8/29/10

Poetry & Death & Strawberry Shortcake

A new issue of online poetry mag. Arsenic Lobster is now up and includes two FALL (post-stroke) poems by me, plus many more. Read some for yourself; partake of editor Susan Yount's yummy notes and then click below:

"SUMMER/Fall ARSENIC LOBSTER an epicurean free-for-all!"

“May gorgeous crustaceans fall from the sky and onto your laps!”

& Susan Yount's little description of my poems -

"Garnish with the eerie, arsenic herbs of Juliet Cook’s Fall (I) and Fall (II) and you will find a tiny dried apple for a ghost horse. Add a glass of rosewater to satiate all your senses."

http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1content.html

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Then if interested in reading a short non-poetry piece of writing by me, about kids and death and strawberry shortcake, feel free to partake of my latest Associated Content piece here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5725268/death_trumps_ruined_jogging_suit.html?cat=70

8/27/10

My Creative Writerly Phone Sex Operator Interview

"Poetry is my passion and has been for a very Iong time. My college degree is in creative writing, was especially attuned to poetry, and I had a fun and enjoyable college experience. After that, I was already feeling resigned to the fact that I was going to have to secure a relatively meaningless and dinky doo day job in order to pay my bills. I seemed to have some sordid glamour in the notion of sleazy or seedy or alternative day jobs. Day jobs of which one's mother might disapprove. My friends and I would sit around and chat about questionable job options that might earn us some strange type of oddball street creds and would not require us to remove our body piercings or normalize our vibrant hair colors or otherwise compromise our sense of self. One girl was fond of talking about how if only she had bigger boobs, she'd shake 'em in a strip club (as if large breasts are a requirement in such an arena)--and one boy would wax poetic about the various delightful implements he'd have the chance to pilfer if he was employed in a hospital environment (to this day, I believe he has collections of catheters and speculums, plus he is now a nurse). As for me, the obvious choice seemed to be phone sex."


That's just a little tidbit. Read my whole article by clicking below.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5721912/a_creative_writers_phone_sex_operator.html?cat=31

8/13/10

Friday the 13th/Thirteen Myna Birds (+ another twist)

Friday the 13th/Thirteen Myna Birds update, writhing with lusty little suckers all over me!

For Friday the 13th, Thirteen Myna Birds has taken a lusty fling featuring a hideously yummy treat of darkly delicious and strangely scary female-centrism starring Mary Biddinger, Kathy Burkett, C. Delia Mulrooney, & Debrenee Adkisson.

Enjoy this euphoric plethora of womanly horror including slithering charm bracelets, an avalanche of nonpareils, a rainbow of glistening organ exposed, egg goo, a thirsty bloom, a gummy baby brain, always bleeding…

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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In addition to Thirteen Myna Birds online, I am also in charge of Blood Pudding Press, which creates occassional hand-designed print chapbooks. Today one of those chapbooks is part of a Twist of Lime on etsy . See below.

Ectoplasmic Necropolis now exists in a Twist of Lime - http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c66a341ad7a8eefa6257645/with-a-twist-of-lime

(Ectoplasmic Necropolis is a 30 page Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook starring the work of the following oozing literati: Shane Allison--Aimee DeLong--Brooklyn Copeland--Nava Fader--Adam Fieled--Jeff Roberts--Susan Slaviero--murmurists--Ken Pobo--Suzanne Grazyna--Juliet Cook--Rebecca Loudon--Andrew Lundwall--Daniela Olszewska--Candace Turlington--Misti Rainwater-Lites--Rachel Kendall--J.R. Pearson--Sharon Zetter--Brian Foley--Eddie Watkins--Jayne Pupek--Nicole Cartwright Denison--Melissa Severin--Donora Hillard--Sean Kilpatrick--AnnMarie Eldon--John Moore Williams--Rachel Lisi--John Rocco.)

Yum.

8/10/10

Midwestern Gothic Poetry Reading (& More)

A recently received video of me reading 'Midwestern Gothic', the first poem from my chapbook 'Fondant Pig Angst' published by Slash Pine Press PLUS this reading was part of a big Slash Pine Press extravaganza this past April.

Thank you for the video Aunt Di & Sandy and thanks to yummy Slash Pine Press.

Also, if interested, partake of my other little Midwestern Gothic related note in the blog entry below. Slurp!

Also, you can partake of the other three poems I read during this event if you continue to click on the small poetry reading photos after the first listen. Those other pieces are 2. "Slumber Party Scandal -Operative Word" from my chapbook 'PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR' published by Spooky Girlfriend Press - 3. "Purple Speculum" also from PINK LEOTARD & SHOCK COLLAR - 4. "Giant Squid" from my chapbook "Soft Foam" published by Blood Puddig Press for the latest Dusie Kollektiv.



Untitled from Camerahead Sandy on Vimeo.

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Other notes and poetry tidbits:

The above was my first post-stroke poetry reading.

Speaking of post-stroke, ALL of my post-stroke poems have now been accepted for publication, as well as all but one more of my Designer Vagina pieces. Hurrah! Poetry bits of mine are coming soon in 'Arsenic Lobster', 'Barn Owl Review', 'Beggars & Cheeseburgers', 'Caketrain', 'Compost', 'Horse Less Review', & 'Source Material'. Yay! Now I need to work on writing more, more, more!

Speaking of more yummy poetry, stay tuned for the next delish issue of Thirteen Myna Birds coming soon! Slurp.

More Grotesque Poltergeistism

I grew up in a midwestern area with lots of farms, farm equipment, and cornfields. I love various aspects of the gothic, the grotesque, strangely scary Ouija Board snippets, poltergeistism as unusual female powers and other creepy yumminess. Some thinks that are yummy to me might be grotesque to others. Do you think I care? Well, part of me does. Part of me really wishes to be myself (including my strange, dark, oddball interests); but part of me is bothered by the semi-unacceptable aspects of myself that often feel like some odd cross hatching in between weird little girlish horror and increasingly older looking but not older feeling husker, getting closer & closer to death. Like chip chop meat stuck in a deadly doll head, like blood flying out of doll legs, like more horrific confection.

(I just sent that little remark about some of my poetry to Susan Yount, a poet and editor who is starting a new horrifically fantastic, female-centric, burlesque/grotesque sort of poetry workshop and asked if she could use my poem 'Midwestern Gothic' as part of her workshop class. Of course I was honored and said yes and sent her the poem plus the above little snippet, hurrah! Also, soon I hope to add a video of me reading the poem 'Midwestern Gothic' at the Slash Pine Press poetry festival this past April. More coming soon!)

Is a Poltergeist a Ghostly Interference or a Manifestation of a Suppressed Female Psyche?
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2402712/is_a_poltergeist_a_ghostly_interference.html?cat=34

8/8/10

Poetry Book Review Notes & Linkage

I am mentioning this here because I sometimes post links to my various Associated Content articles on Facebook and Twitter and recently I posted a link to a poetry book review I wrote a while back whereupon a woman mentioned to me that she really liked reading my book reviews, but was not crazy about reading them on Associated Content because of all the ads appearing on that site. I understood where she was coming from and did not disagree, but the main reason that I post them on Associated Content (even if they were published elsewhere first) and then link to that site is because the more page views I receive on that site, the more teeny tiny tidbits of money I will make. That said, though, I am also very pleased that some of my poetry book reviews in particular were first published within a variety of unique literary oriented sources, so for interested parties, here are a few links to those original creative sources:

- Strange Blue Dresses, FEIN by Kristy Bowen, reviewed by me / originally published by Galatea Resurrects - http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com/2008/03/feign-by-kristy-bowen.html


- Human Dark with Sugar by Brenda Shaughnessy, reviewed by me / originally published by Gently Read Literature - http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/human-dark-with-sugar-by-brenda-shaughnessy-reviewed-by-juliet-cook/

-The Revolting Body of Lara Glenum’s Maxiumum Gaga / originally published by Gently Read Literature -http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/the-revolting-body-of-lara-glenum%E2%80%99s-maximum-gaga-reviewed-by-juliet-cook/

-Panty Flowers Rising: on Karyna McGlynn’s I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl' / originally published by Gently Read Literature– http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/panty-flowers-rising-juliet-cook-on-karyna-mcglynn%E2%80%99s-i-have-to-go-back-to-1994-and-kill-a-girl/

- 'for it to work she has to look like a girl”: Michelle Detorie’s Ode to Industry, reviewed by me / originally published by Tarpaulin Sky Review' - http://tsky-reviews.blogspot.com/2009/10/michelle-detories-ode-to-industry.html

- 'The Future is Happy by Sarah Sarai, reviewed by me / originally published by Prick of the Spindle - http://www.prickofthespindle.com/reviews/3.4/small_presses/sarai/the_future_is_happy.htm

And below is the link to my Associated Content site, for those who might be interested in reading my book reviews there and/or partaking of my various other articles. Thank ye poodles!

Your questions and comments are always welcome.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/363475/juliet_cook.html

8/3/10

NEW Notes From a Dissected Poet

"I'm not a dead animal and my brain is better than that of a fetal pig. However, I still have not fully recovered from the results of my stroke and its resultant aphasia."

That is one line from my new article about the matter here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5602556/full_length_dissection.html?cat=70

P.S. I did make a small mistake within my article - in this line I used the wrong link - "If anyone would like to help me out a little bit and partake of your own creative goods, it would be utterly wonderful if you purchased a special something from the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop at http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/".

The correct link is http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress.

Thank you for partaking.

More coming soon!