Check out this new review written by Juliet Cook about Pella Felton's new uniquely wonderful poetry collection, {f}ragile Nests (published by Roadside Press) and then consider buying a copy of the book if you don't have one yet.
Thank you to The Literary Underground for publishing Cook's review.
Here is a link to the whole review, followed by a few snippets from the review - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/07/23/juliet-cook-reviews-fragile-nests-by-pella-felton/
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"The beginning of the book involves an interesting and multifaceted Prologue, which expresses, among many other contradictory complexities, “I co[m]e fro[m] a box that should not exist”. But Pella’s box definitely does exist (within many different facets and interconnections), definitely deserves to exist, and definitely deserves to be viewed, heard, read, and explored."
one snippet from the review; read more by clicking the link above
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"I’ve also been thinking about glass cages and glass coffins lately (in part, because I’m repeatedly inserting glass coffins into a small series of interconnected poems I’m in the process of working on) and so I visualized Pella’s box (or one of them) as a glass coffin she was breaking through. Breaking through a glass mirror or a glass coffin involves cracks and shards and wounds but once the glass is broken through something new may emerge. Something that has been somewhat hiding inside oneself for quite some time (like a poem) and shall now be revealed in varying phases and styles and degrees"
another snippet from the review; read more by clicking the link above
7/23/26
7/16/26
NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have another new poem, "Rainbow Obsidian", newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!
"A synaptic middle of another
crash. Vehicle smashed against another
wall then suddenly waking up underwater,
confused about what happened when.
Is this the beginning or the end or
somewhere in between again?"
in Juliet Cook's poem "Rainbow Obsidian"
She is delighted to have another new poem newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!
Please feel free to read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/07/rainbow-obsidian-by-juliet-cook.html
crash. Vehicle smashed against another
wall then suddenly waking up underwater,
confused about what happened when.
Is this the beginning or the end or
somewhere in between again?"
She is delighted to have another new poem newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!
Please feel free to read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/07/rainbow-obsidian-by-juliet-cook.html
7/14/26
NEW! Juliet Cook is very excited to share her poem "Damage Control/Internal Doll House", newly appearing in Trailer Park Quarterly, Volume 17!
"My brain’s world can be a small roller coaster
ridden by sticky spider webs, spiders biting
their way out of flesh and then showing up on my face
like squiggles and wrinkles and proliferating debris,
merging past and present and future and fear
into a warped sort-of-dream/sort-of-reality
with assorted bundles of ripped off wings."
some lines from Juliet Cook's poem "Damage Control/Internal Doll House", newly appearing in the new Volume 17 of Trailer Park Quarterly!
Check out the whole poem HERE - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-17/juliet-cook/
Check out the whole issue HERE - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-17/
ridden by sticky spider webs, spiders biting
their way out of flesh and then showing up on my face
like squiggles and wrinkles and proliferating debris,
merging past and present and future and fear
into a warped sort-of-dream/sort-of-reality
with assorted bundles of ripped off wings."
some lines from Juliet Cook's poem "Damage Control/Internal Doll House", newly appearing in the new Volume 17 of Trailer Park Quarterly!
Check out the whole poem HERE - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-17/juliet-cook/
Check out the whole issue HERE - https://trailerparkquarterly.com/volume-17/
7/1/26
NEW! Juliet Cook is pleased to have another new poem appearing in MasticadoresUSA!
"Based on what? Based on who?
I don't believe in the same god as you.
I sometimes believe in poetry,
even if hardly anyone seems to care or understand
what I'm trying to share or why."
in Juliet Cook's poem "Traditional Assumptions", which is newly appearing in MasticadoresUsa
you can read more here - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/traditional-assumptions-by-juliet-cook/
I don't believe in the same god as you.
I sometimes believe in poetry,
even if hardly anyone seems to care or understand
what I'm trying to share or why."
in Juliet Cook's poem "Traditional Assumptions", which is newly appearing in MasticadoresUsa
you can read more here - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/traditional-assumptions-by-juliet-cook/
6/29/26
NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have another new poem in The Rye Whiskey Review, "Is Bird Song Better Than My Song?"
"I tried to express myself to them,
then banged against the wall
on the outside of a house that didn't belong
to me."
the beginning of Juliet Cook's poem "Is Bird Song Better Than My Song?"
Delighted to have another new poem appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review (this time in the last weekend of June 2026)...
you may read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/06/is-bird-song-better-than-my-song-by.html
6/19/26
NEW! Juliet Cook is happy to share two new poems of hers, appearing in Rusty Truck!
"berating bodies
rating bodies
spitting out
a simple number
or one letter in red
pen on a body
they think they deserve
to be in charge of"
within Cook's poem "human/ animal/ artificial hybridization"
rating bodies
spitting out
a simple number
or one letter in red
pen on a body
they think they deserve
to be in charge of"
within Cook's poem "human/ animal/ artificial hybridization"
one of two new poems of hers, now appearing in Rusty Truck
do feel free to read more here - https://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/juliet-cook/
do feel free to read more here - https://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/juliet-cook/
6/10/26
NEW! Juliet Cook is delighted to have three new poems appearing in Misfit, Issue No. 42, Summer 2026!
"It feels like an internal ventriloquist
in which the dummy lives inside
your mind,
repeatedly trying to tell you
you're nothing special, barely alive,
you might as well be dead.
Are you talking to yourself
again or did something else invade
your brain, aiming to convince you
that you're not really you anymore?"
the beginning of Juliet Cook's poem "Dummy", one of three new poems of hers, newly appearing in Misfit Issue 42, Summer 2026!
Delighted to be included!
Read more here and read other people's poems too!
http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-42/Cook.html
in which the dummy lives inside
your mind,
repeatedly trying to tell you
you're nothing special, barely alive,
you might as well be dead.
Are you talking to yourself
again or did something else invade
your brain, aiming to convince you
that you're not really you anymore?"
the beginning of Juliet Cook's poem "Dummy", one of three new poems of hers, newly appearing in Misfit Issue 42, Summer 2026!
Delighted to be included!
Read more here and read other people's poems too!
http://misfitmagazine.net/archive/No-42/Cook.html
5/26/26
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/
5/15/26
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...
5/13/26
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.
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.
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