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

NEW! Happy Last Day of July and a short new poem!

Happy last day of July 2026. I have a short new poem up today at Drinkers Only.

Thank you very much to editor John Patrick Robbins.

Drinkers Only : Short and Not So Sweet By Juliet Cook - https://drinkersonly.blogspot.com/2026/07/short-and-not-so-sweet-by-juliet-cook.html

NEW! I am delighted to have another new poem, "Rainbow Obsidian", newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!

"My brain is a terrible rainbow

 obsidian with cracked edges
covered up by dark glass.
A strange combination
of natural and unnatural
elements fused together."

in my poem "Rainbow Obsidian"

I am delighted to have another poem newly appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!

Please feel free to read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/07/rainbow-obsidian-by-juliet-cook.html

NEW! The First Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2026 is HERE...

It has been a while, but in this month of March 2026, I am finally unveiling a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock, the first of this year!

Starting with thirteen new poems by Jason Ryberg, Donna Pucciani, Mark J. Mitchell, Joshua Walker, SJ Harrold, and Maceo Nightingale.

All HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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"Too much reality hurt and cold facts couldn’t be climbed - Her branch has vanished - keys dangled from a skinny wrist - voices bleed downstage - in darkening offices and bedrooms all over America - guilt that moves because it must - a document now shredded - sending what’s left of their leaves to scatter in every direction - clues that get missed, like dull sets that fly to darkness - the goddamn cynics and nihilists - Red eyed rats coughed out tracking devices - Life begins as a wriggly maggot - worms slithered out a bleeding heart - The years rot slow in mason jars - sudden tragedy, or the inexplicable prospect of non-being"

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I still have a lot more submissions in my inbox to read and consider and respond to in phases and I am hoping to add MORE creative work to this Myna Birds flock at different times in March and April, so stay tuned.

But for now, these are your starting thirteen, which will stay up at least throughout March and April (probably longer) with more poems and art added to the mix from time to time.