May 19 2019
By Dianne Borsenik
NightBallet Press is delighted to announce the release of a new collection of poetry by
Lisa M. Dougherty and Sean Thomas Dougherty, The Answer Is Not Here!
The Answer Is Not Here reads as a type of call-and-response, with poignant and passionate poems by Lisa and Sean Thomas Dougherty. The poems include “Tell Me the Alphabet of Us Is Nothing New” and “The Wind Has a Name It Tells No One” by Lisa, and “Ask the Breath of this Blue Hour” and “Ask the Evening Light Its Shape” by Sean Thomas. The poems alternate in the narrative, with Sean’s poems being italicized. These poems whisper, rather than shout, begging you to lean in and listen more closely to sweet words sharing secret truths. Each poem is like a little prayer of the soul.
The Answer Is Not Here contains 17 poems on 32 pages. The cover is a pale green card stock, with a thick, textured and patterned card stock insert. The cover art is a lovely collage by Bree, “Rockin Robin 12.26.18.” The collage was made from this single photograph of a guitar in Lewis Mathis Studio in Shelbyville, Kentucky. It was made with Paint, enhanced by Polarr. You can find more of Bree’s work here.
Lisa is the author of Small As Hope In the Helicopter Rain (Cervena Barva, 2018), and Sean Thomas’ most recent book is The Second O of Sorrow (BOA Editions, 2018). Recently married, they live in Erie, Pennsylvania, where they are raising their two tumultuous daughters, Andaluzja Akhmatova and Amara Rumi.
Find Sean Thomas Dougherty here and on Facebook.
Find Lisa M. Dougherty on Facebook.
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The Answer Is Not Here was released this weekend on Saturday, May 18, 2019, at the Borderlands: Poetry on the Edge event at Main Street Books in Mansfield, Ohio. It is available for mailing tomorrow.
Pick up your own copy of this collaboration! The book is a bargain at only $5.
You can obtain a copy of The Answer Is Not Here directly from the poets, or you may order from NightBallet Press for only $5 plus $3 shipping/handling! Order now, and NBP will pop it in the envelope today!
(This price is for United States of America customers only. Out-of-country customers, please contact NightBallet Press for information on shipping charges. Thank you.)
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May 15 2019
By Writing Knights Press
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May 11 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding
“In this theater, fishnet stockings
are replaced with fish hooks
in certain rows.
In other rows,
the director is aiming
to create his own mermaid bodies.”
Source:: Blood Pudding Press
May 10 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding Malformed Confetti by Juliet Cook (published by Crisis Chronicles Press, 2018) has recently been added to THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI AND HAMILTON COUNTY. Thank you to Crisis Chronicles Press editor John Burroughs.
https://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/spotlight/newarrivals.asp?id=poetry
So now you can borrow this book from the library. 💗
Of course, if you want your very own copy to keep (or give as a gift), you can acquire one from Crisis Chronicles Press, HERE – https://ccpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/Cook102.html
Or from Amazon, HERE – https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640929738/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_myi?m=AXH8DEUFPPU2O
Or directly from the author’s Blood Pudding Press shop, HERE – https://www.etsy.com/listing/641070988/malformed-confetti-by-juliet-cook-2018?ref=shop_home_feat_1
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May 09 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding
“I wrote about my bruised, battered, scratched legs
and the bulging blue veins
that kept on bulging farther
out of alignment
then shifting
too close for comfort
to boring normalcy.”
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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS with some worm stickers on top of some insectile sock legs.
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DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is a new 2019 poetry chapbook by Juliet Cook, published by Blood Pudding Press for the Dusie Kollektiv 9, as of May 2019.
It has recently been added to the Blood Pudding Press shop and you can find out more about it here – https://www.etsy.com/listing/689260672/new-dark-purple-intersections-inside-my?fbclid=IwAR06P1OeAPAqAsrbGgiloxQx-3Q3w_ay3JJt0H61DZU-xZtC56W5-PkcCe0
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May 07 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding
“…How did she get pregnant
or is she just dripping out
another poisonous tale. Spinning through
immaculate corrections. All of her drafts
floating wildly in the wind, trying to
change the clouds into colors that don’t exist
so she can see what’s not really there…”
“MANTICORE – Hybrid Writing From Hybrid Identities” is a new Anthology (published by Sundress Publications), filled with tons of hybrid writing and art, including a collaborative poem by j/j hastain and Juliet Cook, followed by one of our collage art pieces right after our poem, plus another of our college art pieces at the end of the collection, before everyone’s bios!
Each of our collage art pieces are titled using lines from our poem (SHE SAYS TO HERSELF “I AM” and YELP COMES OUT).
Our poem is titled THE DARKNESS TURNS BRIGHT.
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May 04 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding
“I might be misaligned, but
even though I might not know
exactly who I am, I didn’t ask
for someone else’s advice on how to
replace my webs with something less sticky.”
A sample of part of a poem within Juliet Cook’s new Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 9 chapbook, “DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises)”.
Newly available HERE –
Source:: Blood Pudding Press
May 03 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding
DARK PURPLE INTERSECTIONS (inside my Black Doll Head Irises) is HERE! –
This new poetry chapbook contains 30+ pages of interconnected/intersected poems, with content based on wanting to escape control and the ongoing dying of love. It could possibly be perceived as a negative confessional with glimmers of cracked, broken doll parts designed into new doll parts so they can keep living their own way, even if their way changes.
The chapbook cover is hand-designed and hand-bound, with various different colors available, with or without insect or worm stickers. The colors and variations are too many to name, but if you have a particular preference for your chapbook’s cover, please let me know in the Notes section. The color cover variations are mostly light tan variations, light purple variations, and light grey variations. They can have worm stickers added, insect stickers added, both, or no stickers at all. Any specific preferences or questions, let me know in the Notes.
Furthermore,if you’d like to acquire this chapbook from a source other than etsy (like via paypal for example), let me know that too.
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Cook was involved with the Dusie Kollektiv 3,4, and 5 and is delighted to be involved again. The Dusie Kollektiv 9 is a Tribute to Marthe Reed.
Sometime in May 2019, the Dusie Kollektiv will be publishing free online PDF files of the various members chapbooks, but Cook also created this print version of her chapbook and will be mailing copies to other Dusie members in May.
As a small sample, here is the beginning of the first poem within the collection:
“Maybe you didn’t want to bloom where you were planted.
Maybe you wanted to escape from where you were planted,
create your own individual space that doesn’t leave you
stuck in the same position,
nailed into the same cross-shaped ground.
And so from the ground up and down, you elongate
into different circle shapes. You expand and grow
your own fairy tale pie filled with maggots
that will choke to death or drown in between
the red filling unless they learn to fly.”
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If you are interested in acquiring one or two of Cook’s earlier Dusie Kollektiv chapbooks:
You can get both of the above together – https://www.etsy.com/listing/278408054/two-blood-pudding-pressdusie-kollektiv?ref=shop_home_active_
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Apr 30 2019
By Juliet Blood Pudding
“Her loose lips would have an apple shoved inside and then a sharp spit.”
Inside Juliet Cook’s poem, “Her Mother Took Her to the Next Door Neighbor’s Pig Roast”, appearing in the NEW O H I O Loves You (a national poetry month feature issue) in BARNHOUSE Journal, on the last day of poetry month!
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