We're joined by Dianne and Kevin Germain of Splendor Solis Books in Northampton, MA. We have a really great chat about how they came to own and run their store, their history, record and book shopping, tin cans and string, and a whole lot more! Grab a snack and a beverage and settle in for this fun conversation!

https://www.splendorsolisbooks.com/

Mentioned in this episode, the album We're OK. But We're Lost Anyway. from Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp.

For this exclusive episode, we have the readers for the Meat For Tea portion of the Human Error Publishing Poetry Month reading from April 2, 2023 at the Divine Theater at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, MA. Featuring Tam Fricke, Gerald Yelle and Lindsay Adkins! Enjoy this preview featuring one of Lindsay's pieces from her chapbook (on Meat For Tea Press) Fixing The Halo. If you enjoyed this and want to hear the rest of the readings, plus lots of other Patreon exclusive stuff, please consider joining our Patreon at patreon.com/meatfortea

Hey hey! Welcome to a live recording in our house with David P. Miller, Jane Wiley, Tommy Twilite, Daniel Hales and James Lowe! Join us for a semi-free-form discussion, with a reading from David, and music from Tommy and The Frost Heaves & HaLeS: Daniel and James (with Tommy joining in) and much more. Be a fly on the wall at Meat For Teacast HQ with this largely unedited capture of a good hang with some great people! Yes, there's "language" and there's "politics" but at this point, 100 episodes in to the Meat For Tea Cast, what do you expect?! Ha. Please grab a beverage and snack and sit back and enjoy the ride.

For this episode, the dynamic duo Fred Cracklin said we could share their set from Le Cirque Avant la Lune Froide: Saturday, December 3, 2022! It's a rockin' good time. To hear the full set, subscribe to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/meatfortea for this and other goodies, with lots more to come!

Join Elizabeth as she has one heck of a talk with Marina Barcenilla - independent perfumer and fragrance educator, and, randomly, an Astrobiology Doctoral Researcher at the University of Westminster and Natural History Museum in London. This one is lively! Chemicals! Natural Cosmetics! Pedro Pascal! The conversation also goes full Chant Rat. (You'll need to listen to get it. Listen! You'll love it.)

More about Marina can be found here:

https://www.marinabarcenilla.com

https://mbparfums.com

and on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/marinabarcenillaparfums

https://www.instagram.com/marina_barcenilla

Bad Girls Book Party - the Bad Girls of Poetry!
Hi hi! So, we have here a terrific reading celebrating Jane Muschenetz's chapbook All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents.
Host: Katie Manning (Whale Road Review)

Featuring: Jane Muschenetz

Readers: John Guzlowski, Elizabeth MacDuffie (Meat for Tea), Tara Lynn Masih, Shyla Shehan (The Good Life Review), Marjorie Tesser (Mom Egg Review)

Buckle up! One heck of a conversation with Elizabeth and Madcollage, collage artist, writer and the host of the Six Impossible Things podcast! The discussion ranges from Alice in Wonderland to artist statements, from old school TV to analog vs. digital in the visual arts, and more!

For more information, check out these links:

Six Impossible Things Trailer: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2CYfprIN6Dnr0KxUccJALk 

Madcollage website: https://www.madcollage.com/shop

Madcollage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lovemadcollage/

Madcollage Linktree for Redbubble and more: https://linktr.ee/madcollage

We welcome back writer John Yamrus. Elizabeth and John have a free-form conversation ranging from music to writing and much more. John's most recent book, Twenty Four Poems is available from Meat For Tea Press, and his prior book Selected Poems: The Director's Cut, an expansive volume is out through Concrete Mist Press. John reads from his works including some newer, never-published poems! A terrific ride, we promise.

Ahoy! Elizabeth has a great chat session with Meat For Tea contributors Rick Paar and Joshua Michael Stewart in this packed episode. They read from their most recent works, including a new, unpublished piece from Joshua, and much much more!

We welcome the authors of our upcoming Meat For Tea Press book Midnight Glossolalia to this engaging episode. They read some of the works in this collaborative book, talk about creative process and a ton more. Do tuck in! Warning! There is some "language" in this episode. But we're all adults here, right? Right.