Best of 2014 (in the Literary World)

Up The Staircase Quarterly has published TEN DIFFERENT LISTS BY TEN DIFFERENT WRITERS/EDITORS about THE BEST OF 2014 in the literary landscape. 

My list might be a tad long for a list and maybe a tad overly personal, but...

Thank you to everyone/everything on my list for helping 2014 ooze with creativity.

http://www.upthestaircase.org/best-of-2014.html

Day Three of They Talk About Death Featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

"... How many times
have your azure eyes laid their
stare on them, cussing lines at the
world? The poet’s table is coarse, set with
bowls of steaming ink, with forked tongues
feeding on Truth, and visionary imagination."

from today's shared poem, "Rimbaud’s Spoon and Fork" by Alessandra Bava.

from day THREE (Xmas Eve!) of Alessandra Bava's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, They Talk about Death, being featured at the Wardrobe's Best Dressed!

Read more here - http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/12/24/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death-3/

Procure Bava's whole chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Happy Creative Xmas/Artmas/Poetmas!

New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

Cook has created a manic blur of a speaker, a ghost of a woman who sees herself in the assumed reflections of some common and somewhat catastrophic objects.  In "Head Twists" we see the first of these reflections as being a "headless manikin."  The speaker is looking at herself in such an image, pondering if such a headless "manikin might be more level headed than the current twisting me." 

from the beginning of a new review of Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook, RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014), by AJ Huffman at Sein und Werden

read the rest here - 

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/red_demolition.html

buy the chapbook from Shirt Pocket Press here - 

http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

or from Blood Pudding Press here -

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW! My Poem in A Fistful of Razors!

"While drinking a Bloody Mary, I think I almost died.
Is that puke, blood, or did I just spill
my glass before I passed out?
All I know is when I woke up,
the whole floor was covered in red
and I was alive again, but forever haunted."

from my poem, "Why I Dye My Hair Red", which appears in A Fistful of Razors (10 Poets)

read more here - http://wishpoetrypress.com/…/…/a-fistful-of-razors-10-poets/

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This poem of mine also lives in my latest chapbook, RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014) and you can get a copy from my etsy shop here -

https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014 ref=shop_home_active_3

Or directly from the press that published it here - 

http://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

New Review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press, 2014)

An amazing new review of "House on Fire", Susan Yount's 2014 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, thank you to AJ Huffman and Sein und Werden!

In the poem, "Sissy," we see a portrait of futility:  a little girl holding a dead goat; a sister pretending to get help--"to call the vet"; the little girl refusing to give up as she "Breathes into him/as hard as she can."  This poem eloquently defines the perpetual cycle of abuse that, more finitely, rears its head in later poems.  The cycle of devastation, of pretending, of wishing maybe it isn't true, of hoping that if we believe and if we pretend and if we continue it will suddenly be something else, come back to life, when all the time we know such devastation is final, is death.

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW by A J Huffman here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/yount.html

Then buy the book here: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Knightmares of Poetry!

Me reading at the Lava Lounge, October 25 (as part of the Knightmares IV: Writing Knights Press poetry reading - and as part of LevyFest). 

Reading from my latest chapbook - RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014) - available for perusal and/or purchase here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-new-2014?ref=shop_home_active_3

Happy Halloween from Thirteen Myna Birds!

The new Halloween addition of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived to surge into your brain!

The new flock offers creepy, haunted, disconcerting innards by Hannah E. Phinney, Joris Soeding, Madelyn Falk, Paul Tristram, Changming Yuan, Daniel Snethen, Charles Cicirella, and Michael Farkas here! - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

the worms rolling through the gravel - crawled through with demons - stomach punched in - blood of the chicken falls on a wooden box - after cutting out my tongue - you have chopped off every head - blood rose from the nail bed - a man’s arms and legs shudder - a wheel derail - brains extracted - cremated so I don’t feel trapped underground like a zombie

Blood Pudding Press's 2014 poetry chapbook, House on Fire by Susan Yount, at The Wardrobe this week! (Day Four)

Day FOUR of Susan Yount's "House on Fire" (2014 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook) being featured at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed! -http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire-4/

"She was not a scrawny snot nose
snottier than her scrawniest calf.
She was not alive during the famine –
not a mime, not a lesbian nor a riding horse at the county fair.
She was not a split-die operator, a sweetheart
or server at the Sheep Shed."

Buy yourself (or a poet friend) a copy of this chapbook here! Do it do it do it! - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_2

Another New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

"If Juliet Cook is the wicked queen of all things dead, undead and twisted —which, OMG, she is— she most certainly is a master at writing chapbooks!"

From a new review by Susan Yount of my newest poetry chapbook,  RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014). 

Read the rest here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1056795018?fb_action_ids=10152730312202458&fb_action_types=og.likes

NEW August Thirteen Myna Birds - "black in a cluster of stars"

Partake of the NEW August issue of Thirteen Myna Birds - offering eight poems by Ariana D. Den Bleyker followed with oodles of poetry by Farkas, Jessie Janeshek, Samantha Duncan, and Paul Tristram!

"simmering in the spaces between your teeth - untouchable to angels - pretty tides flitter in lick - swollen, gauzy things - wet the ghostly fingers - globe over her shoulders - eye hole of coyote skull - like a cracked plate - A scream in these woods! - The first red and yellow tree installed in the bush - is or is not supposed to belong - I want to be black in a cluster of stars."

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Blood Pudding Press Poetry and Art COMBO PACK

Art AND Poetry Combo Pack - One of a Kind Mini Canvas Painting Collage Hybrid Creature combined with the new They Talk About Death poetry chapbook by Alessandra Bava, $11.00

here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/197979395/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?

More July Poetry News!

Partake of this new interview, about collaborative poetry and more, by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole, conducted by Pretty Owl Poetry here: - http://prettyowlpoetry.com/interviews/juliet-cook-robert-cole/

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Then you can read one of Robert and Juliet’s collaborative poems (“Superorbital Dive”) AND a collaborative poem by Juliet and j/j hastain (“Scares and Scores”) at the NEW Dressing Room Poetry (Issue Eight) here - http://www.dressingroompoetryjournal.com/issue-eight.html

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And in case you missed it a few days ago, find out about the newly available Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, “They Talk About Death” by Alessandra Bava, in the blog post below this one and/or at the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195585261/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?

Late June Delightful Poetry News

Utterly delighted that my poetry has been published in two different awesome places in two days – Diode 7.2 went live this past Sunday and includes one individual poem by me. ILK Journal oozed out its fourteenth innards Monday and includes two collaborative poems by me and j/j hastain.

Diode - http://www.diodepoetry.com/v7n2/index.html

ILK - http://ilkjournal.com/journal/issue-fourteen/

I am also currently in the process of working on a new collaborative poetry interview, assembling a new collaborative poetry chapbook to submit, and working on the next Blood Pudding Press chapbook, among other things.

I'm a little bit behind with reading Thirteen Myna Birds submissions, reading things other than lit mags and submissions, and emailing my friends (and writing new poems, and revising old poems, and submitting).

However, having poems in Diode and ILK outweighs the behind-ness.

And stay tuned for news about the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook coming soon – They Talk About Death by Alessandra Bava.

Another New Review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press 2014)

"The implications are loaded as we read on to find out what happens to the poet and her father. If you read the other poems in this collection you will learn why she is hiding in the woods and the hunt will leave your heart pounding for her. While we wonder about the true ending we know the poet survives to tell the tale. 

I cannot do these poems the justice they deserve, they will tug at your core self. If you enjoyed this review, you may purchase a copy of Susan Yount’s House On Fire from Blood Pudding Press for $7.00 at:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_1"

Thank you to Poet Hound for a new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "House on Fire" by Susan Yount; read the rest here and then consider purchasing the chapbook to partake of more:

http://poethound.blogspot.com/2014/04/susan-younts-house-on-fire.html

New in the Mojave River Review

NEW in Mojave River!

The inaugural issue of Mojave River Review is 200+ pages, including two poems by me - "Wax Fangs" and "How Extraordinary Sea Creatures Are Born".

Dive in here -
http://issuu.com/mojaverivermedia/docs/mrr-iss1vol1-draft20/1