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4/5/20

A NEW Review of Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook - The Rabbits With Red Eyes!

"A beautifully crafted and meticulously stitched little book that speaks volumes on its bright white pages. Poetry vociferous in honesty and violent in imagery leaves typed tracks across a heart of blemishes while shrinking into its own stew of consciousness. Here is emoting to the fourth degree, crispy and well singed, tempestuously supple on the inside."

A delightful new review of Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, "The Rabbits With Red Eyes" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press). Thank you very much to Janie C.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3250422719?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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You can acquire your own copy of The Rabbits With Red Eyes directly from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, HERE - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet-cook

You can also acquire a copy directly from the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/792299569/new-the-rabbits-with-red-eyes-by-juliet?ref=shop_home_feat_2

4/18/19

Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds! The NEW April Flock Is HERE!

Happy Poetry Month from Thirteen Myna Birds!

This NEW April flock of Myna Birds features Latif Ba, L.B. Stringfellow, MISH, John D. Robinson, Nicholas Hayes, Daniel G. Snethen, Alexander P. Garza, and Felix Purat.

"In the dream, I am on the dark side - In manacles chafing ashy ankles and nails like wild flamingos - Here the dead live close to the living - I am troubled by the heaviness of being - I know it’s temporary, just like everything - all of it in a fifth of vodka or in the dizziness of speech - One who’s svelte becomes lumbering and oafish - He licks his teeth frantically trying to see if they are loose - with space to fill with truth - the spider-webby veins of gravity and time - where the leaves of trees become the dead wings of birds - A web of brain matter, rummaged through - That’s your gift? - the slop of undigested graves - how they seem to construct themselves - It’s astounding: how little time people spend with themselves - She's empty, running on empty - Just cold dead eye balls - gazing down aisles lined with radiant bottles of single malt whiskey, Barbadian rum, vodka white as snow - A sparrow is trapped in the terminal above in caged frustration its wings express a message - Crouching on the stoop, he becomes a gargoyle only to become stone. How else does one become permanent?"

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

1/25/19

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

8/27/18

Bound Art Book + Zine Fair, 2018

Recent Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks will be at the Bound Art Book + Zine Fair, September 14 and 15, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland MOCA.

Attending the event is FREE.

https://www.facebook.com/events/268243227241420/

6/28/18

NEW! The Octopus Review #5!

The Octopus Review #5 has arrived and Blood Pudding Press editor/poet Juliet Cook is delighted to have two poems inside! The issue begins with her "Pisscake" poem - and then her longer poem, "To Serve and Protect (Out of Order)" appears further down among the different shaped Octopus arms and hearts and other parts!

Happy to be surrounded by poetry and art by Matt Borczon, Mike Griffith, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Rob Plath, Jennifer Behling, and more!

Thank you very much to editor Vin Whitman for placing me inside this Octopus!

It's up to them to quickly decide who is nothing

but another dead body part rammed

into their broken down meat machine.

            After all, they're the ones in charge.
            So what if they're out of control.
            Unfair, unjust, who cares?

What are you going to do? Arrest THEM?

in my poem "To Serve and Protect (Out of Order)", in the new Octopus Review #5 - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-octopus-review-5-summer-18.html

6/8/17

NEW Review of (the temporarily revived) Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, The Laura Poems

"Eccentric characters and surreal motifs and symbols from Twin Peaks are also used in The Laura Poems to good effect, such as references to the owl and the Log Lady, making this chapbook a welcome addition to the Twin Peaks canon. However, it's not just Twin Peaks fans who will enjoy The Laura Poems. All those who empathize with a young woman's struggle for survival against hostile forces will be interested in these poems."

from Eileen Murphy's new review of Juliet Cook's old poetry chapbook, The Laura Poems (which was temporarily made available again in the Blood Pudding Press shop last month, in honor of Twin Peaks revival).

Thank you very much to Eileen Murphy and Glass for writing and publishing this review.

Read the whole review HERE - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/reviews/murphy-cook.html

11/10/16

from A Red Witch, Every Which Way

"my so called partner starts
eating them before they're ready.
It feels like every time I eat
it pulps out out immediately,
it explodes itself inside me
instead of growing all the way.

I'm starting to hate my body.
The only way I can control it is if I starve,
stop planting, stop hanging
my art on my own hooked walls."

from the poem "Broken Burial", within the full-length collaborative poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain (published by Hysterical Books)

"A Red Witch, Every Which Way" is available within my Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/473901408/new-a-red-witch-every-which-way-2016?ref=shop_home_feat_1