Last Day of June 2013 - small poetry oodles

Since today is the last day of June, I am (re)posting links to the places where some of my poems were published this month, in case anyone is interested in partaking of one or more. 

~A collaborative poem by Robert Cole and me AND a poetry/art interview with me in Sein und Werden here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/index.html

~One new poem by me AND two new collaborative poems by Robert Cole and me in Black Heart Magazine here - http://blackheartmagazine.com/2013/06/19/a-poem-by-juliet-cook-and-two-poems-by-juliet-cook-and-robert-cole/

~My poem “Mirror Test” in POETS/ARTISTS – The Social Portrait here -http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/587862

My poem "Vintage Pom Pom Underwater" in Counterexample Poetics here (atop two older poems of mine, published there a few years ago) -
http://www.counterexamplepoetics.com/2009/02/giggle-or-gurgle-her-voice-sounds-like.html

More to come in July.  :)

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ALSO, related to poetry by others that I published -

~The June edition of Thirteen Myna Birds here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

~A book review (by Lisa M. Cole) of Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary (published by Blood Pudding Press 2013) here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/paula-carys-sister-blood-and-bone.html

~A book review (by Lisa M. Cole) of Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom (published by Blood Pudding Press 2013) here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/lora-blooms-poking-through-fabric-of.html#comment-form

More to come in July :)

New Poem of Mine up at Counterexample Poetics

"A mummified octopus looks like a broken balloon
who suddenly turned old. Half the suckers
slashed by scissor blades. Black blood bath
filled my nosebleed dreams until my mouth dripped"

from my new poem "Vintage Pom Pom Underwater", which now appears in Counterexample Poetics here -

http://www.counterexamplepoetics.com/2009/02/giggle-or-gurgle-her-voice-sounds-like.html

(interestingly/oddly, they placed my new poem right above two older poems of mine which they published a few years ago).

Strange New Carnival Morsels Now Frothing through Myna Birds Land

The carnival of love and life grows weirder and darker red and involves bites of candy at the NEW NEW NEW Thirteen Myna Birds update! - Michael Dwayne Smith, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Adam Fieled, Katharine Hepcat, Davide Nixon, John Grey, and Ani Myers-Campos are within the latest peculiar poetry parade, here here here - 

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Drawing together both heaven and hell – stitched them together hand in hand – pick at the flowers - petal to your knees – gargling songs of mud – tempting the scorpion – hard candy on the ground – wispy wings are in tatters from trying to lift her – minion of tarts - bleed out and be easier to throttle -  if a man could mutate – the blood of their feasts... 

TWO NEW Blood Pudding Press book reviews!

A new book review written by Lisa Cole about the 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Poking Through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror" by Lora Bloom!

Here’s a piece of the review - Lora Bloom’s new chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, Poking Through the Fabric of Light That Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror is not for the faint of heart, or the faint of stomach. This is a place where undigested noodles, burps, projectile nausea, and chunks of eyelids are deemed normal, and things most often deemed beautiful are viewed in a new, less favorable, often ghastly light. This collection is filled with things grotesque and horrific but still captivating. In the poem “Remember,” for example, the sun “heaved its dry spew” and “bloodied itself on the earth’s rocky crags’ and in “Pizza Maker,” moons are “battered” “bloody” and “slaughtered.” 

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/lora-blooms-poking-through-fabric-of.html#comment-form

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Lora Bloom is featuring a special art-drenched event in support of her "Poking Through the Fabric..."(July 7 in Philadelphia), during which she will have some of her chapbooks available for sale. Find out more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/521439394576304/

If you can't attend that event and would like to partake of her chapbook, it is also available in the Blood Pudding Press shop, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light

Juliet Cook's chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (also mentioned in the review above) is available from Grey Book Press, here -http://greybookpress.com/index.php/site/titles/

AND the poet who wrote the review, Lisa Cole, also has a chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press, RENEGADE//HEART, available here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?

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Another new book review written by Lisa Cole about the newest 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary!

Here’s a piece of the review - a tribute to a sister, a trip backward in time to a childhood of pinky swears, playgrounds, and childhood games. The sisters partake in a lifelong dialog with nature, examining turtle bones, eggshells and pig meat, or watching as “the minnow’s dance cupped/its body silver shimmering/In the dusk of summer evening.

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/paula-carys-sister-blood-and-bone.html

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You can get yourself a copy of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?

OR you can get yourself TWO 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, at a lowered price (choose between "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary and/or "Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora Bloom and/or "RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa Cole) here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/151139145/set-of-two-your-choice-of-two-2013?

blurt (don't worry, poetry stuff appears below and above)

Sometimes I get so frustrated with trying - especially trying to honestly express myself and the way I think/feel and then managing to annoy or offend people and thus be ignored. I'm not aiming to offend anyone or hurt their feelings, but I'm not good at keeping things to myself or keeping my feelings a secret. I prefer to express the way I feel, but then it results in another fuck up. Maybe I should just try to spurt ALL my thoughts/feelings out through poetry and art - and who cares whether other people UNDERSTAND my content or my point of view (and who cares whether hardly anyone reads me - and who cares whether hardly anyone cares). 

I care but sometimes I think I should keep my caring feelings to myself and tone them down and quit caring the way I do. What good does it do?

NEW POETS/ARTISTS - The Social Portrait

The new PoetsArtists is now available; its theme is The Social Portrait.

It offers poems and art by Josh Sebrasky, Ada Muntean, Benjamin Quigley, Jill Riga, and quite a few more - including me and my new poem, "Mirror Test".

You can buy a print or digital version of it - and before deciding if you want to buy anything, you can click 'Read Sample' to see whose work is within it. (You can also click 'Preview' to see small versions of every page).

http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/587862

NEW POETRY PUBLISHED - row row row your boat down down down...

One new poem by me AND two new collaborative poems by Robert Cole and me are now booming in your direction via Black Heart Magazine. No, not blooming. Booming - and swarming - and scalpel-ing. 

Here - http://blackheartmagazine.com/2013/06/19/a-poem-by-juliet-cook-and-two-poems-by-juliet-cook-and-robert-cole/

"You want a special treat? Here’s my hot pink blender.
If you turn it on high, you’ll make the eyeballs splatter"

I'm a Full-length Book Contest Finalist

Congratulations to Ayshia Stephenson - and it is nice to have my manuscript be among the Finalists in the Imaginary Friend Press full-length book contest.

Last year I was a Semi-Finalist in the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize - and now this year I am a Finalist for Imaginary Friend Press - so hopefully that means something good is heading my way. 

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Imaginary Friend Press is happy to announce that Ayshia Stephenson’s book black hands of a morning calm is the winner of our first ever full length book contest. We received over one hundred entries and we’re amazed at how difficult they made this decision.

Here is a list of finalists to be on the look out for in the future (in no particular order):
Jeff Oaks Little What
Anna King Twilight at the Aegean
Rachelle Cruz The Aswang’s Particular Thirst
Juliet Cook Malformed Confetti
Susana Case Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Copper
Adam Deutsch Manual
Tim Staley Lost on My Own Street
Theodosia Henney Remarkable Deaths of Flying Fish
Risa Denenberg Things Go Missing
Danielle Badra Static: A Dialogue With the Dead
Lawrence Eby The Flight of August
Justin Bond There are Wolves Out in the Forest
Letricia Trent Match Cut

Look for black hands of a morning calm coming this fall/winter from IFP.

lots of pending poetry/art portals

"I don't think poetry can be "found" by picking up a rock or a dead bird off the ground and simply calling it poetry and that's IT - but I do think poetry/art can be unexpectedly yet significantly inspired by such findings. For me, something about the visual imagery of bird fetuses and the thoughts then provoked in my mind can stimulate poetry/art. Same with other sorts of small things that many people would overlook and/or would find unworthy of much consideration and/or would find grossly unappealing. The tendency to ignore things like that makes me wonder WHY. Is it because of being easily grossed out? Is it because small odd things are inconsequential to the mainstream? Is it because of fear of death, fear of demise, fear of being crushed by something larger, fear of non-existence?"

A snippet from an interview with me (about dead birds, art, poetry, publishing and more), which appears within the new issue of Sein und Werden, here - 

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/index.html

The interview also brings up my recent collaborative work with Robert Cole – and a collaborative poem by the two of us, “Churning Codex Portal”, appears in this issue of Sein as well.

“Churning Codex Portal” is a poem from our collaborative chapbook, “Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm”, chosen to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014.

A few more poems from that chapbook are soon to appear online within “Black Heart Magazine” and “Menacing Hedge” (via which you will be able to hear us read some of the poems too).

Also  a new individual poem by me is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait). 

Dark of the Male, Light of the Female:Women Writing About Horrible Things

A few photos from my first ever poetry reading in Chicago, June 1st - as part of the Dark of the Male, Light of the Female:Women Writing About Horrible Things Series - at Uncharted Books.

Other readers were Virginia Smith, Lana Rackhman, Meghan Lamb, and Kristy Bowen.

 (P.S. I've done quite a few poetry readings in Ohio, over the years - plus some in Pennsylvania - plus one in Alabama...but this was my first in Chicago.)

ART MODE VERSUS MODEL MODE

When I get into one of my modes of too much focus on my looks and discomfort with the physical aging process, I should focus more on unique ART being hotter than bodies. Not that body types aren't appealing in their own way, but why should I care about some standard model flow? I should care much more about warped ART flow, like the creations of Louise Bourgeois, whose art based visual creations are oddly powerful in their own unique way - and who was still creating new strong, powerful art when she was in her 80s. Based on that, I'm only halfway there and need to stop focusing on my middle-aged, looks-based bullshit. Instead of wishing I looked younger, I should be wishing I looked weirder, more misshapen, more multicolored, more wired into poetry land and visual ART. Screw the mainstream success sort of model hotness and its semi-clichéd standardized parameters.