NEW! A New Thirteen Myna Birds Flock has Arrived, in time for the end of summer/beginning of fall....

Approaching the end of summer and launching into the fall, a new issue of Thirteen Myna Birds has finally arrived!

This issue is brimming with birds. Rising, falling, burning, flying, screaming, offering warnings...

Twenty new feathers and beaks are all HERE (from Debrah Shenefelt - MISH - Merritt Waldon - Ken Poyner - László Aranyi - James Croal Jackson - Ann Randlette - Paul David Adkins - Daniel G. Snethen - A.J. Huffman) - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

Flaming fingers scratch the sky - The chickadees have stopped singing - the crows are hopping from branch to branch dropping closer waiting - to find a half-cherry in my cup of fruit cocktail - Ascending angel clings to shadows - unaware she is already melted and falling - Hollow sky - I could not count all the trees - It is more than a number of trees - a thousand bucks to screw her head onto a bolt - with needle-and-thread grass, hog-nosed snakes and sandburs - Birds pecked out the eyes - The mission of the Earth is fulfilled: the one who lands ashore is taken aim at - The altar, a split shell by a dying brushfire - The cats are out of the bag, and their fangs are mammoth - painted images in the reddened sky - staring at my near colorless fruit - How a window could frost and seal itself behind - what if some students can’t afford the book? - Songbirds screech to clouds in mourning - the doctor freezing pieces of me off - The whole place reeked of bleach - I vomit hearts drained of purpose...

Vortex by MISH

NEW! More New Poems Have Now Been Added to the latest Thirteen Myna Birds flock!

UPDATE: As of April 9, 2026, Six New Poems have now been added to the thirteen that were already up at Thirteen Myna Birds, HERE! - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

In honor of Poetry Month, I am hoping to add additional poems throughout this month and this is the latest addition of six new ones.

Poems by CL Bledsoe, Jeremy Jusek and Gary Beck are now accompanying the thirteen that were already up.

Check out the new additions and stay tuned for more.

NEW! Juliet Cook's poem “Residual Fitting Room Inside Which Nothing Fits” has managed to fit its way into MasticadoresUsa!

"Sometimes talking with others
causes you to feel fake and so
you bite your own tongue,

drain it onto your own paper,
no matter how splattered
and intricately cluttered

this room becomes. These lines
might not even fit anymore
tomorrow."

in Juliet Cook's poem “Residual Fitting Room Inside Which Nothing Fits”, newly appearing in MasticadoresUsa

 
read more here - https://masticadoresusa.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/residual-fitting-room-inside-which-nothing-fits-by-juliet-cook/

More of Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR!

"It's your fault for pulling an ex-friends hair out
of the bathtub drain and placing the hair on a condescending letter
as if you were better than them because you didn't shove your own hair
down that drain. Instead you obsessively hacked your own hair off
and stuck it inside a tiny garbage can with the bathroom door locked.

You repeatedly locked doors and sat on counters near the sink
against the mirror, divided your face into numbered sections
and secretly conducted your own compulsive rituals against yourself.
You somehow let yourself believe your own anxiety
and obsessive streaks made more sense than someone else's depression."

in the poem "THROWING IT AWAY DOESN'T MEAN IT DIDN'T HAPPEN" in Juliet Cook's new poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR, published by Gutter Snob Books in July 2023.

A photo of  CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (underneath a light purple skull head), which is newly available from Gutter Snob Books.

get it HERE - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

or get it HERE - https://www.amazon.com/Contorted-Doom-Conveyor-Gutter-Books/dp/B0C6W7C2HV/?fbclid=IwAR3KE6QSri7SdVZ9EvZet0EuUhju862Ju9jlnhpWqUiPlZ8tSi7Qce0z0TE

or please feel free to let Cook know if you'd like to acquire a copy directly from her...

 

Juliet Cook's CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR has arrived!

Juliet Cook received her author copies of her latest poetry chapbook, CONTORTED DOOM CONVEYOR (Gutter Snob Books) in the mail!

She also received some preordered copies to sign and send back to the publisher!

Those interested who haven't yet acquired a copy can acquire a copy here (they'll be shipping out next month, July 2023) - https://www.magicaljeep.com/product/doom/140

Or if you'd like to acquire one directly from Juliet, that's a possibility too. Just let her know. It costs $13 plus $3.95 shipping for a total of $16.95. ❤️

Juliet Cook holding her new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out"!

Juliet Cook holding her new poetry chapbook, "red flames burning out", published by Grey Book Press this month, April 2023.

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"I might spend that unknown time frame of post-seizure
memory loss walking alone along an unknown road

and then get dragged into an unknown alley,
and then wake up in pain and have no clue
where I am, what happened to me or
where all this blood is coming from."

in one of her Internal Suffocation poems within the chapbook

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You can find out more about red flames burning out via Grey Book Press's website, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/2023/04/07/internal-suffocation/

You can purchase a copy via Grey Book Press too, here - http://www.greybookpress.com/titles/

(Or you can contact Juliet to find out more and/or purchase a copy directly from her).

The chapbook costs $8 (which includes shipping, within the USA).

The First Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2022 is HERE!

Happy 2022 from Thirteen Myna Birds!

The first Thirteen Myna Birds flock of 2022 is now upon us, offering poetry and art by Kim Malinowki, MISH, jck hnry, Wayne F. Burke, Geoff Sawers, and Peter Mladinic!

Coffins rose up - I’m cloaked in red hood—spinning - bobbing to the Earth's surface - she sits on a stool behind a plastic barrier - wears a mask just as we all do right now - my dream notes are confusing and filled with dark images - sharp, dripping canines - my inbox is filled with stark reminders - not that big a deal unless you are the one in the box - They all hate you but none understand you - Silk webs wrap half a hawthorn - I might paint my face so that my face is like a mask - bleached spine on a library shelf - A mole in the middle of my forehead grew into an eye - Blink and you'll never blink again - Don’t stop till I say Stop.

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

Pack by MISH

The Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook POISON MOONLIGHT appears on this list of new books...

Among this list of new books by Massachusetts poets, one of the first on the list is the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT" by Jason O'Toole.

"We invite you to support and celebrate the Commonwealth's rich poetry community by buying a new book of poetry by a Massachusetts poet for yourself, for a friend, or as a gift to your local library. The below are new books of poems by Massachusetts poets."
https://masspoetry.org/newbooks?fbclid=IwAR3MA29-WS5yAx-vXqxNhKBwanGsgGmwG1uKRmFKxdqcmeZnPCbuiLE1HMA *** You can acquire your own copy of POISON MOONLIGHT here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress 

The NEW May Flock of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived (starting with three teaser piece poems from the new Blood Pudding Press chapbook)!

The NEW May flock of Thirteen Myna Birds is here!

It begins with three teaser piece poems from the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "POISON MOONLIGHT" by Jason O'Toole. It is filled with new poetry by John Sweet, E. Martin Pedersen, Kristin Garth, Don Thompson, R. Bremner, Tom Montag, and Yuan Changming.

"The peculiar smell of the inevitable stops time - it gets in your blood like poison does, and then you die - No longer one with the natural world - you trade strange monsters - it’s your voice of truth born of your myth of truth - glowering between Mercury and an international space station - Poppies that used to be enlightened have a jaundiced and flaccid look - Neuro-witchcraft: the hippocampus boiling a cauldron of bad memories - where images of people I’ve long forgotten dance furiously in vain hope that I’ll remember - demons start to revolt With ghosts from under the ground - been wanting to burn down this goddamn town since the day we arrived - homemade bread of disabling dread - laying eggs above alligators - In a tsunami filled with viruses & monsters - with their lopsided pentagram - Probability is half of it - We each believe our selves to be The hero on our own stage - and when i show you what i’ve written, you tell me to leave..."

Read it all HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com

A darkly delicious new mini-review of Juliet Cook's almost ten year old poetry book, "Horrific Confection"

A darkly delicious new mini-review of Juliet Cook's almost ten year old poetry book, "Horrific Confection":

"Melt into the sugary brine that moats the dollhouse towers of minisculely detailed and finely rotated words that make up the luscious and mercurial poetry that defines this author's finely honed senses."

Janie C. 

If you're someone who hasn't yet read this book and would like to, you can read it online HERE - http://www.blazevox.org/ebk-jCook%20REAL.pdf

"From One Ruined Human to Another" by Juliet Cook (new from CWP Collective Press, as of June 2018)!

Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook is extremely excited and delighted to announce...

I have a NEW poetry chapbook, "From One Ruined Human to Another", newly published and newly available from Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective!

This is my first new poetry chapbook to be published within the last three years, so those of you who hear me read poetry have probably encountered some of these poems in recent years.

For those of you who don't know my poetry, it isn't very pretty. Little girls coalesce into blobs of blood with ripped out hearts. Contaminated tissue, bible cysts, evil spells, slimy pus, disbelief in love, dead birds, dead hearts and other broken parts, doll torsos with broken heads, giant rat traps, stars filled with teeth broken from the molars, at least three different poems with pussy in them, lots and lots of blood and lots and lots of holes.

The chapbook contains 26 hideous pages worth of poems created by me AND two pieces of fantastically wonderful cover art created by poet/artist Craig Firsdon (one on the outside front cover and one on the inside front cover).

I'll share more photos and more information soon (because I received my own copies of this chapbook in the mail, this past weekend), but for now I am sharing a link to where you can acquire your very own copy of my new book, and I'm sharing some close up scans of Craig Firsdon's cover art!

If you're into my poetry (or are interested in checking it out), please support the press that chose to publish it!  For only 5 bucks plus shipping, you can get yourself a copy from CWP Collective and have a hand-designed book of 25 dark red poems and two fabulous pieces of unique art right in front of you. 

HERE! - https://www.cwpcollectivepress.com/bookstore-1/from-one-ruined-human-to-another


You can also buy other chapbooks from CWP too! 

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As a small sample, here's the beginning of my poem "After the Lite Brite Died"

"Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light hearted.

Sometimes I'm not in the mood for light.

Sometimes I'd rather sit by myself in the dark.

Sometimes I only want the Lite Brite colors to be dark

red like a rare moon, red like the blood

that will make you back away from this

girl turning into a woman who will not keep her own red flow a secret anymore."

Outside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon 

Inside front cover art created by Craig Firsdon 

A NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens at Swimming With Elephants Publications!

"With each poem thereafter comes a chapter of both closure and reawakening old memories; Paloma is remarkably bittersweet in the tug-of-war of saying goodbye to somebody who can no longer hear you, and Hudgens’ voice is so clear and combative against adhering to traditional standards... it is clear that Hudgens proves to be anything but a traditional poet; she rocks the reader’s thoughts, with gruesome details suggesting unkempt murder, encouraging one to further unravel the mayhem behind a sudden loss. Nonetheless, this proves to be a beautiful read, a true work of dedication and memory"

part of a wonderful new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Paloma" by Jennifer E. Hudgens which appeared in a Featured Author section of SWIMMING WITH ELEPHANTS last month.

Read more HERE - https://swimmingwithelephants.com/2018/04/20/featured-swep-author-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_active_1

A NEW Mini-Review of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain (Hysterical Books, 2016)

5 out of 5 stars
"Absolutely beautiful and disturbing at the same time, just the way I like my poetry!" Sarah Peterson's delightful mini-review of "A Red Witch, Every Which Way" by Juliet Cook and j/j hastain

acquire your own copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/473901408/a-red-witch-every-which-way-2016-full?ref=shop_home_active_1

Also available from Hysterical Books -https://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/a-red-witch-every-which-way

Also available from Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Red-Witch-Every-Which-Way/dp/0940821044

A few photos of the Author Copies of "Paloma" taken by Jennifer E. Hudgens

Jennifer E. Hudgens received their author copies of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, 'Paloma", shortly before the New Year began - and here are some photos Hudgens shared.

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

front cover

front and back

inside back cover

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Four Collaborative Poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook!

"Maybe nobody cares.

Maybe some of you will change

your minds when they eat your fingers off

and replace them with another

contorted case of the unknown."

Four collaborative poems by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook are appearing in Rag Queen AND bearing mention of Twin Peaks!!!!!!

"We love Twin Peaks at Rag Queen, so in honor of the series finale, we'll be posting works that center, in some way, on themes of duplicity all throughout the week!

Today, we have four collaborative poems by one of our favorite frequent contributors, Juliet Cook and new contributor JJ Hastain!"

https://www.ragqueenperiodical.com/single-post/2017/08/28/Poems-by-Juliet-Cook-jj-hastain

NEW Review of Stick Up by Paul David Adkins (Blood Pudding Press)

Thank you to Galatea Resurrects and to M. Earl Smith for this new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook "Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins!

"The story that Adkins portrays is gritty: a down-on-her-luck woman...finally snaps. What follows is the intersection of several lives, all caught in a moment of drama not, for the most part, of their making. Through this series of poems, we see how the themes of religion (If God wanted to / save her, now was His chance / to give her / one hundred / thousand signs), addiction, and poverty are brought to the forefront...The poems in Stick Up are so gritty, so personal, and so real that one can fairly assume that Adkins is writing from some sort of personal experience."

You can read more of the review here - https://galatearesurrection27.blogspot.com/2016/12/stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins.html

You can acquire your very own copy of "Stick Up" in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110107/stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014-blood?ref=shop_home_active_10

They Talk About Death by Alessandra Bava - NEW Blood Pudding Press Poetry chapbook!

They Talk About Death by Alessandra Bava is the third contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2014

This is Bava's first chapbook published within the United States.

They Talk About Death is available here - http://www.etsy.com/listing/195585261/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?

Cover Art - Yellow Carousel Horse by Erin Wells.

Available with Vanilla Skull Cover, Medium Blue Cover, or Off White Cover.

Hand bound with artsy yarn, either Sea Orange or Medium Blue - OR with Dusty Rose ribbon.

The innards include thirteen poems, inspired by/based upon other writers/artists who died young, including Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Garcia Lorca, Rimbaud, and Baudelaire.

Below is part of the chapbook's title poem, followed by more biographical information about the poet.

Buy the book to read more.

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"Sylvia talks of her
first attempt. Anne
listens attentively.
Her lucid,

blue stare
beautifies the dark
suicidal words:
the sweet,

terrible act dissected
with loving details
as on a morgue
table"

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Alessandra Bava lives and works in the Eternal city. She holds an MA in American Literature and manages her own translation agency. She is the author of two bilingual chapbooks, NOCTURNE (Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, 2013) and GUERRILLA BLUES (Edizioni Ensemble, 2012).

THEY TALK ABOUT DEATH is her third chapbook but her first US published chapbook. Her fourth chapbook is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She is the editor of ROME'S REVOLUTIONARY POETS BRIGADE ANTHOLOGY Vol. 1 (Edizioni Ensemble, 2012) and ARTICOLO 1 (Albeggi Edizioni, 2014). Her poems have appeared in several journals such as Plath Profiles, THRUSH Poetry Journal, Empty Mirror and Left Curve. In 2010 she had a cathartic encounter with SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman and she is currently writing his biography.


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Here is a link to the first 2014 Blood Pudding Press contest wining chapbook - House on Fire by Susan Yount - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?

Here is a link to the second Blood Pudding Press contest winning chapbook - Stick Up by Paul David Adkins - https://www.etsy.com/listing/188110107/new-stick-up-by-paul-david-adkins-2014?

NEW Strange Carnival Morsels are now frothing in Myna Birds Land!

The strange carnival of love and life grows weirder and darker red and involves bites of candy at the NEW NEW NEW Thirteen Myna Birds update! - Michael Dwayne Smith, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Adam Fieled, Katharine Hepcat, Davide Nixon, John Grey, and Ani Myers-Campos are within the latest peculiar poetry parade, here here here - 
http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Drawing together both heaven and hell – stitched them together hand in hand – pick at the flowers - petal to your knees – gargling songs of mud – tempting the scorpion – hard candy on the ground – wispy wings are in tatters from trying to lift her – minion of tarts - bleed out and be easier to throttle -  if a man could mutate – the blood of their feasts... 

Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary - NEW from Blood Pudding Press

The NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary is now available –

https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?ref=shop_home_active

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Blood Pudding Press is very pleased to announce its third new poetry chapbook of 2013, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary, with cover art created from the doll photo, “Steampunk Dia De Los Muertos Doll 353” by Michael Brown/ UC Studios.

Paula Cary’s ten poems within this swimming diving and skull collecting offering were inspired by her sister Lisa Cary, her muse. The poems offer small bursts of life and death and blood based connections.  Blood and bones collected from under water and saved for memories and keep sakes and art sakes.

Each chapbook is hand-bound with colorful threads pricked into colorful covers.  If you would like a specific color cover, feel free to specify in the comments section when you purchase – either light gray with circles OR medium gray OR variations of tan (or Blood Pudding Press will choose for you and surprise you.)  Also if you would like a certain color of binding thread, feel free to specify that – either soft/light/dark blue water OR multicolored bright blue/green OR multicolored bright RAINBOW flying mermaid legs.

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“You are bloodless white

From the frigid depths

Your lips a literal blue

They match your eyes

And I think of sugar skulls

Dressed in colored frosting”

(from Paula Cary’s poem “After the Dive in Troy Springs”)

POET HOUND Reviews RENEGADE//HEART

"Lisa M. Cole’s Renegade//Heart is published by Blood Pudding Press in 2013 and is a riveting collection of poems about love and life that drill to the bone creating fissures, provoking blood loss, changing the meaning of good and bad luck."

From a Poet Hound review offering samples of Lisa M. Cole's RENEGADE//HEART (published this January 2013 by Blood Pudding Press)

You can read it all here - http://poethound.blogspot.com/2013/03/lisa-m-coles-renegadeheart.html

Thank you very much to Poet Hound.