NEW! The First Thirteen Myna Birds Flock of 2026 is HERE...

Yes it has been a while, but in this month of March 2026, a new Thirteen Myna Birds flock has finally arrived, the first of this year 2026!

Starting with thirteen new poems by Jason Ryberg, Donna Pucciani, Mark J. Mitchell, Joshua Walker, SJ Harrold, and Maceo Nightingale.

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

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"Too much reality hurt and cold facts couldn’t be climbed - Her branch has vanished - keys dangled from a skinny wrist - voices bleed downstage - in darkening offices and bedrooms all over America - guilt that moves because it must - a document now shredded - sending what’s left of their leaves to scatter in every direction - clues that get missed, like dull sets that fly to darkness - the goddamn cynics and nihilists - Red eyed rats coughed out tracking devices - Life begins as a wriggly maggot - worms slithered out a bleeding heart - The years rot slow in mason jars - sudden tragedy, or the inexplicable prospect of non-being"

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A lot more submissions remain in the Myna Birds inbox to read and consider and respond to in phases and the tentative plan is to add MORE creative work to this Myna Birds flock at different intervals in March and April, so please do stay tuned, if so inclined.

But for now, these are your starting thirteen, which will stay up at least throughout March and April (probably even longer) with more poems and/or art added to the mix from time to time...

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/

Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" is now available in the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

"Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (Juliet Cook's newest poetry chapbook, published by Ethel Zine & Micro Press in December 2023) has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too, in case anyone would like to purchase one in conjunction with another chapbook there... Here is a link to that listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

Of course it can also still be purchased directly from Ethel Zine & Micro Press too, here - https://www.ethelzine.com/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards ***

"He thinks he can make it up to you
by suddenly replacing you

with an eyeless, mouthless mannequin,
silently positioned against your closed garage door
like an unasked for reminder or a secret test.

She thinks she can make it up to you
by telling you to rip off its head
and immediately toss it in the garbage can.

As if all of this is easy
as long as you don't speak for yourself."

in the poem "Some People Want to Remove Your Eyes"

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Now Officially Available - Cutting Eyes from Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker - the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017!

The first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017 - "Cutting Eyes from Ghosts" by Ariana D. Den Bleyker is now officially available!

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/494588398/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_active_2

This chapbook contains 15 poems.

It is hand-bound and available in different colored covers and binding materials.

Pre-ordered copies will be mailed this week (before February 18) - and from here on out, any purchased copies will be heading your way within 1-3 business days

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"bloodless, your mouth indefinitely, infinitely opening,
opening to commune with the dead, flood erasing you,

empty memory, willing, pliant, a body waiting
to say something, anything."

(from the poem "When We Die, There Will Be No Words, Just the Earth Between Our Teeth")

NEW in Rogue Agent Issue 22 (Happy New Year!)

"My long letters ruin friendships.
It doesn't matter whether they're overly positive
or overly negative or a juxtaposition of both."

from Juliet Cook's poem "IT DOESN'T MATTER", in the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

Happy to start the New Year by having a poem published, surrounded by other poems, inside the new Issue 22 of Rogue Agent.

HERE - http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/jcook-2

NEW Rogue Agent!

Happily delighted that the newest issue of Rogue Agent is alive on the Day of the Dead and includes poetry by Blood Pudding Press poet Lauren Gordon and a collaboration by j/j hastain & Blood Pudding Press editor poet Juliet Cook (and lots more good stuff too) all HERE -http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/

Happy July! New Poetry in Hermeneutic Chaos! Art in Rogue Agent!

Excited to start this new month with some newly published poetry and art!

Blood Pudding Press editor and poet Juliet Cook has three poems within the new July 2015 Issue #9 of Hermeneutic Chaos. 

You can read the poems AND listen to her read them.

You can even check out the Epilogue section to see/listen to what songs some of the poets chose to accompany their poems.

Below that is the Symposium section where they explain WHY they chose the songs they chose.

http://www.hermeneuticchaosjournal.com/july-2015.html

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ALSO, Juliet Cook has a piece of art within the "IN MY OTHER LIFE I___" section in the midst of Issue Four of RogueAgent

http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue4

Last Day to Submit!

Today is the last day to submit your poetry chapbook to the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook contest! The submission window closes, locks shut, and possibly explodes after midnight tonight (as soon as December 20 turns into December 21).

More details here - http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2014/11/blood-pudding-press-is-now-accepting.html

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.)

NEW Sein und Werden - Theatrum Diabolorum!

The new Sein und Werden - Theatrum Diabolorum includes two collaborative poems involving Blood Pudding Press editor, Juliet Cook! 

This issue seems too darkly deliciously good to be true! It offers work by numerous strangely scrumptious writers, such as...

Alessandra Bava! (whose new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "They Talk About Death", can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195494626/new-they-talk-about-death-by-alessandra?ref=shop_home_active_21)

Jennifer MacBain-Stephens! (who wrote a very recent wonderful review of "They Talk About Death" here - http://www.thethepoetry.com/category/infoxicated-corner/)

Suzanne Grażyna! (whose poetry also appears alongside individual and collaborative work by multiple poets within the poetry chapbook, "Fainting Couch Idioglossia", which can be purchased from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/100844207/fainting-couch-idioglossia-by-multiple?ref=shop_home_active_2)

A collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and Robert Cole (which will also appear within their collaborative poetry chapbook, "MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM", forthcoming from Hyacinth Girl Press!

A collaborative poem by Juliet Cook and Joseph Goosey...and some individual pieces by another collaborator,  j/j hastain!...and lots more goodies to partake of too.

Talk about an awesomely unexpected surprise I can hardly wait to dive into (and maybe you should too)...

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn14/index.html

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/.

NEW Mojave River Review!

NEW in the Mojave River!

The inaugural issue of Mojave River Review is 200+ pages, including two poems by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook - "Wax Fangs" and "How Extraordinary Sea Creatures Are Born".

Dive in here -
http://issuu.com/mojaverivermedia/docs/mrr-iss1vol1-draft20/1