A few photos of me with my Pure Sleeze Press poetry chapbook AND my Pure Sleeze shirt!

I had meant to share some photos like this well over a month ago, of me wearing my newish Pure Sleeze shirt (which Darryl got me for Xmas) while holding my Pure Sleeze poetry chapbook (Blue Stingers Instead of Wings, published by Pure Sleeze Press in April 2025, with cover art by Chad M. Horn), but the first set of photos I attempted either had half of the chapbook missing or parts of the Pure Sleeze missing off the shirt. Plus on top of that, the older I get the less prone I am to taking selfies because I'm not one of those people who filters my photos, but the older I get, the less I like looking at photos of myself and feeling like I look old (I probably shouldn't say that, but just being honest). But the chapbook is not old and neither is the shirt and you can get one (or both or more than both) for yourself in the Pure Sleeze shop HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/products On a side note, I also have a few copies of my Blue Stingers Instead of Wings chapbook available directly from me or in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

NEW! A Review of my latest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings", thanks to Rachel Kendall of Sein und Werden!

"The dry spell here might suggest writer’s block, an obstruction of language. Or it might speak of the libido, or of the menopausal body. Elsewhere in the book birds’ eggs, branches, and nests are rife, but this is not the imagery of a spring renewal. The eggs are cracked, the nests broken, the branches rotten."

A small sample within a new and much appreciated Review of my latest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (Pure Sleeze Press)!

Thank you very much to Rachel Kendall, writer and editor of Sein und Werden, for writing this review!

Read more of the review here - https://seinundwerden.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by-juliet-cook/

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"Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" can be acquired through Pure Sleeze Press here - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings

Or from my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by

NEW! I am delighted to have a poem of mine appearing in HSTQ: Spring 2025, the latest curated collection from Horror, Sleaze and 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"

part of my long-ish poem, "The Age of Vicissitude"

I'm delighted to have this poem appearing within HSTQ: Spring 2025, the latest curated collection from Horror, Sleaze and Trash!

You can download this new collection for FREE here - https://horrorsleazetrash.com/2025/06/19/hstq-spring-2025/

This poem of mine also appears in my most recently published chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025), which is still available to be acquired from Pure Sleeze here - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/

Or from my own Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by

Me holding a copy of my latest poetry chapbook, Blue Stingers Instead of Wings!

Me holding a copy of my latest poetry chapbook, Blue Stingers Instead of Wings. Published by Pure Sleeze Press in April. Still available from Pure Sleeze. And now also available in my own Blood Pudding Press shop. See links below. Available from Pure Sleeze Press HERE - https://puresleezepress.bigcartel.com/product/blue-stingers-instead-of-wings Available in my own Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314653197/new-blue-stingers-instead-of-wings-by

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