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...)...

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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