Juliet Cook's Blog, page 90

what if the snow globe broke my heart?

I don't remember what caused my fascination with snow globes when I was a little girl, but I found them fascinating. I was semi-tempted to buy one recently, thinking about how much I used to like them.But then I also remembered this story my grandma told years ago about how she was holiday shopping, picked up a snow globe and shook it, it shattered, glass shards flung, and a shard of glass wound up inside her lower eyelid.She was somehow able to remove it similarly to when an eyelash gets stuck there and it didn't cause any damage, but it could have.For years, I obsessively thought about and visualized something shattering my eye or causing it to pop halfway out of my head. So maybe that's why I've never bought a snow globe.

Listen to a reading of Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall's poem, "harbouring thoughts of escape"...

Listen to Jenny S. read the poem "harbouring thoughts of escape" by Matthew J. Hall, which appears in Hall's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Pigeons and Peace Doves.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGal7mE3YA

Then you might want to acquire your own copy of Pigeons and Peace Doves HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_10

Me reading my poetry at the Cocklebur Press reading at Gathering Volumes on December 7th, 2017

(photo taken by Jenna Kain).

Cocklebur Press Poetry Reading this Thursday December 7!

"Back again!Open mic signup at 5:30pm. Featured reader goes on at 6pm.Featured reader is Juliet Cook from Blood Pudding Press.Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of magazines, including Arsenic Lobster, DIAGRAM, Diode, FLAPPERHOUSE, Menacing Hedge and The Rising Phoenix Review. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, an individual full-length poetry book, a collaborative full-length poetry book, and has another individual full-length poetry book forthcoming. She also sometimes creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.comOpen mic to follow."Click the link below for more information. https://www.facebook.com/events/1872649509712244/

The Last Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2017!

I am excited to announce that the last flock of Thirteen Myna Birds for 2017 has arrived!It begins with three teaser piece poems by Jennifer E. Hudgens that also appear in their poetry chapbook, "Paloma", which is now newly available for preorder in the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3It includes oodles of strange, sexy, scary, creepy, wonderful poetry by Darren C. Demaree, Jeff Nazzaro, Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Mark J. Mitchell, Jon Bennett, and John Grey, all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/"How is it life if we aren’t suffering - earlobes stretched and dangling - I have shoveled her into my mouth - We could drink in the Ether together - drowning you in blue shards - strokes of harvest brown into the woe of blackened days - I shun the daylight - The brightness favors illusion - Sometimes it’s spit-out gum or twisted up toilet paper - Drowning in your deep graying heart - a pall of smog - A film of spider web - floating in space like one-eyed cigar-shaped UFOs - It’s true they have secrets they keep in impossible pockets - How many girls did he pretend to love - like children plucking the wings from flies - She squirms because the itch can dance - sailing through space - We must look so confused through the window"

"Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens is now available for PRE-ORDER!

Happy December!The last Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017 is now available for PRE-ORDER!Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens includes 14 poems inspired by the poet's friend Lauren Kate, including the poem "Lauren Kate is Dead"."Tuesday morning /I sluggishly wake up /to find a Facebook message
Lauren Kate is dead / No warning or warm up / I thought I was
dreaming of dead things again..."The first 10 pre-ordered copies of this chapbook will receive a special addition to the inside back cover - a photo of a mix tape taken by the poet combined with imagery created by Blood Pudding Press combined with a few lines from one of the chapbook's poems.Find out more here and pre-order your copy!HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW in FLAPPERHOUSE online - Drenched Mold by Juliet Cook and Michael Bernstein

"I’m either screaming or I’m crying
or I’m hideously mean.
I’m a female-shaped gumball machine.You know you can’t wait
to break me open
or throw me out the window.I turn myself into
a ripped out placenta in the trunk
of the car. I can’t even drive."
inside the "Drenched Mold" by Michael Bernstein and meread more in FLAPPERHOUSE  - https://flapperhouse.com/2017/11/28/drenched-mold-poetry-by-juliet-cook-michael-bernstein/

My Newly Painted Tentacle Mug

Newly finished (glazed and fired) tentacle mug I recently painted.

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - three collaborative poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook!

"What is an insane asylum anyway?Is it a brain or is it a building?"
j/j hastain & I have 3 new poems up at Rag Queen Periodical, HERE -
https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/11/27/Three-Poems-by-Juliet-Cook-jj-hastain

BLOOD PUDDING PRESS DISCOUNT!

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, everything in my Blood Pudding Press shop is 20% off!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress