Our own Elizabeth MacDuffie, and Ellen Meeropol and Carolyn C. Cushing were the featured readers for the September 9, 2026 installment of the monthly Writers Read series at the Lava Center in Greenfield MA. Sit in on this lovely reading and following Q&A!

From the Lava Center website:

"Writers Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come and listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesday of the month, three writers read from their work, followed by a discussion facilitated by Lindy Whiton. These discussions have been eye opening, touching, and inspiring. Audiences have left the venue ready to write.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of six novels, most recently Sometimes an Island and The Lost Women of Azalea Court, and the guest editor of the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Ellen is a founding mother of Straw Dog Writers Guild and member of the WriteAngles Conference planning committee.

Carolyn A. Cushing (she/her) is a Tarot practitioner, seeker of justice, and poet inspired by nature and focused on the places where life and death meet. She served as the Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts 2023 – 2025. Find her on-line at soulpathsanctuary.com/poetry

Elizabeth MacDuffie Elizabeth MacDuffie is founding editor Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, producer of the Meat for Teacast, and co-runner, with her husband, Mark Alan Miller, of Meat for Tea Press. She’s had work published in Silkworm, Thimble, The Hooghly Review, and in the 2025 and 2026 New Generation Beats Anthologies, among other places. She lives and works in Holyoke, MA."

https://thelavacenter.org/ for more information on this lovely venue!

Join Elizabeth as she has a great chat with Tim Gager, author of Shadows of the Seen and upcoming soon, These New Orbs, as well as many other works. He reads from Shadows of the Seen and discuss AI and many other things! Grab a beverage and a snack and tuck in!

https://www.heatcityreview.com/timothygagerindex.html

For the brief interim while we are busy with other things (like the forthcoming issue of Meat For Tea "Yellow") we bring this episode back in celebration of Joshual Michael Stewart's new book This is What it's Come To.

You can find more about that book on his website (link below)!

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 be on my upcoming album "Bitches Banjo" released July 20, 2021 and "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" is also a traditional song on the upcoming album, but this version is an alternate take that won't be on the album." Learn more about Joshua at www.joshuamichaelstewart.com