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For the third installment of this years Pushcart Award Nominee's series, we have Jeffrey Feingold back again with Elizabeth, discussing more of his short fiction. His latest book A Fine Madness, Jeffrey was nominated for the Pushcart Award for his story "The Blender". They talk about it's creation and insipration, and Jeffery reads some of his other work. A fine, fast-paced conversation! Do tuck in!

https://meatfortea.com/books.htm

https://jeffreymfeingold.com/

In celebration of National Poetry Month, we thought it worthwhile to revisit this conversation with the authors of the Meat For Tea Press book Midnight Glossolalia to this engaging episode. They read some of the works in this collaborative book, talk about creative process and a ton more. Do tuck in! Warning! There is some "language" in this episode. But we're all adults here, right? Right. RIGHT! Please enjoy this episode with Scott Ferry, Lillian Necakov & Lauren Scharhag!

Part 2 of our 3 part series featuring our annual Pushcart nominees, Elizabeth is joined by Rebecca Evans and Mohini Ghoshroy in a super, detailed, intensive chat. Let's just say, don't hesitate. Grab a beverage and/or a snack (maybe not if you're driving?!) and tuck into this!

Join us for an excellent conversation with writers Julie Benesh and Leo Hwang. This is part one of this year's Pushcart Award nominees' episodes. Julie, Leo and Elizabeth get into discussions on writing approaches, AI in writing, dreams and writing, and much more. And we're treated to some readings of their works as well!

"Oh Johnny" (the featured song in this episode) written and performed by Reid Messerschmidt.

Find Julie at juliebenesh.com

Find Leo at leohwang.com

We have a great talk with musician and author DA Stern, our friend Dave, talking about writing and music and such. It goes far and wide and we recommend sticking around! Grab a snack or something and settle in!

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We're reprising this episode from Season 3 for the holiday break we're talking. But more importantly, we're serializing a story of Reid's in Meat For Tea: The Valley Review, starting with the December 2024 issue Cup.

Writer Reid Messerschmidt has a great and diverse chat with Elizabeth about, well, a lot of stuff. A whole lot of stuff. No kidding. Lots of stuff. Great Stuff. And Reid reads some of his works. A Do-Not-Miss!

We've got long-time contributor to Meat For Tea, Charles Rammelcamp, in the house! (Well, figuratively.)

Charles and Elizabeth get pretty deep, Charles reads a bunch of his work, and they go far into a chat about the state of the nation now.

It's great. Grab a snack and a beverage and settle in.

We welcome author Matthew J. McKee back again to the Meat For Teacast, straight from Japan! Elizabeth and Matthew discuss his new Atmosphere Press Book Flicker, the inspiration and creation of it, and Matthew reads a few excerpts as well!

As usual, the conversation travels many paths!

For more information on Matthew: https://matthewjmckee.com/

Atmosphere Press: https://atmospherepress.com/?s=matthew+j+mckee

A link to the fundraiser his Uncle is putting on, as mentioned in the episode: https://www.facebook.com/donate/561717973213217/8694781750573488/

Please note, Matthew McKee is a sponsor of Meat For Tea: The Valley Review this quarter. This gets them a baked-in ad in the podcast for the quarter. This in no way means this episode is sponsored! Just a coincidence! We don't pay-to-play. Thanks for understanding.

It's the spoken word from Le Cirque des plumes tueuses!
September 7, 2024 at Abandoned Building Brewery.

Featured readers are Gerald Yelle, C. Desiree Finley (Fin), Michael Favala Goldman, Mohini Ghoshroy and Josef Langton.

For the full episode, please support us through Patreon!

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Gary Metras, the first Poet Laureate of Easthampton, MA, is in conversation with Elizabeth in this jam-packed episode. Lots of Gary's work, discussions on pedagogy, and a lot more!

Find some of Gary's books here:

http://www.thelostbookshelf.com/cervenabooks.html#MARBLE%20DUST

https://presapress.com/gary-metras

https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/vanishing-points-by-gary-metras/

We're back again with part two of our 100 Thousand Poets For Change event! September 28, 2024 at Park Hill Orchard, Easthampton MA.

Part two features Jeffrey Feingold, Maria Williams, Charles Coe, Mohini Ghoshroy and Olivia Nied!

Part one of the event, featured Adam Dunetz, Carolyn Cushing, Leo Hwang, Tamara Frike and Two.Five! Go seek out Season 6 Episode 2 if you haven't already.

For more information of 100 Thousand Poets For Change, visit 100tpc.org

We're back again with another lovely 100 Thousand Poets For Change event! September 28, 2024 at Park Hill Orchard, Easthampton MA.

This is part one of two of the event, featuring Adam Dunetz, Carolyn Cushing, Leo Hwang, Tamara Frike and Two.Five!

Part two will feature Jeffrey Feingold, Maria Williams, Charles Coe, Mohini Ghoshroy and Olivia Nied!

For more information of 100 Thousand Poets For Change, visit 100tpc.org

Welcome to Season 6!

Kicking it off with a bang, this episode features a fantastic conversation with Elizabeth and Jeffrey Feingold, author of The Black Hole Pastrami (Meat For Tea Press), There is No Death in Finding Nemo (Impspired), and coming later in 2024, A Fine Madness (Meat For Tea Press).

Jeffrey reads from his upcoming book, and have an, as usual, terrific discussions covering a lot of ground.

As a bonus, we're co-hosted in the beginning by Oona Poe Darling and Susie Lorand, who also perform a lovely version of Let All People Live Their Lives as the opener of this episode.

You can find out more about Jeffrey at https://jeffreymfeingold.com/

Join us for the book launch of Connolly Ryan's book Velocity At Rest (Meat For Tea Press) at Amherst Books, June 20, 2024.

Ryan is currently a professor of literature at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he has been a finalist for the Distinguished Teaching Award multiple times. His poetry has been published in various journals including Bateau, Ditch, Umbrella, & Citron.

Meat For Tea Press books can be found at https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm where you can order them directly, or grab the ISBN and order them through your local favorite bookseller!

Join Elizabeth and Mark with a second conversation with Jacob Chapman. We discuss his new book Are We There Yet out on Human Error Publishing, talk about creative seasoning, heck, as is the way, talk about a bunch of stuff.

This episode is also co-introduced by Steve Schmeltz and Madeleine Darling! So it's fun in that, well, somewhat informal way, too. Steve regales us even with a Dead Milkmen cover on ukelele, right here in Meat For Teacast Central! We had fun, let's just say.

Jacob's previous episode here on the Meat For Teacast was Season 3, Episode 19.

Find more about Jacob's band Camel City Drivers at https://camelcitydrivers.bandcamp.com/ or wherever you stream your music.

Check out his and other great books at https://humanerrorpublishing.com/

Join us for a recording of Donna Lynch and her book tour for Girls of the County at The Veiled Crow in Warwick, RI. A great read, so a great listen! Donna has been thrice nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, is part of the amazing band Ego Likeness, and is simply one of Meat For Tea's favorite people.

Find more at:

linktr.ee/Donna_Lynch

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Here we have a preview of the spoken word from Le Cirque Avant la Lune Froide, Saturday, December 3, 2022! Carla Manene Cooke, Andrew Varnon,  David Miller, Elizabeth Applequist, Jacob Chapman, Janet MacFadyen, Gerald Yelle, Richard Wayne Horton, Paul Richmond, and Dennis Piana.. To hear the full episode and lots of other goodies, please consider supporting what we do on our Patreon!

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Earlier in 2024, Meat For Tea Press released Linda Chown's poetry collection Annie: How She Came To Be. Sadly, Linda passed a couple months later. Join Elizabeth and Jane Muschenetz as they do a 'cold read' of the book (with lovely results) and then discuss, well, various aspects of Linda's work and more, in this very-lightly-edited edition of the Meat For Teacast.

To get your own copy of Annie please head on over to https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm and buy it there, or grab the ISBN and order it from your favorite local bookseller!

We thought it might be nice to re-play S4 E33 with Jeffrey Feingold. Why? His book The Black Hole Pastrami has been winning awards. Most recently, the National Indie Excellence Award for short story collections, and also a finalist for the International Book Awards. Available from Meat For Tea Press! https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm

What a lovely conversation between Elizabeth and author Jack Donahue. His new novel Lost on Cherry Street is coming out later this June from Willow River Press, part of Between the Lines Publishing! Jack gets into some real detail about his research and backstory behind this book, and treats us to three readings from it as well. As usual, the conversation wanders into really interesting and diverse territory. Grab a snack and a beverage and settle into this one!

https://btwnthelines.com/product/lostoncherrystreet/ for more information on the book!

Join us for a reading from Jen Jabaily-Blackburn on Friday, May 10, 2024 at Splendor Solis Books in Northampton MA. Jen reads from her new book of poetry Girl in a Bear Suit and also treats us to some other writing. It ends up with a Q&A of sorts with her super cool daughter.

This is part of what is becoming an ongoing series of location recordings of local authors in western MA! Thanks to Jen and Splendor Solis for their hospitality!

Do check out Jen at https://www.jenjabailyblackburn.com/

Grab a snack and a beverage and tuck into this great conversation with Elizabeth and writer Rebecca Evans. So much ground covered! She reads some of her work, including an exclusive reading from her upcoming book Safe Handling. Rebecca is also the co-host of a radio show Writer to Writer as well!

Learn more at https://rebeccaevanswriter.com

For this special episode we're honored to be able to share with you all the Poetry Month edition of Prose Garden. Recorded live on Zoom on April 20, 2024, it packs a punch.

This monthly prose celebration is hosted by Francine Witte and Meg Pokrass.

Featuring readings from Francine Witte, Meg Pokrass, Bethany Jarmul, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Brad Rose, Tina Barry, Joshua Michael Stewart, Claire Bateman, Lorette C. Luzajic, and Kathleen McGookey.

Enjoy!

Join Elizabeth and author and professor Jeff Weddle as they talk about some of his 20+ books, the documentary The Outsiders of New Orleans and the book that it came from Bohemian New Orleans: The Story of the Outsider and Loujon Press and so much more. Creative process, the influence of having children on our lives, a smattering of politics and some great readings from a selection of his excellent poems. Check him out on Facebook, and buy his books at Amazon or order them through your local bookseller!

Scott Ferry returns for the third time to the Meat For Teacast, this time with his co-author of their new book, Fill Me With Birds, Daniel McGinn! Great conversation about writing, not writing, some timely politics, and so much more. Join Elizabeth as she has a great chat with these two super writers!

Find out more at https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm and at https://ferrypoetry.com/books/

Join us for Tzivia Gover's lovely reading/mini-workshop/dreaming in writing event at Splendor Solis Books in Northampton MA on March 8, 2024. Tzivia reads from her book Dreaming on the Page, discusses how dreams can be excellent writing prompts, leads the audience through a mini dream-writing exersise (with impressive results) and more!

If you find her suggestions in this recording helpful and interesting, there's a lot more in her books!

More can be found about Tzivia here:

https://thirdhousemoon.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tziviadreams/

The third part in our series of Pushcart Prize nominees. Christian Livermore is back for more discussion on her writing, her books, and more. A fascinating conversation! Author of Girl, Lost and Found, We Are Not Okay and The Very Special Dead, Christian also reads from and discusses her upcoming novel The Execution of Tertius Lafontaine as well!

Join us for a special afternoon at Ana Bandeira in Northampton MA. Dave Dersham hosts the Second Sunday series there, and for this one, his guest is poet and artitst Kim Keough. They have a lovely back-and-forth between Kim's reading and Dave's songs that we believe you'll enjoy as much as we did. Ana Bandeira is a lovely cafe/confectionary/coffee house, as as such, this recording naturally has all the sounds one would expect in a bustling cafe!

https://davedershammusic.com/

https://www.anabandeirachocolates.com/

This is a super engaging episode, where Elizabeth and writer/storyteller/teacher/professor Andrew Shelffo get into a lot of deep discussion about pedagogy, writing discipline and practice, dreams as inspiration - and a whole ton more. Andrew also reads a terrific story from a past edition of Meat For Tea that garnered accolades when he read it at that corresponding Cirque. Do stick around!

This episode features author John Yamrus' third visit to the Meat For Teacast. This time around, he and Elizabeth focus mainly on his most recent Meat For Tea Press book People and Other Bad Ideas but also, as is the usual, go off on tangents - writing and music in particular are covered. It's a lovely time - do stick around!

You can find both of his Meat For Tea Press books here: https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm

For this episode, we have a delightful recording of John Sheirer reading from his book For Now: One-Hundred 100 Word Stories live at Splendor Solis Books in Northampton on December 8th, 2023. A big treat, this reading, plus a lot of background on his writing approach, a fun q&a type session at the end, and more! Do stick around!

We're pleased to share with you an excerpt of this lovely and fun podcast we were a part of recently.

Please check out https://www.creativepeacemeal.com/ for the complete episode and much, much, more!

"This special episode features podcast alums, and Beatlephiles, Jack Canfora, Elizabeth MacDuffie, Mark Alan Milller, and Steve March-Tormé.
I learned so much in this panel episode about the original Fab Four, and made some great memories. I can't wait for future collaborations! Stay to the end for some fun trivia!"

In this episode we feature a terrific live recording of the opening reading for the release of the Florence Poets Society's Silkworm journal, issue 16, Wide Open. A bit cinéma vérité sonically, but we think that's great! Sit back and enjoy. Host Tommy Twilite is a charm.

For more info, please visit http://www.florencepoets.com/

Here we present the second half of our participation in the annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. If you've not heard of it, definitely look it up! The founder, Michael Rothenberg, sadly passed away in 2022 - he was our guest here in 2020, and we re-visited that episode midway through last season as well. Do check that out - he was a wonderful human. This episode features performances by Tommy Twilite, Eric Lee, LD Green and Mistress Miriam's Two-Cent Revue.

Here we have a preview of the spoken word from Le Cirque Avant la Lune Froide, Saturday, December 3, 2022! Jane Yolen & Peter Tacy, Carla Cooke, Chaya Grossberg, Jacob Chapman, Gerald Yelle, Elizabeth Appelquist, Richard Wayne Horton, Tommy Twilite and Charles Coe. To hear the full episode and lots of other goodies, please consider supporting what we do on our Patreon!

Here we present the first half of our participation in the annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. If you've not heard of it, definitely look it up! The founder, Michael Rothenberg, sadly passed away in 2022 - he was our guest here in 2020, and we re-visited that episode midway through last season as well. Do check that out - he was a wonderful human. This episode features performances by Two.Five, Kim Keough, Daniel Hales of Frost Heaves and Hales, Josh Levy and Adam Zucker of Outro and Beth Filson.

For this bonus episode, we're featuring the live (on Zoom) reading and discussion with Christian Livermore for her debut novel on Meat For Tea Press The Very Special Dead. Hosted by noted author Jacob Polley!

Please join us and Christian at The Emily Williston Library in Easthampton MA, Oct 18, Splendor Solis Books in Northampton MA, Oct 20, and at the Hygenic Art Gallery, New London, CT Oct 21! She'll be reading from the novel, taking some Q&A and signing books, which will be available for purchase.

https://ewmlibrary.org/https://ewmlibrary.org/event/meat-for-tea-author-reading-with-christian-livermore/

https://www.splendorsolisbooks.com/page/SplendorSolisEvents

https://www.hygienic.org/events

You can find out more about Christian at https://www.christianlivermore.com/ and order her new novel from https://www.meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm or by visiting meatfortea.com and getting the ISBN and ordering it from your local bookstore!

Author, poet, writer Gayle Brandeis has a new book out, Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss, and joins Elizabeth for a second excellent conversation. Too much to list! Just grab a snack/beverage/comfy place to sit and tuck right into this super episode!

Be sure to check out Gayle's works at gaylebrandeis.com too!

One of the great things about hosting a podcast is guesting on other people's podcasts - and radio shows that are also podcasted!

This episode features Elizabeth and Mark, both of whom were guests on Tammy Takaishi's Creative Peacemeal, and then were asked by the lovely Tammy to come on her show and interview her for her 100th episode! Here we present a segment of the full podcast.

Then, Elizabeth and Mark were guests on the Fabulous 413 with the fabulous Kaliis and Monte - on NEPM radio here in the... 413... which also is available as a podcast after their initial air dates! This is their segment from the September 9th, 2023 show.

Do check out their podcasts if you like what you hear here!

Creative Peacemeal:

https://goodpods.app.link/BHmQeMG2cDb

The Fabulous 413:

https://goodpods.app.link/5UY544D2cDb

https://www.nepm.org/podcast/the-fabulous-413

Hi and welcome to the season 5 premiere! We've got a treat for you! Elizabeth and Mark are joined by Jovanna Van Pelt and Richard Wayne Horton in a table reading of A Long Moment in the South, part of Richard's book Artists in the Underworld. The book is out on Human Error Publishing. Richard is a frequent contributor to Meat For Tea. (See also his Meat For Tea Press book Sticks and Bones!)

We hope you enjoy this special recording of this excellent work.

"Stories do what their roots tell them to do, and the roots run deep in these stories. The book starts with eleven published stories in the dark range, then goes on to “A Long Moment In The South,” flash fiction, set in three Texas towns from 1953 to 1957. A strong voice and a person to person talking style takes the reader inside the stories. "...razor sharp language..." –Amy Laprade, novelist.

"...the driest sense of humor...this is a horse that leads YOU to water...and you drink it..." –Joshua Michael Stewart, poet. 

You can get your copy of Artists in the Underworld at https://www.amazon.com/Artists-Underworld-2023-Richard-Horton/dp/1948521679

Do check out https://www.humanerrorpublishing.com and of course https://meatfortea.com !

Wrapping up season 4 with a bang! Elizabeth converses with writer Jeffrey Feingold (author of the Meat For Tea Press book The Black Hole Pastrami - Stories and the bookThere is No Death in Finding Nemo on Impspired.) A lot of ground is covered discussing facets of Creative Non-Fiction and more. Jeffrey reads one of the storied from The Black Hole Pastrami as well. A real treat!

More can be found at https://jeffreymfeingold.com/ and very soon his book will be available at https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm

Wow! What a fast-paced, exciting episode this is! Elizabeth has an amazing conversation with writer Jerome Berglund (author of the Meat For Tea Press book Funny Pages) and who has also worked on feature films and is also an award-winning fashion and fine arts arts photographer (check out his IMDB!) covering a range of topics from Senryu and Haiku to politics, trials and tribulations of what a college degree is worth, to conspiracies (or are they?) and much much more. He reads some original work as well. Oh! He's also an editor! It's a wild ride. Grab a snack and a beverage and tuck in!

Follow him on twitter @BerglundJerome

Additonally, please consider donating to support some of our local farms (or local farms wherever you might be) who have been affected by recent flooding/climate change!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/mountain-view-farm-flood-damage-fund

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