"On the surface this may seem depressing, and people who want flowery life is wonderful, everybody is happy messages shoved up their asses probably won’t relate to this, but if you’ve ever struggled to want to keep living, a book like this helps the journey."
from a new review by Peter Jelen of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall
read more of the review here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1334029742?book_show_action=true&from_review_page=1
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procure a copy of "Pigeons and Peace Doves" for yourself here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_listings
Showing posts with label 2015 poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015 poetry. Show all posts
12/17/15
Three New Poems in the New Tallow Eider Quarterly
Excited to have three poems appearing in the new tallow eider quarterly, Winter Issue 2015!
One individual poem by me - one collaborative poem by Adam Tedesco and me - one collaborative poem by j/j hastain and me. Talk about a threesome.smile emoticon
Read all of the innards HERE - http://tequarterly.com/issue-one-2/
12/16/15
Like A Clown Doll Hung to the Wall by Adam Tedesco and Juliet Cook at Yellow Chair Review (Pop Culture Issue)
"You'll be chained to a mask
factory filled with clown heads
dripping sticky grape jelly out eye holes.
factory filled with clown heads
dripping sticky grape jelly out eye holes.
You'll be tied to a milking machine
in a room filled with clown shoes
of different sizes and shapes.
in a room filled with clown shoes
of different sizes and shapes.
Poison apple worms writhe out of nipples
on top fake breasts. Recurring clown
laugh track after laugh track
after evil clown laugh track"
on top fake breasts. Recurring clown
laugh track after laugh track
after evil clown laugh track"
from the poem Like A Clown Doll Hung to the Wall, by Adam Tedesco and me, in the new Yellow Chair Review Pop Culture Issue, surrounded by lots of other poetry treats HERE -http://issuu.com/yellowchairreview/docs/ycrpopculture
12/4/15
Happy December from Thirteen Myna Birds! - New Flock, the Last of 2015
Happy December from Thirteen Myna Birds! The last flock of Myna Birds for 2015 has arrived, beginning with the three Blood Pudding Press poems that were nominated for a Pushcart Prize this year (by Lauren Gordon, Matthew J. Hall and Nicole Rollender) and then offering new poems by A.S. Coomer, Erin Renee Wahl, Steve Sibra, and Lee Todd Lacks (with one older poem still remaining by Debasis Mukhopadhyay).
"anxiety hurls my goodwill at the wall - dropping the torsos in the stream - shards of colored glass everywhere - shooting stars in his satchel - with strange ropes amongst the stars and bodies - round as a Christmas orange - with the silk of spider-woven wishes - did it sink to be eaten? - reality shimmers into meaninglessness..."
HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/
12/2/15
My "Flying Snake" is up at Masque & Spectacle
"Last month, I felt like I looked old and unattractive,
but this month, I feel like I look like a young attractive snake."
the first two lines of my poem "Flying Snake", new and hissing its way through Masque & Spectacle
HERE - http://masqueandspectacle.com/2015/11/29/flying-snake-juliet-cook/
but this month, I feel like I look like a young attractive snake."
the first two lines of my poem "Flying Snake", new and hissing its way through Masque & Spectacle
HERE - http://masqueandspectacle.com/2015/11/29/flying-snake-juliet-cook/
10/14/15
New Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Lauren Gordon at New Books in Poetry
"Using colloquial language and the cadence of hymn to a mesmerizing affect, Gordon pulls the reader into a melding of prairie, nostalgia, and memory:
…endless, endless
prairie for corn and mud and loss and dirt
and the seeds and the silky tassel of half truths
and how you find God in the middle of a haystack
naked and crouching and warm..."
from a new interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood", conducted by Jen Fitzgerald at New Books in Poetry
you can read the rest AND even listen to Lauren talk about her writing HERE - http://newbooksinpoetry.com/2015/10/13/lauren-gordon-fiddle-is-flood-blood-pudding-press-2015/
prairie for corn and mud and loss and dirt
and the seeds and the silky tassel of half truths
and how you find God in the middle of a haystack
naked and crouching and warm..."
and how you find God in the middle of a haystack
naked and crouching and warm..."
from a new interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood", conducted by Jen Fitzgerald at New Books in Poetry
you can read the rest AND even listen to Lauren talk about her writing HERE - http://newbooksinpoetry.com/2015/10/13/lauren-gordon-fiddle-is-flood-blood-pudding-press-2015/
9/12/15
NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)
A new review of the 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall.
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The book is beautifully hand-crafted & is bound by a stem of fine multi-coloured rolled wool. The pages are ultra smooth and when you hold them to the light they sparkle like scattered gold stars. Recently asked about the symbolic import of the title ‘Pigeons & Peace Doves’, Hall mentioned that pigeons “are representative of a kind of urban sadness which I guess is a theme for me overall. The Peace Dove represents hope- which hopefully- does come through the poems."
This ambivalence between sadness and hope is a key feature of Hall’s fledgling writing. Descriptions of the vibrancy of life in its full bloom are sometimes tempered with thoughts of despair, decay and death.
read more of this new review at BOLD MONKEY here -http://georgedanderson.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/mathew-j-hall-pigeons-and-peace-doves.html
then consider procuring your very own copy of the chapbook at Blood Pudding Press here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081428/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_8
9/2/15
Happy September! Delighted to start off his month with two collaborative poems by myself & Adam Tedesco in Masque & Spectacle!
Your mind and its memory
sink everything
sink everything
into the dirt, into never
ending streams of tears
ending streams of tears
turning that dirt into water
until the casket rises back up.
until the casket rises back up.
from the poem "What is to be Done" by Adam Tedesco and Juliet Cook, in the new Masque & Spectacle.
Happy September!
Read more of our two collaborative poems here, if so inclined.
Read more of the issue too.
7/2/15
Happy July! I have three new poems in Hermeneutic Chaos! And art in Rogue Agent!
Excited to start a new month with some newly published poetry and art!
Three poems within the new July 2015 Issue #9 of Hermeneutic Chaos.
You can read the poems AND listen to me read them.
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 we explain WHY we chose the songs we chose.
http://www.hermeneuticchaosjournal.com/july-2015.html
ALSO, I have a piece of art within "IN MY OTHER LIFE I___" in the midst of Issue Four of RogueAgent
http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/issue4
6/30/15
I am Newly DRUNK IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR! (Delighted to have 3 of my poems up here)
"He said he was so sick of trying, so sick
of hearing my sick voice trying
to force itself into him and so soon
I wouldn't have a voice anymore."
of hearing my sick voice trying
to force itself into him and so soon
I wouldn't have a voice anymore."
a few lines from my poem, "What do you think you deserve?"
THREE of my Poems are up at DRUNK IN A MIDNIGHT CHOIR
read more by clicking this link - http://drunkinamidnightchoir.com/2015/06/30/4860/
Happy Last day of June!
6/29/15
Get TWO 2015 Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbooks for a lowered price - Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon and Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall
End of June 2015, A NEW listing has been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop, through which you can acquire a SET OF TWO, meaning both 2015 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks for a substantially lower price if you purchase them as a set.
Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon AND Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall for only 10 bucks (plus shipping).
Here is the listing - https://www.etsy.com/listing/238583883/get-two-2015-chapbooks-for-a-lowered?ref=shop_home_active_1
6/23/15
Thank You for Swallowing (my new poem)!
"You want to make me want
what you want for yourself"
what you want for yourself"
from my poem "You pull your latest force field out and shoot another load" now up at Thank You for Swallowing, here! - https://thankyouforswallowing.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/you-pull-your-latest-force-field-out-and-shoot-another-load/
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Last week I got pretty excited and revved up about the new "Thank You for Swallowing" AND this week I have a poem up there AND I think more of you should consider submitting there. :)
SO read my poem...
And/or read some of the other poems already published there....
And/or consider submitting yours, if you're so drawn.
6/10/15
An Excerpt from Pigeons and Peace Doves (Matthew J. Hall's NEW Blood Pudding Press Poetry Chapbook) created by Marcy Erb, appearing at Illustrated Poetry Today
Marcy Erb, the cover artist of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall., has created and featured an excerpt from this collection on Illustrated Poetry Today, HERE -http://illustratedpoetry.com/2015/06/09/city-poem-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-2070
6/3/15
A NEW Interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" (at THE VOLTA BLOG)
"I love chapbooks. I love reading in small bites. I love the affordability and the art and love put into them. No one is starting a chapbook press because they want to make money. It’s purely for the love of the art...and I was lucky that it won the contest with Blood Pudding Press. The editor, Juliet Cook, makes really lovely handmade chapbooks and I’m so happy with the finished product. It seems like something that is true to the art. I also created the artwork for the cover. It’s a combination of images from a children’s nursery rhyme book from the nineteenth century. Hidden in the scroll-work are the names of my husband and daughter, and the blackbird is homage to Blood Pudding Press’s journal, Thirteen Myna Birds."
from part of a new interview of Lauren Gordon, about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" - conducted by Lizi Gilad at THE VOLTA BLOG
read more of the interview here - https://thevoltablog.wordpress.com/2015/06/02/interview-fiddle-is-flood-lauren-gordon/
5/28/15
My Late Night Dance Moves
Read my little "Late Night Dance Moves", a strangely floating taste test from the FLAPPERHOUSE Spring 2015 issue HERE! -
http://flapperhouse.com/2015/05/28/late-night-dance-moves-poetry-by-juliet-cook/
http://flapperhouse.com/2015/05/28/late-night-dance-moves-poetry-by-juliet-cook/
5/19/15
NEW H_NGM_N #17 with my Gurgling Screams inside it!
Very excited and delighted to have a poem inside the new H_NGM_N #17, surrounded by lots of other exciting poetry!
My poem, "Gurgling Screams" in this new H_NGM_N will also appear next month, in the book Oct Tongue 2, published by Crisis Chronicles Press and featuring 8 different poets and their poems from every day of October!
And one of Nicole Rollender's poems, "The preparation of the body" in this new H_NGM_N, will also appear in her chapbook, "Bone of My Bone", to be published later this year by Blood Pudding Press!
4/2/15
Happy April! New Poetry News!
I have a new poem in the inaugural issue of RogueAgent (A Journal For Work That Inhabits The Body) -http://www.rogueagentjournal.com/#main-section
AND
j/j hastain and I have a new collaborative poem in the inaugural issue of Pith (“furnish the Fuse unto a Spark”) - http://www.pithjournal.com/?project=issue-0
Lots of other good poetry lives inside both issues too and I'm quite excited about starting my April surrounded by poetry.
3/26/15
NEW from Blood Pudding Press! - Fiddle Is Flood by Lauren Gordon - the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2015!
The first new Blood Pudding Press contest winning poetry chapbook of 2015, Fiddle is Flood by Lauren Gordon, has arrived!
It offers twenty-two unique and powerful poems, inspired by Little House on the Prairie!
Semi-abstract and gorgeously emotional, fabulously crafted, with an utterly one-of-a-kind approach, this content is worth multiple reads.
It is also charmingly wonderful to hold this hand-designed chapbook in all its cover art glory and yarn binding.
The cover art was created by the poet herself.
Here are a few sample lines for you, from the poem, "Then I'm A Woman, Full and Fleshed":
The dizzy drawers
that shut and open
swing and wing a dither
dizzy lousy drawers
I will not vomit
in my very own pantry
where flour flies corn meal slides
into bucking waves awash I wonder
dizzying drawers
Read more by purchasing a copy of this chapbook for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress
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3/10/15
New Review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM
This book is writhing with its own secrets; its own masks; its own messes. This is a place “where the light at the end of the tunnel/is another tunnel smoldering beyond control.”
from Lisa M. Cole's new review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaboration by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)
from Lisa M. Cole's new review of MUTANT NEURON CODEX SWARM, a collaboration by Juliet Cook & Robert Cole (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2015)
purchase the chapbook from Hyacinth Girl Press here -http://hyacinthgirlpress.com/yearfour/mutantneuroncodexswarm.html
3/5/15
A new piece of my writing is HERE
I have a new piece of writing up at Terminal Books today, "Why?" - http://terminalbooks.com/why/
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