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16/07/2025

"irrational: catching myself buying tickets to yet another production of outrage
theatre even though while i was occupied at last week’s performance the sidewalk
melted into the ocean so when i left the matinee & blinked against the surge of
daylight i discovered i was now stranded on an island of one surrounded by a
bale of sea turtles dragging plastic nooses."

in the poem, "i: a lexicon" by Julia Ross, in the Micro-chapbook, "SACRED BEETLE CONTEMPLATES THE FUNDING FREEZE", newly available for free (or offer a donation), as part of Ghost City Press's Summer Series 2025

Sacred Beetle Contemplates the Funding Freeze by Julia Ross Published July 15, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

16/07/2025

"implemented: dismantled, redacted, defunded, furloughed, cut off, allowed to rot
in shipping containers, under review, page not found."

in the poem, "i: a lexicon" by Julia Ross, in the Micro-chapbook, "SACRED BEETLE CONTEMPLATES THE FUNDING FREEZE", newly available for free (or offer a donation), as part of Ghost City Press's Summer Series 2025

Sacred Beetle Contemplates the Funding Freeze by Julia Ross Published July 15, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

16/07/2025

"impair: fog that just won’t lift, fog that infiltrates home, fog that makes putting
on shoes & going to check the mail take the whole afternoon."

the beginning of the poem, "i: a lexicon" by Julia Ross, in the Micro-chapbook, "SACRED BEETLE CONTEMPLATES THE FUNDING FREEZE", newly available for free (or offer a donation), as part of Ghost City Press's Summer Series 2025

Sacred Beetle Contemplates the Funding Freeze by Julia Ross Published July 15, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 14 Pages

15/07/2025

"This morning, as I was driving

to town, five white herons were grazing

in a field as tiny lambs, quiet and magnificent"

in the poem "The Editor Has His/Her/Their Say on Blue Herons" by Alessandra Bava, in THE CREATIVE PROCESS

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Being born in Rome, Italy, and living in a city that is imbued with arts and culture makes me very sensitive to the topic. The monuments that surround me have been standing for millenia and are a testament of the creativity of mankind.

14/07/2025

Seagull With Diarrhea Barely Makes It To Crowded Beach In Time
https://theonion.com/seagull-with-diarrhea-barely-makes-it-to-crowded-beach-1819574572/

14/07/2025

"I only photograph other photographers,
I study their studies of unsuspecting subjects,
their choice of lenses protruding in ecstasy
against the will of the clouds that gather.
Some days I am lucky to catch their brazen chase,
stabbing the shallow lakes with their tripod legs
as they hunt into the water with meticulous urgency
for a composition over storm struck branches, drifting."

in the poem “Bounce lighting” by Brian Duran-Fuentes, in MasticadoresUsa

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Photo by Morgana Rocha on Pexels.com It is not a dreamnevertheless / the light from this versepoisons me to call it soMario Santiago Papasquiaro, “Con el cielo por dentro” I am a photographer of ph…

08/07/2025

"On the first day of summer we turn into ladybugs
and take over the abandoned silos along the river.
At night we watch confused men hit one another
with drainpipes. Antlers grow from their wounds."

the beginning of the poem "A Fairytale About Rage Going Away for a Little Bit" by Justin Karcher, today's poem in CATALOGUING POETRY MAGAZINE

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by: Justin Karcher

08/07/2025

One more excerpt for now from the new Review of Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, "Blue Stingers Instead of Wings" (Pure Sleeze Press)! 🖤

"These are almost poems within poems, circling concentrically. Take, for instance, ‘Severed Into Unspeakable Compliance’ which details the historic act of lobotomising female patients in mental institutions in order to pacify them. In the poem, these institutionalised women, r***d by the staff who were supposed to protect them, are lobotomised to stop them complaining and accusing. Images that circle through Cook’s own neurological condition, the words that failed to flow, sited bodily as blood that pours forth from gaping mouths, and choking goose feathers stuffed in the throat. Here, “mental stupor is better/than mental disorder” because a tranquil woman does not defy. She obeys. Her youth is her use as a s*x object. But circle back to ‘The age of Vicissitude’ where youth ripens to maturity and Cook reveals the invisibility hex of middle age, of being bound and hidden from view."

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

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Review by Rachel Kendall Cracked allure of concussive gore (The age of Vicissitude) Cover art by Chad Horn. One might call Juliet Cook a confessional poet. Her subject of the self – as a female art…

08/07/2025

"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."

Within a new and much appreciated Review of Juliet Cook's 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!

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Review by Rachel Kendall Cracked allure of concussive gore (The age of Vicissitude) Cover art by Chad Horn. One might call Juliet Cook a confessional poet. Her subject of the self – as a female art…

07/07/2025

"The poems in Blue Stingers Instead of Wings are not the confessional poetry of Sexton or Plath. Cook’s confessions are horrific contortions, the blood and s**t and metamorphosis of otherness, of disturbed mind over decaying matter. Here, imagined fears, like decapitation by ceiling fan, and disrupted brain flow imagery are scattered throughout, alongside the very real issues of misogyny and beauty, and the invisibility that comes with feminine maturation."

Within a new Review of Juliet Cook's 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!

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Review by Rachel Kendall Cracked allure of concussive gore (The age of Vicissitude) Cover art by Chad Horn. One might call Juliet Cook a confessional poet. Her subject of the self – as a female art…

07/07/2025

"It helps if your heart is shattered and you feel guilty that it isn’t your fault this time either.

It helps to sink into a frigid bath of pity and self-loathing, gasping F**k quietly in a shaky voice no one will ever hear.

It helps to have a broken mirror nearby, one with the backing cardboard showing through, lightning-shaped shards glinting in the sink like so many sins."

in the poem "Help" by Len K***z, In Conversation at The Literary Underground

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The Dogs Were Good (Again) As if they had a choice, chained to the backyard fence, whimpering in the freeze like the weaklings you said they’d be. I threw some dry ham bones and snouted one, remembering to laugh as you’d said to. None of them ever barked, which made me wonder what good they ...

04/07/2025

"When the shape of a man is cut from blue construction paper
is the paper form more human or the void left behind?

Tracing the interior of the head — meaning
the void’s head — tells us much of the cut;

it’s smooth, & painless, & if they weren’t blue
nobody would see the sparse fibrous strands

recalling the departed phantom..."

in the poem "Blue Body", in "BLUE BODIES" by MATTHEW ISAAC SOBIN, another new Micro-chapbook, newly available for free (or offer a donation), as part of Ghost City Press's Summer Series 2025

Blue Bodies by Matthew Isaac Sobin Published July 2, 2025 PDF Micro-Chapbook 16 Pages