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My NEW Review of Absence of Stars by Nicole Rollender

"This chapbook is filled with flowers and bones, flight toward the light and falling down onto the ground, tiny and helpless."from my new review of the poetry chapbook, "Absence of Stars" by Nicole Rollender (dancing girl press, 2015)Read more at Gazing Grain Press HERE - http://www.gazinggrainpress.com/#!Chapbook-Review-Absence-of-Stars-by-Nicole-Rollender/cxj4/5670b3660cf275ddd6e6cb92
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In addition to this dancing girl press poetry chapbook, Nicole Rollender also has a 2015 Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone", available HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/244912275/new-bone-of-my-bone-by-nicole-rollender?ref=shop_home_active_4

Trailer for REALITY BEACH ISSUE 1, coming soon...

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/

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.You'll be tied to a milking machine
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"
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

LAST DAY for the Blood Pudding Press special holiday offer (December 13)!

LAST DAY for the Blood Pudding Press special holiday offer! With any purchase you make that is $5 or more, enter Coupon Code HOLIDAY2015 for 30% off your purchase! http://etsy.me/17W5MTYAND in addition to that, each purchaser can receive one FREE ITEM too, if you note which FREE ITEM you'd likeYou can chose either a mini art piece OR one of the following Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks:"Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender"Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall"Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon"They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava"Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins"House On Fire" by Susan Yount"RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa M. Cole"Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary"Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora BloomThe offer ends at midnight tonight, when December 13 turns into December 14. 

Dive Back Down says hello to my house!

Delighted to have received my author copies of Dive Back Down by j/j hastain & I in the mail! This is a new collaborative poetry chapbook, published by Dancing Girl Press last month and available HERE - http://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/dive-back-down-j-j-hastain-juliet-cook
















In this photo, the chapbook appears in front of my painting/collage art hybrid creature (part of which was photographed, scanned, re-positioned, and accompanied by other artifacts, to create the cover art for Dive Back Down).

The painting/collage art hybrid creature is called ECTOPLASM DEER and is available in the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/252851038/ectoplasm-deer-one-of-a-kind-original?ref=shop_home_active_1

My Blood Pudding Press special offer (less than a week left)!

From now, up to and including DECEMBER 13, Blood Pudding Press is running an extra-special holiday offer.With any purchase you make that is $5 or more (of a chapbook, a chapbook set, art, or anything else), enter Coupon Code HOLIDAY2015 for 30% off your purchase.AND in addition to that, each purchaser will be receiving one FREE ITEM too, as long as you note which FREE ITEM you'd like.You can chose either a mini art piece OR one of the following Blood Pudding Press chapbooks:"Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender"Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall"Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon"They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava"Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins"House On Fire" by Susan Yount"RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa M. Cole"Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary"Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora BloomVisit the Blood Pudding Press shop to take advantage of this special offer -https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

My Blood Pudding Press will not be running a chapbook contest this year BUT does have a special offer this week...

Since this is around the time of year when Blood Pudding Press has been running its poetry chapbook contest the last few years (in order to choose the few chapbooks to publish the next year), I've started to receive questions about when the contest will be taking place this year, when we'll be reading chapbook submissions, and how to submit to Blood Pudding Press.Here are the short answers.-BLOOD PUDDING PRESS IS NOT GOING TO RUN A CHAPBOOK CONTEST THIS YEAR in order to choose which chapbooks to publish next year.-BLOOD PUDDING PRESS IS NOT ACCEPTING CHAPBOOK SUBMISSIONS AT THIS TIME, unless I specifically solicit work from you or ask you to send me something for some reason.-Blood Pudding Press is tentatively planning to take a mini-hiatus for 2016. What's a mini-hiatus? Well, the press will still exist and the chapbooks we've published will still be available, but instead of directing lots of time, attention, and energy on reading lots of new submissions, I will focus on continuing to support and promote the work that has already been published and considering how I might want to re-direct and re-work my press for the future.***Thirteen Myna Birds, the online blog style lit mag semi-associated with Blood Pudding Press, is still accepting submissions right now, although that forum might also be re-worked a bit in the coming year.***The Blood Pudding Press shop is still open as of right now, although that might be re-located to a different space within the coming year.***For one week, from NOW UNTIL (and including) DECEMBER 13, Blood Pudding Press will be running an extra-special holiday offer.With any purchase you make that is $5 or more (of a chapbook, a chapbook set, art, or anything else), enter Coupon Code HOLIDAY2015 for 30% off your purchase.AND in addition to that, each purchaser will be receiving one FREE ITEM too, as long as you note which FREE ITEM you'd like.You can chose either a mini art piece OR one of the following Blood Pudding Press chapbooks:"Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender"Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall"Fiddle Is Flood" by Lauren Gordon"They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava"Stick Up" by Paul David Adkins"House On Fire" by Susan Yount"RENEGADE//HEART" by Lisa M. Cole"Sister, Blood and Bone" by Paula Cary"Poking through the Fabric..." by Lora Bloom***Visit the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE, to take advantage of this special offer - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress

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/

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/