designing and preparing more Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks

first half of more copies of "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens designed and about to be prepared for mailing...

you can acquire your own copy of "Paloma" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_2

New Addition to the Horrific Confection website

The newly available Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, has now been added to the Horrific Confection website.

https://julietcook.weebly.com/blood-pudding-press.html

Paloma is now officially available!

 "Are you asleep in the wall with rats          in a wood chipper      Are you swimming in Memphis          with Buckley    His Hallelujah’s fed like wild pigs"

from the poem "Ten Pints"

The last Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of late 2017, early 2018 is now officially available!

"Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens!

All pre-ordered copies have now been shipped - the authors copies have been shipped too - and any copies purchased from here on out will be heading your way within 1-3 business days!

Acquire your own copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1

A Copy of "Paloma" has found a new home!

Eileen Murphy received her copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, of which she will be writing a review in 2018!

(photo taken by Eileen Murphy)

Acquire your own copy of "Paloma" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_1

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/

The Last Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2017!

Excited to announce that the last flock of Thirteen Myna Birds for 2017 has arrived!

It begins with three teaser piece poems by Jennifer E. Hudgens that also appear in their poetry chapbook, "Paloma", which is now newly available for preorder in the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664308/pre-order-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_active_3

It includes oodles of strange, sexy, scary, creepy, wonderful poetry by Darren C. Demaree, Jeff Nazzaro, Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Mark J. Mitchell, Jon Bennett, and John Grey, all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

"How is it life if we aren’t suffering - earlobes stretched and dangling - I have shoveled her into my mouth - We could drink in the Ether together - drowning you in blue shards - strokes of harvest brown into the woe of blackened days - I shun the daylight - The brightness favors illusion - Sometimes it’s spit-out gum or twisted up toilet paper - Drowning in your deep graying heart - a pall of smog - A film of spider web - floating in space like one-eyed cigar-shaped UFOs - It’s true they have secrets they keep in impossible pockets - How many girls did he pretend to love - like children plucking the wings from flies - She squirms because the itch can dance - sailing through space - We must look so confused through the window"

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/

Oct Tongue 2 is Here!

THE Oct Tongue 2 collaborative poetry anthology has finally arrived!  

"Oct Tongue 2 by George Wallace, Lyn Lifshin, Mark Sebastian Jordan, Juliet Cook, Kathleen Cerveny, Dianne Borsenik, Margaret Bashaar and Eric Anderson, published 18 November 2017 by Crisis Chronicles Press.

http://ccpress.blogspot.com/2017/11/Oct2CC096.html

We are pleased to present the long-awaited Oct Tongue 2, our biggest book yet (it's like eight books in one!). See October (and so much more) through the eyes of eight of America’s finest poets.

Each of these eight writers wrote and submitted at least 31 poems in response to editor John Burroughs' October 2014 poem-a-day invitation. Life intervened and it took awhile to get this fine collection into print, but we believe it is well worth the wait. Oct Tongue 2 features 258 poems on 328 pages, and is 6"x9", perfect bound, with cover photo by Peggy Honeydew. It will make you laugh, make you cry, make you angry and make you glad you read it.

The book is available for $15 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 3431 George Avenue, Parma, Ohio 44134 USA.

Please join us for a special book launch event Saturday, November 18, 2017 from 2 to 4 p.m. during Borderlands: Oct Tongue at Main Street Books, 104 N. Main Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44902."

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 Rag Queen Periodical - Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes

"The truth of the matter
is that nobody wants to dive all the way
inside me and I wouldn't let them anyway.

Because everywhere is nowhere
and eventually everyone disappears
or dies or explodes into the sky."

from the poem "Saint Juliet with Starry Eyes" by Juliet Cook, at Rag Queen Periodical today

partake of more HERE - https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/11/13/St-Juliet-with-Starry-Eyes-by-Juliet-Cook

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/

A Powerful New Review of the New "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover (thank you to Matthew J Hall)!

"From empathy comes understanding. From understanding comes purpose. Above all else, Fuck Cancer Poems is a book of purpose. Grover is most certainly saying, fuck you, to the cancerous cells he hosts. Moreover, though, his resounding, fuck you!, is aimed at a wider pain; a common pain that the populace plays host to. The pain of loss. The discomfort of playing against the odds. The sorrow of getting older and watching friends die. The frustration of baring witness to money-hungry leaders rising from the ranks of schizophrenic government. These poems are a thoughtful response and a gut-deep reaction. They are the fuck destruction poems. They are fuck apathy poems. Fuck suffering quietly poems. Fuck loneliness poems. Fuck banal poetry poems. These are the resolute, empathetic, defiant, purposeful words of a man who has looked death in the eye; these are, Michael Grover’s, fuck cancer poems."

from a powerful new review by Matthew J. Hall of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover.

read the entire review HERE - http://www.screamingwithbrevity.com/review-fuck-cancer-poems-michael-grover/

purchase your own copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Poetry Book Recommendations

"Eileen recommends: Hell and High Water by outlaw poet Wolfgang Carstens, who is not afraid, Fuck Cancer Poems by Michael Grover, whose work is touching and brave, and Your Black Opium by Katie Doherty of Paper and Ink Literary Zine, who doesn't hold back."

Thank you for the recommendations and the creative photo, Eileen Murphy!  :)

Anyone interested in acquiring their own copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover can get it from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/546767836/new-fuck-cancer-poems-by-michael-grover?ref=shop_home_active_6

Get TWO 2017 Chapbooks for a lowered price - Cutting Eyes From Ghosts by Ariana. D. Den Bleyker, Thirsty Bones by Sarah. Lilius, Fuck Cancer Poems by Michael Grover

A new listing has been added to the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop, where you can get TWO 2017 chapbooks for a lowered price!

Choose two chapbooks from the three Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks published so far this year, for only $10 (plus shipping) - "Cutting Eyes From Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker, "Thirsty Bones" by Sarah Lilius, and "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover.

See more details HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/569977587/get-two-2017-chapbooks-for-a-lowered?ref=shop_home_feat_4

NEW! In Curious Specimens!

Delighted to have two collaborative poems within "Curious Specimens"!

"We're already dead" by Adam Tedesco and Juliet Cook.

"Fugitive Dive" by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook.

Looking forward to reading lots of other curious specimens too - and so can you...

HERE: http://www.sundresspublications.com/curiousspecimens.pdf

Happy Halloween from Thirteen Myna Birds!

Offering new poetry and art by Michael Grover, Charles Cicirella, Mish, B.C. Nance, Daniel G. Snethen, John Thomas, Leona Vander Molen, and Steve Sibra.

"Funeral parlor waiting room walls - The Shaman have committed suicide - your head is like a black hole of sadness - A fleeting apparition of ghostly beauty - the coastal sprawl that stinks - quite an immense creature - To the center of the universe or to the epicenter of this enigma we call life - spent youth under dark tables - their legs, mostly necrotic from high sugar - she pets the wallpaper while we eat - I wrap copper wire on her ankles - I keep my removed teeth in a bag, waiting..."

HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

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

Matthew J. Hall 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

(By the way, Matthew J. Hall is a Blood Pudding Press poet too - and his poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" can also be acquired from the Blood Pudding Press shop.) 

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

The First New Review of the New "Fuck Cancer Poems" by Michael Grover (thank you to Christina Brooks)!

A new book review written by Christina M. Brooks of the new "Fuck Cancer Poems" poetry chapbook by Michael Grover (Blood Pudding Press 2017):

"I've never cried thru a book of poetry before but I did with this one. And I still feel teary writing this review. I know the poet personally. Michael is a good friend and has been a staunch supporter of my own poetry from day one. It does make me sad that he is struggling with cancer. And I don't know how long he will be with us. But reading Fuck Cancer Poems that wasn't what brought the tears. What brought the tears was the very penetrating, real writing in it.

Michael has a very rebellious spirit... he sometimes comes off as gruff and combative with people and he has paid a heavy personal cost because of that. But underneath that exterior is a very perceptive, battle weary poetic warrior. His writing has a clarity you don't see very many places or hear from many people anymore. And I think it was that clarity, and the very raw, personal character of these poems that hit me so deeply. I felt these poems. They aren't just about his personal battle with cancer... but a keen eyed look at "cancer" in its other forms too.

Anyway, Thank you Michael Grover for writing these.. and thank you Juliet Cook for publishing them. And thank you to Craig Firsdon for the cover art.

And though they will probably make you cry I highly recommend this book."

***
Thank you very much to Christina Brooks for this wonderful review.

Anyone interested in acquiring their own copy of "Fuck Cancer Poems" can get it from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress