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Another visit to the Meat For Tea release party archives! This takes us back to 2019, September, and the Les Cirque des Fantômes Étranges party! Spoken word galore from Nina Rossi, Kim Keough, Richard Wayne Horton, Gerald Yelle, Jacob Chapman, Carolyn Cushing, Seth Cable and Ernest Brute! And musical selections from that night from Strange Hours and Walking Ghosts. Special guest on this episode, S...

Another trip back to one of the Meat For Tea release parties - the Cirques - but not too far back... From September 2021, we bring you all the live recordings from that evening - the spoken word with Michael Favala Goldman, Gerald Yelle, Jacob Chapman and Richard Wayne Horton, and live music from Angry Baby and Editrix! And a bonus - the introduction segment was recorded live on location over Than...

Welcome back! Or thanks for joining us if you're new here! This episode, Elizabeth has an extensive conversation with authors, editors, publishers (and so much more!) Susan O'Neill and Mark Budman, who are, among other things, were co-publishers of Vestal Review. Their current work is the upcoming Short, Vigorous Roots anthology ( markbudman.com/short-vigorous-roots-anthology or go to Ooligan Pres...

Episode 51! Happy 51! Elizabeth has a great conversation with Sarah McCartney, perfumer, writer, yoga instructor, youtube creator, musician... well, we could go on and on. A great chat with a wide range from the olfactory to the political, and well beyond. Find out more about Sarah at http://facebook.com/sarah.mccartney1, @scenthusiasm_ltd on Instagram, http://https://www.4160tuesdays.com/ and loo...

Join us for this Zoom event in celebration of 10 years of 100tpc.org. Spoken word performances from Gayle Brandeis, Linda Kraus, D. Dina Friedman, Kristin Bock, Jessamyn Smyth, Marissa Perez, and featured reader Tommy Twilite. Recorded and streamed live on September 25, 2021. As this was a live Zoom event, the audio quality varies wildly. With apologies, we still hope you enjoy the excellent conte...

Buckle up! We have a super chat with writer, professor, all-around-terrific-person Jessamyn Smyth, discussing her new book, philosophies on writing and reading and much, much more. She reads from her new book, Gilgamesh Wilderness as well - you get to hear it here first! You can find out more about Jessamyn at http://jessamynsmyth.net Look for her new book, out soon on Saddle Road Press, wherever...

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...

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...

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 w...

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...

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...

In this episode, Elizabeth has a great talk with writer John Yamrus. Lots discussed! Listen to find out... Here's the link to Brüush, our sponsor for this episode. You can find the discount code in the break. https://bit.ly/3xe5g7S

Going back to the December 14, 2013 cirque, we have readings from that snowy night from Gerald Yelle and Tom Pappalardo, and performances from Azuza Inkh and Problem With Dragons.

We have a great talk with poet, musician, retired librarian, and multi-disciplined theater veteran David P. Miller. Featuring a rare 1975 recording of Radio Piece #2, performed live by David and Andy MacKenzie on WMUA. You can find more on David's written work at cervenabarvapress.com, nixesmate.pub/product/sprawled-asleep-david-p-miller and of course at meatfortea.com.

In this episode we feature a conversation with Ernest Brute and Object Echo, and feature some of their audio works of music, spoken word and sound collage. Find their releases at ernestbruteandobjectecho.bandcamp.com and more information at facebook.com/ernestbruteandobjectecho and facebook.com/Snffbx-321190761694323

This time we revisit the Cirque du Fou release event for the Tête de Veau issue from December 5, 2015. Recorded live at Sonelab, we have readings from contributors Stephanie Baird, Ernest Brute, Jefferson Navicki, Michael Goldman, Eleanor Lane, Gerald Yelle and Richard Wayne Horton. Plus our lovely musical guests The Fawns and Easthampton Savings Band, who ROCKED that night. Check out Stephanie's...

Here we are with a great and diverse chat with Lesa Bezo and Henning Ohlenbusch. Extraordinary musicians and lovely people! Featuring music from some of the bands they're in: The Fawns, Gentle Hen, School For the Dead and some solo Henning material. Do stick around! We talk about TV shows, too...

Our guest is the talented and lovely Kimaya Diggs. Musician, artist, writer, teacher and so much more. Listen and learn how we all got to know each other and a lot more. Including several songs from her solo album Breastfed! kimayadiggs.bandcamp.com www.kimayadiggs.com

In which we have a great conversation with translator, poet, author and musician Michael Goldman and illustrator, designer and musician James Steinberg. And we are treated to three great pieces from the jazz sextet Now's The Time, of which they are both members. Now's the time to listen to this latest and fresh episode.

A trip back to 12/13/2014 and the Cirque du Gougéres. Featuring readings from Gerald Yelle, Elizabeth MacDuffe and Kurt Zellen. Great live performances by Lord Russ and Wishbone Zoe! You'll want to stay to the end.

In which we have a lively conversation with Russell (Lord Russ) Brooks and Perry Carter. We chat about music, art, life, and a lot of other things along the way. And crack ourselves up quite mightily. Also featured are four tracks from several of Lord Russ' musical projects. https://lordruss.bandcamp.com/ http://perrycarter.com/

For this episode, we go back to the 9th Anniversary Cirque of March, 2015, "Le Anniverserie Nueviéme Cirque." Featuring readings by Ernest Brute, Dan Hales and David P. Miller and our very own Elizabeth MacDuffie. Musical guests Trinary System round out this excellent show. (Fans of Roger Clark Miller take note!)

In this bite-size episode, we talk about the upcoming magazine release and it's corresponding (virtual) release party, and share a couple ways you can support what we do! We'll be back to our regular format on the next episode. In the meantime, find us on Facebook, where you can get a link to the December 12 release show Le cirque de la tour de Croquembouche ( https://www.facebook.com/events/17464...