A few lines from (and a few more photos of) my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"...

"She doesn't see what she doesn't want to see. Part of me
can pretend I don't see it either. Another glass
figurine stained with blood, but we keep on pretending
it's red paint, at least until it dries. The color quietly darkens,
then starts cracking into broken pieces. But I didn't throw it
directly at anyone's face. I didn't throw it on the floor."

in my poem "Glass Figurines Stained With Blood", in my new poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press, December 2023). 

You can find out more about and/or acquire a copy of this chap for yourself or a friend via the links below (or if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from me, let me know...)...:

https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

 

 

Poetry poetry poetry! A NEW chapbook, a three year old chapbook, and a forthcoming chapbook!

Still very excited that my poetry chapbook manuscript, "Your Mouth is Moving Backwards" was accepted for publication by Ethel a year ago and is tentatively forthcoming this October 2023!

ALSO, still very excited about my chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" that was published by Ethel in 2020 and is still available HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes

AND ALSO still very excited about my NEW chapbook "red flames burning out" that was published by Grey Book Press less than a week ago and is available HERE - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

red flames burning out (Grey Book Press, April 2023)

The Rabbits With Red Eyes (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, March 2020)

RED (a photo of me taken by Darryl)

 

red edges

 

The Rabbits With Red Eyes is one year old!

A year ago this poetry chapbook of mine was coming soon - and now this poetry chapbook of mine is still alive and available, thanks to the wonderful Ethel Zine & Micro-Press!

The Rabbits With Red Eyes by Juliet Cook!

Available via Ethel HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

Also available via my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_4

The Sky a Few Nights Ago...

multi-shaped disco ball

The last Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2018 has arrived!

The last Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2018 has arrived, offering poems by Jill Khoury, Robert Golden, J.C. Mari, Martin Willitts Jr., and John Sweet. All HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com

"horizon filled with ground-up bones - from one failed relationship to the next - with rotting carcasses of jacked deer and discarded dead pets - flickering tongues like pine needles burning - is it funny is it a sad wreck? - do you remember why you never escaped from here? - you creep beyond the borders of your season - all the basements filled with water or with bones - He willed the ocean to approach and willed it back - lying on my back mouth open to the sky - for a red red snowflake to seize the day..."

multicolored pink malformations

Me, May 2018

 Me with new fair color and slightly dilapidated eye

Either the wall is slightly sideways or else I am

Another Cardinal in my front yard

A Red Cardinal in my front yard, April 12, 2018 

We've got issues! (NEW Thank You for Swallowing BLOODY poetry)

The new BLOOD issue of Thank You for Swallowing has arrived!

I'm extremely excited that by bloody poem is surrounded by poems by Eileen Murphy, Caseyrenée Lopez, Magdalena Ball, Grace Arenas, Tanis MacDonald, Lauren Bullock and E. Kristin Anderson!

We've got issues!

Thank you for swallowing my blood (and I sure don't mean that in a sexy vampire sort of way).

HERE - https://thankyouforswallowing.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/red16.pdf

New poem of mine up at Thank You for Swallowing!

"Most just want to crack us open
like bloody eggs,
drip the red out
and then penetrate the holes."

from my poem "WE WANT OUT" in Thank You for Swallowing

click below for more...

https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/we-want-out/

Six Collaborative Poems by me & j/j/hastain at ALTPOETICS

Is the place in which you are engaged
full to you? Or are you another never
ending cascade? Bright red, dark red.

from The healing potion explodes, one of six collaborative poems by me & j/j hastain, now up at ALTPOETICS

here - http://altpoetics.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/six-poems-by-juliet-cook-and-jj-hastain/

Strange New Carnival Morsels Now Frothing through Myna Birds Land

The carnival of love and life grows weirder and darker red and involves bites of candy at the NEW NEW NEW Thirteen Myna Birds update! - Michael Dwayne Smith, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Adam Fieled, Katharine Hepcat, Davide Nixon, John Grey, and Ani Myers-Campos are within the latest peculiar poetry parade, here here here - 

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Drawing together both heaven and hell – stitched them together hand in hand – pick at the flowers - petal to your knees – gargling songs of mud – tempting the scorpion – hard candy on the ground – wispy wings are in tatters from trying to lift her – minion of tarts - bleed out and be easier to throttle -  if a man could mutate – the blood of their feasts...