Juliet Cook's Blog, page 2
June 4, 2025
NEW! Blue Stingers Instead of Wings has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too!
My newest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" was very recently published by Pure Sleeze Press in late April 2025. It is still available from Pure Sleeze Press HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings
AND NOW in addition to still being available from its publisher, I have also placed a few copies of this chapbook into my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by
So why not get one while the getting is good (or bad or awful or hideous or at least still oddly available)!
(Also, if there's some other way you'd prefer to purchase one directly from me, such as via Paypal, feel free to ask).
(Also, Pure Sleeze will have more new chapbooks coming out in July so keep an eye out!)
Please help support small poetry presses so that they can continue to exist!
May 20, 2025
NEW! Su Zi's Review of my Poetry Chapbook REVOLTING!
"The book is a pure example of the chapbook format, and this one has a subtle and elegant presence. Ironic to this perception is the book’s title Revolting (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), the work being a recent offering from Juliet Cook...
...Cook’s style oscillates between the conversational and the surreal without ever being derailed from the poem’s thesis. There’s a fun energy here, a sense of play, even when the topics themselves might not be lighthearted."a few snippets of Su Zi's new Review of my poetry chapbook "Revolting".
In addition to reviewing my chapbook, the article also focuses on the joy of print poetry chapbooks, discoveries from the online poetry community, the importance of independent presses, and related elements.
"In our times now of needing to prioritize individual makers over global producers, it does a greater good to buy a chapbook..."
Thank you very much to Su Zi for writing this wonderful review/article and thank you very much to GAS: Poetry, Art & Music, and Belinda Subraman for publishing and sharing it!
Read more here - https://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com/2025/05/su-zis-review-of-juliet-cooks-revolting.html
Acquire a copy of REVOLTING (and/or other chapbooks) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/booksOr get this chapbook (and/or other chapbooks) directly from Cook's own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry
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May 5, 2025
NEW! I have four poems newly appearing in Poetry Pacific!
I am happy to have four poems newly appearing in Poetry Pacific, Vol. 14, 2025, here - http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2025/05/4-poems-by-juliet-cook.html
The first two ("Un-pretty Maroon" and "Nihilistic White") are haiku variants that also appear inside my new poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (which I will link to below).
The third one ("I Hate My Guts") is a haiku that does not appear anywhere else.
The fourth one ("Another Me") is a newer poem that also does not appear anywhere else.
The first three have some accidental formatting errors, so I'm going to place correctly formatted versions below.
***
Un-pretty Maroon
My creative flow
starts internal ambience,
then begins screaming.
I revise my screams
into un-pretty maroon
that will speak for me.
Words obliterate
words into non-existence
if I don't feel real.
Nihilistic White
Fresh white snowflakes fall.
Shimmer down, glitter the ground,
grow into cold gloom.
Nihilistic white
witch, ice queen growing darker.
Overtaking light.
I Hate My Guts
Ugly fat preys on
my ribs. Tries to hide them with
menopause gut punch.
***
"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is my new poetry chapbook, recently published by Pure Sleeze Press, in which these first two haiku variants also appear, as well as eleven other poems.
Acquire a copy from Pure Sleeze Press here - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings
Or please feel free to ask if you'd like to acquire one directly from me.
The first two ("Un-pretty Maroon" and "Nihilistic White") are haiku variants that also appear inside my new poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (which I will link to below).
The third one ("I Hate My Guts") is a haiku that does not appear anywhere else.
The fourth one ("Another Me") is a newer poem that also does not appear anywhere else.
The first three have some accidental formatting errors, so I'm going to place correctly formatted versions below.
***
Un-pretty Maroon
My creative flow
starts internal ambience,
then begins screaming.
I revise my screams
into un-pretty maroon
that will speak for me.
Words obliterate
words into non-existence
if I don't feel real.
Nihilistic White
Fresh white snowflakes fall.
Shimmer down, glitter the ground,
grow into cold gloom.
Nihilistic white
witch, ice queen growing darker.
Overtaking light.
I Hate My Guts
Ugly fat preys on
my ribs. Tries to hide them with
menopause gut punch.
***
"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is my new poetry chapbook, recently published by Pure Sleeze Press, in which these first two haiku variants also appear, as well as eleven other poems.
Acquire a copy from Pure Sleeze Press here - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings
Or please feel free to ask if you'd like to acquire one directly from me.
May 2, 2025
Happy May! My latest poetry chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now one week old and still available!
Happy May!
My new poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is now one week old and still available!
Don't hate me because I'm weird and repetitive.
Thank you to Pure Sleeze Press for publishing this, along with four other new chapbooks, all of which will remain available until they sell out.
"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" can be purchased for $8 (plus $5 shipping)!
Or you can get all five new chapbooks in a Five Book Bundle for $30!
Acquire mine and/or 1, 2, 3 or all 4 of the remaining others while they are still available.
Here's the link to buy them from Pure Sleeze Press! - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/
I also have some copies of my "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" so if you'd like to acquire my chapbook directly from me for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please do feel free to reach out...
NEW! I have two new poems making an appearance in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE!
"The latest firing behooves you and your
satanic hooves ablaze with hate.
Your definition of success is rat shit
crazy and not nearly as intelligent
as actual rats. Your carpetbag rat
will rat out every so-called friend
and you will do anything to rat-a-tat-tat
your evil self into more power, money,
fame. Gain the latest rat-o-sphere of fake
rat followers. Even though your system of poison
rat droppings is meant to infiltrate and destroy
everyone else's space, place, and freedom
as you spew rat diarrhea behind the back
then in everyone's faces."
in my poem "False God in a Festival of Destructive Rats", one of two poems newly appearing in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE
read more here - https://poetry4thepeople.blogspot.com/2025/05/juliet-cook.html
satanic hooves ablaze with hate.
Your definition of success is rat shit
crazy and not nearly as intelligent
as actual rats. Your carpetbag rat
will rat out every so-called friend
and you will do anything to rat-a-tat-tat
your evil self into more power, money,
fame. Gain the latest rat-o-sphere of fake
rat followers. Even though your system of poison
rat droppings is meant to infiltrate and destroy
everyone else's space, place, and freedom
as you spew rat diarrhea behind the back
then in everyone's faces."
in my poem "False God in a Festival of Destructive Rats", one of two poems newly appearing in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE
read more here - https://poetry4thepeople.blogspot.com/2025/05/juliet-cook.html
April 28, 2025
NEW! I have two new poems making an appearance in Cul-de-sac of Blood!
"One reason
I maintain these bangs
is to hide what's underneath.
My bulbous forehead crawls
with insects circumnavigating
the brain canal. I stomp on the latest baby
centipedes racing around my kitchen floor,
trying to get all the attention
even though they can't even speak
for themselves, then trying to hide from me."
in my poem "Out of Date", one of two new poems by me, newly appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood
read more here - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-4
I maintain these bangs
is to hide what's underneath.
My bulbous forehead crawls
with insects circumnavigating
the brain canal. I stomp on the latest baby
centipedes racing around my kitchen floor,
trying to get all the attention
even though they can't even speak
for themselves, then trying to hide from me."
in my poem "Out of Date", one of two new poems by me, newly appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood
read more here - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-4
Happy Poetry Month! It's Not Quite Done Yet! My latest poetry chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" is newly 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 my 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, or all 3 of the remaining others before they sell out too!
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 my new chapbook and a sampling from one of the poems inside it appears below.
(P.S. I also have some copies of my "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" so if you'd like to acquire my chapbook directly from me for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please feel free to reach out...)...
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 my poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar", in my chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", Pure Sleeze Press, late April 2025
As of Friday April 25, 2025, the new Spring chapbooks from Pure Sleeze Press were made officially available until they sell out!
This includes my 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, or all 3 of the remaining others before they sell out too!
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 my new chapbook and a sampling from one of the poems inside it appears below.
(P.S. I also have some copies of my "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" so if you'd like to acquire my chapbook directly from me for the same price, that is a possibility too. Please feel free to reach out...)...
***
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 my poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar", in my chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", Pure Sleeze Press, late April 2025
March 27, 2025
A NEW Thirteen Myna Birds Flock has finally arrived!
Hello from Thirteen Myna Birds!
"Voice turned screechy, my soft hands, now hard claws - in the stations of silence, the static in between channels - The rain drizzles on - to be content to exist for however long - longer than the moth who burns itself out in light - she wears an officer’s silver jumpsuit, laser gun in her belt - and I explode inside - My face has changed to skull-bone, covered in a hard shell - the moment I put the pen to it the page bursts into flames - Lost in a burned prairieland - sidewalk rubbish floating up at ya like attack-ghosts - a wall that needs to be fed Blood - A tiny white flower blooms Against all the dark noises..."***
It has been quite a while since a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived, but better late than never, I hope.
Within this new Thirteen Myna Birds flock, you can Spring into poetry and visual art by MISH - read some poetry by John Andrew Fredrick and listen to some music from his band, the black watch - and read some poetry by Holly Day, Wayne F Burke, Alexandra Dark, Yuan Changming, and James Moran.
Look, listen, and read it all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/
***
(I'm also semi-tentatively thinking that instead of waiting months for the next new Myna Birds update, I might continually add a few new poems to this flock within the Poetry Month of April. This new flock of 21 creative contributions will stay up AT LEAST throughout the whole month of April, but additional poems might join the flock throughout that month.)
Wednesday by MISHMarch 2, 2025
NEW! My long poem "The Age of Vicissitude" is appearing in Horror Sleaze Trash!
"My brain is broken. Slashed like an old horror
film scene, retching and dragging my un-tight legs along
this antiquated, soon to be autopsied linoleum floor.
Cracked allure of concussive gore. Bruised and confused
and wavering away from reality. Disabled runway model.
Old cat lady with swollen feet and scratches across
flimsy wrists. Another pair of cat eye glasses
falls off my head and breaks and the room grows darker."
A small part of a long poem of mine, "The Age of Vicissitude", which is newly appearing today in Horror Sleaze Trash!
Read more HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/03/02/juliet-cook/
(This poem is longer than my usual and will also be appearing in my chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", forthcoming this Spring from Pure Sleeze Press.)
film scene, retching and dragging my un-tight legs along
this antiquated, soon to be autopsied linoleum floor.
Cracked allure of concussive gore. Bruised and confused
and wavering away from reality. Disabled runway model.
Old cat lady with swollen feet and scratches across
flimsy wrists. Another pair of cat eye glasses
falls off my head and breaks and the room grows darker."
A small part of a long poem of mine, "The Age of Vicissitude", which is newly appearing today in Horror Sleaze Trash!
Read more HERE - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/03/02/juliet-cook/
(This poem is longer than my usual and will also be appearing in my chapbook "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", forthcoming this Spring from Pure Sleeze Press.)
February 25, 2025
NEW! Two new poems of mine are making an appearance in The Literary Underground!
"When I finally shut my eyes they still glimmer
like an impending mini-seizure or like I’m smothering
a centipede with my pillow, but then it is back on top
of the ceiling."
Part of one of two new poems of mine newly appearing in The Literary Underground
Read more HERE - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/02/24/2-poems-by-juliet-cook/
like an impending mini-seizure or like I’m smothering
a centipede with my pillow, but then it is back on top
of the ceiling."
Part of one of two new poems of mine newly appearing in The Literary Underground
Read more HERE - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/02/24/2-poems-by-juliet-cook/
