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December 31, 2019
Happy New Year from Me and my Blood Pudding Press!
How have we already reached the last day of 2019?!?!A uniquely Happy New Year from me and my Blood Pudding Press!If you would like the beginning of your New Year to be surrounded by some strange creepy wonderful irrational fearful doll-phobic poems, why not buy yourself a copy of the NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen (with cover art by Josh Birrittieri) and help support a tiny indie small press and strange poetry?Or choose another Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook that sounds more interesting or appealing to you.Find out a bit more about PEDIOPHOBIA and other Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbooks here - https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress***"Cabbage Patch Doll tossedLike salad in French dressingDead child dripping orange"
in the poem "Nightmare of Dolls" in PEDIOPHOBIA
in the poem "Nightmare of Dolls" in PEDIOPHOBIA
The new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen is included in Eileen Murphy's recent book recommendations! AND Daniel G. Snethen has a poetry reading coming up that showcases PEDIOPHOBIA!
Below is a photo posted by Eileen Murphy this past weekend in one of her book recommendation posts, that includes the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!
December 28, 2019
NEW in Thimble Literary Magazine - Doll's Eyes Could Kill by Juliet Cook
"...We are not all house pets
looking for an owner or a groomor someone to wash our hair. We want to own ourselves."in my poem "Doll's Eyes Could Kill", in the NEW VOL. 2 NO. 3 of Thimble Literary Magazineread more HERE - https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2019/12/18/dolls-eyes-could-kill/
looking for an owner or a groomor someone to wash our hair. We want to own ourselves."in my poem "Doll's Eyes Could Kill", in the NEW VOL. 2 NO. 3 of Thimble Literary Magazineread more HERE - https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2019/12/18/dolls-eyes-could-kill/
December 23, 2019
PEDIOPHOBIA has found a new home (and it could haunt your home too)...
John Burroughs has received his copy of the new Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook, PEDIOPHOBIA, by Daniel G. Snethen!
December 18, 2019
Lyric Essentials: Juliet Cook Reads Tory Dent
On The Sundress Blog's Lyric Essentials, I talk about poet Tory Dent and read one of her poems, "The Part of Me That's O".Thank you to Riley Steiner for inviting me to participate in this project.
You can read and listen here -
https://sundressblog.com/2019/12/18/lyric-essentials-juliet-cook-reads-tory-dent/
***"I have tended towards over-the-top and negative in a lot of my poetry, largely because that’s how my brain works—but since I also tend to enjoy reading that sort of content, it has probably influenced my own creativity over time.To me, Tory Dent is an example of a poet who says what she needs to say, for her own personal, inward-focused reasons, but also broadens her personal reasons into a large scale.With me, most of my poems are inward-focused, and part of me likes that; but another part of me might like to be able to broaden them out a bit more, without dulling them down. I don’t want my poems to be overly obvious, but I also don’t want them to be so abstract or so stuck inside my own brain that they only make sense to me.When it comes to poetry by Dent and others I admire, I love it when uniquely original work that emerged from another writer’s brain is able to strongly resonate with my brain, too.There are many people for whom poetry does not resonate much at all, but for me, it’s a primary form of expression, both reading-wise and writing-wise, even if a lot of people don’t relate to it."
You can read and listen here -
https://sundressblog.com/2019/12/18/lyric-essentials-juliet-cook-reads-tory-dent/
***"I have tended towards over-the-top and negative in a lot of my poetry, largely because that’s how my brain works—but since I also tend to enjoy reading that sort of content, it has probably influenced my own creativity over time.To me, Tory Dent is an example of a poet who says what she needs to say, for her own personal, inward-focused reasons, but also broadens her personal reasons into a large scale.With me, most of my poems are inward-focused, and part of me likes that; but another part of me might like to be able to broaden them out a bit more, without dulling them down. I don’t want my poems to be overly obvious, but I also don’t want them to be so abstract or so stuck inside my own brain that they only make sense to me.When it comes to poetry by Dent and others I admire, I love it when uniquely original work that emerged from another writer’s brain is able to strongly resonate with my brain, too.There are many people for whom poetry does not resonate much at all, but for me, it’s a primary form of expression, both reading-wise and writing-wise, even if a lot of people don’t relate to it."
December 16, 2019
Dead Dolls are Coming Back to Life in PEDIOPHOBIA (new from BLOOD PUDDING PRESS)
"Seventy times seven solstices later,
myriad discarded broken dolls
rose up from the city trash-piles,
the ash-heaps and the long
forgotten hallowed doll graves"
in the poem "The Second Coming"
within a NEW chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, as of December 2019!
PEDIOPHOBIA with poetry by Daniel G. Snethen, cover art by Josh Birrittieri, and bound with yarn and doll hair.
Read more about it and acquire a copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762122669/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_1
myriad discarded broken dolls
rose up from the city trash-piles,
the ash-heaps and the long
forgotten hallowed doll graves"
in the poem "The Second Coming"
within a NEW chapbook from Blood Pudding Press, as of December 2019!
PEDIOPHOBIA with poetry by Daniel G. Snethen, cover art by Josh Birrittieri, and bound with yarn and doll hair.
Read more about it and acquire a copy HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762122669/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_1
December 13, 2019
NEW from Blood Pudding Press! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!
Tonight, within the final dark hours of Friday the 13th of December 2019, one night after the last full moon of the year, is the perfect night to introduce the creepy, crawly, scary, strangely rotating table of doll heads within a NEW Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook! PEDIOPHOBIA by Daniel G. Snethen!
PEDIOPHOBIA's amalgamation of horrific dolls is Blood Pudding Press's style! Quirky, dark, darkly comedic, oddly disturbing, and twisted. Screaming eyed dolls and broken doll bodies. Dolls as killers, dolls as evil, dolls as gods, dolls as horror movie scenes, dolls as bloody apples, dolls as distorted bible verse.
PEDIOPHOBIA offers you sixteen peculiar poems by Daniel G. Snethen!
PEDIOPHOBIA artwork was created especially for this collection by Josh Birrittieri - an outside front cover, an inside front cover, and an outside back cover!
PEDIOPHOBIA has been printed and designed by Blood Pudding Press creature Juliet Cook, bound with yarn AND scraggly doll hair, but don't blame me if the doll hair bites you!
***
According to Daniel G. Snethen himself:
"My newest chapbook Pediophobia (Fear of Dolls) will soon be ready. It will be bound together by hand. Juliet Cook is the publisher and owner of Blood Pudding Press. Every copy will be handmade by her. Juliet is also an extraordinary poet herself. Josh Birrittieri did all the graphics for this chapbook and they are absolutely amazing. And I may be bragging a bit here, but I doubt you will find a better more complete collection of doll poetry anywhere. Many of the poems are creepy some are funny and a few are sad. One is a continuation of a famous episode from the Twilight Zone. One or two might even be considered demented. And several of them are peopled with personages I personally know. If you dare to read these and you know me, don't be too surprised if you recognize some of the characters and settings. If you hate dolls and find them creepy and disturbing, this slim volume of poetry is definitely for you. It will cure you of narcolepsy and will give you reason to run the light meter all eventide long. So please spend a few dollars and indulge yourself... your insanity is worth it."
***"Green glassy eyed heads
Unblinking verdant eyed stares
Headless dolls of Hell"
(within the poem "Nightmare of Dolls")
*"Dark human corpses piled
high on doll infested hills.
Unblinking dolls smiling,
keeping tally with their quills,
as people topple"
(within the poem "Doll Food")
*"Fearfully, I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads but
not before hearing Mother weeping and crying out in her aged voice,
“My son, my son, why hast thou forsaken me!”"
(within the poem "Doll Heads")
***Get your very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4
PEDIOPHOBIA's amalgamation of horrific dolls is Blood Pudding Press's style! Quirky, dark, darkly comedic, oddly disturbing, and twisted. Screaming eyed dolls and broken doll bodies. Dolls as killers, dolls as evil, dolls as gods, dolls as horror movie scenes, dolls as bloody apples, dolls as distorted bible verse.
PEDIOPHOBIA offers you sixteen peculiar poems by Daniel G. Snethen!
PEDIOPHOBIA artwork was created especially for this collection by Josh Birrittieri - an outside front cover, an inside front cover, and an outside back cover!
PEDIOPHOBIA has been printed and designed by Blood Pudding Press creature Juliet Cook, bound with yarn AND scraggly doll hair, but don't blame me if the doll hair bites you!
***
According to Daniel G. Snethen himself:
"My newest chapbook Pediophobia (Fear of Dolls) will soon be ready. It will be bound together by hand. Juliet Cook is the publisher and owner of Blood Pudding Press. Every copy will be handmade by her. Juliet is also an extraordinary poet herself. Josh Birrittieri did all the graphics for this chapbook and they are absolutely amazing. And I may be bragging a bit here, but I doubt you will find a better more complete collection of doll poetry anywhere. Many of the poems are creepy some are funny and a few are sad. One is a continuation of a famous episode from the Twilight Zone. One or two might even be considered demented. And several of them are peopled with personages I personally know. If you dare to read these and you know me, don't be too surprised if you recognize some of the characters and settings. If you hate dolls and find them creepy and disturbing, this slim volume of poetry is definitely for you. It will cure you of narcolepsy and will give you reason to run the light meter all eventide long. So please spend a few dollars and indulge yourself... your insanity is worth it."
***"Green glassy eyed heads
Unblinking verdant eyed stares
Headless dolls of Hell"
(within the poem "Nightmare of Dolls")
*"Dark human corpses piled
high on doll infested hills.
Unblinking dolls smiling,
keeping tally with their quills,
as people topple"
(within the poem "Doll Food")
*"Fearfully, I turn and flee from the cottonwoods of doll heads but
not before hearing Mother weeping and crying out in her aged voice,
“My son, my son, why hast thou forsaken me!”"
(within the poem "Doll Heads")
***Get your very own copy of PEDIOPHOBIA here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/762123585/new-pediophobia-by-daniel-g-snethen-2019?ref=shop_home_feat_4
December 12, 2019
PEDIOPHOBIA coming very soon!
Last night I printed out the covers of a new poetry chapbook, coming very soon from my Blood Pudding Press!
PEDIOPHOBIA will offer creepy doll-o-phobic poetry by Daniel G. Snethen - and the cover art (on the front, the back, and the inside front) was created by Josh Birrittieri.
I still need to stick the innards into the covers, bind them together, and handle some more designing, but stay tuned for this new chapbook very soon!
PEDIOPHOBIA will offer creepy doll-o-phobic poetry by Daniel G. Snethen - and the cover art (on the front, the back, and the inside front) was created by Josh Birrittieri.
I still need to stick the innards into the covers, bind them together, and handle some more designing, but stay tuned for this new chapbook very soon!
NEW in Burning House Press - 3 Poems by me and j/j hastain!
j/j hastain and I have three poems up at Burning House Press today, within the Labyrinth! Thank you to Guest Editor Dhiyanah Hassan!
Sometimes I wonder whose semi-secret shit list I’m on
and why. Maybe I’m just paranoid.
I have my own scars, my own formsof damage control, but not quite enough
time to get it right or trust
my own impulses.Read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2019/12/12/3-poems-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/
Sometimes I wonder whose semi-secret shit list I’m on
and why. Maybe I’m just paranoid.
I have my own scars, my own formsof damage control, but not quite enough
time to get it right or trust
my own impulses.Read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2019/12/12/3-poems-by-juliet-cook-and-j-j-hastain/
