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POETRY READINGS in Tremont Ohio TODAY/TONIGHT for LevyFest

TONIGHT at 7:00 P.M! A reading featuring Juliet Cook AND Serena Castells AND Gaz The Comedian AND Jason Baldinger at Lava Lounge.THEN right after that reading, there's ANOTHER reading at Lava Lounge, all the way until midnight!Both readings are part of this weekend's LevyFest - and you can see more details about LevyFest here- http://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/levyfest/2014/

Another New Review of They Talk About Death

Another new review of Alessandra Bava's "They Talk About Death" (Blood Pudding Press, 2014)!

Thank you to AJ Huffman and Sein und Werden.

"Bava opens every vein she can find for us."

Read the review here - http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/bava.html

Partake of more details and/or purchase the chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195585261/halloween-they-talk-about-death-by?ref=shop_home_feat_2

New Review of They Talk About Death!

"Alessandra Bava's They Talk About Death, the Italian poet and translator's American publishing debut, is a visually stunning piece of art. The book is handmade, ribbon-bound, and is crafted with brightly colored and textured paper. Erin Wells' cover art, "Yellow Carousel Horse," marches lockstep with the content of the collection, resembling, in skull form, a mash-up of Sylvia Plath's portrait and the horse her greatest work is named for, Ariel."and"They Talk About Death also takes risks in that it may seem to glorify suicide in lines like, "Suicidal Light demands worship" from "Our Lady of Napalm," a violent re-imagining of Anne Sexton. This worship, which gestures back to the old trope of a woman's beauty being perfected in death, dates to Hamlet's Ophelia and even further. The book borrows from history in this way, and is merciless at times in its treatment of subjects; while in mourning, the author simultaneously praises and curses figures for dying at their own hands. Salome is cited as an example of a woman who is a murderer rather than a victim and Bava praises her for it: "One day, when [John's] head will turn to skull, she'll make a lamp of it for her own enlightenment and write chiaroscuro poems."A few samples from Sandy Marchetti's in depth new Review of "They Talk About Death" by Alessandra Bava (Blood Pudding Press, 2014).Read the review in its entirety within the new Menacing Hedge (and while there, read more of the new Menacing Hedge innards too) here - http://www.menacinghedge.com/fall2014/review-marchetti.phpThen consider purchasing Bava's chapbook from the Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/195585261/halloween-they-talk-about-death-by?ref=shop_home_feat_2(P.S. It is not too late to receive a special discount of 25% off this chapbook and other Blood Pudding Press offerings. Just enter Coupon Code HALLOWEEN25 when you make your purchase.)

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

"You got the round table tonight and in these smokin’
socks you’ll serve chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and sawmill gravy scintillatingly."
From Susan Yount's poem "Socks of Fire", within her Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, House on Fire.Today is House on Fire's last day being featured at The Wardrobe's Best Dressed!Read today's poem here -http://sundresspublications.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire-5/ (and read her other poems posted ever day this week if you haven't yet)!Then consider purchasing the whole chapbook, from the Blood Pudding Press shop here! - https://www.etsy.com/listing/177826146/new-house-on-fire-by-susan-yount-2014?ref=shop_home_active_1

Happy Halloween from Thirteen Myna Birds!

The new Halloween addition of Thirteen Myna Birds has arrived to surge into your brain!The new flock offers creepy, haunted, disconcerting innards by Hannah E. Phinney, Joris Soeding, Madelyn Falk, Paul Tristram, Changming Yuan, Daniel Snethen, Charles Cicirella, and Michael Farkas here! - http://13myna.blogspot.com/the worms rolling through the gravel - crawled through with demons - stomach punched in - blood of the chicken falls on a wooden box - after cutting out my tongue - you have chopped off every head - blood rose from the nail bed - a man’s arms and legs shudder - a wheel derail - brains extracted - cremated so I don’t feel trapped underground like a zombie

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, at The Wardrobe this week! (Day Three)

Day three 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/2014/10/15/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire-3/

"Roast beef and potatoes.
He has her hiding in the maples

where she kills herself twice a day.
She can hear the red stream calling,
a shallow ditch swelling with pain.

Her father, a devil,
his pitchfork in the hay."

Buy yourself (or a poet friend) a copy of this chapbook here -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 this week! (Day Two)

Day two 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/2014/10/14/the-wardrobes-best-dressed-susan-younts-house-on-fire-2/"holds the bloated baby goat.
Tongue licks death. He bawls
recoiling neck and I cannot stop this."Buy yourself (or a poet friend) a copy of this chapbook here -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

My Upcoming Poetry Readings! (October 2014 through February 2015)

Juliet Cook's Upcoming Poetry Readings!
~October 25 (Saturday) 7:00-8:30 P.M.Knigthmares IV:Writing Knights Press @ LevyFest
at Literary Cafe (1031 Literary Rd., Cleveland, Ohio)
performers - Serena Castells, Gaz TheComedian, Juliet Cook, Jason Baldinger
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~November 1st (Saturday) 8:00 P.M.-MidnightChicago Poetry Bordello, Dia De Los Muertos
at Schubas Tavern(3159 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, Illinois)
$5 if dressed Victorian, $10 if not.
performers - Musical guests The White City Rippers, Guest poetry whore, Juliet Cook, as Zylphia "Black Taffy" Coo. The best poetry whores in the Midwest! Burlesque, tarot, silhouettes and shenanigans galore!

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~December 1st (Monday) 7:30-10:00 P.M.Monday at Mahall's
at Mahall's(13200 Madison Ave, Lakewood, Ohio)
performers -Juliet Cook, Joey Nicoletti, Baraka Noel, emceed by John Burroughs
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~January 24th 2015 (Saturday) all day long SNOETRY
at Poets' Hall (1136 E. Lake Rd., Erie, Pennsylvania)
performers - Last year this event lasted from noon to 11 P.M. with 60 featured poets, reading for ten minutes each. I imagine it will be similar this year and will announce more details closer to the time of the event.
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~February 23 2015 (Monday) 7:00 P.M.Poetry Forum reading series
at Bossy Grrl's PinUp Joint(2598 N. High Street, Columbus, Ohio)
performers - Juliet Cookwill be the featured reader, with two different 20 minute sets