Juliet Cook is excited to receive a Pushcart Prize nomination for a poem within her Malformed Confetti! Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press!

Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook is delighted, excited, and thrilled to receive a new Pushcart Prize nomination from Crisis Chronicles Press for her poem, "assembly line doll head roach hotel", which appears in her new full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti!

Thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs and congratulations to the other nominees!

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"assembly line doll head roach hotel" was previously published online by ACTION YES (here's a link to the archives with that poem, preceded by another poem, which also happens to appear within my Malformed Confetti book) - http://actionyes.org/issue12/cook/cook1.html

"assembly line doll head roach hotel" also previously appeared in my chapbook, "Fondant Pig Angst", which was published by Slash Pine Press, but is no longer available.

Both of those publications happened 8 or 9 years ago.

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Now the poem appears within my second full-length poetry book, Malformed Confetti, which was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press - which includes poems from 2008 -2015 - and which can be acquired via Crisis Chronicles Press, here - http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html 

OR via my own Blood Pudding Press, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

A Few Lines from Juliet Cook's MALFORMED CONFETTI

"Once upon a time I wished to be wan
with black tips. Sooty tern in place of heart,
pecking, pecking. The shell cracks; it seeps
bone meal. Furry poltergeists sip from

my marrow like maggots
working a wound, little sinners
to digest the dead flesh until
the fur bristles.

It looked like a suckling pig between the legs
again, but one of my holes was birthing
a whole peccary."

inside the poem Balut, inside Juliet Cook's new poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018.

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

NEW in FLAPPERHOUSE - "The Moon Made Out of Bloated Cheese" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

"How are we supposed to know
what constitutes a healthy or unhealthy
size or shape of our own voice box?
How do we know if it’s even our own?"

inside the poem, "The Moon Made Out of Bloated Cheese" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, at FLAPPERHOUSE

more HERE - https://flapperhouse.com/2018/11/07/the-moon-made-out-of-bloated-cheese-poetry-by-juliet-cook-j-j-hastain/?fbclid=IwAR1U0X_2D0TPR9msp758M45Rj7bky0jWzKtbpDMWXQVwSjp6ynGOfILQ5xQ

MALFORMED CONFETTI has found another new home!

Peggy Honeydew received her copy of Juliet Cook's Malformed Confetti!

Delightfully displayed against sheets brimming with letters and punctuation marks! Photo taken by Peggy Honeydew. 

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Blood Pudding Press HERE (directly from the author) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Or HERE (from the publisher, Crisis Chronicles Press) - https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Malformed Confetti has arrived! (Juliet Cook's second individual full-length poetry book, published by Crisis Chronicles Press, October 2018)

Juliet Cook's second individual full-length poetry book has finally arrived (well, it will officially arrive next Tuesday), thank you very much to Crisis Chronicles Press and editor John Burroughs!

100+ pages. Poems by Cook ranging from 2008-2015. Cover art by Simona Candini. Strange and creative book blurbs written by Susan Yount, Kelly Boyker, Tracie Morell, Charles Cicirella, and Lisa M. Cole.

Find out more here via the link below - and if you live in the area, consider attending the book launch reading, happening next Tuesday, October 16 (and also linked to below).

Malformed Confetti - by Juliet Cook (CC#102)
https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook 
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/

One Week From Today! Poetry Plus Featuring Juliet Cook!

One week from today,Tuesday October 16 at 7:00 P.M.! In honor of poetry and Juliet Cook's new full-length individual poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press! 

https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/


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Juliet Cook's poetry has appeared in a small multitude of magazines, including Arsenic Lobster, DIAGRAM, Diode, FLAPPERHOUSE, Menacing Hedge and The Rising Phoenix Review. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, recently including a collaboration with j/j hastain called "Dive Back Down" (Dancing Girl Press, 2015), an individual collection called "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective, 2018), and with another individual collection, "Another Set of Ripped Out Bloody Pig Tails" forthcoming from The Poet's Haven.

Cook's first full-length individual poetry book, “Horrific Confection”, was published by BlazeVOX close to ten years ago. Her more recent full-length poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way", is a collaboration with j/j hastain published by Hysterical Books in 2016. Her MOST recent full-length individual poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" soon to be published by Crisis Chronicles Press, is the book on which this reading is based.

​Cook also sometimes creates semi-abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures.

Cook also runs her own tiny independent press, Blood Pudding Press, which sometimes publishes hand-designed poetry chapbooks and sometimes sells art.

Find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com.

A bunch of Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks!

A bunch of new and old Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks have found a new home! 🖤💜💗🍁👻

(photo taken by Trina Stolec :) )

You can acquire some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks for yourself within the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress 

From One Ruined Human to Another by Juliet Cook (CWP Collective Press) has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too

In honor of the first day of October 2018 and poetry, I have now added a few copies of  my "From One Ruined Human to Another" 2018 poetry chapbook (published this June by CWP Collective Press) to my Blood Pudding Press shop, in the hopes that more people might encounter it - or in case some people might like to purchase this chapbook and another of my chapbooks or another Blood Pudding Press chapbook at the same time.

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_active_1

Of course this chapbook can also still be acquired from the press that published it, CWP Collective Press, along with other chapbooks from that press.

HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Next Saturday,October 6!

Next Saturday,October 6! A reading in honor of They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing.

Writers Mary Biddinger, Diane Kendig, and Juliet Cook will be on hand sharing work and signing books!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1085144194978158/

Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks recently received!

Some Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks recently acquired by the Poetry Barn!
(You can acquire your own copies of these or other Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks from the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress)

(photo taken by Lissa Kiernan)

Bound Art Book & Zine Fair this Friday and Saturday (September 14 and 15)

This Friday and Saturday! Some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks will be there!

https://www.facebook.com/events/268243227241420/

NEW in Bone & Ink Press - "Dark Princess" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook AND "Leeches" by Michael Bernstein and Juliet Cook

"The exhibition staged in a black hole, 

the pummel of raw gravity collapsing the catwalk

in a neutron slop, an implosion of logic, 

slick and burning green and just because

the ghosts became ants doesn't mean 

they can't turn red again and then grow

into the size of moray eels and steal

more life. Their crystalline fangs bear down, 

existence itself rending to tatters in a slimy death roll"

within the poem, "Leeches" by Michael Bernstein and Juliet Cook, one of two collaborative poems appearing in Bone & Ink Press today

partake of more HERE - https://www.boneandinkpress.com/single-post/2018/09/12/Two-Poems-by-Juliet-Cook-w-jj-hastain-and-Michael-Bernstein

designing and preparing more Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks

first half of more copies of "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens designed and about to be prepared for mailing...

you can acquire your own copy of "Paloma" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_2

A darkly delicious new mini-review of Juliet Cook's almost ten year old poetry book, "Horrific Confection"

A darkly delicious new mini-review of Juliet Cook's almost ten year old poetry book, "Horrific Confection":

"Melt into the sugary brine that moats the dollhouse towers of minisculely detailed and finely rotated words that make up the luscious and mercurial poetry that defines this author's finely honed senses."

Janie C. 

If you're someone who hasn't yet read this book and would like to, you can read it online HERE - http://www.blazevox.org/ebk-jCook%20REAL.pdf

A copy of "From One Ruined Human to Another" by Juliet Cook has found a new home!

Vin Whitman's copy of Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook "From One Ruined Human to Another"!

Thank you to Vin Whitman for getting the book and taking this photo!🖤

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

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

Lennart Lundh received his copy of Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (CWP Collective Press, 2018).

"Juliet takes no prisoners and hides nothing. You really need to read this book." Lennart Lundh

Thank you very much for reading it and sharing this photo and remark, Lennart. 🖤

Anyone else who wants to acquire a copy can do so here - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

"From One Ruined Human to Another" by Juliet Cook (new from CWP Collective Press, as of June 2018)!

Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook is extremely excited and delighted to announce...

I have a NEW poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another", newly published and newly available from Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective!

This is my first new poetry chapbook to be published within the last three years, so those of you who hear me read poetry have probably encountered some of these poems in recent years.

For those of you who don't know my poetry, it isn't very pretty. Little girls coalesce into blobs of blood with ripped out hearts. Contaminated tissue, bible cysts, evil spells, slimy pus, disbelief in love, dead birds, dead hearts and other broken parts, doll torsos with broken heads, giant rat traps, stars filled with teeth broken from the molars, at least three different poems with pussy in them, lots and lots of blood and lots and lots of holes.

The chapbook contains 26 hideous pages worth of poems created by me AND two pieces of fantastically wonderful cover art created by poet/artist Craig Firsdon (one on the outside front cover and one on the inside front cover).

I'll share more photos and more information soon (because I received my own copies of this chapbook in the mail, this past weekend), but for now I am sharing a link to where you can acquire your very own copy of my new book, and I'm sharing some close up scans of Craig Firsdon's cover art!

If you're into my poetry (or are interested in checking it out), please support the press that chose to publish it!  For only 5 bucks plus shipping, you can get yourself a copy from CWP Collective and have a hand-designed book of 25 dark red poems and two fabulous pieces of unique art right in front of you. 

HERE! - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another


You can also buy other chapbooks from CWP too! 

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As a small sample, here's the beginning of my poem "After the Lite Brite Died"

"Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light hearted.

Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light.

Sometimes I'd rather sit by myself in the dark.

Sometimes I only want the Lite Brite colors to be dark

red like a rare moon, red like the blood

that will make you back away from this

girl turning into a woman who will not keep her own red flow a secret anymore."

Outside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon 

Inside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon 

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens at Cultural Weekly!

"The chapbook is a collector’s item

The actual physical book is hand-made by Blood Pudding Press and is a piece of art unto itself. The cover, front matter, and “innards” of the book are of high quality, heavy, tinted paper. The binding is string/yarn that resembles a feather boa (no real feathers used). Readers can choose among several colors of cover and binding (I chose hot pink cover with pink, blue, and multi colored bindings). 

The cover art for Paloma—featuring a likeness of Lauren Kate—is a collage made by the lost friend, Lauren Kate herself. And it fits the book as if it were an organic whole. Anyone who appreciates fine chapbooks will likely appreciate this book.

I read the entire chapbook at one sitting, and I have to admit, I was “blown away.” I recommend this collector’s item book to readers who appreciate an interesting speaker, good imagery, and sensitive, touching poems that manage to stay convincingly real. Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens is a keeper, for sure—and for all the right reasons"

from a wonderful new review by Eileen Murphy, of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, appearing in Cultural Weekly this week!

read more HERE - https://www.culturalweekly.com/review-paloma-jennifer-e-hudgens/

acquire your own copy of "Paloma" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy and Cultural Weekly!

NEW Interview! Backstory of the Poem "ARTERIAL DISCOMBOBULATION" by Juliet Cook

"...Was that a bodily tremor or
a body bag streamer?"

Juliet Cook is delighted to be included in Chris Rice Cooper's Backstory of the Poem, which focuses on one specific poem and how the poet wrote that specific poem.

Cook's poem focused on is "Arterial Discombobulation".

HERE - https://chrisricecooper.blogspot.com/2018/05/18-backstory-of-poem-arterial.html

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens at Swimming With Elephants Publications!

"With each poem thereafter comes a chapter of both closure and reawakening old memories; Paloma is remarkably bittersweet in the tug-of-war of saying goodbye to somebody who can no longer hear you, and Hudgens’ voice is so clear and combative against adhering to traditional standards... it is clear that Hudgens proves to be anything but a traditional poet; she rocks the reader’s thoughts, with gruesome details suggesting unkempt murder, encouraging one to further unravel the mayhem behind a sudden loss. Nonetheless, this proves to be a beautiful read, a true work of dedication and memory"

part of a wonderful new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens which appeared in a Featured Author section of SWIMMING WITH ELEPHANTS last month.

Read more HERE - https://swimmingwithelephants.com/2018/04/20/featured-swep-author-jennifer-e-hudgens/

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