Happy Solstice! - With New Letters From Room 27 Review, New Pushcart Prize Nomination, & Socks!

A new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel by Margaret Bashaar now appears within Arsenic Lobster; thank you to Susan Yount.

(I was also utterly delighted by this little snip of the review, which calls me a poetic sock connoisseur; hee hee! "The chap is hand sewn by the gifted poet, editor and sock connoisseur, Juliet Cook. This is how you’ll know you’re reading love letters.")

Read the review here:

http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1review.html

After reading the review, if you would like to partake of the whole collection of the Letters, it can be purchased in its entirety, within my Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80737587/letters-from-room-27-of-the-grand-midway

Furthermore, in addition to creating this wonderful review, Arsenic Lobster has also nominated me for a Pushcart Prize! Click the link below to find out more about that:

http://arseniclobster.magere.com/1pushcart.html

Razzle dazzle slurptastic happy solstice!

NEW Blood Pudding Press Poetry chapbook - LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL!

Brimming with weird, creepy, messy ghostly infiltrations galore, Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel is the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, featuring 14 oddly haunted poems by Margaret Bashaar, inspired by an artsy haunted hotel!The first small assortment of purchased chapbooks will be mailed out on Tuesday September 6 and will most likely be hand signed by Margaret Bashaar herself!

Also, the first ten sold copies will each include a small art card, hand designed by Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook!

Each chapbook will brim with it's own lovely cover, its darkly delicious poetic innards, plus a few artsy photo snippets taken from within the haunted hotel by photographer Kevin Ross!

Take a look and consider purchasing a copy of this haunted treasure for yourself via the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here, pretty please, if you dare:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=pr_shop_more Any questions or special cover/innard color options, please feel free to ask.

Interested recipients might also like to partake of Margaret's Bashaar's own blog post about her new chapbook here:

http://pluckedfromogygia.blogspot.com/2011/08/letters-from-room-27-of-grandmidway.html

Boo! Hiss! Explode into poetry!

Thirteen Myna Birds New Snippets (& more)

slip under my tongue, our fingers will fuse and split, my body convulsing – so fertile and so brazen – magnificent desire, hearts bloody – the smell of ginger, sea salt, and starlight – loud music – deep hands – pink handled guillotine – whirling – eyelash-thick wires - egg-speckled swirl –eyes splitting themselves - love comes in many forms, higher then drugs or heaven

The above snippets are fused from the poems within the newly updated Thirteen Myna Birds. Here it is in its entirety: http://13myna.blogspot.com/

Poem #13 is by Margaret Bashaar from her chapbook called LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL, soon to be published in artsy print by my Blood Pudding Press.

Next month’s Thirteen Myna Birds update will include another poem from Margaret Bashaar’s LETTERS and the chapbook and the chapbook will be available for sale in all its artsy glory within the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress.

Please feel free to take a gander at the shop and/or make a purchase – and stay tuned for the new strange innards next month!