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! Delighted to have another new poem in The Rye Whiskey Review, "Is Bird Song Better Than My Song?"

"Because their song is vibrant and pretty
right now whereas my song is quiet, invisible
to almost everyone else even though
it sometimes explodes inside
my own mind or across

the page or within an overpopulated
unorganized screen until
the computer dies or else I
become a repetitive mess,
page after page of dead birds,"

the beginning of my poem "Is Bird Song Better Than My Song?"

I am delighted to have another new poem appearing in The Rye Whiskey Review (this time in the last weekend of June 2026)...

you may read more here - https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2026/06/is-bird-song-better-than-my-song-by.html

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

Happy September! My poem, "And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing" is up at The Rye Whiskey Review today!

Have a drink of this poem of mine and decide for yourself whether it's bad or good - and then spit it out or poor it down the drain or have another drink of it.

"And If That Mockingbird Don't Sing" at The Rye Whiskey Review, HERE - http://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/2018/09/and-if-that-mockingbird-dont-sing-by.html