NEW! Octopus Review #8 includes two of my poems!

When I was a little girl,

my grandma made witch finger shapes

with pierogie dough. She knew

I would turn into a witch with entrails

stuck between dirty fingernails.

My nose keeps growing more and more witchy

and I can't tell if this is sorcery or another ugly sign 

of aging.  It is hard to believe that anyone really wants

to handle these spells. That anyone really wants all of me.

Delighted to have a few poems of mine appearing in Octopus Review #8!  - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-octopus-review-8.html?fbclid=IwAR08uim76Ha3FGzhy-uPFlb8PM95EAfo_QAxACHjcL88MVdfBDd4k_Ng53U

My two poems within Octopus Review #8 also appear within my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", available in its entire creepy little hand-designed print chapbook incarnation, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW in Octopus Review #7 - some of my art!

Delighted to have some art up in the new Octopus Review #7, along with art by Chandra Alderman, poetry by Pris Campbell, Matt Borczon, and Jennifer Behling and more! Thank you very much to Vin Whitman for creating another new Octopus!

https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/04/octopus-review-7.html?fbclid=IwAR12nwfkHvtaWjlyGh6hZph_xXWo4cj9aqnMrKRZwUPrQbt5uCTnmepSbKM

NEW! Two of my poems in The Octopus Review #5!

The Octopus Review #5 has arrived and I'm delighted to have two poems inside! The issue begins with my little "Pisscake" poem - and then my longer poem, "To Serve and Protect (Out of Order)" appears further down among the different shaped Octopus arms and hearts and other parts.

Thank you very much to editor Vin Whitman for placing me inside this Octopus!

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"Apply some trendy cupcake frosting over my bleeding lips
and spew it out.  Batter up,
splatter down, (be)rate

someone else's cupcake color, size and shape and then

piss all over another face."

inside my poem "Pisscake"

read more HERE - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-octopus-review-5-summer-18.html

NEW in the Octopus Review - two poems by Juliet Cook surrounded by other poems and art

"They can choose to interpret themselves.

They can interpret me their own way too, but

they can't tone me down or tidy me up.

So what if I am the opposite

of their dream?"

from my poem "Not a Member of Your Snake Handling Church Organ", appearing alongside other poems and art inside The Octopus Review #3

Excited to be a small part of this Octopus.
HERE - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-octopus-review-3-winter-2018.html