NEW Mini Art Pieces (Painting Collage Art Hybrid Creatures)

Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is the title of this TINY one-of-a-kind, painting/collage art hybrid, inspired by an odd, old-school, mentally deranged horror film. 

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Available in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/169653959/whatever-happened-to-baby-jane-itty?

Miss Havisham is the title of this TINY one-of-a-kind, painting/collage art hybrid, inspired by the creepy, lonely mentally disturbed old lady in the novel, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
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Available in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/169644680/miss-havisham-itty-bitty-painting?ref=related-1

Mini Aneurysm is the title of this TINY one-of-a-kind, painting/collage art hybrid, inspired by a carotid artery dissection the artist had, which resulted in several aneurysms, which resulted in a stroke.
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Available in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/169650774/mini-aneurysm-itty-bitty-painting?ref=listing-shop-header-0

This one is not a dream; this is an example of when I can’t sleep all night and just lay in bed by myself thinking

I was thinking about a lot of different things, but this small note is just a few small parts of my thoughts about usually sleeping by myself these days.

As in many realms, I feel in between.  I’m not looking to dive into a deeply committed romantic partnership, yet I crave romance and affection. I’m not looking to dive into casual sex, yet I crave bodily contact.

But you know how with physical contact, for some people it’s a mind and body connection and for other people it’s mostly just body based? Well once again, I am in between.  Kind of.  I think. I have no desire to get physical with someone I have no significant connection with other than there body. But that doesn’t mean I have to love somebody or be there one & only significant other twenty four seven.

But if it’s just a casual body-based thing, then I feel like it doesn’t have much to do with me personally, or at least not my brain.  It mostly just has to do with me having a female body form, in which case it wouldn’t be long before he could just find and quickly dive into another female body form. 

I would still be feeling like we were getting to know each other and he would already be done with me and moving on to the next open body.

Blood Pudding Press is now accepting poetry chapbook submissions! (November 13, 2013 - December 13, 2013)

Blood Pudding Press is now accepting submissions for its latest poetry chapbook contest!

Blood Pudding Press is seeking two new poetry chapbooks to publish in 2014.

Before submitting your poetry innards, please read the details below to garner an idea of our desires.

Blood Pudding Press is an itty bitty indie press handled by one woman (poet/publisher/artist Juliet Cook) and does not particularly care whether or not other poets are academic, non-academic, outsider writers, indie writers or part of any specific writing scene, as long as they are active in their own way – and passionately entwined in artistic creation, writing, and reading (more than just their own poetry).

Blood Pudding Press cares about poetic individuals (and collaborators) with their own unique writing stylistics and experimentation. The press is open to oodles of different styles, but some of its primary interests (content-wise) involve mind and body, overly personal, oddly emotional, dark/light hybrids, abstract art, quirky humor, contemporary horror alterations, kinky amalgamations, grotesque treats, flirty, volatile, and possibly contradictory.

Blood Pudding Press likes the number 3 (and 13) so…

Blood Pudding Press will consider poetry collections of 13-23 poems (less than 30 pages please). Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published elsewhere before.  We will delightfully consider individual chapbooks and collaborative chapbooks by 2 or 3 different writers. 

If that piques your interest, here are the details of entering the Blood Pudding Press contest:

-Submissions will be accepted from November 13, 2013 through December 13, 2013.

-Three semi-finalists and two winners will be chosen.  Each of the two winners will have their chapbooks published and will receive thirteen free copies of their chapbook.

-There is a $5.00 entry fee per manuscript for entering this contest; this entry fee money will be used to purchase supplies for publishing and designing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at Julietcoo@gmail.com (although Paypal is the preferred form of payment, if you do not have a Paypal account and would rather pay by check, you may contact the editor via that email address).

-After paying your entry fee, please email your collection of poems to Julietcoo@gmail.com. Please write BPP Chapbook Contest – (your name) in the subject line.  Include your manuscript title, your name, your contact data, and a brief bio in the body of your email.  Attach the manuscript itself as a Microsoft Word Doc or Docx.

-The winners will be announced near the beginning of the New Year (early January 2014). The first winning chapbook will most likely be published in late January or early February.  The second winning chapbook will most likely be published in late March or early April.

For more information about Blood Pudding Press’s sensibilities and design style, you can peruse the Blood Pudding Press online shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress and/or the Blood Pudding Press blog at http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/.

A bit more information about who has been published by Blood Pudding Press in the past can also be viewed below.

If you have any particular questions or concerns, feel free to ask or let me know.

Best, Juliet Cook, Blood Pudding Press

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The two winning chapbooks created in 2013, as a result of last year’s contest were “RENEGADE//HEART” by Lisa M. Cole and “Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror” by Lora Bloom. (The three runner ups were Paula Cary, Allie Marini Batts, and Paul David Adkins – and the first runner ups chapbook was published by Blood Pudding Press too, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary). All three of those 2013 chapbooks can be further perused and/or purchased at the Blood Pudding Press shop, here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress.

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The two winning chapbooks created as a result of the first Blood Pudding Press contest were “At night, the dead” by Lisa Ciccarello and “The Spare Room” by Dana Guthrie Martin. (The three runner ups were Nicole Steinberg, Donald Dunbar, and John Rocco). 

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Other poets published by Blood Pudding Press have included Gina Abelkop, Margaret Bashaar, Kristy Bowen, Kelly Boyker, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Suzanne Grazyna, Christine Hamm, Sean Kilpatrick, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Rebecca Loudon,  T.A. Noonan, Daniela Olszewska,  J.R. Pearson, Kenneth Pobo, Jayne Pupek, Jenny Sadre-Orafai,  Melissa Severin,  Daniel M. Shapiro, Susan Slaviero, Matina Stamatakis and many more.   

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Thirteen Myna Birds is the online oddly haunted little sister of Blood Pudding Press and has published numerous different writers here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ .

Blood Pudding Press will soon be accepting submissions for its latest poetry chapbook contest!

Blood Pudding Press is seeking two new poetry chapbooks to publish in 2014.

Before submitting your poetry innards, please read the details below to garner an idea of our desires.

Blood Pudding Press is an itty bitty indie press handled by one woman (poet/publisher/artist Juliet Cook) and does not particularly care whether or not other poets are academic, non-academic, outsider writers, indie writers or part of any specific writing scene, as long as they are active in their own way – and passionately entwined in artistic creation, writing, and reading (more than just their own poetry).

Blood Pudding Press cares about poetic individuals (and collaborators) with their own unique writing stylistics and experimentation. The press is open to oodles of different styles, but some of its primary interests (content-wise) involve mind and body, overly personal, oddly emotional, dark/light hybrids, abstract art, quirky humor, contemporary horror alterations, kinky amalgamations, grotesque treats, flirty, volatile, and possibly contradictory.

Blood Pudding Press likes the number 3 (and 13) so…

Blood Pudding Press will consider poetry collections of 13-23 poems (less than 30 pages please). Some of the poems may be previously published, but the collection as a whole should not have been published elsewhere before.  We will delightfully consider individual chapbooks and collaborative chapbooks by 2 or 3 different writers. 

If that piques your interest, here are the details of entering the Blood Pudding Press contest:

-Submissions will be accepted from November 13, 2013 through December 13, 2013.

-Three semi-finalists and two winners will be chosen.  Each of the two winners will have their chapbooks published and will receive thirteen free copies of their chapbook.

-There is a $5.00 entry fee per manuscript for entering this contest; this entry fee money will be used to purchase supplies for publishing and designing the winning chapbooks. The fee is payable to the editor’s Paypal account at Julietcoo@gmail.com (although Paypal is the preferred form of payment, if you do not have a Paypal account and would rather pay by check, you may contact the editor via that email address).

-After paying your entry fee, please email your collection of poems to Julietcoo@gmail.com. Please write BPP Chapbook Contest – (your name) in the subject line.  Include your manuscript title, your name, your contact data, and a brief bio in the body of your email.  Attach the manuscript itself as a Microsoft Word Doc or Docx.

-The winners will be announced near the beginning of the New Year (early January 2014). The first winning chapbook will most likely be published in late January or early February.  The second winning chapbook will most likely be published in late March or early April.

For more information about Blood Pudding Press’s sensibilities and design style, you can peruse the Blood Pudding Press online shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress and/or the Blood Pudding Press blog at http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/.

A bit more information about who has been published by Blood Pudding Press in the past can also be viewed below.

If you have any particular questions or concerns, feel free to ask or let me know.

Best, Juliet Cook, Blood Pudding Press

***

The two winning chapbooks created in 2013, as a result of last year’s contest were “RENEGADE//HEART” by Lisa M. Cole and “Poking through the Fabric of the Light that Formed Us: Songs and Stories to Read in the Mirror” by Lora Bloom. (The three runner ups were Paula Cary, Allie Marini Batts, and Paul David Adkins – and the first runner ups chapbook was published by Blood Pudding Press too, “Sister, Blood and Bone” by Paula Cary). All three of those 2013 chapbooks can be further perused and/or purchased at the Blood Pudding Press shop, here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress.

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The two winning chapbooks created as a result of the first Blood Pudding Press contest were “At night, the dead” by Lisa Ciccarello and “The Spare Room” by Dana Guthrie Martin. (The three runner ups were Nicole Steinberg, Donald Dunbar, and John Rocco). 

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Other poets published by Blood Pudding Press have included Gina Abelkop, Margaret Bashaar, Kristy Bowen, Kelly Boyker, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Suzanne Grazyna, Christine Hamm, Sean Kilpatrick, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Rebecca Loudon,  T.A. Noonan, Daniela Olszewska,  J.R. Pearson, Kenneth Pobo, Jayne Pupek, Jenny Sadre-Orafai,  Melissa Severin,  Daniel M. Shapiro, Susan Slaviero, Matina Stamatakis and many more.   

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Thirteen Myna Birds is the online oddly haunted little sister of Blood Pudding Press and has published numerous different writers here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/ .

What is the point of documenting this dream?

What is the point of ANYTHING?

I guess everyone's points (or other shapes/sizes/colors) are different, but then how do you know how to interpret anyone else's feelings?

The dream was related to relationships, affection, and flirtation.  The man I had a long term relationship with was being physically affectionate with another woman in our back yard. I was semi-secretly watching from a window inside our house as the two of them worked together outside. He sat down and she placed her head right up against the side of his head/neck and he fed her fruit.

His actual supposed long term partner (me) watched from the upstairs window as he appeared to be truly enjoying his company with this other woman. Finally I went downstairs and outside, just as the other woman was walking away.  I said something to her like, "You sure enjoy putting your head against my husband's neck, don't you?"  She was not the least bit embarrassed or ashamed that I had seen her physical contact with my husband.  She said something like," Well he wouldn't let me put my head against his stomach" and then continued walking away.

I headed towards my husband and confronted him, thinking he might apologize and/or explain the situation. He was still sitting down calmly and didn't really seem to care what I thought at all. "So should we just end our relationship?" I asked, feeling hurt and almost shocked.  "I don't know, I guess", he said casually.

So it was up to me.  Stick with a long term relationship with someone who didn't really care about me and my feelings and who was more attached to/attracted to another woman and didn't feel the least bit badly about that - or be the one who went through the process of ending it and lose him and then lose friend after friend after friend.

I was the one who felt embarrassed and ashamed of myself. I wasn't good enough.

Odd Dream - Water and Death and Money and Math

In last night's dream, an unknown to me older black woman and I were transporting ourselves somewhere on an old-fashioned raft sort of thing (which thinking about it later, brought to my mind that raft thing on some of the cover images of Mark Twain's, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn").

Suddenly we saw another old-fashioned raft with two dead bodies on it - a mother and a child.

We placed the dead bodies upon our raft so they wouldn't sink down underwater and drown into nonexistence.  Maybe I thought we were saving them from total memory loss - but it turned out the other woman wanted to dredge the missing things out of the water in order to make money. Next thing I know, the two of us were sitting in front of a group of police people and I'm listening to the other woman describe what we had found, in a descriptive way that she thinks will make as much money as she can.  I didn't understand what was going on, but the people behind us seemed to.

Then the next thing I know, I'm walking around by myself carrying paperwork from the police and an envelope with the thousands of dollars we had gotten from that description of the dead bodies we had found. I was inside a school  trying to find my new math classroom.  I'm walking and walking by myself until I finally sit down, look at the paperwork that has my room number on it - and realize I've been walking around on the wrong floor and am now running late.

I suddenly envision a man from my past being inside that room when I find it.  But I don't remember who that man was or what he meant to me - and I don't find the room before I wake up, look at my clock, and see that it's later than I expected to wake up.