New in Stitches

Blood Pudding Press poet and art creature, Lisa M. Cole and I have a small art-oriented interview appearing on page 37 of the new Stitches. 

The artsy image near the top of that page is a photo of the art piece I created and used upon the cover design of Lisa Cole's contest winning 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "RENEGADE//HEART".

http://www.stitches-digital.com/publication/frame.php?i=242834&p=38

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After you partake of the Stitches, you might want to take a look at and get yourself a copy of RENEGADE//HEART, within the Blood Pudding Press shop here 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-2013-blood?ref=shop_home_active_2

(Psst. Plus, there are various pieces of my painting/collage art hybrid creatures available in the Blood Pudding Press shop too.)

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ALSO, stay tuned for the results of this year's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook contest, coming soon!

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

Both sides of the back/front cover of the new MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM poetry chapbook, a collaboration by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, published January 2015, by Hyacinth Girl Press.

Cover art by Christen Baer. 

Get yourself a copy here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

First New Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2015!

The first new Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2015 is alive (and almost dead at the same time). It's a sad and scary, somewhat real, somewhat haunted hybrid creature of human to non human horror. Poems (and a flash fiction piece) by Sarah Lilius, Tracie Morell, Alexis Fancher, Charles Cicirella, Gwendolyn Kiste, and John Grey are all here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

"When is a promise like a bayonet? - A throb of walls - her smooth slit floats in the fluid - pricking my neck - Streams of scarlet seeped into the snow - a grumbling engine load - melting broken crayons - We make our own beds, and then we lie in them or we don’t - The moon is a tombstone."

Poetry Life Force! More January Poetry News!

Despite some distressing and unexpected and difficult to deal with and mentally challenging glitches going on, I am still working on poetry stuff and feeling good about that.

Finished preparing a rather large assortment of chapbooks for mailing, reading submissions for Thirteen Myna Birds and Blood Pudding Press (although admittedly a little behind where I'd like to be, but I am still working on it), and excited to have years worth of my poetry be part of the Crisis Chronicles Press 2015 line up later this year (my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!)!! and to have one of my short poems be positioned next to a unique artsy drawing (and other poems and other drawings), in ANTENNAE THE ANTENNAE, new from Green Panda Press!

Plus a new Winter issue of Menacing Hedge just went live and includes some individual poems by me, as well as some collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me, here - http://www.menacinghedge.com/winter2015/

Plus my new collaborative chapbook with Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, with awesome cover art by Christen Baer, is now available from Hyacinth Girl Press, and I'll bet I'll be getting my copies in the mail soon.

If it wasn't for the delights of poetry and art, I'm pretty sure I'd go bonkers (in a non-poetic way) - but lucky for me, that will never happen (unless some non-poet creature eats out my brain).

Snippet from MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purple..." 
in MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

the new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole, now available from Hyacinth Girl Press, here - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

(see more details, if you dare, in the blog post below this one) 

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM! A new collaborative poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, January 2015)

Very excited and creepily delighted to announce a new collaborative poetry chapbook by me and Robert Cole, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, freshly published and now available from Hyacinth Girl Press!

The twisted mutant innards of this creature are a peculiar fit for an utterly unique and creative and somewhat disturbing New Year!

The hideously awesome cover art was created by Christen Baer and offers different art on the front AND the back!

Below are a few poem lines from the MUTANT and below that is a book blurb by Laura Madeline Wiseman.

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"Necroplasm flows in a cemetery conduit
leading to a cave dead with purple

where the light at the end of the tunnel
is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.

He/she/it can no longer speak for itself,
but the semi-rigamortised mouth spews out
unexpected pitcher plants, partially digested."

some lines from the poem "Churning Codex Portal"

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"Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm swarms with unexpected delights for the sybil nymph, the cryogenic witch, the blue goddess and more. Here the body with its twisted wings, heart strings, and sticky salivary gland salutations, is a body that knows Nobody can touch us anymore and nobody can save us. Whose body you wonder? Are they Human? Truth is, as Cook and Cole explain, You decide. How do you decide? You enter with the collaborating pair into an incomplete metamorphosis where you’re commanded DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T stop DON’T you dare! and told homeless men walk around with sporks. So sit back and allow Cole and Cook to place the napkin just so, for Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm purrs with language play, with surprising imagery, and with an attention to sound that will razzle dazzle the neurons in this thrilling new collaborative chapbook."

- Laura Madeline Wiseman

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Get yourself a copy from Hyacinth Girl Press here! - http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html

NEW Poetry in POUCH! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! The new POUCH has two of my poems in it and lots of others too! - http://pouchmag.com/issue1.html 

My first publication of 2015 on the first day of 2015.  :)