Meat For Teacast – Details, episodes & analysis

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'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 the season three premiere episode! It's a doozy of a conversation that Elizabeth had with her former professor and his excellent wife, both excellent writers and contributors to Meat For Tea, as well as publishers and published authors in their own right. Lots of excellent reading of theirs and others' works, as well as a wide ranging conversation of many things political, philosophical, geographical and much much more! David was the North Dakota Statehood Centennial Poet and is an Emeritus Associate Poet Laureate of North Dakota, and an Emeritus Professor at Dickinson State University in North Dakota. Barbara is also an Emeritus Professor of English at DSU.

Grab a snack and settle in!

Be sure to visit www.buffalocommonspress.com

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 

In our penultimate episode for season 2, we have - in our own Meat For Teacast dining room studio - a great meeting with Thomas Clark, aka Tommy Twilite. Poet, musician, former fireman, 2021 Massachusetts Beat Poet Laureate and so much more. Join us for a lovely chat filled with all sorts of topics and some of his poetry and music - all recorded live under the Three Elephants™ here at Meat For Tea central (replete with passing traffic sounds and other noises - hey! - it's our home, it's hot out so we opened windows and got up to refresh our beverages :) )  Be sure to join us next episode for the season finale - but don't worry, we'll be back with season three before you can blink. Find more about Thomas and the Florence Poets Society at http://www.florencepoets.com/ Episode thumbnail photo credit: F. Alex Johnson. (Look HIM up too!)

We have a great chat with writers, artists and musicians Candace Curran and Nina Rossi. They regale us with some live spoken word performances as well. Also featuring music from She Said!

This was another internet conversation, so there are some glitches, so you know. The first 10 minutes or so of our audio was somehow also strangely corrupted, so during that time, both sides of the conversation were VOIP audio only. Technology!

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

Going back to Saturday, June 8, 2013, we have some readers and music featured in that night's release party. Spoken Word from Elizabeth MacDuffie, David P. Miller, Camille Meyer and Stephanie Baird, and music from HugFace (Curious Buddies) and Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's project Body/Head. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!

We have a conversation with musicians and artists Jenna and Jeff Lloyd regarding music, local Northampton area notable figures, and much much more. Some of their musical projects are Beasthampton, The Urojets, Easthampton Savings Band and Tal Vez. And we have a couple musical treats from them as well. Their music can be found at https://beasthampton.bandcamp.com and https://theurojets.bandcamp.com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/425213545421709  https://www.facebook.com/groups/1504155513002301 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/125855310784995