A NEW Review of a Vintage Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook ("Girl Gang" by Juliet Cook)

Thank you to M. Earl Smith and Galatea Resurrects for this Blood Pudding Press review of the poetry chapbook, "Girl Gang" by Juliet Cook.

The next person who purchases a chapbook from Blood Pudding Press will have a free copy of "Girl Gang" thrown into your purchase. :)

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

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"The paradoxes within this group mirror the changes in society and how the ideas of feminism and sexuality are viewed. This volume is unafraid to be what it enjoys being, all while challenging the conventions of the past and the stereotypes of the present."

a snippet from the vintage review by M. Earl Smith of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Girl Gang", which was published in 2007.

The review was just published yesterday at Galatea Resurrects, but the reason it's vintage is because the chapbook is more than 10 years old. 😮

The reason this chapbook evaded the reviewer for so long might partly be because I've had it discontinued from the Blood Pudding Press shop for several years now.

read more of the review HERE - http://galatearesurrects2018.blogspot.com/2018/02/girl-gang-by-juliet-cook.html

Cocklebur Press Poetry Reading this Thursday December 7!

"Back again!

Open mic signup at 5:30pm. Featured reader goes on at 6pm.

Featured reader is Juliet Cook from Blood Pudding Press.

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, an individual full-length poetry book, a collaborative full-length poetry book, and has another individual full-length poetry book forthcoming. She also sometimes creates abstract painting collage art hybrid creatures. You can find out more at www.JulietCook.weebly.com

Open mic to follow."

Click the link below for more information. 

https://www.facebook.com/events/1872649509712244/

BLOOD PUDDING PRESS DISCOUNT!

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, everything in the Blood Pudding Press shop is 20% off!

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

NEW in Black Poppy Review - Cheerleader Cop by Juliet Cook

"She locked me in the car, told me I had to listen
to the song, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" on repeat.
She told me I had to learn to smile
all the time, even if my smile was fake."

From the new poem,"Cheerleader Cop" by Juliet Cook, appearing at Black Poppy Review today!

HERE - https://blackpoppyreview.blogspot.com/2017/11/cheerleader-cop-by-juliet-cook.html

NEW in Picaroon Poetry - "Inside an Old Basement" by Juliet Cook

Tear another part out,

stick it in

another box.

from the poem "Inside an Old Basement" by Juliet Cook, in Issue #11 of Picaroon Poetry

read more HERE - https://picaroonpoetry.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/picaroon-poetry-issue-11-november-2017/

NEW in Bad Pony - a collaborative poem by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook

"As in I creep and slink along,
a way of towing the line
when the line is so long
and I want to create my own song

and I want to create my own formula
for spontaneous combustion being drawn out in a longform
tirade until my fingers finally turn..."

from the poem Peristalsing Pistil, by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, appearing within the NEW issue of Bad Pony

partake of more HERE - https://www.badponymag.com/november-2017-poetry/2017/10/21/juliet-cook-jj-haistain

NEW in The Rising Phoenix Review - Breast Meat by Juliet Cook

"None of us will win because we're too busy competing

in the latest match that boils down

to who can crack the most eggs,

who can sizzle the longest before we all break."

from the poem "Breast Meat" by Juliet Cook

NEW in the The Rising Phoenix Review

partake of more HERE - https://therisingphoenixreview.com/2017/11/12/breast-meat-by-juliet-cook/

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

Drew Coomer received his copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover (appearing next to his copy of "Rasputin: A Poetry Thread Anthology")!

Acquire your own copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Happy Friday the 13th! The new Halloween Issue 105 of Red Fez is now live!

The new Halloween Issue 105 of Red Fez is now live, with lots of creepy goodies, including my angry horrific contradictory poem, "Unfriend Everyone"!

"If you're an Independent free thinker
whose liberal ideas slightly diverge from my liberal ideas,
then just unfriend me you clueless prick. How dare you
not fit in to the specific details of my own unique group."

Read more HERE: https://www.redfez.net/poetry/agree-unfriend-everyone-2584

The New September Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has Arrived!

The NEW September flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is HERE: https://13myna.blogspot.com/

It starts with three sampler poems from the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover.

It includes new poetry by Heikki Huotari, Daniel G. Snethen, M.Stone, Steve Sibra, Eileen Murphy, Dan Flore III, and Leona Vander Molen.

"Watching myself die - Mauve spidery velvet - Rotting wild cherries dropped like marbles in the soil - tangled up in our own seaweed - Pain has worked grooves into your face like bone - Everyone has their own sickness to feed - the stag’s spirit easily hopped into Father’s open mouth - panic for A sting never intended - Whenever I am in a plastic bag you can't decide - I drown in the tub while You go back to bed - The moon is melted, all but shelled - in one of those collages they put together for viewings and funerals"

In my mind, POETRY is meant to be the opposite of destruction

In my mind, poetry is not meant to be a destructive force field nor a hazardous competition nor a playing field role reversal of right versus wrong.

I feel like some people in poetry land almost want to force other people in poetry land to pick a side and announce the side they picked and why.

I don't want to pick a side; I want to pick a poem.

I don't feel the need to unfriend someone, completely distance myself from them, and cut them down just because we're not on the exact same side - or semi-publicly slam somebody just because I disagree with parts of them - or lay out exactly how I feel about another person so that other people can narrow down which side I am or am not in support of.

If anyone wants to know how I feel about someone or something, then they can feel free to ask me one-on-one and I will probably openly respond - but I'm probably not going to get involved in some group attack that combines some legitimate points with a bunch of people making fun of a bunch of other people.

Sometimes it starts to feel like some sort of aggrandized agenda, but I'm not even sure where it's heading. To destroy people you disagree with? To destroy people you hate? To destroy people who hate you? To destroy people before they destroy you?

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I've had people try to control me before and I didn't like it at all. I will try my best to be myself AND listen to others. I will try my best to stay in control of myself without trying to control anyone else.

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I try to expel my own negativity (and all kinds of other feelings too) via creating my own poetry and art. Not by attacking other poets and artists or anyone else.

Here is a video of me reading some of my poetry this past May (part of the Take the Knight Off poetry reading in Canton, Ohio).

I just happened to encounter the video yesterday and thought I would share it today.

(from Juliet Cook - individual human being, poet, and Blood Pudding Press creature)

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Four Collaborative Poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook!

"Maybe nobody cares.

Maybe some of you will change

your minds when they eat your fingers off

and replace them with another

contorted case of the unknown."

Four collaborative poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook are appearing in Rag Queen AND bearing mention of Twin Peaks!!!!!!

"We love Twin Peaks at Rag Queen, so in honor of the series finale, we'll be posting works that center, in some way, on themes of duplicity all throughout the week!

Today, we have four collaborative poems by one of our favorite frequent contributors, Juliet Cook and new contributor JJ Hastain!"

https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/08/28/Poems-by-Juliet-Cook-jj-hastain

Twin Peaks Returns (in the Blood Pudding Press shop)!

In less than a week, Twin Peaks Returns!

If you’re a fan of Twin Peaks AND poetry, you might want to get yourself a copy of The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook, which is temporarily coming back to life, for the month of May 2017 only, in honor of the revival of Twin Peaks!

This was the very first chapbook that the Blood Pudding Press shop made available, over 10 years ago, in 2006.

Now available again for a short time only, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Less Than 24 Hours to Submit to Blood Pudding Press!

A little less than 24 hours left to submit samples from your poetry chapbook for Blood Pudding Press consideration.

This submission period ends right after midnight Wednesday March 15 (when Wednesday turns into Thursday).

See the details in this previous blog post - http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2017/03/blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

ALSO, tonight I sent a small group email to everyone whose submission has been received so far - so if you didn't receive that email, that means I didn't receive your submission yet.

I will send another email a little after midnight tomorrow, to those who submit tomorrow.

Thank you for your interest in Blood Pudding Press. 

NEW in Riot Felice! - 5 Poems by Juliet Cook!

"Sometimes I can’t ascertain my taste
buds and why they want
to rip out my seedy tongue.
Replace it with acidic marmalade vomit."

from my poem "Root Rot".

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I have 5 poems up at riot felice!

"Dark Purple Spread Shot", "Abuse", "Falling", "Root Rot" and "Dancing By Myself"!

Lots of other poem-y stuff too!

HERE - https://riotfelice.com/2017/01/12/juliet-cook-poems/

NEW Winter 2017 Edition of Menacing Hedge

Three poems by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook are included within the NEW Winter 2017 Edition of Menacing Hedge.

Thank you for the creative powers of Kelly Boyker Guillemette, Gio Guillemette, Amanda Gowin, Kiara McMorris, and Menacing Hedge.

The issue - http://www.menacinghedge.com/?edition=winter2017

Juliet Cook's poems - http://www.menacinghedge.com/winter2017/entry-cook.php

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My ink was too black, 
my revision grew overly stylish.
As if I was dolling up a decapitation. 
As if her head was a just a glossy little maraschino cherry
bitten off at the stem and then pitched.

(a small sampling from the poem, "Pumpkin Gut Grave") 

NEW in Rogue Agent Issue 22 (Happy New Year!)

"My long letters ruin friendships.
It doesn't matter whether they're overly positive
or overly negative or a juxtaposition of both."

from Juliet Cook's poem "IT DOESN'T MATTER", in the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

Happy to start the New Year by having a poem published, surrounded by other poems, inside the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

A New Poetry Chapbook is coming soon from Blood Pudding Press - Cutting Eyes From Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker!

Blood Pudding Press would like to excitedly announce that we will be ending our 2016 hiatus by publishing a new poetry chapbook in January 2017.

"Cutting Eyes From Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker.

More details will be shared near the beginning of January - and the chapbook is aiming to appear near the end of January.

The Blood Pudding is delighted that Ariana D. Den Bleyker's poetry will soon be joining our scarred icing bags.