It's Women's History Month.

Let's revisit this lovely chat with writer Jessamyn Smyth.

Worthwhile time spent!

Jessamyn Smyth

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!

dastern.bandcamp.com

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also, to help out those in LA:

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.

This is a fun one! Author of Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage and Juice , with a forthcoming book coming soon - and Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor of Thimble Literary Magazine Nadia Arioli and Elizabeth get into some serious/deep talk about form, Nadia reads some of her work (including a piece that is seriously both, well, randy, as it is funny and insightful.)

A good time is guaranteed for all!

Find more about Nadia:

thimblelitmag.com

Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage – Kelsay Books

and on:

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/