NEW! I am pleased to have another new poem appearing in MasticadoresUSA!

"Based on what? Based on who?
I don't believe in the same god as you.

I sometimes believe in poetry,
even if hardly anyone seems to care or understand
what I'm trying to share or why."

in my poem "Traditional Assumptions", which is newly appearing in MasticadoresUsa today

you can read more here - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/traditional-assumptions-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! The First Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2026 is HERE...

It has been a while, but in this month of March 2026, I am finally unveiling a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock, the first of this year!

Starting with thirteen new poems by Jason Ryberg, Donna Pucciani, Mark J. Mitchell, Joshua Walker, SJ Harrold, and Maceo Nightingale.

All HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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"Too much reality hurt and cold facts couldn’t be climbed - Her branch has vanished - keys dangled from a skinny wrist - voices bleed downstage - in darkening offices and bedrooms all over America - guilt that moves because it must - a document now shredded - sending what’s left of their leaves to scatter in every direction - clues that get missed, like dull sets that fly to darkness - the goddamn cynics and nihilists - Red eyed rats coughed out tracking devices - Life begins as a wriggly maggot - worms slithered out a bleeding heart - The years rot slow in mason jars - sudden tragedy, or the inexplicable prospect of non-being"

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I still have a lot more submissions in my inbox to read and consider and respond to in phases and I am hoping to add MORE creative work to this Myna Birds flock at different times in March and April, so stay tuned.

But for now, these are your starting thirteen, which will stay up at least throughout March and April (probably longer) with more poems and art added to the mix from time to time.

NEW! My Poem “Residual Fitting Room Inside Which Nothing Fits” has managed to fit its way into MasticadoresUsa!

"You feel like you don’t fit in anywhere
and sometimes that’s hard to handle
even though you don’t particularly care

about fitting in. You care about being yourself,
but what if yourself mostly only exists inside
your own mind’s mirror?"

the beginning of my poem “Residual Fitting Room Inside Which Nothing Fits”, which is newly appearing in MasticadoresUsa

 
read more here - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/residual-fitting-room-inside-which-nothing-fits-by-juliet-cook/

NEW! I have two new poems making an appearance in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE!

"The latest firing behooves you and your
satanic hooves ablaze with hate.
Your definition of success is rat shit
crazy and not nearly as intelligent
as actual rats. Your carpetbag rat
will rat out every so-called friend
and you will do anything to rat-a-tat-tat

your evil self into more power, money,
fame. Gain the latest rat-o-sphere of fake
rat followers. Even though your system of poison
rat droppings is meant to infiltrate and destroy
everyone else's space, place, and freedom
as you spew rat diarrhea behind the back
then in everyone's faces."

in my poem "False God in a Festival of Destructive Rats", one of two poems newly appearing in POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE

read more here - https://poetry4thepeople.blogspot.com/2025/05/juliet-cook.html

NEW! My poem From Hormone Imbalance to Death is newly appearing in Scapegoat Review, Spring 2023

"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 my poem From Hormone Imbalance to Death, newly appearing within the new SCAPEGOAT REVIEW SPRING 2023

read more HERE - https://www.scapegoatreview.org/spring-2023/juliet-cook

New! Three poems of mine are appearing in A Thin Slice of Anxiety!

"From stuck pig to stuffed pig.
The ongoing ugly gestures of my body's
impending Armageddon.

"

Delighted to have three new poems appearing in A Thin Slice of Anxiety!

read more HERE - http://www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2022/03/poetry-selections-from-juliet-cook.html

New! A collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me, SUBLIMINAL BODY JEWELRY IS THE NEW LEADER , is newly appearing in BigCityLit!

"Within one week, three nose rings flew out of my nose,
hit the floor and quickly dispersed.
A month later one of them submerged
from the carpeting and sky rocketed up to the ceiling
like a tiny UFO. It wanted my nose to join it.

Next thing I knew I was missing my vertebrae,
sequined maggots were stitched to the top of my ears
and invertebrate inventory was being conducted
on my hair..."

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Happy Friday!

I am delighted to have a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me, "Subliminal Body Jewelry Is The New Leader" appearing in the new issue of BigCityLit! 

The lines above are the beginning of the poem and you can read more by clicking this link - https://nycbigcitylit.com/article/subliminal-body-jewelry-is-the-new-leader/

New! A collaborative poem by me and Martin Willitts Jr in Coffin Bell!

Darkly delighted to have a collaborative poem, "Not Enough Variegation", by me and Martin Willitts Jr. appearing in Coffin Bell!

"At least I tried to persevere,
by preserving the broken parts but
some of these broken parts are dead."

https://coffinbell.com/not-enough-variegation/

A NEW Summer Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is Here

The NEW Summer flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ 

Offering 13 poems by Mark J. Mitchell, Tom Montag, Eryn Tan Zhi Ying, Kristin Garth, Willa Jarnagin, Cat Russell AND 2 pieces of art by MISH 

Bougainvillia rain by MISH

"All your glory’s hidden by folded masks - Scents of sharp sterile swabs - Moths batter themselves against the tent - Talons will tear a coverlet in pink - grey matter splattered upon the wall you beat your head against - Merciless ravaging of life - We are twins in different universes - the halos of tarnished angels - the slow decay of bodies - the sweetness of an imagined kiss - where each of us holds to this strange broken world - when those loud fires came into her dreams - Tomorrow another mask"

NEW! One of my Museum of Impending Death poems lives inside The Haunted Dollhouse!

"The large black cloud looms and grows
into an impending tornado. The lights all go out."

inside one of my Museum of Impending Death poems, which is now inside The Haunted Dollhouse...

HERE - 

https://kristingarth.com/pink-plastic-house-a-tiny-journal/the-haunted-dollhouse/

(It can also be viewed and read on Instagram, HERE - https://www.instagram.com/p/B_YFJ0LBm3q/)

The NEW July Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE!

he stumbled into his “vanishing box” - decomposing beneath unbroken skin - ghosts walk upside-down across the ceiling - salivating over evidence - decayed buildings - the crazy in her twinkled - the tip into the fleshlight - turned up it floats faster - it’s mutiny you know to be human inside of this sex show - she wanted him to feel intimidated and to feel as insignificant as she did

The July flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Offering new art and poetry by MISH, Kristin Garth, Jennifer Behling, James Croal Jackson, John Grey, Sonia Beauchamp, Gary Beck, and Robert Beveridge! 

Dive in if you dare!

Half -woman, half-flower hybrid by MISH

A new mini-review of Juliet Cook's seven year old poetry chapbook, "POST-STROKE"

A new mini-review of Juliet Cook's seven year old poetry chapbook, "POST-STROKE":

" This diminutive collection of poems expresses the author's attempts to live with a health issue that greatly affected her life. The words she chooses to express herself are creative and piercing; abstract, yet clear in intention. Frustration, acceptance and dark humor fill the lines that tell the story between the lines. Most affecting for me is the author's attempt to rescue buried memories. Another moving collection from a verbal artist.."

Janie C.

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If you're someone who hasn't yet read this chapbook and would like to, you can read it online HERE - http://www.dusie.org/COOK%20POST%20STROKE.pdf

If you would like your own hand-designed print copy of this chapbook, you can acquire it from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/69547229/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_7

One of the baby birds slowly but surely worked its way out of the nest and then tried to fly again...

Another copy of "From One Ruined Human to Another" has found a new home!

John Burroughs' copy of my new poetry chapbook "From One Ruined Human to Another"!

Thank you to John for sharing this photo!

You can acquire your own copy of "From One Ruined Human..." from Cringe-Worthy Poet's Collective Press, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

or directly from me, while supplies last (via paypal $8 to Julietcoo@gmail.com, with no "k" after the "coo")...

Another copy of "Paloma" has found a new home!

Craig Firsdon received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens.

Read Craig's extremely kind words about Blood Pudding Press and this chapbook and then consider acquiring your very own copy of "Paloma", via the link below. :)

"A little something I just got in the mail standing right next to something special that I have been working on! Everything Juliet Cook and Blood Pudding Press puts out are pure hand made works of art. Go check them out.

Also what I have read so far of Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens is fantastic."

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"Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1

A few photos of the Author Copies of "Paloma" taken by Jennifer E. Hudgens

Jennifer E. Hudgens received their author copies of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, 'Paloma", shortly before the New Year began - and here are some photos Hudgens shared.

Acquire your very own copy of "Paloma" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1)

The front cover

The front and back covers 

The inside back cover

Me designing a chapbook (Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens)

The night before New Year's Eve (Saturday December 30), a photo D. took of me, designing a copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens.

(You can acquire your own copy of "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1 )

New Addition to my Horrific Confection website

The newly available Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, has now been added to my Horrific Confection website.

https://julietcook.weebly.com/blood-pudding-press.html

"Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens is now available for PRE-ORDER!

Happy December!

The last Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017 is now available for PRE-ORDER!

Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens includes 14 poems inspired by the poet's friend Lauren Kate, including the poem "Lauren Kate is Dead".

"Tuesday morning /I sluggishly wake up /to find a Facebook message
Lauren Kate is dead / No warning or warm up / I thought I was
dreaming of dead things again..."

The first 10 pre-ordered copies of this chapbook will receive a special addition to the inside back cover - a photo of a mix tape taken by the poet combined with imagery created by Blood Pudding Press combined with a few lines from one of the chapbook's poems.

Find out more here and pre-order your copy!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

The New September flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!

"The flowers may never be well again - Cold fronts enter spring - Glances become knives - your name branded on my mind among fields of cotton candy suicides - Mountains of snow in my head - bloated in the sweltering sun - enshrined among - the vacuum of space or the vacuum within - used for drawing blood"

The NEW end of spring/beginning of fall Thirteen Myna Birds flock has arrived! Offering new poetry by Tonya Eberhard, James Croal Jackson, Jameson Bayles, Daniel G. Snethen, and Devon Balwit (and two older poems still remaining by Louise Robertson).

HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/