Juliet Cook's Blog, page 85
April 26, 2018
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.
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.
April 25, 2018
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
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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
April 24, 2018
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***
(a video of me reading, taken by Darryl, MIGHT be coming soon...)
April 23, 2018
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/
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/
April 20, 2018
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
"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
April 19, 2018
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.
April 17, 2018
Another Strange Eyeball Smoothie
Close up of the latest blend, filled with another strange eyeball
April 16, 2018
Links to a few Blood Pudding Press chapbook reviews
The Book Reviews section of M. Earl Smith's new website includes two reviews of Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks.
"Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins, which is still available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110107/stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014-blood?ref=shop_home_active_3
and "Girl Gang" by Juliet Cook (currently discontinued)
Thank you to M. Earl Smith! Read the reviews by clicking the links HERE - https://mearlsmith.com/book-reviews
"Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins, which is still available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110107/stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014-blood?ref=shop_home_active_3
and "Girl Gang" by Juliet Cook (currently discontinued)
Thank you to M. Earl Smith! Read the reviews by clicking the links HERE - https://mearlsmith.com/book-reviews
