Two Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks have found a new home!

Two Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks found a new home, in New Zealand, with poet/writer/performer Andrea Quinlan (photo by Andrea Quinlan).

Acquire your own Blood Pudding Press goodies, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Me designing a chapbook (Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens)

The night before New Year's Eve (Saturday December 30), a photo D. took of me, designing a copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens.

(You can acquire your own copy of "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1 )

New Addition to my Horrific Confection website

The newly available Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, has now been added to my Horrific Confection website.

https://julietcook.weebly.com/blood-pudding-press.html

Paloma is now officially available!

"Were you eaten by zombies / or republicans / Are they still simmering your small bones / Suckling your baby-fat and marrow / They starve-destroy the rest of us / Is your ghost disgusted with the state of things"

from the poem "Ten Pints"

The last Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of late 2017, early 2018 is now officially available!

"Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens!

All pre-ordered copies have now been shipped - the authors copies have been shipped too - and any copies purchased from here on out will be heading your way within 1-3 business days!

Acquire your own copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1

Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens is coming very soon...

"We were sweet bitches / Feminist cunts / before feminism was /

Internet meme and pussy hat protests"

from the poem "1996" inside the chapbook "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, available for pre-order from Blood Pudding Press and coming very soon...
https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

Me reading my poetry at the Cocklebur Press reading at Gathering Volumes on December 7th, 2017

(photo taken by Jenna Kain).

Cocklebur Press Poetry Reading this Thursday December 7!

"Back again!

Open mic signup at 5:30pm. Featured reader goes on at 6pm.

Featured reader is Juliet Cook from Blood Pudding Press.

Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of magazines, including Arsenic Lobster, DIAGRAM, Diode, FLAPPERHOUSE, Menacing Hedge and The Rising Phoenix Review. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, an individual full-length poetry book, a collaborative full-length poetry book, and has another individual full-length poetry book forthcoming. She also sometimes creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com

Open mic to follow."

Click the link below for more information. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1872649509712244/

The Last Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2017!

I am excited to announce that the last flock of Thirteen Myna Birds for 2017 has arrived!

It begins with three teaser piece poems by Jennifer E. Hudgens that also appear in their poetry chapbook, "Paloma", which is now newly available for preorder in the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

It includes oodles of strange, sexy, scary, creepy, wonderful poetry by Darren C. Demaree, Jeff Nazzaro, Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Mark J. Mitchell, Jon Bennett, and John Grey, all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

"How is it life if we aren’t suffering - earlobes stretched and dangling - I have shoveled her into my mouth - We could drink in the Ether together - drowning you in blue shards - strokes of harvest brown into the woe of blackened days - I shun the daylight - The brightness favors illusion - Sometimes it’s spit-out gum or twisted up toilet paper - Drowning in your deep graying heart - a pall of smog - A film of spider web - floating in space like one-eyed cigar-shaped UFOs - It’s true they have secrets they keep in impossible pockets - How many girls did he pretend to love - like children plucking the wings from flies - She squirms because the itch can dance - sailing through space - We must look so confused through the window"

"Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens is now available for PRE-ORDER!

Happy December!

The last Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017 is now available for PRE-ORDER!

Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens includes 14 poems inspired by the poet's friend Lauren Kate, including the poem "Lauren Kate is Dead".

"Tuesday morning /I sluggishly wake up /to find a Facebook message
Lauren Kate is dead / No warning or warm up / I thought I was
dreaming of dead things again..."

The first 10 pre-ordered copies of this chapbook will receive a special addition to the inside back cover - a photo of a mix tape taken by the poet combined with imagery created by Blood Pudding Press combined with a few lines from one of the chapbook's poems.

Find out more here and pre-order your copy!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW in FLAPPERHOUSE online - Drenched Mold by Juliet Cook and Michael Bernstein

"I’m either screaming or I’m crying
or I’m hideously mean.
I’m a female-shaped gumball machine.

You know you can’t wait
to break me open
or throw me out the window.

I turn myself into
a ripped out placenta in the trunk
of the car. I can’t even drive."

inside the "Drenched Mold" by Michael Bernstein and me

read more in FLAPPERHOUSE  - https://flapperhouse.com/2017/11/28/drenched-mold-poetry-by-juliet-cook-michael-bernstein/

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - three collaborative poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook!

"What is an insane asylum anyway?

Is it a brain or is it a building?"

j/j hastain & I have 3 new poems up at Rag Queen Periodical, HERE -

https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/11/27/Three-Poems-by-Juliet-Cook-jj-hastain

NEW Anthology available for Preorder - Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living

Like a Fat Gold Watch: Meditations on Sylvia Plath and Living is now available for Preorder!

I'm very excited to have two poems in this Anthology, coming very soon from Fat Gold Watch Press.

"A collection of a variety of artists, poets, writers, and essayists who respond to Plath with images, poems, essays, short stories, and academic texts. This anthology gathered an embarrassment of riches: men and women from all backgrounds, ethnicities, and sexual orientations; able-bodied, disabled, monolingual, trilingual; writers and artists from around the globe (and nearly) beyond. For some writers, inclusion in the anthology is their first time in print, but others have published well received books and won a host of awards for their writing and images."

See more HERE - https://theplathanthology.com/

NEW in Black Poppy Review - Cheerleader Cop

"Who tries to lock someone else inside her own tiny space
of rights and wrongs and toned down emotions
and tell someone else what their face should look like
while being forced to listen to a popular song
that I told her was not my own style at all?"

Delighted to have a new poem,"Cheerleader Cop" appearing at Black Poppy Review today!

I read this poem for the first time at a poetry reading this past weekend and now you can read it HERE - https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2017/11/cheerleader-cop-by-juliet-cook.html

NEW in tenderness, yea - a new collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook

There's nothing peachy about this pepper pit.
More than half the time, I'm not even sweet."

inside the poem "Splayed Garden Tools" by j/j hastain and me, now up at tenderness, yea

partake of more HERE - https://www.tendernessyea.com/work#/by-juliet-cook-jj-hastain/

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/

Oct Tongue 2 is HERE!

The Oct Tongue 2 collaborative poetry anthology has arrived!  

"Oct Tongue 2 by George Wallace, Lyn Lifshin, Mark Sebastian Jordan, Juliet Cook, Kathleen Cerveny, Dianne Borsenik, Margaret Bashaar and Eric Anderson, published 18 November 2017 by Crisis Chronicles Press.

http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2017/11/Oct2CC096.html

We are pleased to present the long-awaited Oct Tongue 2, our biggest book yet (it's like eight books in one!). See October (and so much more) through the eyes of eight of America’s finest poets.

Each of these eight writers wrote and submitted at least 31 poems in response to editor John Burroughs' October 2014 poem-a-day invitation. Life intervened and it took awhile to get this fine collection into print, but we believe it is well worth the wait. Oct Tongue 2 features 258 poems on 328 pages, and is 6"x9", perfect bound, with cover photo by Peggy Honeydew. It will make you laugh, make you cry, make you angry and make you glad you read it.

The book is available for $15 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 3431 George Avenue, Parma, Ohio 44134 USA.

Please join us for a special book launch event Saturday, November 18, 2017 from 2 to 4 p.m. during Borderlands: Oct Tongue at Main Street Books, 104 N. Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44902."

NEW in Bad Pony - a collaborative poem by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook

"As if aiming without aiming.
As if maiming the grounds
keeper and then piling up the pulp of internal
systems,
dyeing them

then trying to sell them to the highest
bidder on the black market.
This market will collect us all..."

from the poem Peristalsing Pistil, by j/j hastain and me, appearing within the NEW issue of Bad Pony

partake of more HERE - https://www.badponymag.com/november-2017-poetry/2017/10/21/juliet-cook-jj-haistain

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes

"Maybe my poems come out
of the veins of my neck
and one day it will explode.

Sometimes I share too much.
Sometimes I don't share enough,
but doesn't that all depend

upon what one considers
to be the deep end
or the blood bath?

Whether or not they want to
dive all the way into me
and whether or not I'll let them?"

from my poem "Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes", at Rag Queen Periodical today

partake of more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/11/13/St-Juliet-with-Starry-Eyes-by-Juliet-Cook

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Breast Meat

"We do our best to stand out
as chickens. We cluck and we pluck and we pop
another egg. We paint it, try to make it
look new and exciting, but it leaks."

from my poem "Breast Meat"

NEW in the The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/11/12/breast-meat-by-juliet-cook/