Lit Cleveland 2020 Celebration of Writers - Poetry AND links to some 2020 poetry chapbooks

My 2020 poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" (Ethel) appears on this list of Lit Cleveland 2020 Celebration of Writers - Poetry.

Thank you to Lit Cleveland.
https://www.litcleveland.org/post/2020-celebration-of-writers-poetry?fbclid=IwAR3BGK3iyv_xL94GJ9hJJT6_3qRMHn7SHN_bOG7yieRtg0A42tXWlunFcD4 *** If interested in finding out a bit more about this chapbook and maybe even acquiring a copy for yourself or a friend, you can do so via Ethel HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes OR via my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_4 *** Another 2020 poetry collection of mine you can check out for free online (or offer a small donation if so inclined) is my micro-chapbook, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City", published by the 2020 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series HERE - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city?fbclid=IwAR3lDG5A_L11_0v_-3T9Uvl4GX2u2mClInnLFcXfcBk4nFwv7LaO1IB4xRU

Ethel Volume 6 is now available online and includes my poem, "Red Glass Ceiling"

"And you need to bleed out the madness screaming inside you.
Feel it drip and drip and drip into a wine glass. Fill yourself
back up, temporarily. You think you're always a work in progress,
attempting to raise yourself up to the top of the ceiling.

And then crash down."

part of my poem, "Red Glass Ceiling", which appears in Ethel Volume 6, which you can now read all of online, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com

Talking Poetics #34 : Juliet Cook (a new interview with me about poetry)!

 A Talking Poetics interview/conversation with me about poetry-related subject matter is up at the ottawa poetry newsletter today. Thank you very much to rob mclennan for asking me these questions. http://ottawapoetry.blogspot.com/2020/12/talking-poetics-34-juliet-cook.html

A NEW Review of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" by john compton

"These pieces stitched together in artistic fashion by a wonderful small press look to creators who fall out of love with their subjects. A parent treating its child poorly for how they're born is like a god prone to damn all humanity without giving it a chance. Plenty of honest pictures lie within these beautiful pages. Every one of them unique.

- Tim Heerdink, author of Razed Monuments, The Human Remains, and Red Flag and Other Poems"

Thank you very much to Tim Heerdink for his wonderful review of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" by john compton

You can find out a bit more about and/or acquire your own copy of "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/876451232/new-i-saw-god-cooking-children-paint?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW! Three collaborative poems by me and Martin Willitts Jr appear in Misfit Magazine!

I am delighted to be included in the new Issue No. 31, Fall 2020 of Misfit Magazine, alongside Martin Willitts Jr.! Three of our collaborative poems filled with skeletons, spiders, and little gothic girls are making an appearance, along with lots of other wonderful writer's poetry too!

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"Some might label a few of my skeletons as borderline
personality disorder or downright insane, but
I call them force fields of special powers,
semi-contained inside small bony bodies."

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read more HERE - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-31/cook-willitts.html

Partake of the entire issue - http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-31/index.html

NEW! Three of my Twin Peaks inspired poems are making an appearance in DIAGRAM 20.5!

I am delighted to have three Twin Peaks inspired poems appearing in the new issue 20.5 of DIAGRAM!

"INVADED CORES" ❤️- "CAPTIVE COHABITATION" 💙- "IN MY DEATH BAG"🖤

http://thediagram.com/20_5/cook.html

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You run into the wall
and it opens, conveys you
into a dark place.  The door
bangs shut and locks itself.

The handles eject regurgitation.
Your feet stick to the floor and turn
forward and back in an endless limbo.

NEW! FEARLESS 72 includes two of my poems!

Darkly delighted to have two of my poems appearing in the new issue of FEARLESS #72! Happy late night Halloween and beyond! Thank you to Kevin M. Hibshman for including my poems! 

My Bridal Meat Doll makes a creepy appearance on page 12.

My Fiery Arena is sizzling on page 27.

Lots of other darkly delicious offerings too!

Read the fearlessness HERE - https://archive.org/details/fearless-72/mode/2up

NEW! The October Issue of Thirteen Mya Birds is creeping out of the woodwork and dripping out of the sockets! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Happy Halloween from Thirteen Myna Birds!

A NEW issue is here starting with four teaser piece poems from the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "i saw god cooking children / paint their bones" by john compton - and offering poems by Thomas Foard, Michael Griffith, Kristin Garth, Anna E. Fullmer, Robert Beveridge, Elizabeth Balise, Linda Imbler, and art by MISH!

Partake HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/🖤😱🖤

Sago palm by MISH

"we bleed paint like animals - ballerina pink with feline drool - boiling at the core - a powerful impression on energized receptors - campaigns of promises made with mud - The streets all feel so hopeless - every word we don’t speak burrows through our throats - Trivia demands attention as the body hangs limp - From the only slot that opens here - Little pumpkin-headed baby, toothless and hollow - Night gives no reason to let her live - The moon continues, so still - A small head broken - a rusted refrigerator shoved over a railing from the second floor - Barking dogs tied to the radiator of misery - with reams of poems - cut a slit in the neck hang them upside down - Rainbows of blood - beyond the rivers, cliffs, and tombs..."

Thank you to those who have read my Histrionics Inside My Interior City!

Thank you very much to those who chose to donate to me while reading my free poetry micro-chapbook,"Histrionics Inside My Interior City" (part of the 2020 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series)! I truly appreciate it very much! 💜😱🖤

(I'm saying this right now because I just received an unexpected payment of donations, since Ghost City Press waited a little while after the Summer Series ended before they sent us any donations we had received).

I also truly appreciate people being able to read the collection for free.

If you haven't read it yet and think you might be interested in checking it out, you can still do so here - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city

NEW! In Madness Muse Press! One poem by me AND one collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me!

Welcome to Week #1 of Madness Muse Press created by its new poetry editor, John Compton

This issue includes all kinds of poetry and I'm happy that my poem "Trapped Animals" and a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me, "Reloading Demolished Installation" is a part of the Madness!

Dive in and read some poetic offerings, HERE - https://madnessmusepress.com/2020/09/27/1224/

A NEW Review of EVIL ME by MISH (Reviewed by Christine Bassaber)

"Received your book Evil Me in the mail yesterday. Wasn’t planning necessarily on reading since was a “support Eileen” move but put on my coffee table and couldn’t resist opening to first pages—very attractive looking—Read the first poem, and loved!! Second one also!!

After that I have left it on my coffee table to pursue. I’ll continue to update you as I go thru them…I did want to tell you that I really loved the first 2 poems and the book format/appearance in the meantime."

Christine Bassaber (the author's sister) about EVIL ME by MISH 

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Find out more about EVIL ME and/or acquire your own copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/842490054/new-evil-me-by-mish-2020-blood-pudding?ref=shop_home_feat_3

EVIL ME by MISH is the NEWEST Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook!

"Without you,
the floors above me
echo like the cave in your head."

in the poem "Note That I Wish I’d Given to My Upstairs Neighbor", which appears within the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "EVIL ME" by MISH .

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Acquire a copy for yourself or an evil friend from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/842490054/new-evil-me-by-mish-2020-blood-pudding?ref=shop_home_feat_3

NEW! The August Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has Arrived!

"When will we quarantine together? - epicenter of the epidemic - mind full of rabies - shoved into this gothic monster closet - leaving a wet glistening trail - butterfly eyebrows ready to skewer - like a stab-vest on the shoulder - when the circus came to town - the National Museum of Death - The drunken angels clink glasses - One sock black the other sock gone - hung from his beard - How do you think I got a funny stump?"

Shortly before the end of August the NEW August flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has finally arrived!

This flock begins with 2 teaser piece poems from the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "EVIL ME" by Eileen MISH Murphy! Followed by 13 other poems from Jennifer Shneiderman, Michael A. Griffith, Howie Good, C. Cropani, DS Maolalai, and Thomas E. Simmons! 

Check it all out HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

My Histrionics Inside My Interior City is two months and one day old (and still alive and waiting for you to read it)!

My 2020 Summer Series Micro-Chap, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City", was published by Ghost City Press on June 23, so it is now two months and one day old - and it is still available to read for free online via the link below.

13 pages of poetry filled with vomit, vodka, demented ghost corpses and so on and so forth...

You can donate a dollar or teleport me a tiny martini or read it for free - and you can also read lots of other Ghost City Press Micro-Chaps.

HISTRIONICS - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city?fbclid=IwAR2YU4HoYV5YmBJLVCTAIabEEY2RL7nSoXAXUO2JEUKbFxidV_Z-eLK2iKQ

Lots of others - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series?fbclid=IwAR127ngw2OW3sn6Q69dJQklZTTkDhnAEQVWqA9ByUoMIivP7V8q2HYvFchQ

NEW! EVIL ME by MISH is the first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2020!

A NEW poetry chapbook from my Blood Pudding Press is newly available as of August 2020!

EVIL ME includes 19 poems by MISH - and MISH also created the cover art!

You can find out more about the poet/artist Eileen "MISH" Murphy, via her website HERE - https://mishmurphy.com/

The poems within EVIL ME offer a powerful mix of quirky, delightful, dark, sad, and depressing - with the focus ranging from troubling childhood issues to new romance/marriage to failed romance/divorce with quirks, mental dilemmas, family dilemmas, depression, and death.

Each chapbook is hand-designed, hand bound with colorful ribbon or yarn, and you can choose your own color of cover stock for the chapbook's cover.

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I said hello

to the death songs inside me.

I caressed the safety razor

I used to shave my legs.

I couldn’t force myself 

to carve the flesh of my wrists.

I asked my mother

to move so I could reach

the cabinet under the kitchen sink:

I’ll drink Drano.

I’ll kill myself.

No, you won’t, said Mother

and told me to set the table.

in the poem "Smells Like Teen Spirit"

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Acquire your very own copy of EVIL ME, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/856406887/new-evil-me-by-mish-2020-blood-pudding?ref=shop_home_active_2

NEW! My poem "Industrial Carousel" appears within The Rising Phoenix Review!

"Sometimes I feel like I’m on a bad dream carousel,
moving in rickety circles, taking turns
sitting on different unnatural broken animals.
A never ending damaged carnival ride.
Every horse has different side effects.
The only think they all have in common
is they’re all fake and will eventually break,
make you start over again and make you pay."

from my poem, "Industrial Carousel", making an appearance in The Rising Phoenix Review

read more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/27/industrial-carousel-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Tarot Card Shark, a collaborative poem by Martin Willitts Jr and me appears in The Daily Drunk!

Thank you to The Daily Drunk for accepting the collaborative poem "Tarot Card Shark" by Martin Willitts Jr. and me, to appear within its Terror Taco Tuesday theme (in which every poem had to include terror or tacos...)! 

He writes so many love letters,

he will soon forget which ones were for you.

He gets tired of you and fills your drink

with rat poison, but gives you the wrong drink,

confusing you with his other lover

who loves low-fat milk.

Read the rest by clicking the link below! 

https://thedailydrunk.com/f/tarot-card-shark

NEW! This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader by me & Martin Willitts Jr is up at The Rising Phoenix Review!

There is no cure. We no longer desire to be cured.
We rather infect as many as we can, so we are all alike:
crushed plastic doll heads
in blood-splattered, contaminated rain
bending like trumpets someone sat on.

Soon nobody will have their own instruments.

within the poem, "This Rotten Trumpet is Our Leader" by me and Martin Willitts Jr, newly appearing within The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2020/07/10/this-rotten-trumpet-is-our-leader-by-juliet-cook-martin-willitts-jr/

NEW! July is upon us and Sein und Werden has re-emerged and includes one of my poems!

The newborns born into this
might have to be contained
in one space for the rest of their little lives.

July is upon us and Sein und Werden has re-emerged! I'm delighted to have one of my Museum of Impending Death poems appearing in this new Summer 2020 Issue, Le Retour!

I love the art next to my poem - Entombed By Their Hate by Walter Savage!

Thank you very much to Rachel Kendall for including my poem!

🖤🖤🖤

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer20/page7.html

In case you missed Juliet Cook's HISTRIONICS last week...

In case you missed my new poetry micro-chapbook, "HISTRIONICS INSIDE MY INTERIOR CITY" this past week and might want to read it this weekend or beyond, here it is! 🖤💗💜

https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city?fbclid=IwAR3lDG5A_L11_0v_-3T9Uvl4GX2u2mClInnLFcXfcBk4nFwv7LaO1IB4xRU

(Also, more micro-chapbooks will be coming out from the Ghost City Press 2020 Summer Series next week and beyond!)

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"I stumble towards my coffin
with a scepter in one hand;
a sticky red martini glass dripping from the other."