NEW Review of Margaret Bashaar's LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL (Blood Pudding Press, 2011) at Galatea Resurrects

"One of the chapbook’s possibilities that doesn’t exist with full-run, perfect bound books is how it flowers through a custom-made (often combined with DIY) sensibility. Margaret Bashaar’s LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL -- designed evocatively and sensitively by poet-editor Juliet Cook -- is a grand example of such a production"

from a NEW mini-review of the 2011 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL" by Margaret Bashaar, at Galatea Resurrects (thank you to Eileen Tabios)

More here - http://galatearesurrection25.blogspot.com/2015/11/chapbooks-by-kenny-tanemura-matthew.html

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Acquire your own copy of LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/80737587/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway?ref=shop_home_active_23

NEW Review of 'Letters From Room 27...'

A new Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, 'Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel' by Margaret Bashaar can now be read on the Melusine Blog, here -

http://melusineblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-margaret-bashaars-letters-from.html

You may purchase yourself a copy of this chapbook here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80737587/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway

Margaret Bashaar & the Grand Midway Hotel at Menacing Hedge

The new Winter issue of Menacing Hedge offers an interview by Dana Guthrie Martin of Margaret Bashaar, related to Bashaar's Letters From Room 27 of The Grand Midway Hotel poetry chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press.

http://menacinghedge.com/?w2012

The Letters From Room 27 chapbook is available in all its artsy glory within the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop for anyone who would like to purchase/partake before, during, or after reading the above-linked interview; here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80737587/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway

NEW Mini-Reviews

Two recent mini-reviews of Juliet Cook's Thirteen Designer Vaginas (published by Hyacinth Girl Press) and one mini-review of Margaret Bashaar's 'Letters From Room 27...' (published by Blood Pudding Press).

On Reiter's Block (by Jendi Reiter), who calls the Designer V's "Punning, darkly playful, experimental poems". Read more here: http://jendireiter.com/2011/12/15/reiters-block-year-in-review-part-1-best-poetry.aspx?ref=rssm

On Little Myths (by Daniel Shapiro), as part of his post called Thoughts on "success," plus Favorite Books I've Read in 2011, who calls the Designer V's "fun and creepy, sometimes at the same time". Read more here: http://littlemyths-dms.blogspot.com/2011/12/thoughts-on-success-plus-favorite-books.html?spref=fb

Also on Little Myths (by Daniel Shapiro), who calls the Letters From Room 27..."an enduring persona in a world of decay" and you can read more about that by clicking the link above too.

Then you can buy a Letters From Room 27 and/or a Designer Vagina for yourself via the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

NEW Letters From Room 27 Review

A new review of Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel by Margaret Bashaar now appears within Arsenic Lobster; the review was created by Susan Yount.

Here is a snippet of the review: "These 14, unmarred, lyrical horror poems are infested with line breaks which hang you and leave you sliced off, / a closed fist. Bashaar’s ghost girls are more alive than dead."

Partake of the review in its entirety here:

http://​arseniclobster.magere.com/​1review.html

And then if you would like to partake of the whole collection of these Letters, it can be purchased in its entirety, within the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80737587/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway

NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press chapbook 'LETTERS FROM ROOM 27...' by Margaret Bashaar

The first review of the latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL by Margaret Bashaar - reviewed by Burning River!

Here is a snippet - "What fascinates me about this collection and why you should pick it up are two things. There is the voice and writing of Margaret riding that razor line describing the world in three parts: the way we want it, the way it really is, and then what the omniscient say it is. But then there is the concept of the book itself. It is built like a haunted room of an old hotel."

Read the review in its entirety here:http://burningriver.info/?p=1501

Partake of/purchase the book for yourself here - and prepare to be poetically haunted:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/82732178/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway

blood pudding letters

When ladling this blood pudding into serving containers, consider hiding a peeled grape eyeball on the bottom. Slurptastic!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80739335/new-letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand

13 Myna Birds invades the haunted hotel!

Featuring darkly delicious offerings by Margaret Bashaar, Kevin Ross, James Valvis, Jessy Randall, Daniel Shapiro, Sean Ulman, Suzie DeGrasse, Deidre Elizabeth, & M.P. Powers in a portal of haunted infestation and delight.

Here is a fusion/infusion of snippets from some of the pieces within:

"wormwood eating itself - eating its own heart - casting spells - a small, squirming - intestines like rosaries - shot through the left scapula - then through the heart - slashed deep enough to cut - from drop to drop - no longer spending my days inside triangles - collective delirium - catch on fire - teeth gleaming"

And here is a link to the site:

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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This particular Thirteen Myna Birds update is partially in honor of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL" by Margaret Bashaar; her featured poem is a teaser from that very chapbook, as is the darkly delicious photo art by Kevin Ross.

Partake of more details about that new chapbook and consider purchasing a copy from the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL

Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel is the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, featuring 14 oddly haunted poems by Margaret Bashaar, inspired by an artsy haunted hotel!

Brimming with weird, creepy, messy ghostly infiltrations galore.

The first small assortment of purchased chapbooks will be mailed out on Tuesday September 6 and will most likely be hand signed by Margaret Bashaar herself!

Also, the first ten sold copies will each include a small art card, hand designed by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook!

Each chapbook will brim with it's own lovely cover, its darkly delicious poetic innards, plus a few artsy photo snippets taken from within the haunted hotel by photographer Kevin Ross.

Take a look and consider purchasing a copy of this haunted treasure for yourself via the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here, pretty please, if you dare:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=pr_shop_more

Any questions or special cover/innard color options, please feel free to ask.

Interested recipients might also like to partake of Margaret's Bashaar's own blog post about her new chapbook here:

http://pluckedfromogygia.blogspot.com/2011/08/letters-from-room-27-of-grand-midway.html