Me and my doom bunny holding my CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR!

Me and my doom bunny holding my CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR.

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"Try this pill until you run out of power.

Let your body and brain get used

to this manufacturer's version of this pill,

and then you will be switched to another

like your brain is just a light switch

like your brain is just a plug

like your brain is just a hole in the wall

hotel room with a bath tub that doesn't work anymore.

So you either die underwater or else

you'll have to handle new pill side effects again

and again and again and again and again.

Sometimes I feel like I'm on a bad dream carousel,

moving in rickety circles, taking turns

sitting on different unnatural broken animals."

in the poem "INDUSTRIAL CAROUSEL" in my new poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR, published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023.

get it HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

or get it HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Contorted-Doom-Conveyor-Gutter-Books/dp/B0C6W7C2HV/?fbclid=IwAR3KE6QSri7SdVZ9EvZet0EuUhju862Ju9jlnhpWqUiPlZ8tSi7Qce0z0TE

or please feel free to let me know if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from me...

My copies of CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR have arrived!

I received my author copies of my latest poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (Gutter Snob Books) in the mail!

I also received some preordered copies to sign and send back to the publisher!

Those interested who haven't yet acquired a copy can acquire a copy here (they'll be shipping out next month, July 2023) - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or if you'd like to acquire one directly from me, that's a possibility too. Just let me know. It costs $13 plus $3.95 shipping for a total of $16.95. 

A new blurb by Lennart Lundh of my poetry chapbook "CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" (Now available for pre-order)

A new blurb by Lennart Lundh of my poetry chapbook "CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR", forthcoming in July from Gutter Snob Books and available for preorder now. Reserve your copy HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

my red flames burning out is now available HERE...

I have now added my new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" (published by Grey Book Press in April 2023) into my own Blood Pudding Press shop, in case anyone wants to purchase it in conjunction with a Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

Of course it is also still available from the publisher, Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

NEW! Three new poems are making an appearance in the Spring 2023 Issue of Misfit Magazine!

"Some blood is the color of canned cranberry sauce;
other blood is darker inside
and keeps on growing into its own color."

(the beginning of my poem "Thirteen Mice")

I am delighted to have three poems included in the NEW Issue No. 36, Spring 2023 of the fabulous Misfit Magazine!

Two new individual poems by me and one collaboration by j/j hastain and me!

Thank you very much to editor Alan Catlin and all the other poets involved!

Part of Catlin's Introduction to Misfit 36 - "To combat this free form absurdity, malaise, dread, etc. is why we write and read poetry. We have a wide, eclectic range of poets representing all kinds of diversity in voice, tone, and intent. There are the deeply personal poetry of sexual assault to the wildly experimental of Cook and hastain with a little bit of everything else in between."

A link to my and j/j's poems - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-36/Cook.html

A new flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here! Happy Poetry Month!

It's been a little while since a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived, but now it is finally HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

The second of this year!

Happy Poetry Month! https://13myna.blogspot.com/

New poetry by Gale Acuff, F.J. Bergmann, Terry Trowbridge, E. Martin Pedersen, Beret LaBrecque, Michael Grover, Daniel Snethen, David Henson, Mike Hackney, and John Grey!

"they'll all go to Heaven when they croak but I'll go to Hell, at least I'll be special in some way - the black wings of the newborns are torn so they cannot fly - in the flower garden of goodbyes - Lurking toxins accumulating, molecule by molecule, invisible doom seeping up - grisly, no pretty words just drops of blood - as she stands before me in her bloodied apron - Fingernails cut scars across our innocence - A statue shows us frozen in agony - Straining to escape our fate - Now we're all still alive but already I'm alone and it doesn't matter where - drive me toward the pit of flaming oil - the signals of risk, like a nocturnal animal seen fearless and staggering at noon - See the battles going on around them - I mean, so much blood students smear it on themselves - the poor cat who got mauled trying to sneak her way past - Would you think you knew me better if you could see my past and future? - I have not been terrified of dying in a long time - But I am terrified of how numb I am to the idea of dying - Solipsism incarnated in balloons - sleeping with rats on the Commons - I find myself astride Envy and change horses in midstream..."

Read the new flock HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Me holding a copy of the new poetry anthology "Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink"!

Me holding a copy of "Writing the Self-Elegy - The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink", edited by Kara Dorris (published by Southern Illinois University Press).

This is a poetry anthology, featuring more than 25 different poets, offering poems, short essays, and writing prompts.

I am delighted to be included, with three poems ("Deadly Doll Head Dissection" - "Self Portrait as a Slab on a Slab" - "Un-sided Self Portrait"), my essay ("Broken Doll Hands that had to Grow New Fingers") and my writing prompt ("Try It Yourself(ie): Word Control").

I am delighted to be in the company of many other wonderful and amazing and unique poets (and their poems, essays, writing prompts).

You can find out more and/or purchase a copy for yourself (or possibly for your classroom if you're a writing or English teacher) here - http://siupress.siu.edu/books/978-0-8093-3906-8

Here is a snippet from a back cover blurb by Petra Kuppers - "They also invite you into their fold: each poet offers prompts to the reader, as well as essayistic thoughts, de-mystifying and re-mystifying these acts of (inter)corporeal magic."

NEW! My poem From Hormone Imbalance to Death is newly appearing in Scapegoat Review, Spring 2023

"Sometimes we learn the hard way

that some mice will eat their own babies
like sadistic cannibals, leaving nothing but half a body
attached to a head that will always live inside mine."

in my poem From Hormone Imbalance to Death, newly appearing within the new SCAPEGOAT REVIEW SPRING 2023

read more HERE - https://www.scapegoatreview.org/spring-2023/juliet-cook

NEW! Two creepy collaborative poems by me and Darryl Shupe in DIAGRAM 23.1!

"Spiraling down doom ribbons
hide inside this cart's cotton candy,
aiming to invade your cavities."


Delighted to share that me and Darryl Shupe have two collaborative poems making a freakish little appearance in DIAGRAM 23.1!

"EVERYBODY IS A LOSER HERE!" and "SUGAR WATER AND GREASE FIRE"!

read more HERE - http://thediagram.com/23_1/cookshupe.html

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Furthermore, you can read fifteen more of these creepy fair(y) tail poems inside our collaborative poetry chapbook entitled Short Poems of Violence and Chickens, published by Blood Pudding Press, available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1321276974/new-short-poems-of-violence-and-chickens

NEW! "Writing the Self-Elegy, The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink" will be coming to life in APRIL

Update: Now this poetry anthologies release date is the end of April (poetry month ) - it is currently available for preorder - AND when preordering, you can use the discount code SIUP20 and get 20% off!

I'm in the process of and really enjoying reading this book. The book doesn't technically exist in print until May, but since I have a couple poems in it, I received an online proof a while back, to double check my poems and I've been reading the other poems in there too and really loving a lot of them.

It's called "Writing the Self-Elegy, The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink", edited by Kara Dorris, includes work by 28 poets, and the poets offer poetry, an "essay" (interpreted various different ways), and a writing prompt.

I'm very excited to be included in this book, even more excited about reading all the other contributions, and will be even more excited when the book comes to life in print in May.

You can find out more about it here and even buy one if you want. 

http://siupress.siu.edu/books/978-0-8093-3906-8

NEW! My poem "When You Try to Make Something Sad Look Pretty" is included in Of Rust and Glass's new SCARS issue!

"You are the pallbearer wearing high heels

even though you never cared very much
for high heels. They are now sewn on
to the bottom of your feet.
Unable to be removed

from the unwanted, you wobble haphazardly"

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Delighted to have my poem "When You Try to Make Something Sad Look Pretty" included in Of Rust and Glass's SCARS issue!

If you visit this link, you can click on the cover to see/read the full issue - or you can scroll down a bit and specifically click on A Word from the Editor, Artwork, Poetry, or Prose - and if you want to, you can purchase a print copy too!

https://ofrustandglass.com/no-11-scars/

My poetry chapbook manuscript, "red flames burning out" has been accepted by Grey Book Press!

I am delighted to announce that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "red flames burning out" was selected as one of three chapbooks to be published by Grey Book Press this year!

And congratulations to the other two writers whose chapbooks were also selected, Jessica Purdy and Karen Kilcup!

"First up, this Spring, will be GBP veteran and horror-poetry-queen Juliet Cook, followed by Jessica Purdy and Karen Kilcup. We’ll have more details on release dates next month."

You can read more from Grey Book Press editor Scott Sweeney on the Grey Book Press site here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/01/21/january-2023-update-selections-edition/

(I'm a Grey Book Press veteran because they published my poetry chapbook "Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop" 10 years ago, which does not feel like 10 years ago, but was. I'm very excited to have another chapbook being published by them this year!)

Me ten years ago, January 2013, holding a copy of my Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop chapbook, published by Grey Book Press