A Red Witch, Every Which Way now lives in my home (in time for Halloween 2016)!

Just in time for Halloween 2016, I have received my author copies of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way"!

I have now added a few of them to my Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/473901408/new-a-red-witch-every-which-way-2016?ref=shop_home_feat_1

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"A Red Witch, Every Which Way", is the new 2016 full-length poetry book collaboration by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, newly published by a new small press, Hysterical Books!

More than 100 pages of poems!

Cover image created by Carabella Sands.

"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is "aboil with the grotesque and macabre. These poems explore the recesses of the body in all its glory and all its shame. No one will read it and come away unscathed."

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This book is also available via the Hysterical Books website AND via Amazon.

HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/#!product-page/cl84u/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09

HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044

NEW in the Giallo Issue of Sein und Werden (four new old poems by me)!

"Mother rubs my fingers, curling
towards uneasy sleep. Then she starts spinning
her cautionary yarn. Madder-blue and sticky, she warns me
not to talk as the strands batten purplish and hot.
Saturated gauze. Viscous clots. Thorns on the bedspread
flicking open like knivey licks. Prickly hives.
I can't hide. She kneads my wrist;
shifts my pulse into transfixed rhythm."

from my poem, "She Warns Me", within the new GIALLO issue of Sein und Werden

(This issue feels like it's backtracking into a Halloween past, as it includes four older poems by me, along with lots of other darkness too.)

partake of The Viscera HERE - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn16/contents.html

NEW Review of A Red Witch, Every Which Way!

"Make no mistake, j/j and Juliet do not shy away from excess—from mysterious risks—from gore or the gruesome bits—in fact, they wallow in it. At times, the book is a dizzy mess of flesh—and other times, an acid-blotted nightmare"

from Susan Yount's darkly delicious review of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", a collaborative full-length poetry book by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain (newly published by Hysterical Books)

read more HERE - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=1763780654

purchase the book HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09

"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" inside a library!

Very excited that "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" (alongside another wonderful new poetry book) has found a new home in a library, thank you to Stephanie Kaylor!

"A Red Witch, Every Which Way", a full-length collaborative poetry book by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, published by Hysterical Books.

"QueerSexWords" a poetry chapbook by Caseyrenée Lopez, published by Yellow Chair Review.

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You can acquire yourself a copy of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" HERE - http://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/1a2d7e83-4bef-31d5-09e1-3326ee271c09

You can acquire yourself a copy of "QueerSexWords" HERE - http://www.yellowchairreview.com/available-titles-chapbooks

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Anyone else who acquires this 100+ page book of bloody oddities, if you send me a photo of the book in your space - or in your yard - or next to your face or wherever else you want to place it, then I'll post it. And if I get enough photos, then I might create a special album of these photos.

(Send your photos to Julietcoo@gmail.com)

Two upcoming poetry readings!

Update! Here's the line up of poetry for CAT FEST (which is happening tomorrow, Saturday, May 14).

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Ohio Poetry friends (and maybe even a few of you from outside of this state - and maybe even one or two of you from a whole different planet), I'm hoping/looking forward to seeing/hearing some of you at one or both of these two poetry events the next two Saturdays.

Saturday May 7 at 3 PM at The Barking Spider Tavern (Cleveland Ohio) is the Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest and the book release of the Hessler Street Fair Anthology (edited by John Burroughs/Crisis Chronicles Press). Anyone who recently had a poem accepted by the Hessler Street Fair Anthology can read that poem during the reading competition.

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Saturday May 14 from 1 PM to 9:30 PM is the poetry part of a two day weekend art festival called CAT FEST 2016 at the Delightful Art With Dee Gallery (Toledo Ohio). The poetry part was organized by Drew Coomer and involves 27 different poets reading for about 15 minutes each. I'm reading at 5 PM and looking forward to hearing a lot of the other readers too.

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For addresses and other details (for example, CAT FEST has lots of other art and band stuff included Saturday AND Sunday), I'm linking to the events below, via their Facebook event pages.

~The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest - https://www.facebook.com/events/1501271523514033/

~The CAT FEST 2016 - https://www.facebook.com/events/1591505701169075/

Visiting Artist Juliet Cook

April 8 2016, me reading poetry as the Visiting Artist at the Arts Village at BGSU