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.

A new flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here! Happy Poetry Month!

It's been a little while since a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived, but now it is finally HERE. The second of this year! Happy Poetry Month! https://13myna.blogspot.com/

New poetry by Gale Acuff, F.J. Bergmann, Terry Trowbridge, E. Martin Pedersen, Beret LaBrecque, Michael Grover, Daniel Snethen, David Henson, Mike Hackney, and John Grey!

"they'll all go to Heaven when they croak but I'll go to Hell, at least I'll be special in some way - the black wings of the newborns are torn so they cannot fly - in the flower garden of goodbyes - Lurking toxins accumulating, molecule by molecule, invisible doom seeping up - grisly, no pretty words just drops of blood - as she stands before me in her bloodied apron - Fingernails cut scars across our innocence - A statue shows us frozen in agony - Straining to escape our fate - Now we're all still alive but already I'm alone and it doesn't matter where - drive me toward the pit of flaming oil - the signals of risk, like a nocturnal animal seen fearless and staggering at noon - See the battles going on around them - I mean, so much blood students smear it on themselves - the poor cat who got mauled trying to sneak her way past - Would you think you knew me better if you could see my past and future? - I have not been terrified of dying in a long time - But I am terrified of how numb I am to the idea of dying - Solipsism incarnated in balloons - sleeping with rats on the Commons - I find myself astride Envy and change horses in midstream..."

Read the new flock HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Juliet Cook holding her new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

Juliet Cook holding her new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press this month, April 2023.

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"I might spend that unknown time frame of post-seizure
memory loss walking alone along an unknown road

and then get dragged into an unknown alley,
and then wake up in pain and have no clue
where I am, what happened to me or
where all this blood is coming from."

in one of her Internal Suffocation poems within the chapbook

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You can find out more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Or you can contact Juliet to find out more and/or purchase a copy directly from her).

The chapbook costs $8 (which includes shipping, within the USA).

Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" is now one week old and still needs new homes!

Happy Poetry Month 2023!

This is another cover photo of Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press in April 2023.

And also a photo scan of the poem in the middle of the chapbook, one of 20 poems within the collection.

The collection incudes...

“Broken doll fingers bulging their way out of blubbering chicken wire. Losing parts of one’s self and growing new parts in the form of self-created nightmares, body and brain malfunctions, seizures and other divorces from parts of past reality. Pitching standard traditions in the trash, wrapped in drying blood. Creepy bird’s nests and fear of impending death, yet still continuing to create one’s own sizzling and burning red fire.”

This new chapbook is now one week old and still needs new homes. 

You can find out more about the new chapbook HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

And if you have any questions, feel free to ask...

Juliet Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out" is now newly available from Grey Book Press!

"No I wasn't trying 

to kill an invisible mouse
by accidentally shooting
my seizure pill under the oven
and not being able to find it.

I'm not small enough to crawl
all the way under;
to pull you out if you are
even smaller and more invisible
than me..."

the beginning of Juliet Cook's poem "Mangled Is Still Alive".

Inside Cook's NEW poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", now officially available, thank you to Grey Book Press!

You can find out more about it HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy for yourself or a friend (or both) HERE! -
http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

Happy Poetry Month!

Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds! The NEW April flock has arrived with 20 NEW poems for your reading pleasure!

Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds! The new April flock is HERE, including TWENTY NEW POEMS!

Poetry by Martin Willitts Jr., Rachel J. Fenton, J. MacBain-Stephens, Paul Brookes, Scott Ferry, J.C. Mari, Kristin Garth, and John Compton!

https://13myna.blogspot.com/ 💜🖤💓

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"The world is beginning slowness, about to slide into the muddy banks - Our bones lock our refreshed hearts in a new cage - a twisted birthday where one woke at their funeral - we jump and pounce on each other - nowhere to run - the squirrel with brains knocked out by someone's car - Complete items are wrong, ugly, incorrect - you want me to notice the words, what remains of them. What did they mean before and what do they mean now? - How many times a day do I place false closures on the ends of words? - just grey and white and swollen with brine - driving on her own ghost train - I pretend to fit the correct ends into sockets - blood drawn, buttoned lips - and out it comes, surprising you with its ferocity - pleasure gardens for hyenas - The occupation of colors avalanches - Annihilate me and my fairy tale"

Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds! The NEW April Flock Is HERE!

Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds!

This NEW April flock of Myna Birds features Latif Ba, L.B. Stringfellow, MISH, John D. Robinson, Nicholas Hayes, Daniel G. Snethen, Alexander P. Garza, and Felix Purat.

"In the dream, I am on the dark side - In manacles chafing ashy ankles and nails like wild flamingos - Here the dead live close to the living - I am troubled by the heaviness of being - I know it’s temporary, just like everything - all of it in a fifth of vodka or in the dizziness of speech - One who’s svelte becomes lumbering and oafish - He licks his teeth frantically trying to see if they are loose - with space to fill with truth - the spider-webby veins of gravity and time - where the leaves of trees become the dead wings of birds - A web of brain matter, rummaged through - That’s your gift? - the slop of undigested graves - how they seem to construct themselves - It’s astounding: how little time people spend with themselves - She's empty, running on empty - Just cold dead eye balls - gazing down aisles lined with radiant bottles of single malt whiskey, Barbadian rum, vodka white as snow - A sparrow is trapped in the terminal above in caged frustration its wings express a message - Crouching on the stoop, he becomes a gargoyle only to become stone. How else does one become permanent?"

HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com

Blood Pudding Press will be at a book fair, April 28!

~Sunday April 28 - Book Fair for National Poetry Month at Coffee Coffee Coffee - 2-4 PM
(4193 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH. 44109)

Juliet Cook’s small indie press, Blood Pudding Press will have a table at this event (and Juliet will have some of her own poetry books from other small presses available for sale too)

Poetry Month Special Offer!

Since April is poetry month, you may use Coupon Code APRILPOEMLOVE for 25% any poetry chapbook purchases made from the Blood Pudding Press shop this entire month! - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress