Juliet Cook's Blog, page 91

Octopus tentacle mug

A new Octopus tentacle mug I painted, in progress. Painted it last Sunday, dipped it in purple glaze Monday, now it needs to be fired into a kiln to turn the purple glaze into a white gloss on top of the true colors I painted it. Hopefully it will look strange and vibrant when it's done.

NEW Anthology available for Preorder - Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living

Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living is now available for Preorder!I'm very excited to have two poems in this Anthology, coming very soon from Fat Gold Watch Press."A collection of a variety of artists, poets, writers, and essayists who respond to Plath with images, poems, essays, short stories, and academic texts. This anthology gathered an embarrassment of riches: men and women from all backgrounds, ethnicities, and sexual orientations; able-bodied, disabled, monolingual, trilingual; writers and artists from around the globe (and nearly) beyond. For some writers, inclusion in the anthology is their first time in print, but others have published well received books and won a host of awards for their writing and images."

See more HERE - https://theplathanthology.com/

NEW in Black Poppy Review - Cheerleader Cop

"Who tries to lock someone else inside her own tiny space
of rights and wrongs and toned down emotions
and tell someone else what their face should look like
while being forced to listen to a popular song
that I told her was not my own style at all?"Delighted to have a new poem,"Cheerleader Cop" appearing at Black Poppy Review today!I read this poem for the first time at a poetry reading this past weekend and now you can read it HERE - https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2017/11/cheerleader-cop-by-juliet-cook.html

NEW in tenderness, yea - a new collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook

There's nothing peachy about this pepper pit.
More than half the time, I'm not even sweet."inside the poem "Splayed Garden Tools" by j/j hastain and me, now up at tenderness, yeapartake of more HERE - https://www.tendernessyea.com/work#/by-juliet-cook-jj-hastain/

At the Borderlands:Oct Tongue poetry reading

Juliet Cook (me), reading her poetry at the Borderlands: Oct Tongue book release reading on November 18, at Main Street Books

NEW in Picaroon Poetry - Inside an Old Basement

"Nobody wants all of me.
They just want small pieces."a small piece of my poem "Inside an Old Basement", in Issue #11 of Picaroon Poetrymore HERE - https://picaroonpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/picaroon-poetry-issue-11-november-2017/

Oct Tongue 2 is HERE!

The Oct Tongue 2 collaborative poetry anthology has arrived!  

"Oct Tongue 2 by George Wallace, Lyn Lifshin, Mark Sebastian Jordan, Juliet Cook, Kathleen Cerveny, Dianne Borsenik, Margaret Bashaar and Eric Anderson, published 18 November 2017 by Crisis Chronicles Press.http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2017/11/Oct2CC096.htmlWe are pleased to present the long-awaited Oct Tongue 2, our biggest book yet (it's like eight books in one!). See October (and so much more) through the eyes of eight of America’s finest poets.Each of these eight writers wrote and submitted at least 31 poems in response to editor John Burroughs' October 2014 poem-a-day invitation. Life intervened and it took awhile to get this fine collection into print, but we believe it is well worth the wait. Oct Tongue 2 features 258 poems on 328 pages, and is 6"x9", perfect bound, with cover photo by Peggy Honeydew. It will make you laugh, make you cry, make you angry and make you glad you read it.The book is available for $15 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 3431 George Avenue, Parma, Ohio 44134 USA.Please join us for a special book launch event Saturday, November 18, 2017 from 2 to 4 p.m. during Borderlands: Oct Tongue at Main Street Books, 104 N. Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44902."

NEW in Bad Pony - a collaborative poem by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook

"As if aiming without aiming.
As if maiming the grounds
keeper and then piling up the pulp of internal
systems,
dyeing them then trying to sell them to the highest
bidder on the black market.
This market will collect us all..."from the poem Peristalsing Pistil, by j/j hastain and me, appearing within the NEW issue of Bad Ponypartake of more HERE - https://www.badponymag.com/november-2017-poetry/2017/10/21/juliet-cook-jj-haistain

Pretty Little Bird

This little bird creature was hanging out in my front yard right in front of a window on Monday, November 13, eating little fruit off a tree, and I was able to get some nifty photos...

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes

"Maybe my poems come out
of the veins of my neck
and one day it will explode.Sometimes I share too much.
Sometimes I don't share enough,
but doesn't that all dependupon what one considers
to be the deep end
or the blood bath?Whether or not they want to
dive all the way into me
and whether or not I'll let them?"from my poem "Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes", at Rag Queen Periodical todaypartake of more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/11/13/St-Juliet-with-Starry-Eyes-by-Juliet-Cook