NEW! I am delighted to have "My Own" new poem appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

I am delighted to have a new poem appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground! - https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2025/06/04/my-own-by-juliet-cook/
"My Own"!
Thank you very much to Michele McDannold!

Sometimes the larger scheme of things can feel a little bit pointless to me, but at least in the larger scheme of whatever the hell, I'm my own pair of socks...

NEW! My poem "When You Try to Make Something Sad Look Pretty" is included in Of Rust and Glass's new SCARS issue!

"You are the pallbearer wearing high heels

even though you never cared very much
for high heels. They are now sewn on
to the bottom of your feet.
Unable to be removed

from the unwanted, you wobble haphazardly"

***

Delighted to have my poem "When You Try to Make Something Sad Look Pretty" included in Of Rust and Glass's SCARS issue!

If you visit this link, you can click on the cover to see/read the full issue - or you can scroll down a bit and specifically click on A Word from the Editor, Artwork, Poetry, or Prose - and if you want to, you can purchase a print copy too!

https://ofrustandglass.com/no-11-scars/

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical! - 'Ripped Gills Atomized into Lightning" by Juliet Cook & j/j hastain

"Heavy voltage electricity through

which another new life form

might emerge."

inside the poem "Ripped Gills Atomized into Lightning" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain, which appears inside the NEW Rag Queen Periodical - ISSUE ONE: SELF Cadaver!

I'll link to the whole issue below and then I'll link to j/j and I's poem below that!

Looking forward to reading this whole issue!

The whole issue - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/issue-one-credits

"Ripped Gills Atomized into Lightning" - 

https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2018/05/01/Ripped-Gills-Atomized-into-Lightning-by-Juliet-Cook-jj-hastain

NEW in Picaroon Poetry - Inside an Old Basement

"Nobody wants all of me.
They just want small pieces."

a small piece of my poem "Inside an Old Basement", in Issue #11 of Picaroon Poetry

more HERE - https://picaroonpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/picaroon-poetry-issue-11-november-2017/

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes

"Maybe my poems come out
of the veins of my neck
and one day it will explode.

Sometimes I share too much.
Sometimes I don't share enough,
but doesn't that all depend

upon what one considers
to be the deep end
or the blood bath?

Whether or not they want to
dive all the way into me
and whether or not I'll let them?"

from my poem "Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes", at Rag Queen Periodical today

partake of more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/11/13/St-Juliet-with-Starry-Eyes-by-Juliet-Cook

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Breast Meat

"We do our best to stand out
as chickens. We cluck and we pluck and we pop
another egg. We paint it, try to make it
look new and exciting, but it leaks."

from my poem "Breast Meat"

NEW in the The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/11/12/breast-meat-by-juliet-cook/

Happy Friday the 13th! The new Halloween Issue 105 of Red Fez is now live!

The new Halloween Issue 105 of Red Fez is now live, with lots of creepy goodies, including my angry horrific contradictory poem, "Unfriend Everyone"!

"If you don't unfriend the same person that I unfriend,
then you'd better just unfriend ME.
Because I don't want to be friends with ANYONE
who doesn't 100% agree with ME
and approach everything exactly the same as ME
versus YOU versus ME versus YOU versus ME."

Read more HERE: https://www.redfez.net/poetry/agree-unfriend-everyone-2584

NEW in Philosophical Idiot! - "From One Ruined Human to Another".

Thank you very much to Philosophical Idiot for sharing my poem, "From One Ruined Human to Another".

HERE - https://www.philosophicalidiot.com/julietcookpoetry

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - another "When I Used to be a Little Girl"

"When I finally glanced down, there was a circle shape
of blood on the floor. It was dripping from in between
my legs, brightening the cold concrete surroundings."

from another of my "When I Used to Be a Little Girl" poems, newly up at The Rising Phoenix Review HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/03/30/when-i-used-to-be-a-little-girl-by-juliet-cook-2/

A new poem of mine is up at The Chaotic Review!

"Or do you just quit expressing yourself to anyone
except for inside your own head? Do you refuse to tell
what you really mean, how you really feel,

who you really are to yourself or to anyone else?
Does the real you even exist?"

from my poem "What Good Does the Truth Do?", now up at The Chaotic Review, HERE - https://thechaoticreview.com/2016/08/09/what-good-does-the-truth-do-by-juliet-cook/#like-263

Broken Down Cookie

My new poem, "Broken Down Cookie" won Yellow Chair Review's Rock the Chair Challenge this week and is now up! 

https://rockthechair.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/broken-down-cookie-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! Crow Hollow 19 includes a new poem of mine!

Delighted to be included in the first issue of Crow Hollow 19!

Murder One includes poems by Lisa Cole, Jillian Phillips, Rusty Barnes, and many more, including my own Bookmarks Stuck Inside Cracked Columns.

Thank you to poet/editor Jay Sizemore for creating this new murder of crows.

http://www.crowhollowbooks.com/issue-one.html

New Poem Up (& Down) & At You

New poem of mine up at Underground Books, the Kitchen Poet - "What he's really sticking in" -

http://www.undergroundbooks.org/2/post/2012/11/poem-juliet-cook.html

 

"I was a slice of hot red velvet cake zippered into
a malformed morph. He knew he wanted a bite or two;"

(The first two lines. Read the rest by clicking the link above.)