A copy of "House on Fire" by Susan Yount has found a new home!

Eileen Murphy received her copy of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "House on Fire" by Susan Yount, appearing hear beside "The Virgin Journals" by Travis Naught.

Photo taken by Eileen Murphy and thank you to Eileen for being an ongoing fan of Blood Pudding Press!

You can acquire your own copy of, "House on Fire" from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014-blood?ref=shop_home_active_15

Juliet Cook reading "House on Fire" by Susan Yount

Thank you very much to Pretty Owl Poetry for inviting me to read a poem by a woman in honor of Women's History Month.

I chose to read "House on Fire" by Susan Yount. 

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In honor of Women's History Month, we asked our contributors what feminism means to them. For Juliet Cook, it means "That I'm more than just a body part and should be able to make my own choices in regards to my own body and mind and spirit.

Listen to her reading of Susan Yount's, "House on Fire" from Blood Pudding Press -  https://soundcloud.com/prettyowlpoetry/juliet-cook-reading-susan-younts-house-on-fire

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You can order Cook's latest collaborative full-length poetry book, "A Red Witch, Every Which Way," here - https://www.hystericalbooks.com/product-page/a-red-witch-every-which-way

You can order Yount's "House on Fire"chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014-blood?ref=shop_home_active_8

New Review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press, 2014)

An amazing new review of "House on Fire", Susan Yount's 2014 contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, thank you to AJ Huffman and Sein und Werden!

In the poem, "Sissy," we see a portrait of futility:  a little girl holding a dead goat; a sister pretending to get help--"to call the vet"; the little girl refusing to give up as she "Breathes into him/as hard as she can."  This poem eloquently defines the perpetual cycle of abuse that, more finitely, rears its head in later poems.  The cycle of devastation, of pretending, of wishing maybe it isn't true, of hoping that if we believe and if we pretend and if we continue it will suddenly be something else, come back to life, when all the time we know such devastation is final, is death.

READ THE WHOLE REVIEW by A J Huffman here:

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/yount.html

Then buy the book here: 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_3

Blood Pudding Press's 2014 poetry chapbook, House on Fire by Susan Yount, at The Wardrobe this week! (Day Four)

Day FOUR of Susan Yount's "House on Fire" (2014 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook) being featured at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed! -http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/10/16/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire-4/

"She was not a scrawny snot nose
snottier than her scrawniest calf.
She was not alive during the famine –
not a mime, not a lesbian nor a riding horse at the county fair.
She was not a split-die operator, a sweetheart
or server at the Sheep Shed."

Buy yourself (or a poet friend) a copy of this chapbook here! Do it do it do it! - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_2

Blood Pudding Press's 2014 poetry chapbook, House on Fire by Susan Yount, featured at The Wardrobe Best Dressed this week!

This week, poems from Susan Yount's Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "House on Fire" are being featured at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed, here - 

http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire/

You can hold the whole chapbook in your own hands and read ALL of its poems (and support my small poetry press), by purchasing it here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_2

NEW Review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press, 2014) at Cleaver Magazine

A NEW review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press, 2014) is now up at Cleaver Magazine.

Thank you to Carlo Matos for writing this excellent review. 

Here are some parts of it:

In “House on Fire,” which is set apart from the other poems by its reddish, flame-colored print, the speaker says, “The house is kindling . . . The house is a pyre . . . The family aflame . . . Her father, a devil . . . Your house ablaze, get out.” These simple declarative statements capture much of the desperation of a family being held hostage by a father who has become a force of destruction.

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In the prose poem, “Notes on Despair” we begin to deal with the aftermath of these traumatic experiences, with guilt and/or blame. The speaker says, “She never worked as hard as her sister. Maybe that’s why it / happened . . . His teeth. His hands. His fist. His dick. She is feeding them. She is ten. She cannot tell.” The “she,” as I mentioned earlier, is the narrator herself, who is trying to rationalize why her father targeted her. She fears it might be punishment for her lack of industry as compared to her sister. But in “Almost Dark” there are no rationalizations, only anger: “and I squat thinking of ways / to kill him.” But by the time we get to the final poem, her feelings have become a bit more complex—blame and guilt seem to be beside the point: “I’m not sure what is more pathetic you trying to decide if the poem is blaming you / or her and you and I and you or I again can’t remember things or don’t care” (“Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking”). And the syntax is such that it is quite difficult to pin down just who “you” is. Clearly, “you” can be the father, but “you” could also be the speaker—a self-incrimination designed to force her to move beyond the past, to “Stop writing / about your father” (“The Oracle”).

Read the whole review here - http://www.cleavermagazine.com/house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-reviewed-by-carlo-matos/

And get your own copy of House on Fire here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_4

Another New Review of House on Fire by Susan Yount (Blood Pudding Press 2014)

"The implications are loaded as we read on to find out what happens to the poet and her father. If you read the other poems in this collection you will learn why she is hiding in the woods and the hunt will leave your heart pounding for her. While we wonder about the true ending we know the poet survives to tell the tale. 

I cannot do these poems the justice they deserve, they will tug at your core self. If you enjoyed this review, you may purchase a copy of Susan Yount’s House On Fire from Blood Pudding Press for $7.00 at:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_feat_1"

Thank you to Poet Hound for a new review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "House on Fire" by Susan Yount; read the rest here and then consider purchasing the chapbook to partake of more:

http://poethound.blogspot.com/2014/04/susan-younts-house-on-fire.html

New Review of House on Fire!

Everything is burning but the golden body inside 

Nostrovia! offers a new review of Susan Yount's "House On Fire" (Blood Pudding Press, 2014). Thank you NOSTROVIA! and Whinnie Khaw.

"Yount expertly negotiates between morbid, horrifying implications and authentic feeling."

Read it all here - http://www.nostroviatowriting.com/8/post/2014/04/everything-is-burning-but-the-golden-body-inside.html

And turn your own House on Fire here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?

Blood Pudding Press Poetry Oodles this March!

Susan Yount at AWP 2014 (in Seattle) holding copies of her Blood Pudding Press Contest Winning poetry chapbook, "House on Fire", during her book signing.

Get a copy of her chapbook here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/150775648/sister-blood-and-bone-by-paula-cary-2013? 























Blood Pudding Press editor Juliet Cook) has a busy March ahead and is still a bit discombobulated and playing catch up after a very busy end to last month, but here is some of what's in the works for the rest of March.

Reading, writing, submitting - and trying to catch up on reading submissions to Thirteen Myna Birds. As of right now, the coming-soon March issue is filled up with another teaser piece from Susan Yount's  winning chapbook plus poetry from some of the recent Blood Pudding Press chapbook contest semi-finalists (Patti Flint, Allie Marini Batts, and Jessy Randall) AND the upcoming April issue is full too with a teaser piece from the upcoming chapbook by Paul David Adkins plus more poetry by Susan Yount and Roberta Chloe Verdant, David Hutt, Zoltan Komar, Nynlil Shain, Jeremiah Walton, Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia, and Stephanie Kaylor.

As of right now, it's still not too late to partake of the current Myna Birds flock and read poems from the winners and finalists (Susan Yount, Paul David Adkins, Alessandra Bava, Donavon Davidson, Kelly Andrews, and Jay Sizemore)  here - http://13myna.blogspot.com/.

Closer to the end of March, I hope to be starting to work on the next winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins.

Next weekend, Sunday March 16, for interested poetry peeps in or around the Cleveland area, Juliet Cook (and oodles of others - 60 featured readers) will be performing at this Snoetry poetry reading from noon until 11:00 P.M. -http://crisisblog.crisischronicles.com/2014/02/17/snoetry-4-a-kulchured-winter-wordfest---march-16th-at-guide-to-kulchur-in-cleveland.aspx

I'm probably forgetting something(s), but those are the creative basics that are popping out now...

The first review of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - House on Fire by Susan Yount

Near the end of the book, in the poem “Ars Catastrophe” Yount writes, “Poem was not the sun but a light/ blue stock letter to anyone.” Yes, this is certainly not a book where the sun shines, but many readers will find comfort in Yount’s blunt honesty and bravery while looking darkness straight in the eye and not blinking.

from the first review of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, House on Fire by Susan Yount (thank you very much to Lisa M. Cole for reading it and taking the time to write this review).

Read all of Lisa Cole's remarks here - http://moonglows-reviews.blogspot.com/2014/02/susan-younts-house-on-fire.html

Partake of/purchase the House On Fire chapbook here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?

Blood Pudding Press at AWP Seattle, February 27-March 1

Next week it will be Blood Pudding Press's first year at AWP (Seattle February 27-March 1)!

Meet Blood Pudding Press (and me, because it's my press)at Table T3.

Partake of and consider purchasing the NEW 2014 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, 'HOUSE ON FIRE' by Susan Yount.

Partake of and consider purchasing 2013 poetry chapbooks by Lisa M. Cole, Lora Bloom, and Paula Cary.

Partake of and consider purchasing earlier Blood Pudding Press poetry chaps too.

Stop by for the author signing by Margaret Bashaar of her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, 'LETTERS FROM ROOM 27 OF THE GRAND MIDWAY HOTEL on Thursday February 27 at Table T3 from 3:30-4:00 P.M.

And more more more.

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If you are not attending AWP, all of the above noted chapbooks (and more) are also  available via the Blood Pudding Press etsy shop here - http://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

New Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook - House on Fire by Susan Yount

House on Fire by Susan Yount is the first contest winning Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2014!

Cover Art by Lois Wills

Hand bound with artsy yarn, either fuzzy brown or multicolored.

Available with light tan or light mauve colored covers.

18 poems by Susan Yount, offering well-crafted crude, disturbing, upsetting, traumatic,  perverted, squeamish, sad, tough, gross chicken clucking imbalance, sick eggs, farmerette abuse, real life horror.

Buy the book here - http://www.etsy.com/listing/177825996/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_1

"...I had to stand on a bucket
to reach the latches. It was so cold. The babies were
already the size of giant snowballs. Ricocheting off the walls,
the door, the box, the floor. With the doe, the hutch
was too small. Huddled together, they could keep warm.

The next morning.  When I opened the door. Red snow..."

from the poem "Flemish Giants"