Happy October! What a wonderful month to buy a poetry chapbook!

 I am sharing three new mini reviews I discovered today of three different poetry chapbooks by Juliet Cook/me (each of which I still happen to have a few copies available for sale in the Blood Pudding Press shop, in case anyone would like to acquire one for October, Fall, or Halloween).

"I love this book. It’s completely in Juliet Cooks style. You could tell that she had a blast writing this book." Davide Nixon

about the chapbook "Red Flames Burning Out" (Grey Book Press, 2023)

"This is a crazy collection of poetry. If you know anything about Juliet Cook’s style or aesthetic then you’ll know that it’s dolls, vaginas (yonic), murder, birds, and then David Lynch. All of this is expressed through her poetry, and then there is a hint of comfort, which you should want in poetry. Hopefully this review is vague enough that it makes the book sound interesting. I really loved this book." Davide Nixon

about the chapbook "Contorted Doom Conveyor (Gutter Snob Books, 2023)

"Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for being you, Juliet. I love it." Suzanne Grazyna

about the chapbook "REVOLTING" (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024)

Links to these three chapbooks appear below. 

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Red Flames Burning Out - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/red-flames-burning-out-poetry-chapbook

Contorted Doom Conveyor - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/contorted-doom-conveyor-poetry-chapbook

REVOLTING - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/revolting-poetry-chapbook-by-juliet-cook

NEW! You've Been Poemed! The Anthology is almost here!

Juliet Cook is delighted to have a poem included in this new Anthology, You've Been Poemed!

Along with many other wonderful poets! Over 100 poets are included within this book!

Thank you very much to Sandra Feen for creating this project and asking for poems, to both Sandra and Dianne Borsenik for their considerable and considerate and creatively detailed editing work on this project, and to Sheila-Na-Gig Editions for publishing it.

You can find out more about the You've Been Poemed! Anthology HERE (and consider pre-ordering a copy, at a discounted rate, that lasts through October 31) - https://sheilanagigblog.com/shop-sheila-na-gig-editions/feen_poemed/

NEW! Another one of Juliet Cook's "Another Broken Mirror" poems is newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!

"Dripping blood, then drying out,
unless I keep bleeding inside
my cracked glass coffin..."

in Juliet Cook's poem "Another Broken Mirror", newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!

read more here - http://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/08/another-broken-mirror-by-juliet-cook.html

(Yes this is a second recently published poem with the same title, but other than the title, it is its own poem. Both poems, along with others, currently appear within a  new chapbook manuscript in-progress...)...

NEW! "Another Broken Mirror" by Juliet Cook, another new poem up In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

"Organizational, generational,

outdated motivational speakers

dressed as chosen cheerleaders

telling us what to do.

We listen to the teacher,

to the governing body

as it takes control

over our own bodies."

in Juliet Cook's poem "Another Broken Mirror", newly appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

(This is another poem of mine that also appears in a new chapbook manuscript in progress too...)...

read more HERE - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/08/26/another-broken-mirror-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! A New Thirteen Myna Birds Flock has Arrived, in time for the end of summer/beginning of fall....

Approaching the end of summer and launching into the fall, a new issue of Thirteen Myna Birds has finally arrived!

This issue is brimming with birds. Rising, falling, burning, flying, screaming, offering warnings...

Twenty new feathers and beaks are all HERE (from Debrah Shenefelt - MISH - Merritt Waldon - Ken Poyner - László Aranyi - James Croal Jackson - Ann Randlette - Paul David Adkins - Daniel G. Snethen - A.J. Huffman) - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Flaming fingers scratch the sky - The chickadees have stopped singing - the crows are hopping from branch to branch dropping closer waiting - to find a half-cherry in my cup of fruit cocktail - Ascending angel clings to shadows - unaware she is already melted and falling - Hollow sky - I could not count all the trees - It is more than a number of trees - a thousand bucks to screw her head onto a bolt - with needle-and-thread grass, hog-nosed snakes and sandburs - Birds pecked out the eyes - The mission of the Earth is fulfilled: the one who lands ashore is taken aim at - The altar, a split shell by a dying brushfire - The cats are out of the bag, and their fangs are mammoth - painted images in the reddened sky - staring at my near colorless fruit - How a window could frost and seal itself behind - what if some students can’t afford the book? - Songbirds screech to clouds in mourning - the doctor freezing pieces of me off - The whole place reeked of bleach - I vomit hearts drained of purpose...

Vortex by MISH

NEW! "I Didn't Know Who I Was Yet" by Juliet Cook, In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

"If you try to make yourself invisible one way,
then you become invisible in other ways too.
For years, I couldn’t see myself
unless I stared at myself in the mirror."

in Juliet Cook's poem "I Didn't Know Who I Was Yet", which appeared In Conversation at The Literary Underground on Sunday

You can read more here - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/08/16/i-didnt-know-who-i-was-yet-by-juliet-cook/

(On a side note, this poem also appears in a new poetry chapbook manuscript in progress...)...

NEW! Juliet Cook's poem "NIGHTMARE MACULAR DEGNERATION" is newly appearing in Rogue Agent!

"A praying mantis crawls out
of my eye hole, from underneath
dilapidated bags."

the beginning of Juliet Cook's poem "NIGHTMARE MACULAR DEGENERATION", newly appearing in Issue 137, August 2026 of Rogue Agent

Read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

Check out the whole issue here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/#issue137-section

NEW! Happy Last Day of July and a short new poem!

Happy last day of July 2026. Juliet Cook has a short new poem up today at Drinkers Only.

Thank you very much to editor John Patrick Robbins.

Drinkers Only : Short and Not So Sweet By Juliet Cook - https://drinkersonly.blogspot.com/2026/07/short-and-not-so-sweet-by-juliet-cook.html

NEW! Juliet Cook reviews the poetry collection, {f}ragile Nests by Pella {f}elton!

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

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