NEW! My poem "NIGHTMARE MACULAR DEGNERATION" is newly appearing in Rogue Agent!

"Can't open up
these eyes anymore
without unfurling

 
bloody worm shapes,
semi-liquid spillage,
turning old pillows
into gore-hacked

remnants of consumed pupils"

in my poem "NIGHTMARE MACULAR DEGENERATION", newly appearing in Issue 137, August 2026 of Rogue Agent!

Read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

Check out the whole issue here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue137

Happy or Unhappy November! Creeping into November with Dissolution and Decay, a new poem of mine in Rogue Agent!

Creeping into November with Dissolution and Decay, a new poem of mine is now appearing in Issue 116 of Rogue Agent! 

"Decayed limbs lurch
themselves out of trees.
Broken branches
spurt dead seeds."

Read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-3

Dive in to the whole November Issue here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue116

NEW! My short poem "Sweet Tooth" is making an appearance in the new issue of Rogue Agent!

Delighted to have my short haiku poem "Sweet Tooth" appearing in the NEW May issue 110 of Rogue Agent!

Wishing you all a happy and poetic May!

Dive in to the latest issue of Rogue Agent HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/

New! My poem "My Teeth Have Been Loose For Years" appears in Rogue Agent, Issue 77!

"The lineup of blood
drenched animal crackers
is hiding deep down underneath
so many tiny broken beds.

Scared little girls can only gain control
if they turn into different creatures
if they bite off the heads and spit."

the beginning of my poem MY TEETH HAVE BEEN LOOSE FOR YEARS, in the NEW Issue 77 of Rogue Agent!

Very excited to have my poem included!

read more HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

NEW! One of my Museum of Impending Death poems is in Rogue Agent Issue 63!

"Maybe it's your fault because you ate a rancid peach.
Maybe it's your fault because you didn't apply
enough bleach or because you didn't drink
enough bleach or because you drank too much.

Maybe it's your fault because you held an unwashed doll's hand."

in my Museum of Impending Death poem, appearing within Rogue Agent Issue 63

more HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook

Happy October! A NEW poem by me and j/j hastain is up at Rogue Agent today!

"We don't wrench out every bite of pie filling
because that would debilitate the crust.
We don’t try to unearth our whole life’s story in the memoir
about how we felt the first time we watched E.T.
We don't maintain the exact same flavor forever.
Connective tissue eventually rips apart;

flutters down from the scaffolding
and lands in its own new space."

from the poem "FOR CLASSIFICATION PURPOSES" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, at Rogue Agent Issue 55

HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/cook-hastain-2

Happy February! A new Interview about me and my poetry and my Malformed Confetti appears in the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent!

Delighted to have an interview about my poetry writing process and other poetic thoughts/feelings (and about my new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, published by Crisis Chronicles Press in 2018) appearing within the NEW Issue 47 of Rogue Agent, surrounded by poetry!

Juliet Cook talks about embodied poetry and writing Malformed Confetti, HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

Happy New Year 2019! AND j/j hastain and I have a new poem in Rogue Agent!

"...Beelzebub rises me up,

sinks me down into a bowl of vomit,
stirs me with a knife,
frosts me on top of inedible cake
and I don’t stop eating
myself like the bride and groom
who married in spite of broken spoons
hurling themselves across rooms."

in the poem, "FRANKENSTEIN’S WIFE WEARING TORN LINGERIE" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, inside the NEW Issue 46 of ROGUE AGENT!

read more HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/cook-hastain

Red-eyed white rabbit at the Lorain County Fair, Saturday August 25

(This rabbit appears adorable and harmless, but when I was a kid, red-eyed rabbits disturbed me and in case you might want to read a disturbing poem about that matter, here is "White Is My Least Favorite Color", which was published in Rogue Agent a while back - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook/)

Happy March! New poems in the Ohio Poets Issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry AND new poems in the March Issue of Rogue Agent

I am delighted to start off the month of March with two of my poems appearing in two different  wonderful literary magazines!

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"Out of my blood drenched trench where I'm not good enough at choosing between periods or question marks. I keep on trying to re-position myself into something new. "

inside my poem, "Not Settling Down" in Glass

read more here - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2018/march/cook-not.html

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"White refrigerator filled with white needles. White bedding. White cage."

inside my poem, "White Is My Least Favorite Color" in Rogue Agent

read more here - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook

NEW in Rogue Agent Issue 22 (Happy New Year!)

"My long letters ruin friendships.
It doesn't matter whether they're overly positive
or overly negative or a juxtaposition of both."

from my poem "IT DOESN'T MATTER", in the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

Happy to start the New Year by having a poem published, surrounded by other poems, inside the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

NEW Rogue Agent!

Happily delighted that the newest issue of Rogue Agent is alive and includes a collaborative poem by j/j hastain & me (and lots more good stuff too) all HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/