Re-sharing my Snow Angel Position With Dread poem (which was re-shared by Pinky Thinker Press, who published it in April)!

"On page 27 of Pinky Thinker Press Issue No. 11, you can find “Snow Angel Position With Dread” - a poem by Juliet Cook! Juliet is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, 2023), Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), and Your Mouth is Moving Backwards (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023). She has another new poetry chapbook, REVOLTING, forthcoming from Cul-de-sac of Blood in fall 2024."

Read and look at and watch and listen to more of Pinky Thinker Press No. 11 HERE - https://www.mignolo.art/ptp

A New Review of EVIL ME by MISH (Blood Pudding Press, 2020) - Reviewed by Alex S. Johnson

 A new review of MISH's poetry chapbook, "EVIL ME" (published by Blood Pudding Press in 2020). Reviewed by Alex S. Johnson.

After reading the review, you can find out more and/or acquire your own copy of "EVIL ME" from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/856406887/evil-me-by-mish-2020-blood-pudding-press

"Mish Murphy is an educator and poet, among many other things. Her observations are keen and her lines are wickedly inscribed into the page, bearing the impress of years. She can read French and Russian and negotiate the nuances of Nicolai Gogol, or render judgment on whether Sisyphus should truly be considered happy, while at the same time sitting back with a glass of vodka rocks in one hand and a joint in the other, easing life's cruelties with class, sophistication and a sense of humor that transcends the usual hipster scorn. She has been there and done that. You should keep your eyes peeled for her future products. As for this particular production, it is lovingly hand-crafted by Juliet Cook, trailing tactile eccentricity. I highly recommend encountering Mish's Evil Me. You'll find a lot to admire."

Peculiar Sea Creatures

 

And now I have two more new collaborative poems up at Unlikely Stories, by Daniel Snethen and me - "Paisley Purpled Political Head Rotation" and "Until All Hope Is Gone"!

And now I have two more collaborative poems appearing at Unlikely Stories, by Daniel Snethen and me - "Paisley Purpled Political Head Rotation" and "Until All Hope Is Gone".

"Then chug-a-lug and she turned

frantic. The owls are not what they seem

and soon its hair color will change

into too many cigarettes.

Tenderlings linked together.

Into the whirring factory sound

of a gigantic pez dispenser pumping out

paisley coated candy cigarettes of myriad color

while pathetic pontificating politicians

postulate pointless propaganda."

read more HERE -https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/paisley-purpled-political-head-rotation-and-until-all-hope-is-gone

NEW! I am delighted to have two collaborative poems by me and Alex S. Johnson making an appearance in Unlikely Stories!

"Backtracking vertebrae work their way up

to my broken neck, break through dead skin

turn themselves into even more hair trails

I am becoming the opposite of a celestial body

Implosions morphing into explosions morphing

into internal locomotion, growing giant worms"

Very excited to have two collaborative poems "Momia's Metamorphoses" and "Momia's Mauled Metamorphoses" by Alex S. Johnson and me appearing in Unlikely Stories

Read more here:

https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/momias-metamorphoses-and-momias-mauled-metamorphoses

NEW! I am peculiarly thrilled to have a creepy collaborative clown poem appearing in Horror Sleaze Trash!

"The oldest of the clowns forms the apex of a rotting and sadistic pyramid in which hellbent volcanic ash pours out of the mother clowns mouths like a gravy vat of drying blood."

in Alex S. Johnson and I's creepy collaborative clown poem, "Greasepaint Inferno", which is now making an appearance within Horror Sleaze Trash HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2024/06/29/juliet-cook-and-alex-s-johnson/

NEW! I am delighted to have four collaborative poems appearing in the latest issue of Misfit!

Delighted to have four collaborative poems appearing in the new Issue No. 38, Spring 2024 of Misfit!

Two poems by Daniel G. Snethen and me - and two poems by j/j hastain and me.

You can read them and many more poems HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-38/Cook.html ***
Another implosion of stagnation
leads toward further deterioration.
Metallic trash inside your head
replicates itself and now there are two
of You hiding behind the trash.

But the first You has succumbed
to ferric oxidation of the psyche
and the second You is bent
against following suit and yearns
to become one with a garbage can.

Your mom is a hysterical burn barrel
with complications during delivery.
Her voice either sizzles at You
or takes You out.
in the poem "Retrogradation of You" by Juliet Cook and Daniel Snethen

NEW! I am excited and delighted to have two poems appearing in the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden!

I am excited and delighted to have two haiku poems appearing in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Sein und Werden!

The theme of this issue is To Settle a Score and it's the 20th anniversary issue of this magazine!

Here is one of my two poems, called "VIOLENT DREAD" and if you visit the link to the magazine (below the poem), it appears next to an art piece called "SELF-PORTRAIT (UNDEFINED HORROR)" by Julie Blankenship. I love the poem and art piece next to each other.

***

VIOLENT DREAD

Every bit of depth

shot down into dread. Psycho

babbling brooks with hooks.

If internal angst

internally combusts, eyes

will explode. My head

a human-sized blood

bath of burnt dumplings. Sauced out.

Splattering your plate.

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/page31.html

***

It's hard to believe that this is the 20th anniversary issue of Sein und Werden and that I've had creative work appearing in this literary magazine (on and off) ever since Sein und Werden began. Sein's creator, primary editor, and writer Rachel Kendall and I first got to know each other on xanga (a blog platform that hasn't existed for years). It's hard to keep a literary magazine alive for this long, so cheers to Rachel. This issue also includes some Interviews with Rachel, such as an Interview about The Storied History of Sein und Werden.

I shall stop my babbling for now, but again, I'm delighted to be included in this 20th anniversary issue and will place a link to the whole issue below...

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer24/index.html

Happy June from Blood Pudding Press! Have you seen the new White Octopus chapbook?

Happy first week of June!

Now newly available in my Blood Pudding Press shop (and less than a week old), is the poetry chapbook, "White Octopus" by Davide Nixon!

The first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2024!

12 poems brimming with creepy speculative horror, grotesque creatures, and other peculiarities.

Find out more and acquire a copy in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

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"the old dead house
is finally
getting a rise
out of rain
and pain,
and sarcophagi brain-
a rummaging rodent
through fields,
climbing like corn,
climbing like
spiders on cocaine,
climbing with broken legs"

in the poem "Goodbye in August"

NEW Blood Pudding Press 2024 Poetry Chapbook! WHITE OCTOPUS by Davide Nixon!

"Where has my
heart gone?
Down with the
black seaweed
into the trench-
it is gone."

in the poem "White Octopus"

in the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook,
WHITE OCTOPUS by Davide Nixon!

The first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2024, available in two different cover art options!

Find out more and acquire your copy in the  Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress