A NEW Review by Casey Kiser of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

"A collection this gracefully twisted can only come from Blood Pudding Press. If you don't have doll paranoia now, you must read this to see what you're missing! I promise the poems in Snethen's book will give you the creeps but mostly, you will be more disturbed by how much you enjoy it. This is an absolute must-have for any chapbook collector."

From a new review by Casey Kiser of the latest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen​!

Read more here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3091695952?book_show_action=false#_=_

Also, a copy of this chapbook went out in the mail today to the University of Arizona Poetry Center Library - and soon one will be heading to the upcoming Poet's House Showcase!

You can acquire your very own hand-designed copy of PEDIOPHOBIA from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762122669/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_1

HELLO My name is DOLL

More creepy little bunches of the newest Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen (including cover art by Josh Birrittieri), have been prepared to circulate their way into the world.

You can acquire a copy for yourself here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Or acquire one for a friend, as a creepy, slightly belated Valentine (or anti-Valentine) gift filled with evil little dolls. We don't all like cheesy cards, romantic chocolates, and cliched jewelry, after all. Some of us like strange poetry and art. 

The new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen is included in Eileen Murphy's recent book recommendations! AND Daniel G. Snethen has a poetry reading coming up that showcases PEDIOPHOBIA!

Below is a photo posted by Eileen Murphy this past weekend in one of her book recommendation posts, that includes the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen! 🖤

Here's what Eileen Murphy had to say - and for those who might want to acquire their very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA for the New Year, you may do so HERE -  https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4💜

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"Eileen Recommends: (selected from my incoming mail)

LEFT: Pediophobia is a new poetry chapbook by Daniel Snethen from Blood Pudding Press: the title means "fear of DOLLS." Handcrafted, the chapbook is gorgeous, and includes some real doll's curls incorporated into the book's cover art. The poems will knock your socks off, too.

MIDDLE: Writing in Wet Cement by Jayne Lisbeth explores one woman's experiences with psychological abuse and her successful escape into joy and safety. It's a suspenseful as well as thought-provoking read. Five stars.

RIGHT: Trinity Sight by Jenn Givhan is a debut novel---a powerful, engaging story set in the post-apocalyptic future, with a few major twists. Jenn Givhan is already an award-winning, established poet. This book successfully combines the poetic magic she's known for with a story that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

photo by Eileen Murphy

Why not read all three? I guarantee you'll find lots to like."
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Also, here is a bit of information from Daniel Snethen about a poetry reading on Saturday January 4, that will showcase his work from PEDIOPHOBIA. If you live near here, consider going to see him read some poems from his new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook and other books too.

If you don't live near here and still want to partake of PEDIOPHOBIA's poetry innards, you can acquire a copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

On Saturday January 4th, starting at 6 PM, at Lucky Eagle Tattoo located at 408 Main Ave,  Brookings, South Dakota, 57006!

From Daniel Snethen - "Come visit Lucky Eagle Tattoo in Brookings, SD Saturday January 4th. I will be showcasing my newest chapbook Pediophobia hand published by Blood Pudding Press with cover art by Josh Birrittieri. I will be doing readings from Pediophobia, Anne I Weep for Thee, Bird and perhaps a few other poems. I will have several poetry items for sale including several editions of DARKLING and will be signing books. Start time is 6 pm. Everyone is welcome especially other poets."

photo by Daniel Snethen

PEDIOPHOBIA has found a new home (and it could haunt your home too)...

John Burroughs has received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA, by Daniel G. Snethen! 💜

You can find out more about this chapbook and/or acquire your own copy in the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Thank you very much to John Burroughs for taking this photo of PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel Snethen, in the middle of two books by Tim Heerdink. 🙃

NEW from Blood Pudding Press! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

Tonight, within the final dark hours of Friday the 13th of December 2019, one night after the last full moon of the year, is the perfect night to introduce the creepy, crawly, scary, strangely rotating table of doll heads within a NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA's amalgamation of horrific dolls is Blood Pudding Press's style! Quirky, dark, darkly comedic, oddly disturbing, and twisted. Screaming eyed dolls and broken doll bodies. Dolls as killers, dolls as evil, dolls as gods, dolls as horror movie scenes, dolls as bloody apples, dolls as distorted bible verse.

PEDIOPHOBIA offers you sixteen peculiar poems by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA artwork was created especially for this collection by Josh Birrittieri - an outside front cover, an inside front cover, and an outside back cover!

PEDIOPHOBIA has been printed and designed by Blood Pudding Press creature Juliet Cook, bound with yarn AND scraggly doll hair, but don't blame me if the doll hair bites you! 

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According to Daniel G. Snethen himself:

"My newest chapbook Pediophobia (Fear of Dolls) will soon be ready. It will be bound together by hand. Juliet Cook is the publisher and owner of Blood Pudding Press. Every copy will be handmade by her. Juliet is also an extraordinary poet herself. Josh Birrittieri did all the graphics for this chapbook and they are absolutely amazing. And I may be bragging a bit here, but I doubt you will find a better more complete collection of doll poetry anywhere. Many of the poems are creepy some are funny and a few are sad. One is a continuation of a famous episode from the Twilight Zone. One or two might even be considered demented. And several of them are peopled with personages I personally know. If you dare to read these and you know me, don't be too surprised if you recognize some of the characters and settings. If you hate dolls and find them creepy and disturbing, this slim volume of poetry is definitely for you. It will cure you of narcolepsy and will give you reason to run the light meter all eventide long. So please spend a few dollars and indulge yourself... your insanity is worth it."

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"Green glassy eyed heads
Unblinking verdant eyed stares
Headless dolls of Hell"

(within the poem "Nightmare of Dolls")

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"Dark human corpses piled
high on doll infested hills.
Unblinking dolls smiling,
keeping tally with their quills,
as people topple"

(within the poem "Doll Food")

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"Fearfully, I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads but
not before hearing Mother weeping and crying out in her aged voice,
“My son, my son, why hast thou forsaken me!”"

(within the poem "Doll Heads")

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Get your very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Meet the Authors at Oddmall Outpost - Saturday November 2

This coming Saturday, if all does according to plan, Juliet Cook will have a table at this event, offering poetry chapbooks/books by her and her Blood Pudding Press. 🖤

https://www.facebook.com/events/700382690437667/

Juliet Cook reading from DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS

Juliet Cook reading a few poems from her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", on October 10, 2019 at Loganberry Books. 

photo taken and creatively edited by Jill K.

You can acquire your own copy of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed is now available HERE

I have now added a copy of this NEW "Heaven We Haven't Yet Dreamed" poetry book to my Blood Pudding Press shop, in case anyone would like a copy hand-signed by me (Juliet Cook) - https://www.etsy.com/listing/738135607/new-heaven-we-havent-yet-dreamed-is-a?ref=shop_home_active_1

NEW! Octopus Review #8 includes two of Juliet Cook's poems (which also appear in the Blood Pudding Press chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS)!

Brimming with broom legs,

with bruises and veins, 

uneven blood flow, pulsating heart beats

underneath my skin. I cut myself 

shaving again, because the veins 

bulged into the razor blade.

The ever alternating landscapes

of quantifiable feminism.

Blood 

then mental evaporation

then excavation from underneath the cuts.

Juliet Cook is delighted to have a few poems appearing in Octopus Review #8! - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-octopus-review-8.html?fbclid=IwAR08uim76Ha3FGzhy-uPFlb8PM95EAfo_QAxACHjcL88MVdfBDd4k_Ng53U

The two poems within Octopus Review #8 also appear within Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9 and available in its entire creepy little hand-designed print chapbook incarnation, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS has found another new home!

Sara Minges received her copy of Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)!

This new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook was published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9 in May 2019.

It is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

photo by Sara Minges

A NEW Review of Juliet Cook's DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"Highly original in a good way, the poems in the chapbook Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook give us necessary glimpses into the way human life is lived in and through our bodies. I recommend you experience these poems, joining Juliet Cook in her honest and beautiful musings"

from Eileen Murphy's review of Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", which appears in the new issue of Tinderbox Poetry Journal! - 

http://tinderboxpoetry.com/review-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my-black-doll-head-irises-by-juliet-cook

You can acquire your very own copy of DARK PURPLE, from Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Some thoughts on Juliet Cook's Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"I also read Juliet Cooks new chapbook, Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which uses beautiful dark imagery to provide a kind of coming of age narrative for adulthood. The narrator discovers more about herself through the progress of each poem and it’s lovely."

Andrea Blythe mentions her interpretation of Juliet Cook's recent poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" (published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9) among her Culture Consumption: May 2019. You can read more of her Culture Consumption here - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/07/culture-consumption-may-2019/

Blythe also recently interviewed Cook about Dark Purple Intersections and poetry and that interview will be up tomorrow.

You can find out more about Dark Purple Intersections and/or acquire your own copy, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS next to a light purple baby skull

"Will she ever understand
that my doll brain works differently
than her doll brain and I want to escape
being handled by somebody else?

I don't want to have a string attached to my back
connected to someone else's hand,
so that someone else can choose what I do or do not
say by pulling that string."

inside Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9, newly available in print in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Soon to be published as a free PDF by Dusie.

NEW! DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9)

"I wrote about my bruised, battered, scratched legs
and the bulging blue veins
that kept on bulging farther
out of alignment

then shifting
too close for comfort
to boring normalcy."

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS with some worm stickers on top of some insectile sock legs.

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is a new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9, as of May 2019.

It has recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?fbclid=IwAR06P1OeAPAqAsrbGgiloxQx-3Q3w_ay3JJt0H61DZU-xZtC56W5-PkcCe0 

"I might be misaligned...inside my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS"

"I might be misaligned, but
even though I might not know

exactly who I am, I didn't ask
for someone else's advice on how to

replace my webs with something less sticky."

A sample of part of a poem within Juliet Cook's new Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9 chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)".

Newly available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook is a NEW 2019 poetry chapbook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9.

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is HERE! -  https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

This new poetry chapbook contains 30+ pages of interconnected/intersected poems, with content based on wanting to escape control and the ongoing dying of love.  It could possibly be perceived as a negative confessional with glimmers of cracked, broken doll parts designed into new doll parts so they can keep living their own way, even if their way changes.

The chapbook cover is hand-designed and hand-bound, with various different colors available, with or without insect or worm stickers.  The colors and variations are too many to name, but if you have a particular preference for your chapbook's cover, please let me know in the Notes section. The color cover variations are mostly light tan variations, light purple variations, and light grey variations. They can have worm stickers added, insect stickers added, both, or no stickers at all. Any specific preferences or questions, let me know in the Notes.

Furthermore,if you'd like to acquire this chapbook from a source other than etsy (like via paypal for example), let me know that too.

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Cook was involved with the Dusie Kollektiv 3,4, and 5 and is delighted to be involved again. The Dusie Kollektiv 9 is a Tribute to Marthe Reed.

Sometime in May 2019, the Dusie Kollektiv will be publishing free online PDF files of the various members chapbooks, but Cook also created this print version of her chapbook and will be mailing copies to other Dusie members in May.

For those who are not involved with Dusie and would like a hand-designed print copy of this chapbook, here it is - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

As a small sample, here is the beginning of the first poem within the collection:

"Maybe you didn't want to bloom where you were planted.

Maybe you wanted to escape from where you were planted,

create your own individual space that doesn't leave you

stuck in the same position,

nailed into the same cross-shaped ground.

And so from the ground up and down, you elongate

into different circle shapes.  You expand and grow

your own fairy tale pie filled with maggots

that will choke to death or drown in between

the red filling unless they learn to fly." 

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If you are interested in acquiring one or two of Cook's earlier Dusie Kollektiv chapbooks:

You can get Dusie Kollektiv 4's "Soft Foam" - https://www.etsy.com/listing/59222402/soft-foam-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_6

You can get Dusie Kollektiv 5's "POST-STROKE" - https://www.etsy.com/listing/69547229/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_3

You can get both of the above together - https://www.etsy.com/listing/278408054/two-blood-pudding-pressdusie-kollektiv?ref=shop_home_active_

Blood Pudding Press will be at a book fair, April 28!

~Sunday April 28 - Book Fair for National Poetry Month at Coffee Coffee Coffee - 2-4 PM
(4193 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH. 44109)

Juliet Cook’s small indie press, Blood Pudding Press will have a table at this event (and Juliet will have some of her own poetry books from other small presses available for sale too)

Tentacular Splatter PRINT (newly added to the Blood Pudding Press shop)

A small (4 x 6 photo-sized) print version of Juliet Cook's recently completed painting, collage art, hybrid creature, Tentacular Splatter, has been newly added to the Blood Pudding Press shop.

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/674316373/tentacular-splatter-print-4x6-print-of-a?ref=shop_home_active_3