NEW! Crow Hollow 19!

Delighted to be included in the first issue of Crow Hollow 19!

Murder One includes poems by  Blood Pudding Press poet Lisa Cole and Blood Pudding Press editor/poet Juliet Cook, and many more.

Thank you to poet/editor Jay Sizemore for creating this new murder of crows.

http://www.crowhollowbooks.com/issue-one.html

New Reviews of Two 2104 Blood Pudding Press chapbooks (thank you to Lisa M. Cole)

"The best books raise questions in us, which Stick-Up definitely did for me. This chapbook is one of the most creative I have read so far this year...I see an entire novel in this tiny chapbook; it was that engrossing for me."

from Lisa M.Cole's review of Stick Up by Paul David Adkins (Blood Pudding Press, 2014)

read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2014/10/paul-david-adkins-stick-up.html?spref=fb

buy the chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110107/new-stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_2

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"There are some beautiful lines in this book that will stay with me for a long time. The poem Our Lady of Napalm, which is dedicated to Anne Sexton, especially stood out to me, not only because Sexton is one of my favorite poets, but because the lines here are so crystal clear, sharp, and evocative of so much emotion"

from Lisa M. Cole's review of They Talk About Death by Alessandra Bava (Blood Pudding Press, 2014) 

read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2014/10/alessandra-bavas-they-talk-about-death.html?spref=fb

buy the chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=related-1

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Reviewer Lisa M. Cole is also a poet, who also has a chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press, RENEGADE//HEART (2013) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-2013-blood?ref=shop_home_active_3

NEW Review of Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary (a 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, reviewed by Lisa Cole)

Another new book review written by Lisa Cole about the newest 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary!

Here’s a piece of the review - a tribute to a sister, a trip backward in time to a childhood of pinky swears, playgrounds, and childhood games. The sisters partake in a lifelong dialog with nature, examining turtle bones, eggshells and pig meat, or watching as “the minnow’s dance cupped/its body silver shimmering/In the dusk of summer evening.

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/paula-carys-sister-blood-and-bone.html

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You can get yourself a copy of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?

OR you can get yourself TWO 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, at a lowered price (choose between "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary and/or "Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora Bloom and/or "RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa Cole) here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/151139145/set-of-two-your-choice-of-two-2013?

NEW Review of Poking Through...by Lora Bloom (a 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, reviewed by Lisa Cole)

A new book review written by Lisa Cole about the 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror" by Lora Bloom!

Here's the first paragraph - Lora Bloom’s new chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, Poking Through the Fabric of Light That Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror is not for the faint of heart, or the faint of stomach. This is a place where undigested noodles, burps, projectile nausea, and chunks of eyelids are deemed normal, and things most often deemed beautiful are viewed in a new, less favorable, often ghastly light. This collection is filled with things grotesque and horrific but still captivating. In the poem “Remember,” for example, the sun “heaved its dry spew” and “bloodied itself on the earth’s rocky crags’ and in “Pizza Maker,” moons are “battered” “bloody” and “slaughtered.”

Read the rest here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2013/06/lora-blooms-poking-through-fabric-of.html#comment-form

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Lora Bloom is featuring a special art-drenched event in support of her "Poking Through the Fabric..." chapbook (July 7 in Philadelphia), during which she will have some of her chapbooks available for sale. Find out more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/521439394576304/

If you can't attend that event and would like to partake of her chapbook, it is also available for purchase in the Blood Pudding Press shop, here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light

Juliet Cook's chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP (also mentioned in the review above) is available from Grey Book Press, here -http://greybookpress.com/index.php/site/titles/

AND the poet who wrote the review, Lisa Cole, also has a chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press, RENEGADE//HEART, available here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?

New Post-Valentine Myna Birds Wings and Stings

New Valentine Weekend, Post-Valentine peculiarity brimming love notes and non-love oddities are now up at Thirteen Myna Birds.

Poems by R Jay Slais, Lisa M. Cole, Martin Willitts Jr, Corey Mesler, Kathleen Kirk, Laura Madeline Wiseman, Jay Snodgrass, Saul Hughes are here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

“sugar, venom, and tears - a drop shivering - gentle gray head - grey-winged - charcoal and fury - doom - thigh-high fishnets - anti-gravity shoes - sharpened stars - columns of pure air”

NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole

HAPPY POETIC NEW YEAR 2013!

"I am tied//hold me open//rip me//I am poised//silver glint of fear"

(from Renegade//Heart by Lisa M. Cole).

RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole was a contest winner from the latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook contest - and is the very first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2013!

It contains 18 different unique, multi-faceted contempo poems.

The cover design offers pieces of a scan of a painting called SOCKET MAUL by Blood Pudding Press editor, Juliet Cook.

The chapbook is being printed & designed in several different colored covers and innard stocks.

If you would like to choose a particular color cover, please feel free to do so. If not, a delightful color choice will be made for you.

Get your very own Renegade//Heart from the Blood Pudding Press shop here: 

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

Happy Creative Xmas/Artmas from Thirteen Myna Birds and Blood Pudding Press!

This is a special addition of the online Thirteen Myna Birds hooking up with Blood Pudding in honor of its recent chapbook contest winners and three semi-finalists - http://13myna.blogspot.com/.

The first winning chapbook, Renegade // Heart by Lisa M. Cole is on the brink of publication/creation and will be available starting on New Year’s Eve! The second winning chapbook, Poking Through The Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror by Lora Bloom will be published later in January or February.  One poem from each of those two collections appears among the Myna Birds.

Then the next ten poetic offerings (four poems by Paula Cary, three poems by Allie Marini Batts, & three poems by Paul David Adkins) are among the three semi-finalist’s poetry manuscripts, which hopefully other lucky duck small presses will choose to publish soon!

Enjoy these offerings and feel free to visit the Blood Pudding Press shop, for other artsy arrangements, including the two coming soon new poetry chapbooks noted above.

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

Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbook Contest Results! – Three Semi-Finalists and Two Winners Announced!

This was a tough, challenging choice for Blood Pudding Press to make, as the contest entries were filled with so many interesting, well-written, diverse offerings, brimming with oodles of their own unique talent and flare.

Ultimately, the two chosen to be published by Blood Pudding Press were the two I decided were the best fit for my press, content-wise and stylistically and emotionally.

They offer utterly unique, emotionally raw, gut wrenching, powerful pussy-centric poetry that doesn’t fit into the mainstream – that doesn’t come across as academic OR as ‘outsider writer’; that comes across as its own oozing entity.

The three semi-finalists -

1.  Paula Cary – Sister, Blood and Bone

2.  Allie Marini Batts – Wake Up, Breathe, Keep Breathing 

3. Paul David Adkins– Pharmacology

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The TWO WINNERS, who will have their chapbooks published by Blood Pudding Press -

- Lisa M. Cole - Renegade//Heart  

- Lora Bloom - Poking through The Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror

Big congratulations to those two winners, whose chapbooks are unique and powerful and amazing and Blood Pudding Press is honored to be publishing them soon.

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More details will be announced when the winning chapbooks are formatted and created and brought to life!

Thirteen Myna Birds got new wings (and is craving even newer wings soon)...

"the broken chandelier as it swings like a marionette – silver glint of fear - face and nose twitching - rainbow flakes - a yellow eye - boring a hole through platforms of sorrow - bustle and sweep of wings spoiling the hush"

The latest Thirteen Myna Birds has now gone live - with NEW darkly delicious poetic offerings from Walter Conley and Daniel G. Snethen – OLDER poem pieces still remaining from Lora Bloom– plus NEW AND OLD poetry morsels by Lisa M. Cole and Alex S. Johnson.

Here is a link to the latest Myna Birds flock:

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

(There is also a small change to the Thirteen Myna Birds submission guidelines going forward. Chances are pretty decent that if I liked/published your poetry once, I might very well like and be interested in publishing more of it in the future - BUT with that said, I don't really want to publish the same people every month - I desire NEW amalgamations - SO if someone has sent me a submission and received a rejection OR an acceptance, please wait three months or more before submitting to me again.  Tell some of your poetry loving friends to read the current offering and consider submitting for the next!)