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

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

Cervena Barva Press Poetry Homepage Gloria Mindock Editor

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 Twilite and Charles Coe (do stick around for the end of Charles' reading - it's a treat!)"

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 coming soon!

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:

Book Launch - Love Letters to Ghosts by Kathryn Good-Schiff - The Easthampton Public LibraryKathryn's website:KMGS

The book can be found on our website, or you can order it through your local bookstore by noting down the ISBN: 979-8310951488

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!
https://www.creativepeacemeal.com/