NEW! Another New Review of my latest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers instead of Wings"!

"Juliet Cook doesn't write books. She creates surreal experiences for her readers with a sick soup of limitless-on edge-vulnerability, kick-ass imagery and dark humor all her own, and a clear mastery at detailing the violently petty horrors of existing. Not living, exactly. The insidious in-between. And she offers one who dares an honest to gawd peek into The Void. Whenever I open a book by her, I get greedy. I have to consume it all at once and want more. Lucky for us, she has plenty. So check out some of her macabre delights! She is truly a fascinating artist. Absolutely recommended!!"

from another new Review of my newest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (published by Pure Sleeze Press in April). This Review is on Goodreads, written by the fabulous Casey Kiser. Thank you very much to Casey Kiser!

read more of this Review by clicking the link below:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7693381109

If you'd like to read this chapbook yourself (or acquire one for a friend), "Blue Stingers..."is still available from its publisher, Pure Sleeze Press HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

Also available from my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by

A few recent photos and comments about my poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

Thank you very much to Jason O'Toole for sharing my newest poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" on Twitter and saying this about it:

"Mail day brought the new chapbook by the extraordinary @nonvanilla - she's not only an excellent poet - she produces beautiful chapbooks and supports other poets.

The poems are among @nonvanilla Juliet's best. It's relentless, searingly honest, and plays with your emotions."

photo by Jason O'Toole

And thank you very much to MISH for recommending "red flames burning out"

"Mish Recommends: I'm working intensely on a new poetry collection, and these are my inspirations, among others: EROTIC by Alexis Rhone Fancher, RED FLAMES BURNING OUT by Juliet Cook, and THE COMPLETE POEMS by Anne Sexton. I highly recommend all three books."

photo by MISH

And thank you very much to Collin J Rae aka StickingittoU for sharing and commenting on "red flames burning out" on Instagram

photo by Collin J Rae

My red flames burning out poetry chapbook (published by Grey Book Press in April 2023) is available from Grey Book Press HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

It is also available in my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

My NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" is now one week old and still needs new homes!

Happy Poetry Month 2023!

This is another cover photo of my NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press in April 2023.

I am also sharing a photo scan of the poem in the middle of the chapbook, one of 20 poems within the collection.

The collection incudes...

“Broken doll fingers bulging their way out of blubbering chicken wire. Losing parts of one’s self and growing new parts in the form of self-created nightmares, body and brain malfunctions, seizures and other divorces from parts of past reality. Pitching standard traditions in the trash, wrapped in drying blood. Creepy bird’s nests and fear of impending death, yet still continuing to create one’s own sizzling and burning red fire.”

This new chapbook is now one week old and still needs new homes. 

You can find out more about the new chapbook HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

And if you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

Histrionics Inside My Interior City is one year old today!

My poetry micro-chap, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City" (part of the Ghost City Press 2020 Summer Series) is one year old today. 💜

You can still read it for FREE (or offer a small donation) here - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city?fbclid=IwAR39By41pmBdpPcDoC-vKWFqbADxW2p5ridat_eP-JubaIKzC5Nu0OmMwX4

NEW! My New Micro-Chapbook, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City" is alive!

An adult babydoll dress on a rotting corpse.

A dark abyss filled with rats wearing babydoll dresses.

Doll eyes replaced with moth balls.

Doll hair cut into rattails.

Today, my Micro-Chapbook, "Histrionics Inside My Interior City"  is alive, thank you to Ghost City Press!

I love Ghost City and I am delighted to be included within the 2020 SUMMER MICRO CHAPBOOK SERIES!

You can read my less than 15 pages of Histrionics here - https://ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-series/histrionics-inside-my-interior-city?fbclid=IwAR3WGNB5n3m7hDX6bk-6gIr4o6fSRIZAkpEKxqdwucidOyYc9i4HJImHcQ4

My NEW poetry chapbook, "THE RABBITS WITH RED EYES" is now available via Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

Delighted to announce that my new poetry chapbook, "THE RABBITS WITH RED EYES" is now available via Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

You can find out more about it and acquire your very own copy HERE: https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

One more photo of me reading some poetry from my From One Ruined Human to Another

One more photo for now of me reading some poetry from my From One Ruined Human to Another poetry chapbook at Uncloistered Poetry at Calvino's Restaurant and Wine Bar, Sunday August 11, 2019.

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Outside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon, for my poetry chapbook, From One Ruined Human to Another (published June 2018 by CWP Collective Press)(which re-branded itself into Dark Particle Press in June 2019)!

You can acquire your very own copy of this poetry chapbook, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Or from the author's own etsy shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_feat_4

photo taken by Darryl Shupe

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS next to a light purple baby skull

"Will she ever understand
that my doll brain works differently
than her doll brain and I want to escape
being handled by somebody else?

I don't want to have a string attached to my back
connected to someone else's hand,
so that someone else can choose what I do or do not
say by pulling that string."

inside Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9, newly available in print in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Soon to be published as a free PDF by Dusie.

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

Another copy of "From One Ruined Human to Another" has found a new home!

Eileen Murphy's copy of my new poetry chapbook "From One Ruined Human to Another" (in the middle of two other books, mentioned below).

Thank you to Eileen for sharing this photo.

You can acquire your own copy of "From One Ruined Human..." from Cringe-Worthy Poet's Collective Press, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

or directly from me, while supplies last (via paypal $8 to Julietcoo@gmail.com, with no "k" after the "coo")...

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Here's what Eileen said about her photo: "Here's what I've been reading this week--Women of the Beat Generation by Brenda Knight (MJF Books 2000), the new, irreverent chapbook by Juliet Cook called From One Ruined Human to Another (CWP Collective Press 2018), and Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System (by Sonya Huber, U of Nebraska Press 2017). I'm enjoying these books, and thought you might enjoy them, too."

A little less than a week to get your copy of The Laura Poems...

"So long ago her smile disappeared. Years
she’s been drawing it dark. Red, black; the ants
in the sugar bowl have consumed all the sugar
and their pincers are a massive mutation.
An invasion spiked into infestation."

from a poem within "The Laura Poems" by Juliet Cook, temporarily available again in the Blood Pudding Press shop.

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/528766337/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_active_2

New Review of My Red Demolition

Empty Sink Publishing (The magazine for intellectual deviants) has republished a review by A.J. Huffman of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press 2014).

The idea of fear takes a different turn in the later poems. The speaker, while still disjointed and thrashing about in a bloody miasma of poisonous memories, seems to take on a more clinical calm, begins to dissect the mess she has become. “It starts with a multi-colored glitter dress lifted up high/to show thighs wrapped with garter belts made out of garter/snakes.” This opening image from “Love Can Be a Chokecherry” sets the perfect, if overtly biblical, stage for the subtle undercurrent of fear that echoes through the remainder of this collection: that she let this happen. The fear of responsibility is palpable: “She knows another nightmare is coming.” 

Read the rest HERE - http://emptysinkpublishing.com/book-reviews/book-review-red-demolition-by-juliet-cook/

Acquire the chapbook from Shirt Pocket Press HERE - https://shirtpocketpress.wordpress.com/catalog/

Acquire the chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/201202952/red-demolition-by-juliet-cook-2014?ref=shop_home_listings

Another New Review of my RED DEMOLITION

"If Juliet Cook is the wicked queen of all things dead, undead and twisted —which, OMG, she is— she most certainly is a master at writing chapbooks!"

From a new review by Susan Yount of my newest poetry chapbook,  RED DEMOLITION (Shirt Pocket Press, 2014). 

Read the rest here:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1056795018?fb_action_ids=10152730312202458&fb_action_types=og.likes

New Poetry Chapbook Interview

A new chapbook/collaborative interview of me and Robert Cole, conducted by Laura Madeline Wiseman!

"I wanted to start a collaboration with Juliet to explore the aspects of life that I have been afraid to confront. I wanted to scare myself, really. It became apparent pretty fast that our combined style of writing was doing just that." 

Robert Cole

 "...since as an individual writer I seem to use similar content and even similar words a lot, I really enjoyed receiving lines that included words that don’t usually pop out of my poetry brain (like scrimshaw and sultans and puppies) and integrating that stuff into the same forum as my kind of words (like egg cups and tentacles and a blow torch) and probably creating new kinds of descriptions for both of us."

Juliet Cook

Read more here-http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/blog/2013/12/07/the-chapbook-interview-juliet-cook-robert-cole-on-collaborative-chapbooks/

My New POISONOUS BEAUTYKSKULL LOLLIPOP is now available!

“…A screaming siren will lose

her voice then turn her own head into a grotesque gorgon.”   

from the poem Sucker Punch, within POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP

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It is my new 2013 poetry chapbook, published by Grey Book Press – and now available from Grey Book Press (and from my own Blood Pudding Press shop).

Support the press that chose to publish it by purchasing a copy here –

http://www.greybookpress.com/index.php/site/ind/poisonous_candy/

This chapbook was edited/published by poet and Grey Book Press editor Scott Sweeney – it’s weirdly awesome cover art was created by poet and artist Jay Snodgrass – and the innards by me are more than 20 different poems that vary from being written five years ago to mere months ago.

Here are the poem titles within this collection:

-Female Infestation

-Self Portrait as Cane Toad Anomaly

-Say She Had Dirty Follicles

-Ladyfingers

-The Moth

-The Ugly Duckling

-The Sugar Glider

-The Swan

-Red Moon Ashes

-Red Lunatic

-Venus Tree

-Spew

-Coiled

-Cacophony

-Volatility

-Spawning

-Stigmata Flicker

-A Sweet Tart Duck with Head Lobbed Off

-What He’s Really Sticking In

-Sucker Punch

-Contorted Impregnation