More Blood Pudding Press chapbooks heading out into the world...

Today I mailed hand-designed copies of the four most recent Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks to the Poets House Showcase (the 26th annual Showcase opens on Thursday, June 28, 2018 and the exhibit will be on view through August 18:) - and I also mailed review copies of the recent chapbooks to Galatea Resurrects (from which anyone who would like to receive a review copy of a specific Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook can request it from Galatea and then write a review for Galatea).

Tonight, I'll be hand designing a few more Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks, in order to prepare the latest order for mailing and have a few more in stock.

Tonight might be a good time to acquire yourself a copy of a Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook!

The Blood Pudding Press shop is HERE - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

A NEW Review of a Vintage Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook ("Girl Gang" by Juliet Cook)

"There is a thread in the literary world that has always separated the artists from the writers, the authors from the illustrators, and those who paint a picture with our words from those that paint a picture with their brush. Every work that Juliet Cook does seems to blow this idea out of the water, and I must confess that I get a little giddy when another one of her works makes it into my hands. How, then, that 2007’s Girl Gang has evaded me for this long is beyond me.

Bound in pink ribbon, the lavender cover immediately grabs one’s attention, as if to hearken back to the days of fairy tales and properly gendered toys. And while the silver-shimmer-glitter pages add an aesthetic all its own, one would be mistaken to think that this would be a leisurely stroll down the hallowed halls of feminine stereotypes.

This book grabs your stereotypes by the balls and force-feeds them to you."

These lines are the beginning of a vintage review by M. Earl Smith of my Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Girl Gang", which was published in 2007.

The review was just published yesterday at Galatea Resurrects, but the reason it's vintage is because the chapbook is more than 10 years old. 😮

The reason this chapbook evaded the reviewer for so long might partly be because I've had it discontinued from the Blood Pudding Press shop for several years now.

But for the next person who purchases a chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, I'll throw a free copy of "Girl Gang" into your purchase. :)

Here's a link to the interview - http://galatearesurrects2018.blogspot.com/2018/02/girl-gang-by-juliet-cook.html

Here's a link to the Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

NEW Review of the Blood Pudding Press chapbook Sister, Blood and Bone by Paula Cary

The 2013 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary has received an utterly awesome review by Eileen Tabios at the new Galatea Resurrects, here - http://galatearesurrection21.blogspot.com/2014/01/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary.html

Read the review and then consider buying a copy of the chapbook in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?section_id=14819899&ref=shopsection_leftnav_1 

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"Oh I really really like Paula Cary’s chap, Sister, Blood and Bone!  Its poems contain the paradox of garnets—stones for, say, jewelry but ever evoking blood. Jewels that should be pretty but end up with other significances besides decorativeness."

"I also love how some poems, while loving, are not sentimental.  That’s a good enough combo, except that Cary ups the juice to actually end up in nothing less than rapture!"

"And I love how other poems make my bones wince (yes, bones, not merely flesh as the effect goes deep)—except that I’m wincing with delight.  It’s that paradoxical effect—you know, you’re thinking: that’s a tad perverse and yet being highly amused."

"I am attracted to these poems for their beauty and charm, notwithstanding—or maybe, in addition to—their rather eerie facets."

latest creative business

I sold out of my official copies of MONDO CRAMPO a couple months ago. They were published by Dana Teen Lomax for the dusie kollektiv 3 and were really slick-looking with bright red see-through covers and brad bindery, but alas, they are gone.

Well, I was recently asked for a review copy of MONDO CRAMPO and I remembered that Dana Teen had sent me some extra loose innards that she had leftover after assembling the chapbooks--basically, everything except the sleek red cover piece and the bindery hardware.So I decided to assemble a copy myself, stitched together with fringey turquoise ribbon that kinda looks like theatrical blue pubic hair.

I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I have just enough supplies to make two (and only two) more limited-edition copies like this, so if you want one, get in touch. I'll send a review copy for free; I'll also consider trade copies or sale copies. Let me know if you're interested and we can make some arrangements.

update: If you'd rather have one of the official red copies, even though I don't have any more, you can still request a review copy from either Galatea Resurrects or The Chapbook Review:

http://grarchives.blogspot.com/

http://thechapbookreview.com/submission-guidelines/available-for-review/

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Also, I plan to soon begin revamping some of the content of this article:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1494846/diy_poetry_publishing_power.html?cat=38

My revised version is going to be submitted to make/shift magazine--and for that revised version, I am seeking more voices of women of color poetry editors/publishers.

If you think you might be interested in having your voice represented, please feel free to get in touch with me, whereupon I shall share a few more details with you.

XO. Juliet