NEW! EVIL ME by MISH is the first new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2020!

A NEW poetry chapbook from Blood Pudding Press is newly available as of August 2020!

EVIL ME includes 19 poems by MISH - and MISH also created the cover art!

You can find out more about the poet/artist Eileen "MISH" Murphy, via her website HERE - https://mishmurphy.com/

The poems within EVIL ME offer a powerful mix of quirky, delightful, dark, sad, and depressing - with the focus ranging from troubling childhood issues to new romance/marriage to failed romance/divorce with quirks, mental dilemmas, family dilemmas, depression, and death.

Each chapbook is hand-designed, hand bound with colorful ribbon or yarn, and you can choose your own color of cover stock for the chapbook's cover.

Any questions, please feel free to ask.

          My pussy and legs are buried deep under an abandoned sand castle—

only my feet are visible—they wiggle at passers-by—

And my heart—I can’t find my heart.

   My heart got stung by a bee, only once, but it was a bad bee. 

in the poem "My Head Lives"

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Acquire your very own copy of EVIL ME, here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/856406887/new-evil-me-by-mish-2020-blood-pudding?ref=shop_home_active_2

Juliet Cook's "Malformed Confetti" and "From One Ruined Human to Another" are soon to be newly REVIEWED!

Eileen Murphy received copies of Juliet Cook's 2018 poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" (Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective Press) AND Juliet Cook's 2018 full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti" (Crisis Chronicles Press) and is planning on writing reviews of both books soon! 

A creatively wonderful thank you to Eileen Murphy and to the presses who published these books!

Anyone who does not yet have a copy of one or both of these books, I'll link to them below in case you are interested.

The poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another" was published in June 2018 by CWP Collective Press!

You can acquire your own copy of this poetry chapbook from CWP, HERE - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another

Or from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/634109226/from-one-ruined-human-to-another-by?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Wonderful cover art by Craig Firsdon.

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The new full-length poetry book, "Malformed Confetti", was published in October 2018 by Crisis Chronicles Press!

You can acquire your own copy of Malformed Confetti from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE -https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html

Or from Amazon, HERE - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O

Or directly from the author's Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Gorgeous cover art by Simona Candini.

The First Myna Birds flock of 2019 has arrived with 15 Myna Birds!

The First Myna Birds flock of 2019 has arrived with 15 Myna Birds!

Creative beaks and wings and things by Eileen Murphy/MISH, Michael A. Griffith, Karen L. George, Dustin Pickering, Valerie Loveland, and John Grey

shiny, pointy party hats - pass through these ghosts - Something fleshy falls on my plate - Our U.S. president is a monster - Every stair I meet, I imagine falling, because I can tell the future - I repeatedly press the stop button - tiptoe toward pale blue - as a magic horse in the wind - The sun rises, vibrates light into inky night - Doubt is the flower that grows in my heart - Is it still a bomb if it clicks instead of ticks?

HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

enchanted forest by MISH

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens at Cultural Weekly!

"The chapbook is a collector’s item

The actual physical book is hand-made by Blood Pudding Press and is a piece of art unto itself. The cover, front matter, and “innards” of the book are of high quality, heavy, tinted paper. The binding is string/yarn that resembles a feather boa (no real feathers used). Readers can choose among several colors of cover and binding (I chose hot pink cover with pink, blue, and multi colored bindings). 

The cover art for Paloma—featuring a likeness of Lauren Kate—is a collage made by the lost friend, Lauren Kate herself. And it fits the book as if it were an organic whole. Anyone who appreciates fine chapbooks will likely appreciate this book.

I read the entire chapbook at one sitting, and I have to admit, I was “blown away.” I recommend this collector’s item book to readers who appreciate an interesting speaker, good imagery, and sensitive, touching poems that manage to stay convincingly real. Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens is a keeper, for sure—and for all the right reasons"

from a wonderful new review by Eileen Murphy, of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens, appearing in Cultural Weekly this week!

read more HERE - https://www.culturalweekly.com/review-paloma-jennifer-e-hudgens/

acquire your own copy of "Paloma" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/562664430/new-paloma-by-jennifer-e-hudgens?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy and Cultural Weekly!

The New June flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here!

The NEW June flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived!

Offering art and poetry by Chandra Alderman, Mish Eileen Murphy, Jeff Bagato, Marc Carver, and Craig Firsdon!

"The moments creep by like clouds, chess pieces, cattle - There stood death in a t-shirt that said smile - waiting for me to escape this nightmare - now that I have nose-ringed you - seagulls scream over the ocean - an all out unstoppable global nuclear holocaust - I have all these scars on my head, see? - that demon that is inside me - as if he is putting on a mask - earth’s ruling families await you with stinger, wing, mandible and claw"

HERE! - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

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

The April Myna Birds flock includes 16 Runner-Up Poems from the recent chapbook submissions to Blood Pudding Press!

Happy Weekend and Happy Poetry Month!

This April Myna Birds flock includes 16 Runner-Up Poems from the recent chapbook submissions to Blood Pudding Press!

Poems by Eileen Murphy, Alyssa Yankwitt, Craig Firsdon, Paul David Adkins, Victor Clevenger, Erin Renee Wahl, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe, A.S. Coomer, E Kristin Anderson, Ava C. Cipri, Reuben Woolley, Valerie Loveland, Julie Jacob, Alexis Bates, and Tom Montag!

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Every day she tells me a hundred times to kill myself - like a smooth monster skull cracking a jawline - a skulking dribble of blood - a skeleton's body sideways - closer to the wrong side of grief - there's an earth in here somewhere - with no ability to see the stars falling - dead as a washed-up squid - I drown my fingers like they are 10 little snakes - and there are things I don’t understand - myths filled with fear - clarity and imperfections frozen before melting - perpetually stuck with this painful disability - I couldn’t burn the fever images out of my head - follow the gaze to the remains of a seagull, withered in death & rot - Something flutters in the dying light.

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HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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In case anyone missed the announcement of the Blood Pudding Press chapbooks selected for publication this year, here's a link to that news:

http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2017/04/new-announcement-of-three-new-blood.html

Also, I will be adding a few poems from some of the Finalists on this Blood Pudding Press blog next month.

And also, the May flock of Myna Birds is already full (forthcoming in about a month), but I am still considering Myna Birds submissions for June...

The New March Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here!

The new March flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here! - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ Poetry by Ariana D. Den Bleyker - Eileen Murphy - Jessica McKenna - John Burroughs - Robert Ford - Michael Grover.
"Pins impale thumbs - one of his hands attached - To one of his ankles by thread - flesh resting on disintegrating bones - We are in a transition period - The body reaching the point of rot - We live to consume until we are consumed - a lollipop wrapped in plastic - Her breasts, filigreed with silver stretch marks - Titular typecast orange tapioca - The cracked plate remains - car-crashes in the bathroom, unhelpful dreams - someday I'd figure out - That reality is just too sad"

Cutting Eyes from Ghosts (a photo from a recent purchase)

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy for sharing a photo of her recent Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook purchase of "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker

"Just arrived : Cutting Eyes from Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker, the latest from Juliet Cook & Blood Pudding Press. All I can say is, Wow! I'll treasure the artistry of the chapbook, as well as the pleasure of the poems. I'm so glad I ordered this."

You can acquire your own copy of Cutting Eyes from Ghosts HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/494588398/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_active_2