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Our own Elizabeth MacDuffie, and Ellen Meeropol and Carolyn C. Cushing were the featured readers for the September 9, 2026 installment of the monthly Writers Read series at the Lava Center in Greenfield MA. Sit in on this lovely reading and following Q&A! From the Lava Center website: "Writers Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work, followed by a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write. Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, most recently Sometimes an Island and The Lost Women of Azalea Court, and the guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and member of the WriteAngles Conference planning committee. Carolyn A. Cushing (she/her) is a Tarot practitioner, seeker of justice, and poet inspired by nature and focused on the places where life and death meet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts 2023 – 2025. Find her on-line at soulpathsanctuary.com/poetry Elizabeth MacDuffie Elizabeth MacDuffie is founding editor Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, producer of the Meat for Teacast, and co-runner, with her husband, Mark Alan Miller, of Meat for Tea Press. She’s had work published in Silkworm, Thimble, The Hooghly Review, and in the 2025 and 2026 New Generation Beats Anthologies, among other places. She lives and works in Holyoke, MA." https://thelavacenter.org/ for more information on this lovely venue!

Join Elizabeth as she has a great chat with Tim Gager, author of Shadows of the Seen and upcoming soon, These New Orbs, as well as many other works. He reads from Shadows of the Seen and discuss AI and many other things! Grab a beverage and a snack and tuck in! https://www.heatcityreview.com/timothygagerindex.html

For the brief interim while we are busy with other things (like the forthcoming issue of Meat For Tea "Yellow") we bring this episode back in celebration of Joshual Michael Stewart's new book This is What it's Come To. You can find more about that book on his website (link below)! We have a great chat with writer and musician Joshua Michael Stewart. He reads several of his poems, discusses some of the methods he's used, and a lot more. Also, we feature four pieces of his music! In Joshua's words:""Jig for Jim" is an original composition from my first album, "Ghost in the Room." "Brother..." & "Nobody's Business" are old traditional songs (public domain) that will be on my upcoming album "Bitches Banjo" released July 20, 2021 and "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is also a traditional song on the upcoming album, but this version is an alternate take that won't be on the album." Learn more about Joshua at www.joshuamichaelstewart.com

We welcome perfumer and writer Pia Long to the Meat For Teacast! She and Elizabeth have a great talk about perfumery, her book Demo Accords and more, including a reading from one of the chapters in the book! www.olfiction.com (our retail store with all the things from our Olfiction Creative Universe – Demo Accords, Lab Editions, Eau de Boujee & any future books and projects) www.olfiction.studio (our B2B page)  https://www.instagram.com/perfumer.pia https://perfumer.substack.com/ https://www.tiktok.com/@perfumer.pia Pia's notes: "Books: Historical Perspectives on Smell, Jonathan Reinarz The Girl from a Thousand Fathoms by David Gullen A Parade of Horribles (a Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook narrated by Jeff Hays), Matt Diniman Music: Grizz “Sioux so pretty” (especially the Qual remix version) Samantha Togni x Wax Wings – Body Mind (and Samantha’s new album is cooool) Uzi Freyja – Medusa (but the whole album that is on is great) Bloodywood – Halla Boi (as above) Ochre – Temple Ravine (I listen to a lot of Ochre’s production in general, this is a new track) Kupla Tosca Lane 8 Rival Consoles Yoshihiro Sawasaki Noisia Turmion Katilot 16 Volt London After Midnight Stabbing Westward Ozric Tentacles Lamb Groove Armada Basement Jaxx… Watching: Rewatching the entire Babylon 5 set (the series and TV movies) & my comfort telly – Columbo, Poirot, Murder She Wrote  Wearing: A magnolia themed perfume in development for Meadowfarm Lifestyle (she has posted about the collab on her socials so it’s not a secret – the product is not ready and out yet, though!). https://meadowfarmlifestyle.co.uk/"

In this episode, Elizabeth has a great conversation with Ren Wilding, author of Trans Artifacts: Bones Between my Teeth. Ren reads from the book, and as usual, a great conversation ensues. Be sure to check out Season 7, Episode 7 for the conversation with Ren and Dana Henry Martin, part of our annual Pushcart Awards Nominees series as well! For more information, do check out https://renwilding.com/

In memory of the passing of our beloved friend Jane Yolen on June 11, 2026, we're revisiting our lovely conversation with her and her partner Peter Tacy. Jane was a frequent contributor to Meat For Tea, as is Peter Tacy, and Meat For Tea Press also published their book The Black Dog Poems in 2020. We miss you, Jane. "The season two finale - and what a finale it is! We had a terrific chat with poets, writers - and musicians! - Jane Yolen and Peter Tacy. They read several new poems, some to be in the upcoming issue of Meat For Tea, a couple in previous issues, and more! Tuck in and enjoy our conversation with these two brilliant folks. Find out more at: www.janeyolen.com"

On tuesday May 19, 2026, poet Jacob Chapman (a frequent contributor to Meat For Tea and a prior guest on the Meat For Teacast) had a reading celebrating his latest book My Wife Made This Possible (Human Error Publishing). We were in attendence, and grateful to Jacob and Nat Herold (Amherst Books) for allowing us to record this excellent reading. And quite a fun Q&A as well! Nat provided the lovely introduction. Enjoy! https://a.co/d/008snmaw https://www.amherstbooks.com/

For this episode, we invited Scott Ferry, Lauren Scharhag and Lillian Necakov back for another conversation. Elizabeth basically had these three amazing writers in the virtual room together, and it is amazing. They read their works from their new books and talk like the three great friends and collaborators they are. (A few years ago, their collaborative book Midnight Glossolalia (Meat For Tea Press) was released, go listen to S4 E17 for more about that! https://ferrypoetry.com/books/ https://www.anvilpress.com/authors/lillian-necakov http://mansfieldpress.net/lillian-necakov/ https://laurenscharhag.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/laurenscharhag/

This is one heck of an episode! This conversation between Dorion Sagan and Elizabeth is deeply fascinating. He talks about his father and mother and family, going deeply autobiographical. Dorion also reads from his recent book The Road to Hedotopia (Meat For Tea Press). This is one not to be missed! Photo: Katherine Kendall

We welcome Stephen St. Francis Decky to the Meat For Teacast! Stephen and Elizabeth discuss writing, films, music and art - and a lot more. Stephen reads from his novel Werewolf Movie too! Find out more at https://werewolfmovie.net And his anwers to the final four questions, summarized here: SCENT: Amour de Cacao by Sud Pacifique presently, but my go-to is the Tonkade by Laboratorio Olfattivo.WRITING: César Aira, (Dinner in particular, but also An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and pretty much everything else he's written); Molly Pohlig (The Unsuitable); Anna Sewell (Black Beauty); The play I'm currently doing projection design for (and reading over and over) is called Beyond That Nothing Is Certain, written by Monica Isakstuen, performed at The Cherry Theater in Ithaca, New York.MUSIC: Melody's Echo Chamber (Unclouded is her newest album); Spell Blanket by BroadcastFILM: Director Lucile Hadžihalilović (The Ice Tower (2025) is her latest, but Earwig (2022) and Evolution (2015) are also fantastic); Director Steve McQueen (Education from the Small Axe series).

It's Women's History Month - so let's go back to Season 1, Episode 14 for Elizabeth's conversation with Gayle Brandeis! *The fourteenth episode of the Meat For Teacast. Elizabeth MacDuffie has a conversation with author and poet Gayle Brandeis, discussing her most recent collection Many Restless Concerns, among other topics related to her work and writing. Go to gaylebrandeis.com for more information.* (For the music of Out Out mentioned in the beginning of the episode, go to https://outout.bandcamp.com )

Part three of our Pushcart Awards nominees episodes has us joined by Rachel Teferet and Spencer T. Murray. They provide us with a super engaging conversation including readings of their works and much more! Grab a snack and a beverage and enjoy! More about Spencer can be found here: https://www.spencertmurray.com/home https://spencermurray.substack.com/ More about Rachel can be found here: https://lettersandfeathers.wordpress.com Tarot and witchcraft Substack: http://teferettarot.substack.com One of Rachel’s fave Gaza mutual aid projects: @foodnotbombs_gaza on Instagram Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jamalfromgaza Poets and the Peace Birds project in solidarity for Palestine events with Rachel Teferet, Carolyn Cushing, Mona Shiber & JuPong Lin: April 4, 5-6:30 at E Media in Easthampton as part of art walk, and May 15 at Lava Center in Greenfield, more info TBAYou can learn more about the Peace Birds project at https://www.juponglin.net/peacebirds-blog

It's part two of our annual Pushcart Award Nominees episodes! For this one, join Elizabeth, Matt Jasper (Moth Moon) and Jacob Chapman (Are We There Yet and Here Over Here Over Here) for a great conversation and a reading of their nominated poems from the pages of Meat For Tea.

Welcome to part one of our annual Pushcart Award Nominees episodes! For this one, Elizabeth talks with Ren Wilding and Dana Henry Martin. It's a marvelous conversation that goes from heavy and serious to very funny and everything in between. They read their nominated works as well as an amazing reading of Renee Nicole Good's great poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs".

In this expansive and entertaining chat, Elizabeth and James Duncan, Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway talk about ther book We Have Waited Long Enough as well as others of their works, and treat us to some readings as well. And, in usual Meat For Teacast style, the conversation takes twists and turns and ends up on the four questions... ANSWERS/Kevin Ridgeway:Current Book:  1.  Moonglow A Go-Go, by Joan Jobe Smith 2.  The Grifters, by Jim Thompson3.  Finding God In Arby’s, by John Dorsey 4.  Waiting on Hummingbirds,  by James Benger & Jason Baldinger  Current Music:  1.  Surf’s Up (1971), The Beach Boys 2.  Naturally (1971), JJ Cale 3.  Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1974), Little Feat4.  Link Wray (1971), Link Wray Current Shows:1.  I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson2.  The Daily Show 3.  South Park 4.  Shameless  ANSWERS/James Duncan:Book: It's The End Of The World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stan TV: Ludwig (British mystery/comedy Music: The Replacements "Let It Be" Buy the book through James' website: https://www.jameshduncan.com/books