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"

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/

NEW in Maudlin House - "Real Live Balloon Animals" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"The blood is thick and heavy

and it’s going to explode,
then grow new life behind the walls. 



Then break the mirror,

drip down from the ceiling"

inside the poem "Real Live Balloon Animals" by me & j/j hastain, now up at Maudlin House

partake of more HERE - https://maudlinhouse.net/real-live-balloon-animals/

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - "This Body is a Blooming Corpse Flower" by Juliet Cook

"Sugar skulls turn into embryos.
I shove them down my throat
in order to abort them again."

from the poem, "This Body is a Blooming Corpse Flower" by Juliet Cook, now up at the Rising Phoenix Review

HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/03/10/this-body-is-a-blooming-corpse-flower-by-juliet-cook/