NEW in Menacing Hedge, Summer 2019 - Four Poems by Juliet Cook

"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."

Juliet Cook has four new poems in the new Summer 2019 issue of Menacing Hedge!

https://www.menacinghedge.com/summer2019/entry-cook.php

These four poems also appear within her recent chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS, which you can see and find out more about here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook,"Cutting Eyes From Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker

"Den Bleyker aims straight for our hearts in her poems and finds the grave hidden there, examining it with morbid fascination."

part of a review written by Eileen Murphy, of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Cutting Eyes From Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker

thank you very much to Eileen Murphy for writing the review, thank you very much to Menacing Hedge for publishing the review, and thank you very much to Ariana D. Den Bleyker for writing these poems

read more of the review (as well as the other work within the Fall 2018 Issue of Menacing Hedge) here - http://menacinghedge.com/fall2018/review-murphy.php

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acquire a copy of "Cutting Eyes From Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker from the Blood Pudding Press shop here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/512469489/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_4

The NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook is almost ready for AWP 2017

Getting semi-close to the final stages of designing the initial first round of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker, to take to AWP in less than a week (AND to give Ariana D. Den Bleyker her author copies). 

Although Blood Pudding Press will not have a table at this year's AWP, Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook will be there - with some copies of the new chapbook,  a few copies of other Blood Pudding Press chapbooks, and a few copies of some of her own chapbooks/books (although since I won't have a table, if you see me, you might need to let me know what chapbooks you might be interested in). 

Juliet Cook will also be reading a few poems (along with lots of other writers reading poetry and fiction) at the Menacing Hedge Reading, the evening of Thursday February 9 from 6-10 PM at Johnny Pistolas.

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") 

What Held Your Hand Was a Ghost: A Reading of Hauntings, Place, Cinema, the Fabulous & More

This poetry reading (and AWP) is now just a little more than a week away (AAAH)!

What Held Your Hand Was a Ghost happens Thursday, April 9

at 8:00pm - 10:00pm in CDT

 at Crooked Pint Ale House. 

It features a variety of fabulous poets from a variety of unique presses, including three Blood Pudding Press poets - Kelly Boyker, Daniel Shapiro, and Lauren Gordon.

Lauren Gordon will have her NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook available too, "Fiddle Is Flood".

https://www.facebook.com/events/1561428764109738/

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While at AWP, don't forget to visit Table 525, being shared between Blood Pudding Press and Menacing Hedge. 

New Review of They Talk About Death!

"Alessandra Bava's They Talk About Death, the Italian poet and translator's American publishing debut, is a visually stunning piece of art. The book is handmade, ribbon-bound, and is crafted with brightly colored and textured paper. Erin Wells' cover art, "Yellow Carousel Horse," marches lockstep with the content of the collection, resembling, in skull form, a mash-up of Sylvia Plath's portrait and the horse her greatest work is named for, Ariel."

and

"They Talk About Death serves at once as a historical map to famous lives and deaths (Bava recalls the birth of Breton's Exquisite Corpse game and Sylvia Plath's last actions for her children) and as an extrapolation that dreams up a new backstory to each of these deaths."

A few samples from Sandra Marchetti's New Review of "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava (Blood Pudding Press, 2014).

Read the review in its entirety within the New Menacing Hedge (and while there, read more of the new Menacing Hedge innards too) here - http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2014/review-marchetti.php

Then consider purchasing Bava's chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195585261/halloween-they-talk-about-death-by?ref=shop_home_feat_2

(P.S. It is not too late to receive a special discount of 25% off this chapbook and other Blood Pudding Press offerings. Just enter Coupon Code HALLOWEEN25 when you make your purchase.)

Best of the Net Nomination - Creative Non-Fiction: Evacuation by Juliet Cook

Blood Pudding Press editor (and poet/writer) Juliet Cook has received a Best of the Net Nomination from Menacing Hedge for her piece "Evacuation". 

You can read her "Evacuation" and/or listen to her read it here - 

http://menacinghedge.com/spring2014/entry-cook.php#evacuation

Menacing Hedge Best of the Net Nominations!

Fiction:

A Terrible Energy by Ree Davis

Ember Against Gravity by William Lemon

Creative Non-Fiction:
Evacuation by Juliet Cook

Poetry:
The Hunter by Kristine Ong Muslim
Our Spectrum on Which Beauty Mingles with Savagery by Nicole Olweean
She Stops to Sew by Kristin LaTour
Two Children Grow Fur in the Woods by Seann F. Weir
Francine Creates Her Story as If I Asked her to Author Her Own Birth by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
Judy Grable Makes A Living by W. Todd Kaneko

Happy creepy gross delightful disturbing poetry reading!

Read one of Juliet Cook's older poems ("A Few of the Motives" from the 2008 Blood Pudding Press chapbook, Planchette) at Crisis Chronicles Press Cyber Litmag -http://library.crisischronicles.com/2014/04/12/a-few-of-the-motives-by-juliet-cook.aspx 

AND THEN read (AND listen to her reading) some of her newer poems in the brand new edition of Menacing Hedge -http://www.menacinghedge.com/spring2014/.

Summer 2013 Menacing Hedge

The new summer 2013 issue of Menacing Hedge offers surrealist poetry and fiction and interviews and more by oodles of interesting writers, including five collaborative poems by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook and Robert Cole!  

Within the Menacing Hedge, you can read the poetry and fiction while LISTENING TO THE WRITERS read them.  

Read read read, listen listen listen - and then create some of your own poetry and art. 

Here - http://menacinghedge.com/summer2013/index.php

(These five poems by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole are from their forthcoming collaborative poetry chapbook, MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, to be published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2014).  

Poetry Podcast

Listen to Juliet Cook read five of her poems ('Hot Water', 'COILED', 'Giant Squid', 'SPAWNING' and 'Slumber Party Scandal/Bikini Zone') in the new Menacing Hedge Podcast, here:

http://menacinghedge.com/podcast/2012/menacing-podcast-2012-04-29.php

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