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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). 

MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM

I'm making a small excited announcement that my collaborative creepy young yumhead poet creature Robert Cole and my collaborative poetry chapbook - MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM - was accepted for publication by Hyacinth Girl Press, to be published next year! 

Talk about awesomely exciting poetry news! I sure love Hyacinth Girl Press, which published my Thirteen Designer Vaginas in 2011 - and I sure love the ooozylicious hideous poetry stuff that's been spewing out of Robert and me.

Hyacinth Girl Press will make a more official announcement after they choose all the new chapbooks they're going to publish next - but as of right now, they are still accepting and reading chapbook manuscript submissions, throughout the month of May. 

New Millenium Interview

Didi Menendez, poet, artist, & editor/publisher extraordinaire of such publications as MiPOesias and Oranges & Sardines is posting interviews with various poets she has published this decade on a blog called 'Poetry: The First Ten Years of the New Millenium'. The ones I've read so far are pretty interesting and she put up a whole small slew of new ones today, including an interview with me:

http://goss183.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/juliet-cook/

In the time between me responding to her q's and her posting my response, my new poetry chapbook FONDANT PIG ANGST became available; for more details, see the entry below.

Here's a mini excerpt from my interview:

"Imprinted somewhere in my head is a cookie cutter that I am both trying to fit into and trying to creep out of. Much of my poetry is situated in the realm of that conflicted resistance. If I could grow some new appendages like a misshapen tail or tentacles, then I wouldn’t fit the mold. I think of my poems as appendages on a larger body that is trying to evolve into a new breed of misfit."

(Like I mentioned on FB, I'm not sure why I chose to submit a photo in which I look like some kind of bony owl/witch hybrid engaging in a random staredown, but you'll have that sometimes, I guess.)

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P.S. I also have a little Best of 2009 list over at BIG OTHER:
http://bigother.com/2009/12/14/juliet-cooks-best-of-2009