poetry mini interview (part one)

Starting today, Juliet Cook is up at poetry mini interview (Very short interviews with poets, Conducted by Thomas Whyte) where she offers 5 short answers to 5 short questions, one per week. Here's part one - http://poetryminiinterviews.blogspot.com/2019/03/juliet-cook-part-one.html

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

New Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall at Blot Lit

"The pigeons in my chapbook Pigeons and Peace Doves are – at least in part – a representation of trying to adjust to city life and dealing with the dark and ugly parts of life, in general. City pigeons are often referred to as flying rats because of their parasitic nature and disease spreading potential; but they are only like that as a consequence of the way urban culture functions. They are dirty because built up areas are dirty places to live. They are parasitic because we are wasteful. They often have missing feet, contorted legs or some other disfiguration because urban life is aggressive, self-serving and fast. I relate to these pigeons, yet I am disgusted by them, which is the other part of what they represent in this collection; my own contradictions, anxieties, depressions..."

From a new Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet, Matthew J. Hall up at Blot Lit.

Read more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/10/01/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-matthew-j-hall/

Procure Matthew J. Hall's Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_feat_2

Another New Interview with Nicole Rollender about her Bone of My Bone chapbook

"I’m drawn to the chapbook form because they’re tiny little countries that allow a poet to experiment and to also work through a theme or narrative arc in a smaller space. I actually put together Bone of My Bone specifically for the Blood Pudding Press 2015 Chapbook contest last December. I had been thinking about the theme for a little while, and felt that the subject matter was a good match for BPP, since I own several of its chapbook titles that embrace the spiritual, the mystical, the ghostly, the macabre, the day’s darker undersides. I know that my poetry isn’t for everyone – my longer book of hours poem was rejected from numerous journals. That’s partly why I used it as a skeleton or starting point for Bone of My Bone. Luckily BPP Publisher Juliet Cook liked the chapbook enough to select it as one of the Blood Pudding Press Chapbook Contest winners."

A snippet from another new interview with Nicole Rollender, regarding her new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of my Bone".

Thank you kindly to Nancy Chen Long for conducting this interview, which appears here - http://nancychenlong.blogspot.com/2015/09/chapbook-chat-nicole-rollender.html

The chapbook itself can be acquired from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/246781871/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_2

Blood Pudding Press Poetry Treats & Halloween Offerings

Added a couple new Halloween-esque hand-painted zombie magnets to the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop, with even more peculiar doodads to come soon!

The Halloween section of the shop also offers a hand-painted mini zombie gnome and darkly delicious poetry chapbooks, including the limited edition CARNIVORACIOUS collaborative chapbook by Suzanne Grazyna & Juliet Cook. CARNIVORACIOUS was originally published as a limited edition in 2008 - and its limited number of copies quickly sold out. Now as a special Halloween Treat, the chapbook is being made available again for a limited time - only until Halloween 2012!

Also stay tuned for an interview with Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook, about her poetry chapbook, POST-STROKE, scheduled to appear upon the Poet Hound blog later today.

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For now, here's the Halloween Treats section of the BPP shop: 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?section_id=12101200

(Also, see the blog post below this one, about BPP's current poetry chapbook contest.)

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“My mouth is a red velvet orchestra pit

overflowing with carnivorous trumpets.” 

Juliet Cook/CARNIVORACIOUS

“Our flares swerve to capture the other
Luminous nipples tease
The flick of a cobra tongue
Longing to feast in leafy tunnels” 

Suzanne Grazyna/CARNIVORACIOUS

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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

profiles in poetics: Juliet Cook

'women's quarterly conversation' presents the first long poetry related 'interview' Juliet Cook has completed in over a year; it focuses on her stroke/her aphasia/her loss of love AND poetry (not her LOSS of poetry; she still has that, in one way or another):

https://womensquarterlyconvers​ation.wordpress.com/