NEW! Blue Stingers Instead of Wings has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", was published by Pure Sleeze Press in late April 2025. It is still available from Pure Sleeze Press HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

In addition to still being available from its publisher, I have also now placed a few copies of this chapbook into the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by

So why not get one while the getting is good (or bad or awful or hideous or at least still oddly available)!

(Also, if there's some other way you'd prefer to purchase one directly from Cook, such as via Paypal, feel free to ask).

(Also, Pure Sleeze will have more new chapbooks coming out in July so keep an eye out!)

Please support small poetry presses! 

NEW! Su Zi's Review of Juliet Cook's Poetry Chapbook REVOLTING!

"Often, the chapbook might come from someone we actually do not know. Oh, obviously we saw the post about this new work, and maybe other posts from the press or the author, but we don’t really know their favorite flavor of ice cream. We are gambling that perhaps there will be something here to ponder, something that speaks to our interior selves...

...The book is a pure example of the chapbook format, and this one has a subtle and elegant presence. Ironic to this perception is the book’s title Revolting (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), the work being a recent offering from Juliet Cook..."

...Cook’s style oscillates between the conversational and the surreal..."

a few snippets from Su Zi's new Review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook "Revolting".

In addition to reviewing this chapbook, the article also focuses on the joy of print poetry chapbooks, discoveries from the online poetry community, the importance of independent presses, and more.

"In our times now of needing to prioritize individual makers over global producers, it does a greater good to buy a chapbook..."

Thank you very much to Su Zi for writing this wonderful review/article and thank you very much to GAS: Poetry, Art & Music, and Belinda Subraman for publishing and sharing it!

Read more here - https://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/2025/05/su-zis-review-of-juliet-cooks-revolting.html 

Acquire a copy of REVOLTING (and/or other chapbooks) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books 

Or get this chapbook (and/or other chapbooks) directly from Cook's own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

NEW! Juliet Cook has four poems newly appearing in Poetry Pacific!

Juliet Cook is happy to have four poems newly appearing in Poetry Pacific, Vol. 14, 2025, here - http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2025/05/4-poems-by-juliet-cook.html

The first two ("Un-pretty Maroon" and "Nihilistic White") are haiku variants that also appear inside her new poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (which will be linked to below).

The third one ("I Hate My Guts") is a haiku that does not appear anywhere else.

The fourth one ("Another Me") is a newer poem that also does not appear anywhere else.

The first three have some accidental formatting errors, so I'm going to place correctly formatted versions below.

Un-pretty Maroon

My creative flow
starts internal ambience,
then begins screaming.

I revise my screams
into un-pretty maroon
that will speak for me.

Words obliterate
words into non-existence
if I don't feel real.

Nihilistic White

Fresh white snowflakes fall.
Shimmer down, glitter the ground,
grow into cold gloom.

Nihilistic white
witch, ice queen growing darker.
Overtaking light.

I Hate My Guts

Ugly fat preys on
my ribs. Tries to hide them with
menopause gut punch.

***

"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, recently published by Pure Sleeze Press, in which these first two haiku variants also appear, as well as eleven other poems.

Acquire a copy from Pure Sleeze Press here - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

Or please feel free to ask if you'd like to acquire one directly from Cook.

Happy May! Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now one week old and still available!

Happy May!

Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now one week old and still available!

Don't hate me because I'm weird and repetitive.

Thank you to Pure Sleeze Press for publishing this, along with four other new chapbooks, all of which will remain available until they sell out.

"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" can be purchased for $8 (plus $5 shipping)!

Or you can get all five new chapbooks in a Five Book Bundle for $30!

Acquire mine and/or 1, 2, 3 or all 4 of the remaining others while they are still available.

Here's the link to buy them from Pure Sleeze Press! - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/

Cook also has some copies of "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" so if you'd like to acquire my chapbook directly from me for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please do feel free to reach out...

NEW! Juliet Cook has two new poems making an appearance in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE!

"He blames it on you for disrupting his convoluted flow
by not completely agreeing with him,
by not cracking and flushing your own ugly
broken shells down the drain until he decides
to pluck out the yolk, name it, batter it,
shove it wherever the hell he wants to."

the beginning of Juliet Cook's poem "The Egg Price Is Out of Control", one of two poems newly appearing in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE

read more here - https://poetry4thepeople.blogspot.com/2025/05/juliet-cook.html

Partake of Thirteen Myna Birds! Submit to Thirteen Myna Birds!

In late March throughout April, I managed to get 33 new pieces added to Thirteen Myna Birds and they are currently still available to read/view/listen to, so check them out while you still can.

Soon they will disappear and be replaced with new offerings.

Thirteen Myna Birds is a blog style lit mag which publishes predominantly poetry, but sometimes short fiction, art, and other creative materials too. I tend to update it once every few months, adding 13 (or more) new pieces at a time to the flock. But in honor of April being poetry month, I chose to handle it a bit differently that month and semi-sporadically kept adding more pieces throughout that month, thus it ended up reaching 33.

I hope to update the flock again sometime in May, at which point all the current offerings will disappear and be replaced, so do partake while you still can.

So far, I have three poems chosen to appear within the next flock and a handful of unread/un-responded to submissions in my inbox that I am hoping to get to soon, but I'm always accepting more submissions to consider. The guidelines appear in the middle right of the Thirteen Myna Birds page, if you wish to try to become a part of the next Thirteen Myna Birds flock.

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

NEW! Juliet Cook has two new poems making an appearance in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

"In my neck,
I hear the cornfields

continually sway then shrink,
as if trying to shrivel themselves,

degenerate further away
from normalcy. Create their own

oblivion. Interconnected with
biting my own tongue,
then shutting my own mouth."

in Juliet Cook's poem "Dripping Down", one of two new poems of hers, newly appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood

read more here - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-4

Happy Poetry Month! It's Not Quite Done Yet! Juliet Cook's latest poetry chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now available from Pure Sleeze Press until it sells out! Get It Before It's Gone!

Happy Poetry Month!

As of Friday April 25, 2025, the new Spring chapbooks from Pure Sleeze Press were made officially available until they sell out!

This includes Juliet Cook's new "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" for $8 (plus $5 shipping)!

Several other new chapbooks are also available for $8 each (or a Five Book Bundle for $30)!

Acquire mine and/or 1, 2, 3, or all 4 others before they sell out!

Here's the link to buy them from Pure Sleeze Press! - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/

Thank you very much to Pure Sleeze Press, Jonathan S Baker, and K Ann Sea for publishing these chapbooks!

Also, thank you very much to Chad M. Horn, whose art appears on the cover of mine.

A few photos of "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" and a sampling from one of the poems inside it appears below.

(Cook also has some author copies of "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" available for sale, so if you'd like to acquire a chapbook directly from the author for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please do feel free to reach out...)...

***

I wasn't sure if I was human anymore.
Maybe I was a goose in labor,
giving birth to a subhuman or else
I was in the middle of aborting my own brain
inside another terrible dream, trapped
underneath a seeping blue machine
shaped like a giant pill container
with cracked slots that don't keep anything inside.

A loudly honking lullaby of horrific
conjoined twin geese, a grody gaggle
of gag reflexes swarming out of my mouth,
blue stingers instead of wings.

in the poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar", in Juliet Cook's chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", Pure Sleeze Press, late April 2025

A NEW Thirteen Myna Birds Flock has finally arrived!

Hello from Thirteen Myna Birds!

"Voice turned screechy, my soft hands, now hard claws - in the stations of silence, the static in between channels - The rain drizzles on - to be content to exist for however long - longer than the moth who burns itself out in light - she wears an officer’s silver jumpsuit, laser gun in her belt - and I explode inside - My face has changed to skull-bone, covered in a hard shell - the moment I put the pen to it the page bursts into flames - Lost in a burned prairieland - sidewalk rubbish floating up at ya like attack-ghosts - a wall that needs to be fed Blood - A tiny white flower blooms Against all the dark noises..."

***

It has been quite a while since a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived, but better late than never, I hope.

Within this new Thirteen Myna Birds flock, you can Spring into poetry and visual art by MISH - read some poetry by John Andrew Fredrick and listen to some music from his band, the black watch - and read some poetry by Holly Day, Wayne F Burke, Alexandra Dark, Yuan Changming, and James Moran.

Look, listen, and read it all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

***

(I'm also semi-tentatively thinking that instead of waiting months for the next new Myna Birds update, I might continually add a few new poems to this flock within the Poetry Month of April. This new flock of 21 creative contributions will stay up AT LEAST throughout the whole month of April, but additional poems might join the flock throughout that month.)

Purple Elephant by MISH

NEW! Juliet Cook's long poem "The Age of Vicissitude" is newly appearing in Horror Sleaze Trash!

"I might let the black cat sleep
on my bed but he keeps hissing as if on the brink
of attacking his best friend, which I pretend is me,
but I’m nobody’s best friend and never will be again.
The black cat will soon morph into another venomous rat,
secreting an evil fetus that is born to die. I won’t name him."

A small part of a long poem by Juliet Cook, "The Age of Vicissitude", which is newly appearing today in Horror Sleaze Trash!

Read more HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/03/02/juliet-cook/

(This poem is longer than my usual and will also be appearing in my chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", forthcoming this Spring from Pure Sleeze Press.)