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October 29, 2015
Happy Halloween and Day of the Dead from Thirteen Myna Birds!
Happy Halloween and Day of the Dead from Thirteen Myna Birds! The new flock has arrived, offering poems by Debasis Mukhopadhyay, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal, Robert F. Gross, Jessica Lindsley, Martin Willitts Jr., and Gary Beck (and two teaser pieces still remain from the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Bone of My Bone" by Nicole Rollender)!"Off-key remnants of intertwined ballads - the ghost of someone else’s bad habit follows me - the stones spend hour after hour talking about death to the plants - I'm not a bird that flies - A stream of blood flourishes - The blood is like a waterfall - Cough up blood clots and rinse them away - Silence is an umbilical cord wrapped around the room - what makes moon go backward now grow blackened leaves - you have been searching for something impossible to find - owls eat the eyes of puppets - an invocation that will summon assistance..."HERE - http://13myna.blogspot.com/
October 22, 2015
NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)
"A handful of Hall’s poems pull you into the darkness of his room, where he is at his most introspective."
from a new review of the poetry chapbook "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015), appearing at The Luxembourg Review.
Thank you to reviewer Nathan Hassall.Read more of the review HERE - http://theluxembourgreview.org/2015/10/22/pigeons-and-peace-doves-a-review/Procure a copy of Pigeons and Peace Doves for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_6
from a new review of the poetry chapbook "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015), appearing at The Luxembourg Review.
Thank you to reviewer Nathan Hassall.Read more of the review HERE - http://theluxembourgreview.org/2015/10/22/pigeons-and-peace-doves-a-review/Procure a copy of Pigeons and Peace Doves for yourself at the Blood Pudding Press shop HERE -https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_6
My review of GREEN by Theresa Senato Edwards
GREEN focuses upon a grandson and his grandmother. The grandson never knew his grandfather but is often surrounded by the greenness of his grandmother, MM.
At times, earlier in his life, he finds her space old and empty or unsettling and creepy, too close for comfort to the indelicate mesh between life and death.
"Something greenattached to his arm,sucked his skin rawbefore he pulled it off,flicked it into the thick smell of dead flowers."
Parts of MM's green are an extended metaphor for her own grief. Her smell was "a mix of dying lilacs left / in water too long". She lived inside the same old space all her life.
Parts of MM's green are the efforts she spends planting more of the bright vibrant greens of her memories. Spending years gardening within her own space until "Mist rose a half inch / from her bedroom floor".
As the years went on, her grandson came to realize that the green would always haunt him until he finally settled down and eased into the blue.
Theresa Senato Edwards' writing style within this collection is a little more subtle than my usual writing style, but I truly enjoyed reading and mulling over her carefully constructed short lines within this lovingly rendered story poem, focusing on small but unique and impactful family memories, of old plants growing inside new eyes, of "blood spots seeping through / the indexes" of a youthful minds ever growing library. Parts of the stacks rising and evolving. Parts of the stacks worried about losing their vibrancy, growing stale, and falling down.
From flowered reflections to uncomfortable peripheries and particles, sinking in, sinking down, approaching death, MM "mounted the black of trampoline", the depths of her ongoing gardening, her "crocuses already into their / late-day stretch".
~Juliet Cook
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GREEN is available for pre-order HERE - https://finishinglinepress.com/product_reviews_info.php?products_id=2516&reviews_id=1230
At times, earlier in his life, he finds her space old and empty or unsettling and creepy, too close for comfort to the indelicate mesh between life and death.
"Something greenattached to his arm,sucked his skin rawbefore he pulled it off,flicked it into the thick smell of dead flowers."
Parts of MM's green are an extended metaphor for her own grief. Her smell was "a mix of dying lilacs left / in water too long". She lived inside the same old space all her life.
Parts of MM's green are the efforts she spends planting more of the bright vibrant greens of her memories. Spending years gardening within her own space until "Mist rose a half inch / from her bedroom floor".
As the years went on, her grandson came to realize that the green would always haunt him until he finally settled down and eased into the blue.
Theresa Senato Edwards' writing style within this collection is a little more subtle than my usual writing style, but I truly enjoyed reading and mulling over her carefully constructed short lines within this lovingly rendered story poem, focusing on small but unique and impactful family memories, of old plants growing inside new eyes, of "blood spots seeping through / the indexes" of a youthful minds ever growing library. Parts of the stacks rising and evolving. Parts of the stacks worried about losing their vibrancy, growing stale, and falling down.
From flowered reflections to uncomfortable peripheries and particles, sinking in, sinking down, approaching death, MM "mounted the black of trampoline", the depths of her ongoing gardening, her "crocuses already into their / late-day stretch".
~Juliet Cook
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GREEN is available for pre-order HERE - https://finishinglinepress.com/product_reviews_info.php?products_id=2516&reviews_id=1230
October 21, 2015
ECTOPLASM DEER
A new painting/collage art hybrid creature of mine, completed October 2015 - and now newly 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
October 20, 2015
Events that Blood Pudding Press is part of in Halloween and the first Saturday of November
At the Poet’s Haven Jubilee on Halloween (Oak Knoll Park in Massillon Ohio, from noon to 8:00 P.M., poetry and music and Ohio poetry presses with tables); Blood Pudding Press will be there circa 1:00 to 7:00See more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/739959412796462/***At Meet the Presses (Sigmond Sanger Branch Library in Toledo Ohio, from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M); Blood Pudding Press, Crisis Chronicles Press, NightBallet Press, The Poet’s Haven, and Writing Knights Press.
See more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/1640197596238930/
See more here -https://www.facebook.com/events/1640197596238930/
October 14, 2015
New Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Lauren Gordon at New Books in Poetry
"Using colloquial language and the cadence of hymn to a mesmerizing affect, Gordon pulls the reader into a melding of prairie, nostalgia, and memory:…endless, endless
prairie for corn and mud and loss and dirtand the seeds and the silky tassel of half truths
and how you find God in the middle of a haystack
naked and crouching and warm..."from a new interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood", conducted by Jen Fitzgerald at New Books in Poetryyou can read the rest AND even listen to Lauren talk about her writing HERE - http://newbooksinpoetry.com/2015/10/13/lauren-gordon-fiddle-is-flood-blood-pudding-press-2015/
prairie for corn and mud and loss and dirtand the seeds and the silky tassel of half truths
and how you find God in the middle of a haystack
naked and crouching and warm..."from a new interview with Lauren Gordon about her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood", conducted by Jen Fitzgerald at New Books in Poetryyou can read the rest AND even listen to Lauren talk about her writing HERE - http://newbooksinpoetry.com/2015/10/13/lauren-gordon-fiddle-is-flood-blood-pudding-press-2015/
October 11, 2015
Zombie Mummy Mug
This one of a kind, hand painted pottery mug would be strangely and oddly fun for drinking coffee, tea, mummy juice, zombie blood or whatever else you please - during Halloween season or any time!
Only one available in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/112621695/halloween-treat-zombie-mummy-mug-one-of?ref=shop_home_active_1
Only one available in the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/112621695/halloween-treat-zombie-mummy-mug-one-of?ref=shop_home_active_1
October 8, 2015
Quaint Magazine Issue Five is aLIVE
Quaint Magazine Issue Five is now available online, including poems by me, Jessie Janeshek, Sonya Vatomsky, Sara Biggs Chaney, and many more HERE - http://quaintmagazine.com/issues/issue-five/!
AND here is a photo of me holding my copy of Quaint in print.
AND here is a photo of me holding my copy of Quaint in print.
October 2, 2015
Two New Interviews with Blood Pudding Press Poets at BLOTTERATURE
In case you missed these on the Blood Pudding Press blog, here are two new Interviews, with two Blood Pudding Press poets, which very recently appeared at BLOTTERATURE
From an Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Laurent Gordon -
"A piece is done when I have gotten some distance from it and can come back to it without seeing anything I want to change. That’s a process that takes anywhere from three months to five years (so far)."From a new interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Lauren Gordon at Blot Lit Reviews.Read more here - http://blotterature.com/2015/09/26/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-lauren-gordon/
Procure Lauren Gordon's Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_feat_3
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From an Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall -
"The pigeons in my chapbook Pigeons and Peace Doves are – at least in part – a representation of trying to adjust to city life and dealing with the dark and ugly parts of life, in general. City pigeons are often referred to as flying rats because of their parasitic nature and disease spreading potential; but they are only like that as a consequence of the way urban culture functions. They are dirty because built up areas are dirty places to live. They are parasitic because we are wasteful. They often have missing feet, contorted legs or some other disfiguration because urban life is aggressive, self-serving and fast. I relate to these pigeons, yet I am disgusted by them, which is the other part of what they represent in this collection; my own contradictions, anxieties, depressions..."From a new Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet, Matthew J. Hall up at Blot Lit.Read more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/10/01/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-matthew-j-hall/Procure Matthew J. Hall's Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_feat_2
From an Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Laurent Gordon -
"A piece is done when I have gotten some distance from it and can come back to it without seeing anything I want to change. That’s a process that takes anywhere from three months to five years (so far)."From a new interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Lauren Gordon at Blot Lit Reviews.Read more here - http://blotterature.com/2015/09/26/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-lauren-gordon/
Procure Lauren Gordon's Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Fiddle Is Flood" here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/227601065/new-fiddle-is-flood-by-lauren-gordon?ref=shop_home_feat_3
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From an Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet Matthew J. Hall -
"The pigeons in my chapbook Pigeons and Peace Doves are – at least in part – a representation of trying to adjust to city life and dealing with the dark and ugly parts of life, in general. City pigeons are often referred to as flying rats because of their parasitic nature and disease spreading potential; but they are only like that as a consequence of the way urban culture functions. They are dirty because built up areas are dirty places to live. They are parasitic because we are wasteful. They often have missing feet, contorted legs or some other disfiguration because urban life is aggressive, self-serving and fast. I relate to these pigeons, yet I am disgusted by them, which is the other part of what they represent in this collection; my own contradictions, anxieties, depressions..."From a new Interview with Blood Pudding Press poet, Matthew J. Hall up at Blot Lit.Read more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/10/01/blot-lit-reviews-an-interview-with-matthew-j-hall/Procure Matthew J. Hall's Blood Pudding Press chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_feat_2
September 30, 2015
NEW Review of Pigeons and Peace Doves by Matthew J. Hall (Blood Pudding Press 2015)
"It is not often I come across a chapbook that incorporates the tangible materials of its binding and pages into the reading experience. The silvery sparkle of the grey pages and the messy, yet endearing thread binding of Matthew J. Hall’s Pigeons and Peace Doves gently pull the reader into a pool of melancholy reflection his poetry creates.Through the narrator’s stream of consciousness, the reader is able to peer into the thoughts of an often stigmatized and ignored voice—the voice of those who live with mental illness. Hall writes candidly about depression and the contemplation of suicide, and he does justice to the realities of those living with mental health issues. The reader witnesses the narrator struggle. They are in bed with him as he is torn between the grace of the peace dove and the effrontery of the pigeon—the chaos of depression and the peace of mental health."From a new Review of the Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, "Pigeons and Peace Doves" by Matthew J. Hall at Blot Lit Reviews.Thank you to Blotterature Literary Magazine and reviewer Kayla Greenwell.Partake of more HERE - http://blotterature.com/2015/09/30/blot-lit-reviews-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j-hall/Procure a copy of the chapbook HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/236081194/new-pigeons-and-peace-doves-by-matthew-j?ref=shop_home_active_4
