NEW! Excited and delighted to have a new poem running around the darkly delicious Cul-de-sac of Blood!

"Old doll head cracked with
evil fossil stuck inside
like expired cream

filling spilling out."

in my poem "Another Pie in the Face"

Delighted this poem is running around the darkly delicious Cul-de-sac of Blood track, HERE! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-5

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Speaking of Cul-de-sac of Blood and unsettling poetry, you can still acquire my poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING", which was published by Cul-de-sac of Blood last year, directly from the Cul-de-sac HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or from my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

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/books Or 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

A few copies of my latest poetry chapbook, Revolting, have now been added to my Blood Pudding Press shop

I have now added a few copies of my latest poetry chapbook, "Revolting" to my Blood Pudding Press shop, in case anyone might be interested in procuring one there.

Of course it is still available from the small press that published it, Cul-de-sac of Blood too.

Feel free to let me know if you have any questions...

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"We found its dead body inside a kitchen cabinet,
skinny, curled to one side, and all alone.
Sometimes we learn the hard way

that other people think we're overreacting
by getting really upset when a little pet dies,
as if it should be easy to replace

one little pet with another little pet
or one spouse with another spouse.
As if death is not the end of everything."

Some lines from the poem "From Hormone Imbalance to Death", the first of thirteen poems which appear within my latest poetry chapbook, "Revolting".

Revolting is now available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

Revolting is also still available from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

If you read Revolting, consider Reviewing it via Goodreads HERE (or elsewhere) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222804547-revolting

Read a few more poems from my NEW poetry chapbook, REVOLTING!

Here is a link to a new Cul-de-sac of Blood Instagram post, in which you can Preview some of the poems within my new poetry chapbook, REVOLTING!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDo9IIAxQGB/?img_index=1

REVOLTING is available from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books
Or if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from me, feel free to ask...

Read the first poem in my NEW Poetry Chapbook, REVOLTING (and more)!

"Sometimes we learn the hard way

 that some mice will eat their own babies

like sadistic cannibals, leaving nothing but half a body
attached to a head that will always live inside mine."

in the first poem ("From Hormone Imbalance to Death") within my NEW chapbook, "REVOLTING" (very recently published by Cul-de-sac of Blood).

I'm sharing a few more photos of this chapbook, as well as this whole poem here.

Front cover - first page of poem - second page of poem - back cover.

You can acquire the whole chapbook (in conjunction with other chapbooks or by itself) from Cul-de-sac of Blood HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or you can acquire it by itself directly from me.

(You can also see more photos and more details in this previous blog post HERE - https://doppelgangrene.blogspot.com/2024/11/my-new-poetry-chapbook-revolting-is-now.html)

My NEW poetry chapbook, REVOLTING, is now available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

I am very excited about my NEW darkly delicious and creepily disconcerting 2024 poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING", published by and newly available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

It is available along with 3 other poetry chapbooks ("Blood Bath" by Christine Kanownik - "Friday the 13th" by Jonathan Minton - "watch for deer" by Michael Sikkema).

All 4 have interconnected cover art by Kayte Terry!

All 4 are newly available NOW!

All 4 can be purchased together in a bundle for only $28 (which includes shipping).

OR they can be purchased individually for $8 each (which includes shipping) OR in sets of 2 or 3!

They are available from CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD here! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Please support small presses and also keep in mind that poetry chapbooks could make uniquely delightful holiday gifts (or anytime gifts) for those who adore or are inspired by poetry!

(I also have some extra copies of my REVOLTING chapbook if anyone would like to purchase directly from me for the same price. Just ask me. But I also recommend buying more than one from the uniquely wonderful small press that published them all.) ***
The next time you assume
that I worship the same way as you,
all the wall hangings will violently crash,
all the splayed remnants will come back to life
in different incarnations. Thirteen mice

you killed without thinking twice
will emerge from my mouth, convulsing,
convoluted, hurling into screaming incantations,
their tiny skulls temporarily paralyzing you,
so that you can't keep on ignoring me.

a small excerpt from my poem "Thirteen Mice", which appears inside REVOLTING

NEW! Two of my creepy poems are appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

I have two new short poems appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Usually when I have new poems up, I share a few lines from one of the poems, but this time I'm sharing Cul-de-sac of Blood's description of my poems because I love their description!

Furthermore, after you read the two poems, if interested you can click on "Learn More About These Poems".

Here's what Cul-de-sac said about my poems:

"Rotting bear dolls & chicken brains erase our heads & replace them with images of themselves, & though we might not have a name for this process, Juliet Cook’s poems show us what it feels like to find ourselves somewhere between foreground & background."

Read the poems HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-3

This photo of Henry Spencer (played by Jack Nance) in Eraserhead (directed by David Lynch) initially inspired the first poem.

I am extremely excited to have FOUR NEW POEMS appearing in Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Extremely delighted to have FOUR NEW POEMS appearing within Cul-de-sac of Blood!

Here's the editors description of the poems - The orbitoclast, a tiny hammerhead shark tap tapping us into place. “I was walking through a parking lot” leads us inevitably, somehow, to “I wasn’t sure if I was human anymore.” A standard red horror. In these poems by frequent contributor Juliet Cook, medically-induced terror finds us where we live

Here's a few lines from the poem "Both Similar and Dissimilar" -

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.

And here's where you can read all four poems! - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-2  

Also, underneath the four poems, you can click on a link to learn a little bit more about the poems, such as what inspired them...

NEW! Darkly delighted to share a new poetry chapbook acceptance from Cul-De-Sac OF BLOOD! REVOLTING!

Darkly delighted and creepily thrilled to share that I have a new poetry chapbook, "REVOLTING" accepted by Cul-De-Sac of Blood, forthcoming this fall! 

I have two creepy new poems bleeding their way through the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

I have two creepy new poems making an appearance inside the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD.

The poems are entitled, "Thorns Stuck Inside My Left Foot" and "Knocked Out".

Underneath "Knocked Out", you may also click on "Learn More About These Poems", if so inclined...


"The swelling kept changing its shape and position
like impending signs of my shifting sins that deserved
to be punished. It's my fault. I'm going to Hell
even though I don't believe in Hell.
My hysterical foot keeps expanding
into an increasingly uncomfortable land of the unknown."

in the poem "Thorns Stuck Inside My Left Foot"

read more HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-1

Happy creepy October!

NEW! Two of my creepy poems are hiding behind the walls in the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

"It sees me having a seizure on the fuzzy shag rug
that didn't exist yesterday. It sees me being pitched
across the room, strange words flinging out my mouth

into another uncertain land of the unremembered." 

I have two new creepy poems inside the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD...

HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook

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Also, under my two poems, you can click on "Learn more about these poems" and read some of my thoughts on some of my poems.

HERE - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/cook-about

For example...

"Women bleed and bleed until the menstrual blood stops, their bodies age, and they speed race closer to death. If you didn't get chased to death and chainsawed or stabbed or bludgeoned or otherwise eviscerated when you were younger, then it won't be long before your body starts eviscerating itself. Then you will die. Then you will only exist in a few other people's memories, perspectives, and (mis)interpretations.

Perhaps my poetry exaggerates these matters, but it's true that the real me not existing anymore is terrifying to me.

I hope that parts of me might still exist in my poetry, even if it tends towards the negative."

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Although sometimes I feel like even my blood is invisible to others...

NEW! Three collaborative poems by me and j/j hastain are dripping in the CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

Delighted to share that j/j hastain and I have three collaborative poems appearing in CUL-DE-SAC OF BLOOD!

"When I brought my black flower inside, there were bunches
of human hair hanging from the petals. At first, I wasn't sure
where they had come from. Then I realized
of course they came from me. But I wasn't sure
if they would destroy the flowers or help them grow
into something new. Part of me felt that the more they grew,
the more my peripheral vision would be altered."

Read more here - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/juliet-cook-and-jj-hastain