What a fun ride this conversation is. Another in our series of 2023 Pushcart Prize nominees! Elizabeth and writer, poet and artist Jane Muschenetz talk a little writing process, a little teaching, a little current-events-politics - including some of her history emigrating with her parents from Ukraine - and a whole lot more. She reads from her upcoming book Power Point, and her 2023 book All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents, and more. You gotta stick around!

Find out more about Jane at Jane Muschenetz: Poet | Artist | Palm Frond Zoo | Russian Accents

This is a super engaging episode, where Elizabeth and writer/storyteller/teacher/professor Andrew Shelffo get into a lot of deep discussion about pedagogy, writing discipline and practice, dreams as inspiration - and a whole ton more. Andrew also reads a terrific story from a past edition of Meat For Tea that garnered accolades when he read it at that corresponding Cirque. Do stick around!

This episode features author John Yamrus' third visit to the Meat For Teacast. This time around, he and Elizabeth focus mainly on his most recent Meat For Tea Press book People and Other Bad Ideas but also, as is the usual, go off on tangents - writing and music in particular are covered. It's a lovely time - do stick around!

You can find both of his Meat For Tea Press books here: https://meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm

For this episode, we have a delightful recording of John Sheirer reading from his book For Now: One-Hundred 100 Word Stories live at Splendor Solis Books in Northampton on December 8th, 2023. A big treat, this reading, plus a lot of background on his writing approach, a fun q&a type session at the end, and more! Do stick around!

We're pleased to share with you an excerpt of this lovely and fun podcast we were a part of recently.

Please check out https://www.creativepeacemeal.com/ for the complete episode and much, much, more!

"This special episode features podcast alums, and Beatlephiles, Jack Canfora, Elizabeth MacDuffie, Mark Alan Milller, and Steve March-Tormé.
I learned so much in this panel episode about the original Fab Four, and made some great memories. I can't wait for future collaborations! Stay to the end for some fun trivia!"

In this episode we feature a terrific live recording of the opening reading for the release of the Florence Poets Society's Silkworm journal, issue 16, Wide Open. A bit cinéma vérité sonically, but we think that's great! Sit back and enjoy. Host Tommy Twilite is a charm.

For more info, please visit http://www.florencepoets.com/

Here we present the second half of our participation in the annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. If you've not heard of it, definitely look it up! The founder, Michael Rothenberg, sadly passed away in 2022 - he was our guest here in 2020, and we re-visited that episode midway through last season as well. Do check that out - he was a wonderful human. This episode features performances by Tommy Twilite, Eric Lee, LD Green and Mistress Miriam's Two-Cent Revue.

Here we have a preview of the spoken word from Le Cirque Avant la Lune Froide, Saturday, December 3, 2022! Jane Yolen & Peter Tacy, Carla Cooke, Chaya Grossberg, Jacob Chapman, Gerald Yelle, Elizabeth Appelquist, Richard Wayne Horton, Tommy Twilite and Charles Coe. To hear the full episode and lots of other goodies, please consider supporting what we do on our Patreon!

Here we present the first half of our participation in the annual 100 Thousand Poets for Change event. If you've not heard of it, definitely look it up! The founder, Michael Rothenberg, sadly passed away in 2022 - he was our guest here in 2020, and we re-visited that episode midway through last season as well. Do check that out - he was a wonderful human. This episode features performances by Two.Five, Kim Keough, Daniel Hales of Frost Heaves and Hales, Josh Levy and Adam Zucker of Outro and Beth Filson.

For this bonus episode, we're featuring the live (on Zoom) reading and discussion with Christian Livermore for her debut novel on Meat For Tea Press The Very Special Dead. Hosted by noted author Jacob Polley!

Please join us and Christian at The Emily Williston Library in Easthampton MA, Oct 18, Splendor Solis Books in Northampton MA, Oct 20, and at the Hygenic Art Gallery, New London, CT Oct 21! She'll be reading from the novel, taking some Q&A and signing books, which will be available for purchase.

https://ewmlibrary.org/https://ewmlibrary.org/event/meat-for-tea-author-reading-with-christian-livermore/

https://www.splendorsolisbooks.com/page/SplendorSolisEvents

https://www.hygienic.org/events

You can find out more about Christian at https://www.christianlivermore.com/ and order her new novel from https://www.meatfortea.com/chapbooks.htm or by visiting meatfortea.com and getting the ISBN and ordering it from your local bookstore!