NEW in Red Fez Issue 107 - Loch Ness in My Locket by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"trying to find something,

someone
who can handle me.
Someone who doesn't hate me
for all my past deaths, all my
heartaches and the depth
of strange sea creatures
that can glow in the dark."

from a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, "Loch Ness in My Locket".

Delighted to have this piece appearing inside the NEW December Issue 107 of Red Fez, HERE - https://www.redfez.net/poetry/deaths-loch-ness-in-my-locket-2621

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 Poetry

more HERE - https://picaroonpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/picaroon-poetry-issue-11-november-2017/

NEW in Philosophical Idiot! - Dementia Is a Raptor

"She keeps on screeching out her own bad apple,
hacking it out of a cockatoo mouth and then

it grows into a high-pitched velociraptor

diving in for the next attack."

from my poem "Dementia is a Raptor", up at Philosophical Idiot today

More here - https://www.philosophicalidiot.com/julietcookpoetry2

New FLAPPERHOUSE #15 and Happy Fall!

Happy Fall!

"That devilish little minx known as FLAPPERHOUSE #15 is finally ready to spread its leathery wings & fly into the darkest abysses of your minds..."

This new Fall 2017 addition includes two collaborative poems by Michael Bernstein and me, along with lots of other oddities that I look forward to partaking of soon.

HERE - https://flapperhouse.com/zine/15-fall-2017/

Poetry reading photos

At the Underground Lit Fest, in Michigan City, Indiana - me reading poetry at the Speakeasy @ Artspace, the evening of August 5, 2017.

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Four of My Poems!

"...He grows increasingly drunk and angry.

He screams at the TV and sticks up for Hitler.

He yells at your twenty pound dog. You carry the shaking

pup upstairs and let the man keep screaming out hostility.

At least he's not screaming at you.

You go back down for some water or to fix yourself

another vodka & coke, to tone your nerves and convince yourself

this is all normal. It isn't. It's all your fault. 
He comes into the kitchen and glares at you, 

raises his hand above your head like he's threatening

to punch you in the face. He punches

the cupboard above your head, breaks another hole."

from the poem "Your Fault", one of four of my poems appearing within Rag Queen Periodical, preceded by a lovely cicada.

Thank you very much to the Rag Queen team.

If so inclined, read more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/07/21/Four-New-Poems-by-Juliet-Cook

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Trap

"I don’t want to be a body stared at
and held down and screamed at
and told what my body does or doesn’t deserve."

from my poem "Trap", now up at The Rising Phoenix Review

read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/06/29/trap-by-juliet-cook/

NEW in FLAPPERHOUSE #13 and NEW in Concrete Meat Press Recommends

"NOT PART OF A PRIZE
fighting game.
Not part of a dog
fighting blood bath
that ends in death. But essentially
part of what it is that keeps
the world apart from itself."

from the collaborative poem "Never Be Stuck" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, that was published in FLAPPERHOUSE #13 and now appears on the FLAPPERHOUSE website HERE:
https://flapperhouse.com/2017/05/22/never-be-stuck-poetry-by-jj-hastain-juliet-cook/

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ALSO, a poem by Juliet Cook, surrounded by other poems, newly appears at Concrete Meat Press Recommends HERE: 

http://adrianmanning.wixsite.com/concretemeatpress/concrete-meat-press-recommends

This Friday May 12 - Take the Knight Off! Poetry & Creative Showcase

NEW in Red Fez - "Broken"

"Maybe a small ghost

had been attempting

to burst itself out of

that broken down brain egg

and float up and away."

from my poem "Broken" in Red Fez Issue 99

more HERE - https://www.redfez.net/poetry/suicide-broken-2503

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Not a Baby Doll

"I growl through another nightmare in the bathtub.
I give birth to more fetal flesh
then use it like shampoo for a witch."

the beginning of my poem "Not a Baby Doll", now up at Rag Queen Periodical (my third and final Not a Baby Doll poem, for now...)

https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/03/24/Not-a-Baby-Doll

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - "This Body is a Blooming Corpse Flower"

"My womb is just a crawlspace
filled with little fake dick
and harry discharge instructions.

I walk around in circles, hissing
backwards soprano pick up lines
and watch the blood drip down

out of my lips, flooding another room
into a corpse vat. The shape of my mouth
was contorted, he used to tell me."

from my poem, "This Body is a Blooming Corpse Flower", now up at The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/03/10/this-body-is-a-blooming-corpse-flower-by-juliet-cook/

I'm #13 in the Singles Club of Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records!

"Nobody can enjoy me in these fits
and starts. Stars filled with teeth
broken from the molars. Blood in between."

Delighted to be #13 in the Singles Club of Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records!

Listen to me read two of my poems - "We Want Out" and "Bookmarks Stuck Inside Cracked Columns". :)

Both poems have holes in them - and the three lines at the top are from "Bookmarks..." 

https://lostlonggoneforgottenrecords.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/juliet-cook-we-want-out/

NEW in Riot Felice - FIVE of my poems!!!!!

"When my computer crashed, I thought I had lost so many details of myself
or at least seven years worth of me
stored on the computer he had bought me
and let me keep when our relationship died.

When my hard drive was restored, I found out I hadn’t lost
his rampant collection of hardcore porn videos
including woman after woman sucking dog dick."

(from my poem "Abuse")

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I have 5 poems up at riot felice!

"Dark Purple Spread Shot", "Abuse", "Falling", "Root Rot" and "Dancing By Myself"!

 Lots of other poem-y stuff too!

HERE - https://riotfelice.com/2017/01/12/juliet-cook-poems/

NEW Winter 2017 Edition of Menacing Hedge, including three of my poems!

Very darkly deliciously delighted and excited to have three of my poems included within the NEW Winter 2017 Edition of Menacing Hedge! 

The fabulous cover art for this issue was created by Susan Yount.

Thank you for the creative powers of Kelly Boyker Guillemette, Gio Guillemette, Amanda Gowin, Kiara McMorris, and Menacing Hedge.

The issue - http://www.menacinghedge.com/?edition=winter2017

My poems - http://www.menacinghedge.com/winter2017/entry-cook.php

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I was black circles

and dark painted nails.

I kept my rough drafts concealed,

even though they outnumbered the polished lines.

I secretly admired her raw exposures, 
her giggling glimmers, her fluttering fingers,
the pages of works in progress, 
ripped out fast, splayed all over the room.

(a small sampling from my poem, "Pumpkin Gut Grave") 

NEW in Rogue Agent Issue 22 (Happy New Year!)

"My long letters ruin friendships.
It doesn't matter whether they're overly positive
or overly negative or a juxtaposition of both."

from my poem "IT DOESN'T MATTER", in the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

Happy to start the New Year by having a poem published, surrounded by other poems, inside the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2