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! 

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, 3 or all 4 of the remaining 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 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 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 my poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar", in my chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", Pure Sleeze Press, late April 2025

Still very excited and delighted about my recent poetry chapbooks!!!!

1 Year Ago, in 2023, I was very excited and delighted and grateful to have three different new poetry chapbooks published by three different independent small presses!

"red flames burning out" was published by Grey Book Press and is still available from them here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/ or from my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry-chapbook

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" was published by Gutter Snob Books and is now out of stock/out of print from Gutter Snob but I still have a very few copies available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press and is currently sold out from Ethel but I still have a very few copies available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

Then this year, 2014, I very recently (as in less than a month ago) had a new poetry chapbook published by Cul-de-sac of Blood!  "REVOLTING" can be investigated and acquired from the Cul-de-sac HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Hello September! I hope my Fall is filled with poetry and a few other personal thoughts...

My full-length poetry book "Malformed Confetti" is now approaching 6 years old (already) and still exists (see the photo links below). I still exist too.

I do tend to assemble poetry chapbook manuscripts more than full-length manuscripts. I've had 8 different chapbook manuscripts published in the last 6 years (with another new one forthcoming soon), but this book is still my most recent full-length. It takes me a long time to assemble full-lengths and overall, I'm more drawn to shorter length books. I have my reasons. BUT with that said, I should really try to focus on assembling my next full-length manuscript soon. It's been in-progress for years.

I've been having trouble sleeping soundly lately, so the other night in bed (while not sleeping), I was thinking about how my first individual full-length poetry book was named "Horrific Confection" and then my second one was named "Malformed Confetti" and then it suddenly and unexpectedly popped into my noggin that maybe my next one should be named "Broken Stethoscope". Not sure exactly where that came from, but it felt like a possible plan.

The last few months have not been my most creatively productive, but this month is off to a pretty good start. I've already sent out five poetry submissions this month and one query (I'm not the greatest at querying). I finished writing three semi-interconnected new poems. I finished revising an older poem (and have two more poem revisions in progress). I also have two other new poems in progress that I hope to revisit more soon. Oh wait, actually, I sent out six poetry submissions so far this month, but one of them resulted in a rejection about three hours after submitting it. So hopefully I'll receive a new acceptance semi-soon.

I have more to say but it will have to wait until later.

One more thing I will mention for now (without getting into much detail as to why) is that I am trying to avoid volatile negativity on social media or behavior that feels toxic to me whatever its intention might be. I would rather place my negativity, anger, and other strong emotions inside my poetry and art (and the few people I trust in terms of expressing myself personally). Of course there are always exceptions.

I wish my friends a genuinely creative September.

A photo of my 6 Year old poetry book, Malformed Confetti (published by Crisis Chronicles in October 2018).

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from my own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Poetry by Juliet Cook

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

Photo taken by Crisis Chronicles Press editor, John Burroughs

My 2023 Poetry Chapbooks on Goodreads

Just a note that my three 2023 poetry chapbooks (as well as other poetry chapbooks/books of mine) are also listed on Goodreads, so if you read them this year, next year, or anytime, you can also feel free to rate and/or review them if you are so inclined 🖤🙃🖤

Here are Goodreads links to the three 2023 chaps:

"red flames burning out" (Grey Book Press, April 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/131983564-red-flames-burning-out

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" (Gutter Snob Books, summer 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174348259-contorted-doom-conveyor

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, December 2023) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203818234-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards

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Also, here are links to where each chapbook can be acquired:

"red flames burning out" is available here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

Or here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1474135657/new-red-flames-burning-out-a-poetry

"CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR" is available here - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1527609127/new-contorted-doom-conveyor-a-poetry

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is available here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

Or inquire directly from me.

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Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, brimming with poetry! 

My Three New Poetry Chapbooks in 2023!

It is most certainly not every year that I end up having three different poetry chapbooks published by three different small presses, but that happened in 2023 and for that I am excited and grateful.

This year had its sadness and difficulties and I feel like I didn't write enough new poetry, but I was lucky enough to have some of my poetry published within literary magazines and inside these three darkly delightful little books.

Thank you to the people and small presses that believe in me and my poetry.

"red flames burning out" was published by Grey Book Press in April 2023 (find out more here http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/)

"Contorted Doom Conveyor" was published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023 (find out more here - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140)

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" was very recently published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023 (find out more here - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook)

My three new poetry chapbooks in 2023