At the Greater Cleveland Aquarium, Saturday November 17 (a few photos)

flowers

some flowers my sister gave me for my birthday last month, that lasted into this month 

At the poetry reading for THEY SAID

At the poetry reading for THEY SAID: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (from Black Lawrence Press) with Mary Biddinger, Diane Kendig and Juliet Cook at Visible Voice Books

Saturday October 6, 2018.

a rabbit with its own bed

Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks!

Some Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks recently acquired by the Poetry Barn!
(You can acquire your own copies of these or other Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks from the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress)

(photo taken by Lissa Kiernan)

Bound Art Book & Zine Fair this Friday and Saturday (September 14 and 15)

This Friday and Saturday! I won't be there personally, but some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks will be there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/268243227241420/

We couldn't ride the slightly creepy FUN SLIDE

more creatures at the Lorain County Fair, Saturday August 25

Darryl and I on the Ferris Wheel

Darryl and I on the Ferris Wheel, at the Lorain County Fair, this past Saturday.

A new mini-review of Juliet Cook's seven year old poetry chapbook, "POST-STROKE"

A new mini-review of Juliet Cook's seven year old poetry chapbook, "POST-STROKE":

" This diminutive collection of poems expresses the author's attempts to live with a health issue that greatly affected her life. The words she chooses to express herself are creative and piercing; abstract, yet clear in intention. Frustration, acceptance and dark humor fill the lines that tell the story between the lines. Most affecting for me is the author's attempt to rescue buried memories. Another moving collection from a verbal artist.."

Janie C.

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If you're someone who hasn't yet read this chapbook and would like to, you can read it online HERE - http://www.dusie.org/COOK%20POST%20STROKE.pdf

If you would like your own hand-designed print copy of this chapbook, you can acquire it from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/69547229/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_7

an influx of fish

At Lakeside, Ohio this past weekend (Flowers & Water)

At Lakeside, Ohio this past weekend (Water)

collage art in progress...

At the outside of the museum at OPUS 40 Sculpture Park and Museum

NEW! My poem, "I Am Not Straightforward Movement" appears within Rag Queen Periodical Issue Two

"...how the hell am I supposed to power myself out of my own

repetitive conundrum into some sort of straightforward pathway?

I’d repeatedly crash.  My own darkness would be marooned.

My own limbs would break through a broken mirror, another ex

traction of myself from inside my own curvilinear folds.  

I know I won’t stop folding. I know I won’t sit still inside

someone else’s vehicle while I am still alive."

the end of my poem, "I Am Not Straightforward Movement", appearing in Rag Queen Periodical, Issue Two

read more here - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2018/07/26/1-Poem-by-Juliet-Cook

Juliet Cook reading some poetry!

Me reading at the Writing Knights Grand Showcase, July 28, 2018

Reading poems from my new chapbook,"From One Ruined Human to Another" (CWP Collective Press, 2018)

Available here - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

(photo taken by Darryl Shupe)

Me, mid-July 2018

painting/collage art hybrid creature in progress

Getting closer to finished, but I need to add more darkness to it, I think. Maybe more dark maroon and black. Too many bright colors doesn't feel connected enough to me.

more bird photos

I'm not sure if this is one of the birds who recently left the nest (if it is, they sure grow fast) or another young bird, but it was hanging out in my front yard for a while yesterday.