NEW! A Conversation with Poet-Publisher-Artist Juliet Cook AND three of my poems at Cultural Daily!

Thank you very much to Mish (Eileen) Murphy for interviewing me a second time for Cultural Daily about poetry, publishing, and art!  

Here's a link to the Conversation - https://www.culturaldaily.com/conversation-with-poet-publisher-artist-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR3e9R9bl8sW_sEg8uFmBZCMAGLQ5Ukxt8AVClxYfOyv2Wl4wi2fIg56cpY

And thank you also to Cultural Daily's Poetry Editor Alexis Rhone Fancher for selecting three of my poems to appear there on the same day!

Here's a link to the poems - https://www.culturaldaily.com/juliet-cook-three-poems-2/

"Some will see the red apples as ball gags inside her mouth. Some will see the red apples as representations of Hell. Some will say Hell does not exist. The apple is an underground planetary lair."

NEW! An Interview with me about poetry stuff, conducted by Michael Sikkema, appearing in periodicities!

"Then it became a more personal poetic form of self expression that incorporated my real life experiences and brain waves into my own kind of art."

This is me answering some interesting poetry questions from Michael Sikkema - and the interview was published by rob mclennan at periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics. 

https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/06/michael-sikkema-interview-with-juliet.html?fbclid=IwAR115rZYzLhibJrhRDlWRLZCJb5m9VWukaYHgfiM8cgjEISx66eANpM5Yis

A NEW Interview with me is up on Cultural Weekly!

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy for conducting this Cultural Weekly Interview with me about poetry. One of the questions she asked me was why dolls find their way into much of my poetry and here was part of my response:

"I feel like some people view or treat other people like dolls, in certain ways. Or maybe not specifically like dolls, but like un-meaningful, un-individualistic, largely emotionless, relatively heartless bodies that can just be broken into little pieces, thrown away, heaped in the trash, or tossed in a garbage barrel with a bunch of other quickly cut off doll heads."

Read more by clicking this link - https://www.culturalweekly.com/interview-writerpublisher-juliet-cook/

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Also new in Cultural Weekly, you can read three poems from my poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (including the title poem), which is mentioned in the Interview above.

Read the poems here - https://www.culturalweekly.com/juliet-cook-three-poems/?fbclid=IwAR3OCyk9E8DFoYsBmM5IaXvXtS5cQ8NdnUkSkuaRyWyc-PNAIHz8LDjjlgE

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You can acquire your own copy of "From One Ruined Human..."from the press that published it here - https://darkparticlepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Or directly from the author here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_active_6

Poet Spotlight: Juliet Cook on dolls, body, and uncomfortable poetry

"Not too long after I had the manuscript completed, I then started to feel kind of weird about the collection, because I feel like it might be almost TOO confessional in a way that makes me seem really unappealing — not in terms of my poetry itself; but in terms of my negativity, my lifestyle choices, my relationship issues, my body-focused issues and related attributes — but that was what felt the need to come out in this collection, uncomfortable or not."

I have an Interview up today, focused on my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" and lots of other poetry stuff too.

Thank you very much to Andrea Blythe for including me in her Poet Spotlight!

HERE - 

https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/11/poet-spotlight-juliet-cook/?fbclid=IwAR1aJQeRKvnEdsuOxJ0-FTY0qjRkl-a0hDfC0vl2fMx4sG_sKpaAXC1f-Oc

poetry mini interview (part five)

I am up at poetry mini interview again (Very short interviews with poets, Conducted by Thomas Whyte), where poets offer 5 short answers to 5 short questions, one per week.

Here's my FIFTH and final answer - http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2019/04/juliet-cook-part-five.html

(I must have answered this question a while ago, because NOW one of the chapbooks I refer to has had its name slightly changed to "Dark Purple Intersections (inside My Black Doll Head Irises)" and it is DONE and will be revealed VERY SOON - AND the other chapbook I mention, "red circles into nothing" was recently accepted by Clare Songbirds Publishing - AND I created ANOTHER new chapbook and had that one accepted too!)

poetry mini interview (part three)

I am up at poetry mini interview again (Very short interviews with poets, Conducted by Thomas Whyte), where poets offer 5 short answers to 5 short questions, one per week.

Here's my part THREE answer - 

http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2019/04/juliet-cook-part-three.html

poetry mini interview (part one)

Starting today, I'm up at poetry mini interview (Very short interviews with poets, Conducted by Thomas Whyte) where I offer 5 short answers to 5 short questions, one per week. Here's part one - http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2019/03/juliet-cook-part-one.html

Happy February! A new Interview about me and my poetry and my Malformed Confetti appears in the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent!

Delighted to have an interview about my poetry writing process and other poetic thoughts/feelings (and about my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) appearing within the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent, surrounded by poetry!

Juliet Cook talks about embodied poetry and writing Malformed Confetti, HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews Me

Wombwell Rainbow Interviews me!

Read my answers to some writing/poetry questions by clicking the link below.

https://thewombwellrainbow.com/2019/01/17/wombwell-rainbow-interviews-juliet-cook/

NEW Interview! Backstory of the Poem "ARTERIAL DISCOMBOBULATION" by Juliet Cook

"...Was that a bodily tremor or
a body bag streamer?"

Delighted to be included in Chris Rice Cooper's Backstory of the Poem, which focuses on one specific poem and how the poet wrote that specific poem.

My poem focused on is "Arterial Discombobulation".

HERE - https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/05/18-backstory-of-poem-arterial.html

LOVE CAN BE A CHOKECHERRY / AN INTERVIEW WITH POET JULIET COOK

"She describes her style as, “emotional hailstorms (based on and derived from thoughts/feelings/memories) that are redirected and reshaped into poetry, sometimes more direct and other times more abstract. Often on the dark side.”"

(Thank you very much to Bekah Steimel and Shannon Steimel for conducting this interview with me!)

Read the interview in its entirety (or just read parts of it, if you'd like), starting with a poem HERE - https://bekahsteimel.com/2018/04/22/love-can-be-a-chokecherry-an-interview-with-poet-juliet-cook/

12 or 20 (small press) questions with Juliet Cook on Blood Pudding Press

Here is a 16 question interview I recently participated in about my Blood Pudding Press. Thank you very much to rob mclennan for inviting me to answer his interview questions.

http://robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2017/09/12-or-20-small-press-questions-with_15.html

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And here's where you can get the latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks mentioned in my answer to question 16:

Cutting Eyes from Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker is HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/512469489/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Thirsty Bones by Sarah Lilius is HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/522735584/new-thirsty-bones-by-sarah-lilius-2017?ref=shop_home_feat_1 

Fuck Cancer Poems by Michael Grover is coming soon!

NEW Poetry Interview with me at THE BOOTH

I am extremely excited to share "Writing that disturbs the bodies of the mind: An Interview with Juliet Cook" now up at THE BOOTH at Hermeneutic Chaos!

You can read my answers to questions about grotesque writing, collaborative writing, and my forthcoming second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, coming soon from Crisis Chronicles Press.

https://theboothblogsite.wordpress.com/2015/11/13/writing-that-disturbs-what-disturbs-bodying-the-mind-with-juliet-cook/

(P.S. You can also see a video trailer for the forthcoming book, linked to at the end of the interview)

lots of pending poetry/art portals

"I don't think poetry can be "found" by picking up a rock or a dead bird off the ground and simply calling it poetry and that's IT - but I do think poetry/art can be unexpectedly yet significantly inspired by such findings. For me, something about the visual imagery of bird fetuses and the thoughts then provoked in my mind can stimulate poetry/art. Same with other sorts of small things that many people would overlook and/or would find unworthy of much consideration and/or would find grossly unappealing. The tendency to ignore things like that makes me wonder WHY. Is it because of being easily grossed out? Is it because small odd things are inconsequential to the mainstream? Is it because of fear of death, fear of demise, fear of being crushed by something larger, fear of non-existence?"

A snippet from an interview with me (about dead birds, art, poetry, publishing and more), which appears within the new issue of Sein und Werden, here - 

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer13/index.html

The interview also brings up my recent collaborative work with Robert Cole – and a collaborative poem by the two of us, “Churning Codex Portal”, appears in this issue of Sein as well.

“Churning Codex Portal” is a poem from our collaborative chapbook, “Mutant Neuron Codex Swarm”, chosen to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014.

A few more poems from that chapbook are soon to appear online within “Black Heart Magazine” and “Menacing Hedge” (via which you will be able to hear us read some of the poems too).

Also  a new individual poem by me is coming soon from POETSARTISTS (The Social Portrait). 

the chapbook interview: Juliet Cook on the chapbook as ephemera, accolades, and, the flock and fold of popularity

A new poetry reading/writing/chapbook publishing related interview with me, conducted by Laura Madeline Wiseman and published today (May 2):

http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/blog/2013/05/02/the-chapbook-interview-juliet-cook-on-the-chapbook-as-ephemera-accolades-and-the-flock-and-fold-of-popularity/

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Also, in case you happen to subscribe to Gently Read Lit, you can read a new review of my latest poetry chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (Grey Book Press, 2013), written by Lisa M. Cole, here:

http://gentlyread.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/gently-read-literature-2013-spring-issue/

Blood Pudding Press Poetry Treats & Halloween Offerings

Added a couple new Halloween-esque hand-painted zombie magnets to the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop, with even more peculiar doodads to come soon!

The Halloween section of the shop also offers a hand-painted mini zombie gnome and darkly delicious poetry chapbooks, including the limited edition CARNIVORACIOUS collaborative chapbook by Suzanne Grazyna & Juliet Cook. 

CARNIVORACIOUS was originally published as a limited edition in 2008 - and its limited number of copies quickly sold out. Now as a special Halloween Treat, the chapbook is being made available again for a limited time - only until Halloween 2012!

Also stay tuned for an interview with me, about my 2011 poetry chapbook, POST-STROKE, scheduled to appear upon the Poet Hound blog later today.

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For now, here's the Halloween Treats section of the BPP shop: 

 http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?section_id=12101200

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“My dreams of a fever-heaving language, of vowels splitting o-

pen like egg cases trembling with beads. Distended tongues,

flared operculums, the secret enzyme strip tease.”

Juliet Cook/CARNIVORACIOUS

“What doesn't kill us makes us stranger. Cracked hatched and eyelashless.”

Suzanne Grazyna/CARNIVORACIOUS

Poetry Crush

Check out the uniquely multifaceted and interesting Poetry Crush: Valentine Issue (in which a number of Hyacinth Girl Press poets share their favorite erotic poems) -

http://poetrycrush.com/

I chose a poem by Lynn Crosbie and here was my small intro as to why -

"For me, in-depth intensity is far more erotic than semi-casual flinging. In recent years, my desire for powerful intensity is borderline brimming with uncertainty and unknowing related to ebbing and flowing, but that doesn’t make it dissipate. I desire a new beginning, filled with a large scale, all kinds of strange tales and talismans, and strong sails. I crave a strange power to affix me, lift me up, and wet me into creatively drenched, passionate, powerful, deliciously visceral terrain."

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On a semi-related note, as I was thinking about what poem to choose for this project and reading quite a few poems that I seemed to remember really liking and finding oddly erotic in the past, I discovered that a lot of those poems now struck me as interestingly kinky but definitely not erotic in any sort of loving, positive, powerful way.

Perhaps I used to be more sexually turned on by controlling/being controlled and playing around with dominant/submissive quirks, but not anymore - especially if that sexual experimentation seems like some sort of unemotional game or borderline uncaring mini-torture.

I then thought of a poetry-based interview I participated in some months back, in which I wrote -

"Content wise, my influences have often included, in one form or another: eating/being eaten, fetish-ism, desire, horror, and deviation from the norm/not fitting in to a mold.

If I re-read some older poems of mine with darkly fetishistic slants, I feel like some of their content is filled with kinky desires; unsure whether I want to control or be controlled.

More recently, although still interested in kinky desires, I do not want to control anyone else or be controlled by anyone else on any large scale. I want to be myself - and ideally, I want others to like and desire me for being myself."

If interested, you can read more here -

http://voices.yahoo.com/profiles-poetics-juliet-cook-9134663.html?cat=72

Profiles in Poetics: Juliet Cook

Aesthetic Diversity of Women Writers in the 21st Century

(interview questions answered by me and asked by Jillian Mukavetz, which originally appeared upon the Women's Quarterly Conversation online site)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/8400339/profiles_in_poetics_juliet_cook.html?cat=72