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/

NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted by this phenomenal new Review of her two most recent poetry chapbooks!

A phenomenal review of the two most recent poetry chapbooks by Juliet Cook, ("REVOLTING" published by Cul-de-sac of Blood in November 2024 and "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" published by Pure Sleeze Press in April 2025)!

The review was written by Scott C. Holstad.

Here's most of what he had to say:

"It didn't take long into reading this poetry collection (REVOLTING) for me to start saying "Wow!" and "Holy Shit!" and so on. When I finished, I didn't immediately respond but stopped to ponder because Juliet Cook is so very talented, has such a way with words, is such a unique and gifted poet and communicator that I really wanted to soak it all in, perhaps move on to another similar collection of hers (Blue Stingers Instead of Wings) -- which I did, reading them back to back twice -- because I get so much more out of Juliet's work and words than most other contemporary poets, and if I sound biased, I make no apologies. I've had the good fortune to "know" (electronically, never having yet met in person) Ms. Cook for some two decades, and I've seen her grow from an aspiring poet with unique skills to express what others often can't -- or won't -- to a towering literary giant, going places where others are often either too scared or never come back from, and she OWNS things many others can never even see. I've long admired just the very titles of so many of her poems and books -- witness "A Moldy Bathtub Is a Sin and You Must Repent Forever, Because She Said So" or "Hagfish Slime" for example, the latter of which contains lines I can only admire, such as "Screaming instead of / quietly swimming / as they try to swallow me / or throw me away." That is shit I feel I can really relate to, even if I might not want to. I often feel like Juliet does or could speak for me so many times over, as a survivor, observer, truly unique creative entity and I admire her skills so very much.

These words and my reactions apply to Blue Stingers as well, and I mention this because I'd hoped and intended to write a review for each but won't be able to as I've been in the hospital and had to have emergency surgery on my writing hand, while I'm lining up a bigger surgery for the arm and shoulder on the same side, so it's very difficult for me to write/type at the present, and I'm sorry for that. But for what it's worth, these two poetry collections were among the best I've read in a long time, and are among my immediate favorites."

Here's a link to the whole wonderful review and I'll link to the chapbooks at the bottom of this blog post.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8031261089 ***

This review(s) is a wonderful end of year poetry oriented gift for me.

I certainly don't think of myself as a "towering literary giant", as he refers to me in part of his review. To the contrary, oftentimes in recent years, I tend to think of myself as becoming increasingly invisible poetry-wise, for various different reasons, but at least in part because I don't want to constantly promote myself. I mean, I'm certainly not against self promotion and I do think it's a somewhat necessary part of the process when it comes to poetry, if you want others to possibly become aware of your creative work. BUT on the other hand, I personally don't want to be one of those poets who comes across as someone who seems to think their creative work is way more special and meaningful and important and worthy of tons of attention and praise than hundreds of other writer's creative work, because how the heck do I know how important my own work is to others?

I know what my poetry means to me. I'm not going to tell everyone else what it should or shouldn't mean to them, because I don't know. What my poetry means to other people is up to them and I don't want to slam myself in a bunch of people's faces and act like I deserve more attention because how do I know what sort of attention my writing does or doesn't deserve?

Again, I know what my poetry means to me. I don't know what it means to others unless they choose to tell me. Which is part of the reason why unexpected positive reviews are so wonderful. I suspected Scott Holstad was going to read these chapbooks of mine at some point in time (because I recently traded him these chapbooks for his recent full-length book), but I had no idea he was going to write a review and I truly appreciate this unexpected treat.

If a few (or more than a few) people are drawn to my poetry, whether they're friends or total strangers or somewhere in between, I think that is wonderful. And if someone likes my poetry I want it to be because of the actual poetry. *** Here is where you can acquire the two chapbooks reviewed by Scott C. Holstad:

REVOLTING is available from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Also available from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/revolting-poetry-chapbook-by-juliet-cook

AND Blue Stingers Instead of Wings is available from Pure Sleeze Press HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

Also available from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

NEW! Juliet Cook is excited and delighted to have a new poem running around the darkly delicious Cul-de-sac of Blood!

"Spectator of my own eye
stuck in the middle

of a missing plate
on top a stolen spoon."

in Juliet Cook's poem "Another Pie in the Face"

Delighted this poem is running around the darkly delicious Cul-de-sac of Blood track, HERE! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-5

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Speaking of Cul-de-sac of Blood and poetry, you can still acquire Cook's poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING", which was published by Cul-de-sac of Blood last year, directly from the Cul-de-sac HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

NEW! Juliet Cook is excited and delighted to have another new poem appearing in MasticadoresUSA - “Old Photo Booth Inside a Box Inside a Basement”!

"Are you always somewhere in between,
continually fusing into unreality?

Are you stuck in the bottom
of a moldy box? I think I mean

what is a dead sheep that keeps moving
because other creatures have infiltrated

its skin, eaten its heart, and replaced it
with their own swollen memories?"

Juliet Cook is delighted to have a new poem, “Old Photo Booth Inside a Box Inside a Basement”, newly appearing in MasticadoresUSA!

You can read more HERE - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/old-photo-booth-inside-a-box-inside-a-basement-by-juliet-cook/