My Malformed Confetti has found another new home (in front of Disney Land)!

Kristin Garth received her copy of my poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (published by Crisis Chronicles Press, late 2018) and placed it in front of Disney Land.

I hope she likes her fairy tales, princes, and princesses to be pretty warped (I know she does)...

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"Malformed Confetti", my second individual full-length poetry book, was published by Crisis Chronicles Press in late 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW Dark Particle Press!

What used to be called Cringe-Worthy Poet's Collective has re-branded and changed its name to Dark Particle Press - so now my 2018 poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" is among the Dark Particles.

https://darkparticlepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

A wonderful NEW review of my Malformed Confetti!

"This book of poetry is a language feast. Alliterative, assonant, associative...An aural smorgasbord. "I'm a slab on a slab, a plait on a plate, a poorly shorn lamb on the lam." Verbal slapstick mixed with high seriousness. Poems like acts of dissection exposing the viscera of femininity. Cook has wicked fun lobotomizing and surgically removing the pretty, cute, and adorable from her little dollies, subjects of her macabre ICU"

a part of this awesomely wonderful review by Wayne F Burke of my new-ish poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018)

read his whole review HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1TOPEHI8G2FCD/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=1640929738

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Malformed Confetti has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

I am excited and delighted and very happy to announce that my full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (recently published by Crisis Chronicles Press in October of 2018) has been nominated for an Ohioana Book Award!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs for honoring my book in this way!

Congratulations and best of luck to the other nominees, too!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop (if you would like a hand-signed copy), HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you again to Crisis Chronicles Press!

NEW in Winedrunk Sidewalk:Shipwrecked in Trumpland - "Pepper"

"All he wants to do is destroy
in order to feel like his body is stronger.
He can't control his own body, so he'll control others.
He wants to be the boss of broken body parts."

in my poem, "Pepper", appearing in Winedrunk Sidewalk: Shipwrecked in Trumpland today

more here - https://winedrunksidewalk.blogspot.com/2018/12/day-six-hundred-and-eighty-five.html

"Deadly Doll Dead Dissection" inside my Malformed Confetti and me wearing a doll head

"Deadly doll head dissection. A dolly crematorium, an almost life less
doll. A doll scatterbrained, a doll agitating until it barfs up more awful
doll head gobbledygook. A spitting and hacking doll. Spinning, falling
and flailing inside the doll vomitorium. A dark doll somnambulating and
throwing up"

from the introductory poem creature,"Deadly Doll Head Dissection", which starts off my new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE  - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo of author with doll head

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home!

"...They weren’t anybody else’s
art project.  They were mine.
I poked holes to try to drain them,
but they just bubbled up into more
ghost ignitions. They are mine,

but they don’t come when called.
They come whenever they want to.
When they come I have to balance
rickety dishes of spoiled milk upon
precarious ledges..."

from the poem Parasitic Twin, within my poetry book 'Malformed Confetti'.

this photo was taken by Thursday Simpson, who received a copy of the Malformed Confetti!

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You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Excited to receive a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem within my Malformed Confetti! Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press!

Delighted, excited, and thrilled to receive a new Pushcart Prize nomination from Crisis Chronicles Press for my poem, "assembly line doll head roach hotel", which appears in my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs and congratulations to the other nominees!

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"assembly line doll head roach hotel" was previously published online by ACTION YES (here's a link to the archives with that poem, preceded by another poem, which also happens to appear within my Malformed Confetti book) - http://actionyes.org/issue12/cook/cook1.html

"assembly line doll head roach hotel" also previously appeared in my chapbook, "Fondant Pig Angst", which was published by Slash Pine Press, but is no longer available.

Both of those publications happened 8 or 9 years ago.

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Now the poem appears within my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, which was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press - which includes poems from 2008 -2015 - and which can be acquired via Crisis Chronicles Press, here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

OR via my own Blood Pudding Press, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

MALFORMED CONFETTI beside my own googly eyed doll

"This one is not a still-life, but it might as well be
because I'm trapped inside
this battered bisque pate; these googly eyes
tilted sideways. Stuck off-kilter."

inside my poem "Doll Head Obscenity", inside my new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW in FLAPPERHOUSE - "The Moon Made Out of Bloated Cheese" by j/j hastain and me

"Sometimes I wonder where my voice comes from
and where it will go next.
My stomach keeps gurgling like it wants to be my voice.

I don’t think my stomach can handle American Cheese anymore.
It feels loaded with toxic chemicals."

inside the poem, "The Moon Made Out of Bloated Cheese" by j/j hastain and me, at FLAPPERHOUSE

partake of more HERE - https://flapperhouse.com/2018/11/07/the-moon-made-out-of-bloated-cheese-poetry-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/?fbclid=IwAR1U0X_2D0TPR9msp758M45Rj7bky0jWzKtbpDMWXQVwSjp6ynGOfILQ5xQ

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home!

Peggy Honeydew received her copy of my Malformed Confetti!

Delightfully displayed against sheets brimming with letters and punctuation marks! Photo taken by Peggy Honeydew.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

Malformed Confetti has been added to Juliet Cook's website!

I have now added my new Malformed Confetti to the Juliet's Full-Lengths section of my website, HERE 🖤 - https://julietcook.weebly.com/juliets-full-lengths.html

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found a new home on Halloween!

photo taken by Susan Yount

Susan Yount received two copies of Malformed Confetti today, on Halloween!

Perfectly creepily displayed here next to a skeleton and two pumpkins awaiting their butchering.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Plus what is enough? (a collaborative poem written by Juliet Cook and Charles Cicirella)

Plus what is enough? 

I didn't realize this fruit had fangs
until I bit in and swallowed.
I guess they're technically prickly spines
carved out of someone else's brain.
The x ray tech told me my veins were okay
but they only checked one part of my body.

I mean I can't even organize my own photos,
so let's not talk about the insides
of my screwed up head trying to coalesce
with the insides of someone else's.
Plus which your head can just fuck itself
if you're going to make fun of my other friends.

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The Me Too Movement left me on the sidelines

somewhere between Hell and High-water.

And I’m not okay with that because I have a story

even though I choose not to tell it unless the lights

are out and I’m wearing my favorite pair of jammies.

There’s something to be said for discretionary spending.

I’m so tired of taking the higher ground and listening

to my better angels.

The better devils inside of me are kicking up a tumbleweed

tsunami and refuse to settle for their own Broadway musical.

I’ve listened long enough to the voices inside my head

and am pretty sure they don’t have my best interest at heart.

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Sometimes I think pinking shears live inside my body

and I want to pull them out and cut off some of you guy's dicks.

Sometimes I think there's a lawnmower living inside my body

and I want to yank it out and cut off someone's eggplant shaped head.

In my dream a doll house is filled with tiny chainsaws aiming towards doll eyes.

In my nightmare I am the doll house filled with tiny dolls with chainsaws for mouths.

(you can listen to a reading of this poem on Charles' podcast here - https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/charlespoet/episodes/2018-10-27T10_34_54-07_00)

A NEW mini-review of my NEW poetry book, "Malformed Confetti"!

"All hail the Queen of Grotesque, Juliet Cook! Her imagery is monstrous, distorted and unnatural — an unmistakably unstable mixture of estranged dollcanos and blood."

the beginning of a mini-review (that also appears as a back cover blurb) by the wonderful Susan Yount, of my NEW poetry book, "Malformed Confetti (published by Crisis Chronicles Press,October 2018)

read the rest here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2565048716?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

Copies of my Malformed Confetti!

Copies of my NEW full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, newly published by and available from Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE -https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or if you would like a signed copy directly from the author (me!), send $12 via paypal to Julietcoo@gmail.com along with your address and I shall send one your way!

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

100+ pages of poetry by me.

(Photo taken by Crisis Chronicles Press editor, John Burroughs.)

Malformed Confetti has arrived! (My second individual full-length poetry book, published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018)

My second individual full-length poetry book has finally arrived (well, it will officially arrive next Tuesday), thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press and editor John Burroughs!

100+ pages. Poems by me ranging from 2008-2015. Cover art by Simona Candini. Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole.

Find out more here via the link below - and if you live in the area, consider attending the book launch reading, happening next Tuesday, October 16 (and also linked to below).

Malformed Confetti - by Juliet Cook (CC#102)
https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook 
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/

One Week From Today! Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook!

One week from today,Tuesday October 16 at 7:00 P.M.! In honor of poetry and my new full-length individual poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press! 

https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/

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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, recently including a collaboration with j/j hastain called "Dive Back Down" (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), an individual collection called "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective, 2018), and with another individual collection, "Another Set of Ripped Out Bloody Pig Tails" forthcoming from The Poet's Haven.

Cook's first full-length individual poetry book, “Horrific Confection”, was published by BlazeVOX close to ten years ago. Her more recent full-length poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", is a collaboration with j/j hastain published by Hysterical Books in 2016. Her MOST recent full-length individual poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" soon to be published by Crisis Chronicles Press, is the book on which this reading is based.

​Cook also sometimes creates semi-abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.

Cook also runs her own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, which sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes sells art.

Find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.

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.

Tomorrow, the evening of October 6, at Visible Voice Books in Tremont!

Tomorrow, the evening of October 6, at Visible Voice Books in Tremont!

Mary Biddinger, Diane Kendig, and I will be reading from THEY SAID.

https://www.visiblevoicebooks.com/events/they-said-a-multi-genre-anthology-of-contemporary-collaborative-writing/