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Me Reading Poetry and FUCK YOU!

Me while reading poetry at Take the Knight Off! Poetry & Creative Showcase (at Dust), May 12, 2017 I might have found out these FUCK YOU socks make my hands less shaky when I read poetry (or it might have just been a one time thing). (first photo taken by John Burroughs; second photo taken by Darryl Shupe)

NEW in Street Light Press - Two New Poems

"The black swan is backinside me again"Happy to have two poems appearing in the new Street Light Press today! "Pink Smear" and "Dark Hail".Looking forward to reading all the other poems too.HERE - https://www.streetlightpress.org/

Delighted to have some poems inside Gargoyle #65

Delighted to receive a copy of Gargoyle #65, SIDE 1 of the 40th Anniversary Issue!Extremely excited and delighted to have three poems inside it!"Middle-Ground Pussy" and "Semi-Abstract Self-Portrait" by me - AND "Instead of the Doctor" by me and j/j hastain.

This Friday May 12 - Take the Knight Off! Poetry & Creative Showcase

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook (temporary revival of the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook ever, in honor of TWIN PEAKS)!

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook is temporarily coming back to life, for the month of May 2017 only, in honor of the revival of Twin Peaks!

This was the very first chapbook that the Blood Pudding Press shop made available, over 10 years ago, in 2006.

Now available again, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_feat_1

I'd be invisible

Sometimes I feel uncertain about whether or not I'm under-promoting or over-promoting poetry. My own poetry, my press's poetry, other press's poetry, etc...Some poets seem to let their press's take precedence over their own poetry, whereas I promote my own poetry just as much, maybe even more than my press's poetry - in part because I feel like when I'm promoting my own poetry that was published by a particular press, then I'm also promoting that press - and in part because when I publish someone else's poetry through my press, I hope that they will help promote it too, since it's their poetry.If you don't share it, then how will people know it exists?I don't understand poets who seem entirely uncomfortable promoting their own poetry at all or who seem to think it's inappropriate to self-promote.Yes, if all you do is promote your own poetry and never say or do anything else about anybody else's, then that's some sort of an issue, in my opinion.But overall, I think promoting and sharing poetry (your own poetry and other's poetry) is a good thing.Aren't you excited about your own poetry, and other's poetry too? I know I am.I actually tend to be a very self-deprecating person overall - and poetry and art are sometimes the only areas that I feel positively about in regards to me.I share my poetry because poetry is a big part of how I express myself and I'm excited when it is chosen to be published by a literary magazine that excites me.Should I write my poetry, have it chosen for publication, and then just shut the fuck up about it, let it mindlessly float away, and pretend that it doesn't really exist?I like to share what I feel strongly and passionately about - I like to share how I express myself - I like to share what I create - and for me, poetry is a significant and large part of that.If I didn't create poetry, I'd be invisible. I'd barely exist.Or at least I'd feel invisible and nonexistent.

NEW in Glass: A Journal of Poetry - Hexagonal Approach to Horticulture by j/j hastain & Juliet Cook

"Little fingers turning into plasticwatering-cans pouring out bloodor pomegranate seeds"
from the poem Hexagonal Approach to Horticulture, by j/j hastain and me, appearing within the NEW May issue of Glass: A Journal of Poetry.

Delighted to be included in this issue, HERE - http://www.glass-poetry.com/journal/2017/may/hastain-cook-hexagonal.html
Happy first day of May! 

NEW in the Black Napkin - Four Poems!

Extremely excited to have four poems appearing in the new April Issue of The Black Napkin!The two "When I Used to be a Little Girl" poems are individual pieces by me - and "Bad Leader" and "The Bees That Can Fight Against the Trumpet Flowers" are collaborative poems by j/j hastain and me.Happy last day of April!
HERE- http://www.black-napkin-press.com/iss...

The April Myna Birds flock includes 16 Runner-Up Poems from the recent chapbook submissions to Blood Pudding Press!

Happy Weekend and Happy Poetry Month! 

This April Myna Birds flock includes 16 Runner-Up Poems from the recent chapbook submissions to Blood Pudding Press!

Poems by Eileen Murphy, Alyssa Yankwitt, Craig Firsdon, Paul David Adkins, Victor Clevenger, Erin Renee Wahl, Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, Zoë Sîobhan Howarth-Lowe, A.S. Coomer, E Kristin Anderson, Ava C. Cipri, Reuben Woolley, Valerie Loveland, Julie Jacob, Alexis Bates, and Tom Montag!

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Every day she tells me a hundred times to kill myself - like a smooth monster skull cracking a jawline - a skulking dribble of blood - a skeleton's body sideways - closer to the wrong side of grief - there's an earth in here somewhere - with no ability to see the stars falling - dead as a washed-up squid - I drown my fingers like they are 10 little snakes - and there are things I don’t understand - myths filled with fear - clarity and imperfections frozen before melting - perpetually stuck with this painful disability - I couldn’t burn the fever images out of my head - follow the gaze to the remains of a seagull, withered in death & rot - Something flutters in the dying light.

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HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/

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In case anyone missed the announcement of the Blood Pudding Press chapbooks selected for publication this year, here's a link to that news:

http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/2017/04/new-announcement-of-three-new-blood.html

Also, I will be adding a few poems from some of the Finalists on the Blood Pudding Press blog next month.

And also, the May flock of Myna Birds is already full (forthcoming in about a month), but I am still considering Myna Birds submissions for June...

NEW ANNOUNCEMENT of THREE NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks forthcoming in 2017!

This was a really difficult decision! I don't know how small press editors that get hundreds of submissions can manage to narrow it down to a few within a month or two, because I sure couldn't. For me, it was tough to narrow down my original submissions of less than 50 to 8 that I wanted to see the entire manuscripts of, and then it was even more challenging to decide between those 8. 

I think all 8 of them deserve to be published, and I hope the ones I haven't chosen to publish through my Blood Pudding will find their homes soon.

I had meant to choose 1 or 2 to publish, but instead I chose 3, and those 3 are:

~Thirsty Bones by Sarah Lilius (to be published in late May/early June)

~Fuck Cancer Poems by Michael D. Grover (to be published in late August/early September)

~Paloma by Jennifer E. Hudgens (to be published in late November/early December)

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The Finalists (in no particular order) are: 

~Paper Doll, Heart of Ashes by Melissa Atkinson Mercer 

~Prone As i Am by Bree 

~After the Singularity by Devon Balwit 

~Uncanny by Judy Hall 

~Not Your Father's Nightmares by Scott Anton Morgan

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(For those of you haven't checked it out yet and might be interested in partaking and/or purchasing, the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook of 2017 was Cutting Eyes From Ghosts by Ariana D. Den Bleyker, available here -https://www.etsy.com/listing/494588398/new-cutting-eyes-from-ghosts-by-ariana-d?ref=shop_home_feat_1) 

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For anyone interested, this month's Thirteen Myna Birds will be going live before the end of this month and will include a bunch of uniquely wonderful "runner-up" poems from some of the other great offerings I received for Blood Pudding Press consideration last month. 

Also, some Finalist poems will appear on the Blood Pudding Press blog next month.


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