9/29/13

New Thirteen Myna Birds flock - blood spangled glitter heart yelp

A New Thirteen Myna Birds flock, offering work by Jay Sizemore, Carol Peters, Bekah Steimel, Kristine Snodgrass & Scott Sweeney, Roberta Chloe Verdant, Gary Glauber, John Landry, and PC Vandall is here! - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

"angry as neglected volcanoes - how my heart used to pound - what failure felt like - ornamental gardens with broken statuary - make your skin a diary - deep affection, dark memories - you see pink and she hears red - raw and bloody - a coyote pack’s yelp - dancing on a light beam - blood spangled glitter - blue cake icing"


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Also the Myna Birds are currently accepting submissions for our next Halloween-esque update. 

The work you submit does not have to be specifically inspired by or focused upon Halloween, but rather on the dark side in one way or another.

9/23/13

What is up with one word definitions?

Several of my friends have posted a link today about how it's “Invisible Majority Bisexual Pride Day” - and nothing against them posting that - and nothing against bisexual pride - but I'm not a fan of the WORD bisexual - and similarly, I'm not a fan of any of those words that supposedly define you by placing you in a group with one word naming it.

Like for example, if you're a poet, why would you want to define your own creative work as academic or as outsider or as mainstream or as non-mainstream or whatever? What if it's parts of all of those things and more? What if it doesn’t fit into any group name or dynamic?

Maybe I slightly diverge from mainstream sensibilities here, because a lot of people seem to really enjoy being involved in groups.  I'm reminded of how some sports fans commit to one group (and dislike the others).  Plus how many people define themselves politically as either a democrat or a republican. Plus how many people define themselves religiously/spiritually.  This team or that team.  This group or that group.  This belief or that belief. Rah rah rah. Yes or no, wrong or right, black or white, where do you fit in?

Back to bisexual, obviously it’s not black and white (or all kinds of bright rainbow colors like a lot of the gay pride labels) – it’s “invisible” yet the “majority”, but yet needs to be positioned into a group.

What IS bisexual anyway? How do you define it? Why would you define it?

What if you're  a woman who is about 98% attracted to men, chemically and sexually speaking  (but have sexually experimented with women and might do so again) - but sure like looking at women (including scantily clad women) physically speaking, maybe even more than you like looking at men physically speaking - but when it comes down to getting close up and naked with someone and having some sort of scintillating sexy physical contact with them, then men are prone to making you tingle way more than other women do - but when it comes to mental/conversational contact, you could go either way.  Is that bisexual?

Quite a few women I know who identify themselves as bisexual are mainly predominantly involved with men, relationship-wise.  If you’re a woman who is primarily involved with men and/or if you’re a woman who is predominantly attracted to men but is also willing to get physical with other women in order to turn men on, is that bisexual ?

Or is that more of an exhibitionist fetish to turn yourself on?  Or both?  Or neither?

Everyone is an individual who has their own needs/wants/desires, right? 

So why do so many people like to classify themselves into a one word group?

Why are so many people so into DEFINING all kinds of things, including feminism (of which there are many different definitions and varieties) and sexual proclivities (S/M, dominant, submissive, kinky, vanilla, bisexual blah blah blah blah blah…).

I’m not against any of those things per se; I’m mainly just saying I don’t understand why people feel such a need to define and place themselves in a group. Maybe part of the reason is to relate to “like minded others” – but obviously not everyone in the bisexual (or other) group is going to be like minded so...

How do you define these parts of yourself and why do you want to?

Is this post of mine partially derived from an exhibitionist fetish streak? 


Just wondering and thinking/expressing out loud. Not defining anything.

9/17/13

Missing Finger Twisty Things

NEW One of a Kind Original Painting, Mixed Media, Textural Hybrid - Different Colors, Threads, and Textures


We Don't Stop Here (New Review of Older Lynch inspired poetry chapbook)

"in which her fingers spread her blue nails shed
like dead sequins"

A tiny snippet from Juliet Cook's poem "Lip Synching", which appears within a brand new review by Sabotage Reviews of an older poetry chapbook, "We Don't Stop Here", based on the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive and published by The Private Press in 2008.

The whole review - http://sabotagereviews.com/2013/09/17/we-dont-stop-here-ed-by-ivy-alvarez/

The Private Press (which has published several different Lynch film inspired chapbooks) - http://zoo.f2s.com/privatepress/store.html

9/13/13

Another Art and Poetry Combo Pack With Altered Art Halloween Baby Shoes

This listing offers a creepy artsy one-of-a-kind Halloween ornament AND a poetry chapbook.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/162321948/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?

Both are available separately within the Blood Pudding Press shop - but with this listing, you can get both combined for a slightly reduced price, rather than buying them each separately.
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The altered art Halloween ornament was created from a small vintage baby shoe I purchased and then painted with various colors of acrylic paint (especially blood red) and stabbed a tiny hole into and added a colorful and dark ribbon binding, so it can be hung as an ornament.
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With this purchase, you can choose ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:

RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole

(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/119192462/renegadeheart-by-lisa-mcole-new-2013?ref=shop_home_feat)

OR

Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom 

(Find out more about this chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/124662033/poking-through-the-fabric-of-the-light?ref=shop_home_feat)


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Only one of this Halloween ornament exists, so this is a one-of-a-kind listing. Once it's gone, it's gone.

However, there is also one similar listing - featuring a one-of-a-kind mini painting and two other 2013 chapbooks to choose from here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?ref=listing-shop-header-0

9/11/13

Art and Poetry Combo Packs

I added two new offerings to my Blood Pudding Press shop last night, in which you could purchase a combo pack that gives you one 2013 poetry chapbook AND a one-of-a-kind mini art piece at a slightly reduced price. 


Since the painting/collage art pieces are one-of-a-kind, there were only two such listings to start with - and one of them quickly sold - so as of right now, only one listing still remains available (but I will attempt to add more semi-soon).

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One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called doll crematorium - a one of a kind, poem-inspired, abstract art piece with teeth.

Plus ONE of these two 2013 poetry chapbooks:

Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop by me published this year by Grey Book Press.

OR

Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary, the very latest 2013 poetry chapbook published by Blood Pudding Press.

Available here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/162309424/art-and-poetry-combo-pack-one-of-a-kind?

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One listing in which you receive my mini painting collage hybrid called moppet hair brassiere - a one of a kind with various melds of acrylic paint and other snippets.

Plus ONE of these two 2013 Contest Winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:

RENEGADE//HEART by Lisa M. Cole

OR

Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us... by Lora Bloom 


SOLD OUT!

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If interested, stay tuned for more...

9/9/13

Forth-A-Gothing Up the Hills

My last week of August was filled with a delightfully delicious and wonderfully unique vacationing array - involving my first time ever in Colorado, my first time ever spending a whole week with my positive energy field friend Bill (who awesomely sings along to oodles of songs), my first time ever hiking AND camping up mountains (Finch Lake and Pear Lake in Allenspark), plus other stuff before & after (Estes Park, Rocky Mountain Alpine Center, Mount Evans with the highest road in North America, Twin Lakes, Alpine Tundra, and then Denver). And creating a scrumpdelicious new drink called the Froth-A-Goth.




9/7/13

GLAMOURAMA (New Sein und Werden)

"Dark black church bells hot in the blankets (she's melting).
Fountains that churn liquid cement, not water (he's hardening).

He wants to erode her scapula. Pluck out her neurons."


from the poem Nether Chord, by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole

Which appears within the innards (along with lots of of other work) of the latest Sein und Werden's GLAMOURAMA issue here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/autumn13/index.html


According to the editor - "Here she is folks, wobbling on super high heels, the blood from a still warm animal dripping down her neck, a diamond choker slicing into the withered throat, centipede eyebrows dying, that permanent rictus grin... Let's hear it for Miss Glamourama 2013..."


9/5/13

New Review of Sister, Blood and Bone

A new review of Paula Cary's "Sister, Blood and Bone" poetry chapbook (published by Blood Pudding Press, 2013) appears within the latest issue of "Stirring: A Literary Collection" (thank you to Stirring and reviewer Ashley Roach) -http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/cary.htm

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a snippet from the review - These are shimmering free verse vignettes that are simmered down to almost nothing but images. "In the Shallows" is especially lovely, the sound of water reflected in the consonance of "The minnow slipping through/ The edges of her fingers/ Which she catches/ With her other hand/ The minnow's dance cupped/ Its silver body shimmering/ In the dusk of a summer evening."

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Sister, Blood and Bone is available within the Blood Pudding Press shop here - 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-new?