetry.com/news/juliet-cook-poetryTHE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES.

NEW in White Stag Journal / Behind The Presses!

I am incredibly delighted to be included in the new White Stag Journal Behind the Presses, which shares poems from poets who are also editors!My poem, "Out of Control" appears alongside poems by Lisa Marie Basile, Kristy Bowen, Megan Burns, Jeff Chon, Anthony Frame, Nichole Goff, Isobel O'Hare, Carleen Tibbetts, and Robert Andrew Perez.Thrilled beyond belief to be a part of this!Love love love poetry!Also, I love the piece of art that appears next to my poem!Read some poetry HERE - http://www.whitestagpublishing.com/issue-one--the-editors.html
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"Like an insectile heart eater,filled with blood and guilt.
I didn't mean to bite
or swallow, but sometimes

we can't resist our unaligned cravings.
My weaknesses outweighed
my own strengths again or
maybe it was the other way around."

from my poem, "Out of Control"

partake of more HERE - http://www.whitestagpublishing.com/juliet-cook.html

a robin in my front yard

Me reading some poetry at Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry, #KleftCrisis 2018 (Saturday April 21, 2018)

photo taken by Peggy Honeydew
photo taken by John Burroughs
photo taken by Dianne Borsenik

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(a video of me reading, taken by Darryl, MIGHT be coming soon...)

LOVE CAN BE A CHOKECHERRY / AN INTERVIEW WITH POET JULIET COOK

"She describes her style as, “emotional hailstorms (based on and derived from thoughts/feelings/memories) that are redirected and reshaped into poetry, sometimes more direct and other times more abstract. Often on the dark side.”"(Thank you very much to Bekah Steimel and Shannon Steimel for conducting this interview with me!)

Read the interview in its entirety (or just read parts of it, if you'd like), starting with a poem HERE - https://bekahsteimel.com/2018/04/22/love-can-be-a-chokecherry-an-interview-with-poet-juliet-cook/

A NEW Mini-Review of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain (Hysterical Books, 2016)

5 out of 5 stars
"Absolutely beautiful and disturbing at the same time, just the way I like my poetry!" Sarah Peterson's delightful mini-review of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

acquire your own copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/473901408/a-red-witch-every-which-way-2016-full?ref=shop_home_active_1

Also available from Hysterical Books - https://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/a-red-witch-every-which-way

Also available from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044

today's smoothie is a bit peppery

my way

I got my little reading lists figured out for the next two weekend's poetry readings I'm participating in, because I'm an advance planner, or else I tend to freak out (sometimes I freak out a bit anyway). I chose eight poems to read for my ten minute time frame this Saturday - and then I'll read the same eight poems plus another seven for the longer reading I'm supposed to give the Friday after that. Lots of dolls, holes, slightly gruesome girly horror, blood, red eyes, and rotting apples, because that's the way I roll. Some people might hate my stuff; a few people will like it. I do it my way either way. Hopefully, I'm in a good mood and don't dislike myself those days.