Happy New Year from Me and my Blood Pudding Press!

How have we already reached the last day of 2019?!?!

A uniquely Happy New Year from me and my Blood Pudding Press!

If you would like the beginning of your New Year to be surrounded by some strange creepy wonderful irrational fearful doll-phobic poems, why not buy yourself a copy of the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen (with cover art by Josh Birrittieri) and help support a tiny indie small press and strange poetry?

Or choose another Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook that sounds more interesting or appealing to you.

Find out a bit more about PEDIOPHOBIA and other Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

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"Cabbage Patch Doll tossed

Like salad in French dressing

Dead child dripping orange"

in the poem "Nightmare of Dolls" in PEDIOPHOBIA

PEDIOPHOBIA has found a new home (and it could haunt your home too)...

John Burroughs has received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA, by Daniel G. Snethen! 💜

You can find out more about this chapbook and/or acquire your own copy in the Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Thank you very much to John Burroughs for taking this photo of PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel Snethen, in the middle of two books by Tim Heerdink. 🙃

NEW from Blood Pudding Press! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

Tonight, within the final dark hours of Friday the 13th of December 2019, one night after the last full moon of the year, is the perfect night to introduce the creepy, crawly, scary, strangely rotating table of doll heads within a NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA's amalgamation of horrific dolls is Blood Pudding Press's style! Quirky, dark, darkly comedic, oddly disturbing, and twisted. Screaming eyed dolls and broken doll bodies. Dolls as killers, dolls as evil, dolls as gods, dolls as horror movie scenes, dolls as bloody apples, dolls as distorted bible verse.

PEDIOPHOBIA offers you sixteen peculiar poems by Daniel G. Snethen!

PEDIOPHOBIA artwork was created especially for this collection by Josh Birrittieri - an outside front cover, an inside front cover, and an outside back cover!

PEDIOPHOBIA has been printed and designed by Blood Pudding Press creature Juliet Cook, bound with yarn AND scraggly doll hair, but don't blame me if the doll hair bites you! 

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According to Daniel G. Snethen himself:

"My newest chapbook Pediophobia (Fear of Dolls) will soon be ready. It will be bound together by hand. Juliet Cook is the publisher and owner of Blood Pudding Press. Every copy will be handmade by her. Juliet is also an extraordinary poet herself. Josh Birrittieri did all the graphics for this chapbook and they are absolutely amazing. And I may be bragging a bit here, but I doubt you will find a better more complete collection of doll poetry anywhere. Many of the poems are creepy some are funny and a few are sad. One is a continuation of a famous episode from the Twilight Zone. One or two might even be considered demented. And several of them are peopled with personages I personally know. If you dare to read these and you know me, don't be too surprised if you recognize some of the characters and settings. If you hate dolls and find them creepy and disturbing, this slim volume of poetry is definitely for you. It will cure you of narcolepsy and will give you reason to run the light meter all eventide long. So please spend a few dollars and indulge yourself... your insanity is worth it."

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"Green glassy eyed heads
Unblinking verdant eyed stares
Headless dolls of Hell"

(within the poem "Nightmare of Dolls")

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"Dark human corpses piled
high on doll infested hills.
Unblinking dolls smiling,
keeping tally with their quills,
as people topple"

(within the poem "Doll Food")

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"Fearfully, I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads but
not before hearing Mother weeping and crying out in her aged voice,
“My son, my son, why hast thou forsaken me!”"

(within the poem "Doll Heads")

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Get your very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4

PEDIOPHOBIA coming very soon!

Last night I printed out the covers of a new poetry chapbook, coming very soon from my Blood Pudding Press!

PEDIOPHOBIA will offer creepy doll-o-phobic poetry by Daniel G. Snethen - and the cover art (on the front, the back, and the inside front) was created by Josh Birrittieri.

I still need to stick the innards into the covers, bind them together, and handle some more designing, but stay tuned for this new chapbook very soon!

Meet the Authors at Oddmall Outpost - Saturday November 2

This coming Saturday, if all does according to plan, I will have a table at this event, offering poetry chapbooks/books by me and my Blood Pudding Press. 🖤

https://www.facebook.com/events/700382690437667/

Me reading from DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS

Me reading a few poems from my Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", on October 10, 2019 at Loganberry Books. 

photo taken and creatively edited by Jill K.

You can acquire your own copy of DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat

Happy October from Thirteen Myna Birds! A NEW flock has arrived!

Happy October from Thirteen Myna Birds! The first three creepy doll poems here are TEASERS from the poetry chapbook PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen, coming soon (shortly before Halloween) from my Blood Pudding Press!

After that, you get 13 other creepy, dark, disturbing, sad, oddly amusing, unsettling offerings from Eileen Murphy, Ariana D. Den Bleyker, U.S. Fowler, E. Martin Pedersen, John Grey, Nate Maxson, and MISH.

"Glazed glassy eyes ghoulishly staring from white bone porcelain heads - You dream of arms, legs, torsos, being tossed into an open pit - smoke pouring from the kitchen - a plastic ballerina spinning - Butterflies dissolve behind your eyes - those bright black eyes that untied my strings - Black plumed rooks pluck at green glassy doll eyes - the battered boxes of our hearts - inside a jewelry box - It happens again & again - I’m grabbing onto something live, wriggling - in a ragged tutu - blooming in the hollow of my throat - as the crow pecks out my left eye - I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads - But he always comes back the next time doesn’t he? - Dark human corpses piled high on doll infested hills - We put him back in the ground and hope for a good harvest - An explosion of red..."

HERE - https://13myna.blogspot.com/

NEW! Octopus Review #8 includes two of my poems!

When I was a little girl,

my grandma made witch finger shapes

with pierogie dough. She knew

I would turn into a witch with entrails

stuck between dirty fingernails.

My nose keeps growing more and more witchy

and I can't tell if this is sorcery or another ugly sign 

of aging.  It is hard to believe that anyone really wants

to handle these spells. That anyone really wants all of me.

Delighted to have a few poems of mine appearing in Octopus Review #8!  - https://theoctopusdiary.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-octopus-review-8.html?fbclid=IwAR08uim76Ha3FGzhy-uPFlb8PM95EAfo_QAxACHjcL88MVdfBDd4k_Ng53U

My two poems within Octopus Review #8 also appear within my poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS", available in its entire creepy little hand-designed print chapbook incarnation, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Some NEW Notes about my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) (Blood Pudding Press for dusie kollektiv 9, 2019)

rob mclennan's Ongoing notes on dusie kollektiv 9 chapbooks includes Dana Teen Lomax + me today 🖤

"The poems in DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS seek to explore and understand gestures, decisions and a sense of balance, including prior relationships, stroke recovery, ageing and depression, and the construction of dolls. “I’m tired of being a last resort,” she writes, in the poem “We haven’t talked in years, but suddenly he wants me again,” continuing: “a suicide hot line inside a middle-aged woman’s body, / stuck on repeat.”"

read more of his notes here - 

http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2019/08/ongoing-notes-dusie-kollektiv-9-dana.html

acquire your own copy of my DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS here - 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Another Set of Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails (2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by The Poet's Haven) has now been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop too!

Friday May 31 2019 was the official release date of this new poetry chapbook, "Another Set Up Ripped-Out Bloody Pigtails"! 24 poems by Juliet Cook! Cover art by Craig Firsdon! Published by The Poet's Haven! It has now been added to the author's Blood Pudding Press shop here. 

Get a copy from The Poet's Haven here, for only $6 - https://boutique.poetshaven.com/AuthorSeries?product_id=159 

OR get an author-signed copy from the Blood Pudding Press shop for the same price here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/701084408/another-set-of-ripped-out-bloody?ref=shop_home_active_1&frs=1

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"Your fake pig legs have to be small
enough to fit into a lunchbox."

a few lines from the first poem in the collection,"Submission Guidelines".

Some thoughts on my Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

"I also read Juliet Cooks new chapbook, Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises), which uses beautiful dark imagery to provide a kind of coming of age narrative for adulthood. The narrator discovers more about herself through the progress of each poem and it’s lovely."

Andrea Blythe mentions her interpretation of my recent poetry chapbook, "Dark Purple Intersections (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" among her Culture Consumption: May 2019. You can read more of her Culture Consumption here - https://www.andreablythe.com/2019/06/07/culture-consumption-may-2019/

Blythe also recently interviewed me about Dark Purple Intersections and poetry and that interview will be up tomorrow. 🖤

You can find out more about Dark Purple Intersections and/or acquire your own copy, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (and POST-STROKE) have found a new home!

Jill Stengel recently received copies of my NEW poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (and also of an older little chapbook of mine, POST-STROKE).

You can find out more and/or acquire your own copies within the Blood Pudding Press shop, as linked below:

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

POST-STROKE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/69547229/post-stroke-by-juliet-cook?ref=shop_home_active_6

photo taken by Jill Stengel

DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS next to a light purple baby skull

"Will she ever understand
that my doll brain works differently
than her doll brain and I want to escape
being handled by somebody else?

I don't want to have a string attached to my back
connected to someone else's hand,
so that someone else can choose what I do or do not
say by pulling that string."

inside Juliet Cook's poetry chapbook, "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)", published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9, newly available in print in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Soon to be published as a free PDF by Dusie.

NEW! DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) by Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9)

"After I get up and apply

my Dragon's Blood Wrinkle Repair Eye Creme,
I'm filled with hours spent crying.

I ruin my own repair."

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS with some worm stickers on top of some insectile sock legs.

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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is a new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9, as of May 2019.

It has recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here -

https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?fbclid=IwAR06P1OeAPAqAsrbGgiloxQx-3Q3w_ay3JJt0H61DZU-xZtC56W5-PkcCe0

"My bedroom was filled with...DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS"

"My bedroom was filled with narcoleptic insects.
My bedroom was filled with poison barbs.
My bedroom was filled with broken parts
of ripped out doll head art.

I couldn't remember whether I broke them on purpose
or accidentally knocked them down.

Broken heart after broken heart after broken heart,
sometimes shoved under the bed,
sometimes exploding in my head.

I couldn't decide
whether someone else broke me
or have I always been this way? "

A sample of part of a poem within "DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)" my new poetry chapbook,published by Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollketiv 9/

Newly available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?ref=shop_home_feat_1

One of the first purchases of my new poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)

A photo of one of the first purchases of my new poetry chapbook, DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS, along with several other wonderful chapbooks.

Thank you very much to John Burroughs for purchasing the book at the National Poetry Month Book Fair at Coffee Coffee Coffee, April 28, 2019, and for taking the photo. 

I'm hoping to add this new chapbook to my Blood Pudding Press shop sometime this week, so stay tuned if you are interested.

Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, at the National Poetry Month Book Fair at Coffee Coffee Coffee, April 28, 2019

Visit the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

Blood Pudding Press will be at a book fair, April 28!

~Sunday April 28 - Book Fair for National Poetry Month at Coffee Coffee Coffee - 2-4 PM
(4193 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH. 44109)

Juliet Cook’s small indie press, Blood Pudding Press will have a table at this event (and Juliet will have some of her own poetry books from other small presses available for sale too)

Tentacular Splatter PRINT (newly added to the Blood Pudding Press shop)

A small (4 x 6 photo-sized) print version of my recently completed painting, collage art, hybrid creature, Tentacular Splatter, has been newly added to the Blood Pudding Press shop.

HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/674316373/tentacular-splatter-print-4x6-print-of-a?ref=shop_home_active_3