Happy March! New poems in the Ohio Poets Issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry AND new poems in the March Issue of Rogue Agent

I am delighted to start off the month of March with two of my poems appearing in two different  wonderful literary magazines!

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"Out of my blood drenched trench where I'm not good enough at choosing between periods or question marks. I keep on trying to re-position myself into something new. "

inside my poem, "Not Settling Down" in Glass

read more here - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2018/march/cook-not.html

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"White refrigerator filled with white needles. White bedding. White cage."

inside my poem, "White Is My Least Favorite Color" in Rogue Agent

read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook

NEW! A Review of (the temporarily revived) Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, The Laura Poems!

"The abuse has begun by the time Laura is ten years old. BOB has been climbing through her bedroom window at night to molest her. She must stuff toilet paper in her heart-patterned panties to stop the bleeding.

Already, the seeds of darkness are being planted in Laura's psyche. Laura imagines being snatched up by an owl's talons, flying, then being dropped onto iron spikes. Laura says, "At least [I] can imagine / being dropped. Falling / falling / falling / in love with the dark spikes.""

from Eileen Murphy's new review of my old poetry chapbook, The Laura Poems (which was temporarily made available again in the Blood Pudding Press shop last month, in honor of Twin Peaks revival).

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy and Glass for writing and publishing this review.

Read the whole review HERE - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/murphy-cook.html

NEW! A Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Cutting Eyes from Ghosts!

"Bodily disintegration, decay, brokenness, and darkness are predominant images in this "new" world the ghosts find themselves in — although one may argue that this world has been (and is) here all along, that there is nothing new about it at all.

Interestingly, the ghosts in these poems share some anxieties in common with living human beings: desire, hunger, pain, cessation of breathing, and the brokenness that is reflected in broken, decomposing bodies (the disappearing home)."

From a very interesting new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker.

Thank you very much to Mary Riley and Glass Poetry Press for writing and publishing this review.

Read the entire review here - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/riley-bleyker.html

Acquire your very own copy of "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/494588398/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_active_2

NEW in Glass: A Journal of Poetry - Hexagonal Approach to Horticulture by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook

"Little fingers turning into plastic

watering-cans pouring out blood

or pomegranate seeds"

from the poem Hexagonal Approach to Horticulture, by j/j hastain and me, appearing within the NEW May issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry.

Delighted to be included in this issue, HERE - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2017/may/hastain-cook-hexagonal.html

Happy first day of May!