Meat For Teacast
The podcast from the folks who bring you Meat For Tea: The Valley Review. This quarterly publication of arts and literature has its very own audio companion. The Meat For Teacast features live recordings of spoken word and music, conversations with authors and other artists, and more! Go to http://meatfortea.com and go to the buy or subscribe pages and, well, buy or subscribe! Or to the books page! Or to the Donate page! Grab some merch lie shirts, mugs and totes here: https://www.bonfire.com/store/meat-for-tea
Episodes
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 Y...
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!
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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 E...
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.
- WR...
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 menti...
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
T...
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...
In this episode, we are pleased to share the online book launch event for Francine Witte's Some Distant Pin Of Light, published by the excellent Cervena Barva Press. This event also features the reading by Brad Rose!
For more information:francinewitte.com
This was a Patreon-only episode. But with the sad and untimely passing of Charles Coe, we are presenting it to you all here.
Charles, you will be greatly missed.
https://www.charlescoe.org/
"Here we have for you, the spoken word from Le Cirque des Pretres et des Betes: Saturday, March 11, 2023! Jane Yolen & Peter Tacy, Carla Cooke, Chaya Grossberg, Jacob Chapman, Gerald Yelle, Elizabeth Appelquist, Richard Wayne Horton, Tommy Twil...
This year's installment from our involvement with the amazing international 100 Thousand Poets, Artists and Musicians for Change event. September 27, 2025.
This year we were grateful to be hosted at The Guilded Brick in Holyoke MA! For part two, in this episode we have performances from Jeffrey Feingold, Christine Dutton, Ezzy P, Isa Gitana and Britt Brideau!
Be sure to check out part 1 in the last episode!
This year's installment from our involvement with the amazing international 100 Thousand Poets, Artists and Musicians for Change event. September 27, 2025.
This year we were grateful to be hosted at The Guilded Brick in Holyoke MA! For part one, in this episode we have performances from our own Elizabeth MacDuffie, Dan Hales/Frost Heaves and Hales, Dana Salisbury, Doug Anderson and Primordial Pouch.
Be sure to check back for part 2 c...
Welcome to Season 7 of the Meat For Teacast!
For this first episode, we have a recording of poet Kathryn Good-Schiff's book launch reading for her book Love Letters to Ghosts (Meat For Tea Press). It was hosted by the Emily Williston Library in Easthampton MA on September 7, 2025 at their new Library Annex space!
Kathryn reads from her book and we have a brief Q&A after. Enjoy!
For more information:
For our season 6 finale, we have a very special episode. Tammy Takaishi originally hosted and recorded this conversation on William Shakespeare with our own Elizabeth MacDuffie, and Jack Canfora and Amrita Sen.And it has become a collaborative release between Tammy's Creative Peacemeal podcast and ours!
A fun and engaging discussion on the bard. Grab a snack and a beverage and enjoy!
Be sure to check out Creative Peacemeal!
Elizabeth has an excellent conversation with author J. Ladd Zorn, Jr. , Author of Car Trouble. He reads excerpts from the book and more! Really a great listen.
Car Trouble:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/car-trouble-j-ladd-zorn-jr/1145547444
Join Elizabeth in a great conversation with artists Aunia Kahn and Michael de Vena. Among discussions of their art, they also talk about gatekeeping (and how it's not always a bad thing,) helping lesser known artists get a leg up in an ocean of big fish, running a gallery, a podcast, and a new publication. And more. Grab a snack and sit down and tuck in. Or drive. Or however you enjoy listening. We don't judge.
For more information:
As Season 6 starts to wind down (but not over!) we decided to revisit our first (two) episodes. Cold Cuts and Cool Cats , at Corsello Butcheria, Easthampton MA , from July 13, 2019! Sit back and enjoy music and readings from Elizabeth MacDuffie, Alison Murchie, Brandee Simone, Michael Sean Qamar Alves, Lawrence Darren Green, and Brittany Brideau!
Artist Keemo joins Elizabeth in this great conversation about process and creativity and so much more. You just gotta tuck in. Keemo's art graces the cover of Jerky issue of Meat For Tea, The Valley Review, as well. The story behind that painting is fascinating!
Find out more about Keemo:www.keemogallery.comAnd the stuff mentioned in this episode:
Reading:
WS Merwin. The Moon Before Morning: https://www.goodreads.com/bo...
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