NEW! I am very excited to share that my poem "Too Much or Not Enough" is appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

"We’re not bleeding yet, then we’re too bloody,
then we’re dried out, thrown away.

We’re too little or too big or
nothing special. We used to be
doll-like but kept growing bigger
and older and closer to disintegration."

the beginning of my poem, "Too Much or Not Enough", which is newly appearing In Conversation at The Literary Underground!

read more by clicking the link below...

https://theliteraryunderground.org/blog/2026/05/13/too-much-or-not-enough-by-juliet-cook/

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Currently this is the first poem in a sequence of interconnected poems I've been working on for quite a while now, so I guess I shall see what happens with that. Maybe when it's finally semi-done, I may try to turn it into a chapbook length manuscript of sorts.

NEW! I am delighted to have a new poem appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review!

"My recent online research has involved
how to know if a cat likes you,
but also poisonous jellyfish,
inadvertently leading towards
a trending jellyfish haircut
combined with cancerous wigs."

within my poem "I Might Get the Jellyfish Haircut", which is newly appearing in the Rye Whiskey Review, the first of three new poems of mine chosen to appear there

read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-might-get-jellyfish-haircut-by-juliet.html