NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have a new poem appearing in MasticadoresUsa!

My dreams are weird,
violent, absurd. Plastic  
surgery performed

on my lips as if 
trying to make me talk in 
a different voice

or not speak at all.

part of Juliet Cook's poem "Missing Pieces", newly appearing in MasticadoresUSA, in which she is delighted to have another poem appearing.

You can read more by clicking this link - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/missing-pieces-by-juliet-cook/

Even More New Poems Have Now Been Added to the Latest Myna Birds Flock!

SIX MORE NEW Poems have now been added to the Thirteen Myna Birds flock, for a current total of 25 poems!

The newest editions are by John Grey, Wayne F Burke, and Bradford Middleton.

Check them all out here! - https://13myna.blogspot.com/ 

And stay tuned for more semi-soon-ish...

NEW! Juliet Cook is very excited to share that her poem "Too Much or Not Enough" is appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

"...When we were like dolls,
they could cut off our fingers and toes
more easily. Maybe even cut out
our tongues. Snap a neck, invade
our brains. Diminish our bodies

with ongoing hateful clichés, ridicule,
ridiculous standards."

the beginning of Cook's poem, "Too Much or Not Enough", which is newly appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

read more by clicking the link below...

https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/05/13/too-much-or-not-enough-by-juliet-cook/


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Currently this is the first poem in a sequence of interconnected poems that Cook been working on for quite a while now, so I guess we shall see what happens with that. Maybe when it's finally semi-done, she may try to turn it into a chapbook length manuscript of sorts.

NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have a new poem appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!

"The more absurd my buzz becomes
the better until I bang my head
on the keyboard and don't remember
the lines I wrote the next day,
but that often happens anyway."

within Cook's poem "I Might Get the Jellyfish Haircut", which is newly appearing in the Rye Whiskey Review, the first of three new poems of hers chosen to appear there

read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-might-get-jellyfish-haircut-by-juliet.html

NEW! More New Poems Have Now Been Added to the latest Thirteen Myna Birds flock!

UPDATE: As of April 9, 2026, Six New Poems have now been added to the thirteen that were already up at Thirteen Myna Birds, HERE! - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

In honor of Poetry Month, I am hoping to add additional poems throughout this month and this is the latest addition of six new ones.

Poems by CL Bledsoe, Jeremy Jusek and Gary Beck are now accompanying the thirteen that were already up.

Check out the new additions and stay tuned for more.

NEW! The First Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2026 is HERE...

Yes it has been a while, but in this month of March 2026, a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has finally arrived, the first of this year 2026!

Starting with thirteen new poems by Jason Ryberg, Donna Pucciani, Mark J. Mitchell, Joshua Walker, SJ Harrold, and Maceo Nightingale.

All HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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"Too much reality hurt and cold facts couldn’t be climbed - Her branch has vanished - keys dangled from a skinny wrist - voices bleed downstage - in darkening offices and bedrooms all over America - guilt that moves because it must - a document now shredded - sending what’s left of their leaves to scatter in every direction - clues that get missed, like dull sets that fly to darkness - the goddamn cynics and nihilists - Red eyed rats coughed out tracking devices - Life begins as a wriggly maggot - worms slithered out a bleeding heart - The years rot slow in mason jars - sudden tragedy, or the inexplicable prospect of non-being"

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A lot more submissions remain in the Myna Birds inbox to read and consider and respond to in phases and the tentative plan is to add MORE creative work to this Myna Birds flock at different intervals in March and April, so please do stay tuned, if so inclined.

But for now, these are your starting thirteen, which will stay up at least throughout March and April (probably even longer) with more poems and/or art added to the mix from time to time...

NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have a new short poem, "Haunted Escape" appearing in Luna Luna Magazine!

"Grim husks drift apart
so the insides can escape
but where do they go?"

from Cook's poem "Haunted Escape", newly appearing in Luna Luna Magazine

read more here (and read the other poems there too) - https://www.lunalunamagazine.com/blog/poetry-juliet-cook

Thank you very much to Lisa Marie Basile

A few photos of Juliet Cook with her Pure Sleeze Press poetry chapbook AND her Pure Sleeze shirt!

Juliet Cook wearing her newish Pure Sleeze shirt while holding her Pure Sleeze poetry chapbook (Blue Stingers Instead of Wings, published by Pure Sleeze Press in April 2025, with cover art by Chad M. Horn). This chapbook is currently still available and so are various Pure Sleeze shirts and you can get one (or both or more than both) for yourself in the Pure Sleeze shop HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/products

On a side note, Cook also has a few copies of her Blue Stingers Instead of Wings chapbook available directly from her or in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to share 3 new poems, newly appearing in Burning House Press!

"Possible poem lines emerge in bed,
in the midst of what seems like a semi-dream/
semi-reality state, followed by internal glitch
in which a semi-truck aims to run over
my new lines or my entire head."

in "Invisible Ink", one of three new Cook poems in Burning House Press 

read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2026/02/12/3-poems-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Juliet Cook is excited and delighted that a new poem of hers, "Disengaged" is newly appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

"I pull off its head, toss most of its body
inside a garbage bin. I remove
the two arms, keep them disconnected

in my bedroom, against the wall,
beside my bookcase, facing the opposite angle
away from the previous mannequin parts."

in Cook's poem "Disengaged", which appears In Conversation at The Literary Underground today

read more HERE - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/01/28/disengaged-by-juliet-cook/