HELLO My name is DOLL

More creepy little bunches of the newest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen (including cover art by Josh Birrittieri), have been prepared to circulate their way into the world.

You can acquire a copy for yourself here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Or acquire one for a friend, as a creepy, slightly belated Valentine (or anti-Valentine) gift filled with evil little dolls. We don't all like cheesy cards, romantic chocolates, and cliched jewelry, after all. Some of us like strange poetry and art. 

The DUSIE Kollektiv 9 is now available online (including the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS...)!

The DUSIE kollektiv 9 : for Marthe Reed

curated by elisabeth workman & susana gardner

Now available to read online HERE - http://www.dusie.org/kollektiv9.html

(All kinds of poetry chapbooks available, in honor of Marthe Reed, including the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS by Juliet Cook)

Here is a link to the online version of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS - http://www.dusie.org/Cook--DARKPURPLEINTERSECTIONS.pdf

And DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS is also available in hand-designed print copies from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_2

NEW from Blood Pudding Press! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

Tonight, within the final dark hours of Friday the 13th of December 2019, one night after the last full moon of the year, is the perfect night to introduce the creepy, crawly, scary, strangely rotating table of doll heads within a NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA's amalgamation of horrific dolls is Blood Pudding Press's style! Quirky, dark, darkly comedic, oddly disturbing, and twisted. Screaming eyed dolls and broken doll bodies. Dolls as killers, dolls as evil, dolls as gods, dolls as horror movie scenes, dolls as bloody apples, dolls as distorted bible verse.

PEDIOPHOBIA offers you sixteen peculiar poems by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA artwork was created especially for this collection by Josh Birrittieri - an outside front cover, an inside front cover, and an outside back cover!

PEDIOPHOBIA has been printed and designed by Blood Pudding Press creature Juliet Cook, bound with yarn AND scraggly doll hair, but don't blame me if the doll hair bites you! 

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According to Daniel G. Snethen himself:

"My newest chapbook Pediophobia (Fear of Dolls) will soon be ready. It will be bound together by hand. Juliet Cook is the publisher and owner of Blood Pudding Press. Every copy will be handmade by her. Juliet is also an extraordinary poet herself. Josh Birrittieri did all the graphics for this chapbook and they are absolutely amazing. And I may be bragging a bit here, but I doubt you will find a better more complete collection of doll poetry anywhere. Many of the poems are creepy some are funny and a few are sad. One is a continuation of a famous episode from the Twilight Zone. One or two might even be considered demented. And several of them are peopled with personages I personally know. If you dare to read these and you know me, don't be too surprised if you recognize some of the characters and settings. If you hate dolls and find them creepy and disturbing, this slim volume of poetry is definitely for you. It will cure you of narcolepsy and will give you reason to run the light meter all eventide long. So please spend a few dollars and indulge yourself... your insanity is worth it."

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"Green glassy eyed heads
Unblinking verdant eyed stares
Headless dolls of Hell"

(within the poem "Nightmare of Dolls")

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"Dark human corpses piled
high on doll infested hills.
Unblinking dolls smiling,
keeping tally with their quills,
as people topple"

(within the poem "Doll Food")

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"Fearfully, I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads but
not before hearing Mother weeping and crying out in her aged voice,
“My son, my son, why hast thou forsaken me!”"

(within the poem "Doll Heads")

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Get your very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS has found another new home!

Sara Minges received her copy of Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)!

This new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook was published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9 in May 2019.

It is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo by Sara Minges

A copy of "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" has found a new home!

Theresa Senato Edwards recently received her copy of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker!

Get your own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/512469489/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_4

(part of a photo taken by Theresa Senato Edwards)

NEW! Paloma Reviewed at Rag Queen Periodical

"If grief is another country, Jennifer Hudgen’s poems navigate that terrain like a native. Her chapbook from the ever amazing Blood Pudding Press, is a carnivalesque romp through loss using the often sharp edges of memory, keen insight and a healthy dose of rage at what is snatched from us without warning.

These 14 prose poems, unevenly spaced, startle with their pyrotechnic wordplay, as they call up the author’s memories and reminiscences, jumping in with both feet, explicit yet honest, full of blind rage at times, yet so tender and so evocative throughout that what she grieves, grieves the reader, too."

from a new review by Michelle Reale at Rag Queen Periodical, of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens

read more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2018/01/08/Keep-Insight-a-Healthy-Dose-of-Rage-A-Review-of-Paloma-by-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

Another New "Fuck Cancer Poems" has found a new home!

Another New "Fuck Cancer Poems" found a new home!

Angel Uriel Perales' photo of his copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover. :)

You can acquire your very own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here  - https://www.etsy.com/listing/560564955/new-fuck-cancer-poems-by-michael-grover?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Another New "Fuck Cancer Poems" has found a new home...on Halloween!

Tzynya L. Pinchback received her copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover on Halloween.  Bwahahahaha!

You can acquire your very own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

"Thrilled this chap from Blood Pudding Press arrived just before bed on Halloween. I sat up reading it well into the night. Today, I will uncoil and read it again. Thanks to Juliet Cook for the kind note and to her press for publishing Michael Grover's work."

Tzynya L. Pinchback

Another Photo of Another Copy of the New "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover (Blood Pudding Press 2017)

Charles Cicirella received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover!

Get your own copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Author and Artist photos of "Fuck Cancer Poems" (Blood Pudding Press 2017)

Poet Michael Grover's photo of his copies of his new "Fuck Cancer Poems" poetry chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press - and Craig Firsdon's photo of his copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems", for which he created the cover art.

Craig Firsdon's photo also includes another recent 2017 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Thirsty Bones" by Sarah Lilius.

Get your own copies of these chapbooks (and/or other chapbooks) in the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

NEW! Thirsty Bones by Sarah Lilius is now newly available from Blood Pudding Press!

Thirsty Bones is a NEW Blood Pudding Press 2017 poetry chapbook, containing 20 poems by Sarah Lilius.

A powerful emotional political statement about the female body. How it can be viewed and treated like a toy, victimized, abused and then just overlooked or ignored. How it can live on, fight back, and will not be silenced and will not feel obligated to keep its own experiences or genuine feelings or individual self a secret.

How nobody else should think they have the power to be in charge of your own body based choices.

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"Not many know this of me.
I open my mouth to speak the words,
it blooms like bloody heads crowning,
it’s a release, my face hot and shamed.
The words, stone birds sitting on a wire,
unable to make bleak sounds
of warning.

My silence, the place I hide, overgrown
with weeds, they smell fresh,
shaking their seeds from green heads.

Now it’s laid out like a snake suddenly
on a table, I want to cut off the head,
feed it to my rapist in the dark.

And when he screams NO,
maybe I’ll take it out or maybe
I’ll make him eat it
with open eyes."

from the poem "[ ] Culture" by Sarah Lilius, within her poetry chapbook, Thirsty Bones, newly available from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/522718674/new-thirsty-bones-by-sarah-lilius-2017?ref=shop_home_feat_1

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Get your own copy of Thirsty Bones HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=seller-platform-mcnav&section_id=20952110

Cutting Eyes from Ghosts (a photo from a recent purchase)

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy for sharing a photo of her recent Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook purchase of "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker

"Just arrived : Cutting Eyes from Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker, the latest from Juliet Cook & Blood Pudding Press. All I can say is, Wow! I'll treasure the artistry of the chapbook, as well as the pleasure of the poems. I'm so glad I ordered this."

You can acquire your own copy of Cutting Eyes from Ghosts HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/494588398/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_active_2

Now Officially Available - Cutting Eyes from Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker - the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017!

The first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017 - "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker is now officially available!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/494588398/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_active_2

This chapbook contains 15 poems.

It is hand-bound and available in different colored covers and binding materials.

Pre-ordered copies will be mailed this week (before February 18) - and from here on out, any purchased copies will be heading your way within 1-3 business days

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"bloodless, your mouth indefinitely, infinitely opening,
opening to commune with the dead, flood erasing you,

empty memory, willing, pliant, a body waiting
to say something, anything."

(from the poem "When We Die, There Will Be No Words, Just the Earth Between Our Teeth")

Blood Pudding Press chapbooks have found new homes and want to find a new home with you too!

A "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Ross Rollender, a "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew Hall, a "Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon, a "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava, a "Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins, a "House On Fire" by Susan Yount, a "RENEGADE // HEART" by Lisa Marie Cole and a "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary each found themselves a new home in Virginia last month, at the PoetCon event.

Thanks again to JT Williams for inviting Blood Pudding Press chapbooks to this event.

And for anyone interested in Blood Pudding Press chapbooks who couldn't get one THERE, you can get one HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

New Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall

"Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall permits the reader to feel and experience contemporary life in a way that I have yet to come across. Within his poems one finds anger, mixed with tenderness, held together with despair and hope. "

from a new review by Peter Jelen of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall

read more of the review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1334029742?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1

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procure a copy of "Pigeons and Peace Doves" for yourself here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_listings

April Poetry Events and Blood Pudding Press and chapbooks!

Printing and designing chapbooks in preparation for two upcoming poetry events!

This coming Friday April 8, Juliet Cook will be the Visiting Artist at Bowling Green State University (reading poetry and answering questions) and will have some of her own chapbooks and some Blood Pudding Press chapbooks along for the ride.

AND she will soon be mailing a batch of Blood Pudding Press chapbooks to a new first time event in Virginia called PoetCon, happening Saturday April 23 from 1-10PM 

https://www.facebook.com/PoetCon-952868151417662/

So if you happen to be a poet in Virginia who will be attending PoetCon, Blood Pudding Press chapbooks will be there too.

And of course, anyone who will not be in Bowling Green or Virginia can get your chapbooks (and other artsy goodies) from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

smile emoticon***And of course, anyone who will not be in Bowling Green or Virginia can get your chapbooks (and other artsy goodies) from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

NEW Review of Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender (Blood Pudding Press, 2015)

The speaker grapples with her own creation, and the subsequent birth of her children. The body is gruesome, especially in its decay, but Rollender wrangles this gore into “a giant star’s last open into brilliance.” The waxy and dead skin of her grandmother is given a second life in the speaker’s skin and the Frankenstein effect is a reconciliation

some thoughts about the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender, newly reviewed by Lauren Gordon at damfino

partake of more here - http://www.damfinopress.com/WP/2016/01/24/review-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender/

acquire your own copy of "Bone of My Bone" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912275/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW Review of Lauren Gordon's Fiddle Is Flood (Blood Pudding Press, 2015) at Galatea Resurrects

Those who have followed the Little House books and Ingalls family history will be aware of the deep losses sustained by the family on the prairie, and Gordon certainly doesn’t skirt over these sadnesses. In the first poem in the collection we learn that “Baby Freddie” “straightened out his little // body and was dead,” and later we are reminded that sister Mary “has stupid eyes, too.” We read about miscarriages, “tiny graves in cellars,” and Gordon adds new perspectives, emphasizing that “the old Indian” “has a name had a name once.”

from a NEW mini-review of the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon, at Galatea Resurrects (thank you to Genevieve Kaplan)
More here - http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot.com/2015/11/chapbooks-by-lauren-gordon-marco.html

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Acquire your own copy of Fiddle Is Flood here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_active_4

New! Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender is now officially available!

Bone of My Bone by Nicole Rollender is now newly available, as of September 5 2015!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/246781871/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_1


















The third and final Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015 includes 16 poems focused on birth, death, the body in between, and what is divine.

What if you lose a life before it even comes out of you? 

How is life combined with skin and bone and spine and marrow and femurs and skulls?

From cracking and contracting; from breaking down to floating away - will you sink, will you drown, will you rise up higher? 

From torture and fear and numbness to in-depth internal connections between this life and the next.
Bone of My Bone will haunt you and taunt your thoughts in different directions.

Bone of My Bone will disturb you and urge you to consider what life is worth to you and what might happen next. 

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Bone of My Bone has already gotten attention.

You can read the poet's original perspectives on her own work in several different places:

In this H_NGM_N Book Interview here - http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/127159192089/chpbk-qs-and-as-with-nicole-rollender

In this Tinderbox Editions Interview here - http://www.tinderboxeditions.blogspot.com/2015/08/book-interview-bone-of-my-bone-by.html

You can also read the first review of Bone of My Bone, by Alessandra Bava, at Sabotage Reviews here - http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/09/01/flesh-of-my-flesh-a-review-of-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-ross-rollender/

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"Maybe this is just a form 
of sleep. Your fingers curled around an oar. 
We’d have to break metacarpals and phalanges 
to separate your hand from the waves
and the stones. The sinking 
under the moon, the overturn,
dirt still underneath nails. Your ceramic 
tongue, your ruined eyes, three lost ribs."
from the poem "The Preparation of the Body"

NEW Book Review of Blood Pudding Press poet Nicole Rollender's poetry chapbook "Bone of My Bone" by Blood Pudding Press poet Alessandra Bava at Sabotage Reviews

In the narrator’s footsteps, we face the grief of giving birth nine weeks early, a baby “rowing out” the inert body “as the waters shake through me.” The speaker asks her dead mother for consolation and help: “You tell her how your body failed, / the baby was born nine weeks early. / Her hands make the shape of wings. / […] You say the hummingbird is too frantic to watch. / To keep the baby alive, you hold him over your heart, / skin on skin.” Images akin to Anne Sexton, confessional in ways that can be beautiful, piercing, harrowing and real.

From another new review of the coming-soon (in less than a week!) Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender.

Thank you kindly to Alessandra Bava for writing this review.

Read the review in its entirety at Sabotage Reviews here -http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/09/01/flesh-of-my-flesh-a-review-of-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-ross-rollender/

Pre-order "Bone of My Bone" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912253/preorder-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole?ref=shop_home_active_2

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The reviewer of this 2015 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press chapbook happens to be a Winner of last years 2014 Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest.

Partake of and/or purchase Alessandra Bava's "They Talk About Death" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra-bava?ref=shop_home_feat_4