NEW! My Poem “Residual Fitting Room Inside Which Nothing Fits” has managed to fit its way into MasticadoresUsa!

"You feel like you don’t fit in anywhere
and sometimes that’s hard to handle
even though you don’t particularly care

about fitting in. You care about being yourself,
but what if yourself mostly only exists inside
your own mind’s mirror?"

the beginning of my poem “Residual Fitting Room Inside Which Nothing Fits”, which is newly appearing in MasticadoresUsa

 
read more here - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/residual-fitting-room-inside-which-nothing-fits-by-juliet-cook/

It is still Halloween/ Me on Halloween night 2024!

A photo of me on Halloween 2024. It's hard to believe that October is about to end.

NEW! Two of my creepy poems are appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

I have two new short poems appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Usually when I have new poems up, I share a few lines from one of the poems, but this time I'm sharing Cul-de-sac of Blood's description of my poems because I love their description!

Furthermore, after you read the two poems, if interested you can click on "Learn More About These Poems".

Here's what Cul-de-sac said about my poems:

"Rotting bear dolls & chicken brains erase our heads & replace them with images of themselves, & though we might not have a name for this process, Juliet Cook’s poems show us what it feels like to find ourselves somewhere between foreground & background."

Read the poems HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-3

This photo of Henry Spencer (played by Jack Nance) in Eraserhead (directed by David Lynch) initially inspired the first poem.

Happy October 2024!

Happy October! I hope it is brimming with creative delights, poetry, art, reading, writing, submitting poetry, genuine communication, creative flow, and positive dynamics. And also delightful spookiness, disturbing horror movies, and fun socks. And also time not speeding buy so darn fast.

Happy October from Leyland!

Happy October from me and my socks!

NEW! Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself (with two of my poems inside)!

You want a special Halloween (and post- Halloween) Treat!?!

Filled with poetry, fiction, and more!?!

Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself! Issue 1 is live!

It's a new season (for motherfuckers)...

And two of my poems are inside, surrounded by lots of other creative treats that I can hardly wait to dive into!

Here's the link - https://agape-editions.com/alice-says-go-fuck-yourself/

Thank you very much to Fox and Cee and Agape Editions!

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"This body makes me increasingly uncomfortable.

The escalating scale.

The fat with a watered down cavern inside.

The loosening tissue with fish gills drying out.

The hagfish orifices turning into fossils.

I can handle my whitening hair, but

soon I won’t be able to swim very far

away from deterioration."

the beginning of my poem, "Fish Sticks With Hot Flashes", which appears in this new issue

Pre-birthday extra special socks!

 

New! My poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch An Attack" appears in Writing In A Woman's Voice today!

"Even if I dislike or disagree, I have a hard time

thinking I can end something by quickly hitting a button,
tossing them into an online pile of trash.
Maybe I give too many multiple choice chances
to rancid meat or maybe I don't give enough.

Maybe I am too messed up and broken
and divided into conflicted fragments"

in my poem "Sometimes I Stay Quiet, So I Don't Launch an Attack", appearing today in Writing In A Woman's Voice (thank you very much to editor Beate Sigriddaughter)

read more HERE - https://writinginawomansvoice.blogspot.com/2021/10/blog-post_22.html?spref=fb&fbclid=IwAR02-kFdfpa0ZUh-mHWgkzVPBakW-2ALfrUUbHB8R9VHLw2TfS7JBJcge7U

New! My poem "Passenger Seat" in Issue 1 of DEAD SKUNK!

"Driving his cremains into unknown territory,

10 miles from a cheap hotel filled with unruly

remnants of life..."

I am delighted to have my poem "Passenger Seat" appearing within Issue 1 of DEAD SKUNK!

The first two and a half lines appear above.
You can read the rest HERE - https://www.deadskunkmag.com/passengerseatjulietcook

You can read all the other smelly stuff in Issue 1 too HERE - https://www.deadskunkmag.com/issue1

Happy Spooky October from Thirteen Myna Birds! A New flock is here to haunt you!

Happy October from Thirteen Myna Birds! A new flock is here to haunt the walls of your brains, offering poetry and art by Jason O'Toole, Daniel Snethen, MISH Murphy, John Maurer, David P. Miller, John Grey, and Malachi Ray Adkins!

"As soon as I sleep, I forget to be positive - vociferous soul-catcher screeching - From hating the lack of love - To loving every bit of hate - still in my hometown driving past cemeteries - strip carcasses bare recycling death unto life - are you sure your mouse finger twitched on the link we told you to twitch? - Might be you don’t have prior experience being human - happiness is a hollow goal - The orange ball wasn’t. Then all at once was and there it is - I’m not allowed to betray what that means - Pumpkin squats on porch and continues to die - Do books go to heaven? Or even hell? - If a book can ascend can it also be murdered? - Who would have thought that little black book would turn out to be great black night..."

Read it HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

October Purple

Special Blood Pudding Press chapbook birthday sale this week!

The Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, i saw god cooking children / paint their bones by john compton is turning one year old this month and is on sale in the Blood Pudding Press shop for a week!

15% off from Monday October 4 through Monday October 11!

Get your copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/876451232/i-saw-god-cooking-children-paint-their?ref=shop_home_feat_2&pro=1

This Saturday October 19 - Poetry Night at Manic on Main!

Join us for this fun and free event, from 7-9 PM on Saturday October 19! Readings by Theresa Gottl Brightman, Steve Brightman and Juliet Cook, followed by an open mic!

Just in time for Halloween, MALFORMED CONFETTI has found its way into the Blood Pudding!

Just in time for Halloween, I have now added a copy of my new Malformed Confetti poetry book to my Blood Pudding Press etsy shop! 🖤🎃😈

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_active_1

(The book can still be acquired from the press that published it, Crisis Chronicles Press, too, here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html) 

Just in time for Halloween 2018 and the rest of the 2018 holiday season and beyond, my Malformed Confetti has been added to my Blood Pudding Press!

Malformed Confetti is my second individual full-length poetry book, which has arrived in October 2018!

100+ pages. Poems ranging from 2008-2015. 

Cover art created by Simona Candini. 

Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole.

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press!

If you would like to acquire the book directly from the press that published it (Crisis Chronicles Press), you can do so here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

At Blood Pudding Press, the same price is being charged, but you're receiving your copy directly from the author, who will hand sign the book for you.

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Here's a little more about Malformed Confetti, that appears in the About the Author section in the back of the book:

Juliet Cook has been writing poetry for more than 25 years. Her poetry has appeared in a small multitude of magazines, both online and in print. 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 in late 2008, ten years ago now. 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 individual full-length poetry book is this one, "Malformed Confetti".

The poems within "Malformed Confetti" range from 2008 to 2015. In early 2010, Cook suffered from an unexpected Carotid Artery Dissection, which lead to an Aneurysm which lead to a Stroke. Later in 2010, while on the brink of divorce and temporarily living with her parents, Cook began to assemble and submit an earlier version of this manuscript. As time went on, she revised it, added more recent poems, and rearranged it, forming it into a dissected but interconnected discombobulation of pre-stroke and post-stroke work.

Cook's poetic style has undergone changes over the years, but her passion for poetry lives on. 

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.

MALFORMED CONFETTI photos

a few photos from my Malformed Confetti book launch poetry reading last week (taken by Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs)

You can find out more about Malformed Confetti (and possibly acquire your own copy) here - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html?fbclid=IwAR3oj7H9dfVBOjCBjz0Ezwn1876c2xOxzVx9AvMXRDA2ohq4T0F7J7Y5cPo

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.)

Tomorrow! Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook!

Tomorrow evening (October 16), one day before my birthday! A poetry reading book launch event for my new full-length poetry book,"Malformed Confetti", available from Crisis Chronicles Press! A link to the reading event, HERE -
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/

A link to the new Malformed Confetti book, HERE -
https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

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Me on October 17, 2017.

NEW in Philosophical Idiot! - Dementia Is a Raptor

"She keeps on screeching out her own bad apple,
hacking it out of a cockatoo mouth and then

it grows into a high-pitched velociraptor

diving in for the next attack."

from my poem "Dementia is a Raptor", up at Philosophical Idiot today

More here - https://www.philosophicalidiot.com/julietcookpoetry2

Juliet Cook Reading Poetry (Women Unbound Presents grotesque glitter, THE POETRY OF JULIET COOK)

I thought I would post this video of my poetry reading from the first of this month, from Women Unbound Presents grotesque glitter, THE POETRY OF JULIET COOK, October 1st 2016.

Today! October 1st! Women Unbound Presents Grotesque Glitter, The Poetry of Juliet Cook

Saturday, October 1st, from 2-4 PM!