We welcome Stephen St. Francis Decky to the Meat For Teacast!

Stephen and Elizabeth discuss writing, films, music and art - and a lot more. Stephen reads from his novel Werewolf Movie too!

Find out more at https://werewolfmovie.net

And his anwers to the final four questions, summarized here:

1. SCENT: Amour de Cacao by Sud Pacifique presently, but my go-to is the Tonkade by Laboratorio Olfattivo.
2. WRITING: César Aira, (Dinner in particular, but also An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and pretty much everything else he's written); Molly Pohlig (The Unsuitable); Anna Sewell (Black Beauty); The play I'm currently doing projection design for (and reading over and over) is called Beyond That Nothing Is Certain, written by Monica Isakstuen, performed at The Cherry Theater in Ithaca, New York.
3. MUSIC: Melody's Echo Chamber (Unclouded is her newest album); Spell Blanket by Broadcast
4. FILM: Director Lucile Hadžihalilović (The Ice Tower (2025) is her latest, but Earwig (2022) and Evolution (2015) are also fantastic); Director Steve McQueen (Education from the Small Axe series).

It's Women's History Month - so let's go back to Season 1, Episode 14 for Elizabeth's conversation with Gayle Brandeis!

*The fourteenth episode of the Meat For Teacast. Elizabeth MacDuffie has a conversation with author and poet Gayle Brandeis, discussing her most recent collection Many Restless Concerns, among other topics related to her work and writing. Go to gaylebrandeis.com for more information.*

(For the music of Out Out mentioned in the beginning of the episode, go to https://outout.bandcamp.com )

Part three of our Pushcart Awards nominees episodes has us joined by Rachel Teferet and Spencer T. Murray. They provide us with a super engaging conversation including readings of their works and much more!

Grab a snack and a beverage and enjoy!

More about Spencer can be found here: https://www.spencertmurray.com/home

https://spencermurray.substack.com/

More about Rachel can be found here: https://lettersandfeathers.wordpress.com
Tarot and witchcraft Substack:
http://teferettarot.substack.com

One of Rachel’s fave Gaza mutual aid projects:
@foodnotbombs_gaza on Instagram
Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/jamalfromgaza
Poets and the Peace Birds project in solidarity for Palestine events with Rachel Teferet, Carolyn Cushing, Mona Shiber & JuPong Lin: April 4, 5-6:30 at E Media in Easthampton as part of art walk, and May 15 at Lava Center in Greenfield, more info TBAYou can learn more about the Peace Birds project at https://www.juponglin.net/peacebirds-blog

It's part two of our annual Pushcart Award Nominees episodes! For this one, join Elizabeth, Matt Jasper (Moth Moon) and Jacob Chapman (Are We There Yet and Here Over Here Over Here) for a great conversation and a reading of their nominated poems from the pages of Meat For Tea.

Welcome to part one of our annual Pushcart Award Nominees episodes! For this one, Elizabeth talks with Ren Wilding and Dana Henry Martin. It's a marvelous conversation that goes from heavy and serious to very funny and everything in between. They read their nominated works as well as an amazing reading of Renee Nicole Good's great poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs".

In this expansive and entertaining chat, Elizabeth and James Duncan, Gabriel Ricard and Kevin Ridgeway talk about ther book We Have Waited Long Enough as well as others of their works, and treat us to some readings as well. And, in usual Meat For Teacast style, the conversation takes twists and turns and ends up on the four questions...

ANSWERS/Kevin Ridgeway:
Current Book: 1. Moonglow A Go-Go, by Joan Jobe Smith 2. The Grifters, by Jim Thompson3. Finding God In Arby’s, by John Dorsey 4. Waiting on Hummingbirds, by James Benger & Jason Baldinger

Current Music: 1. Surf’s Up (1971), The Beach Boys 2. Naturally (1971), JJ Cale 3. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1974), Little Feat4. Link Wray (1971), Link Wray

Current Shows:1. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson2. The Daily Show 3. South Park 4. Shameless

ANSWERS/James Duncan:
Book: It's The End Of The World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stan

TV: Ludwig (British mystery/comedy

Music: The Replacements "Let It Be"

Buy the book through James' website: https://www.jameshduncan.com/books

In this episode, we are pleased to share the online book launch event for Francine Witte's Some Distant Pin Of Light, published by the excellent Cervena Barva Press. This event also features the reading by Brad Rose!

For more information:francinewitte.com

Cervena Barva Press Poetry Homepage Gloria Mindock Editor

This was a Patreon-only episode. But with the sad and untimely passing of Charles Coe, we are presenting it to you all here.

Charles, you will be greatly missed.

https://www.charlescoe.org/

"Here we have for you, the spoken word from Le Cirque des Pretres et des Betes: Saturday, March 11, 2023! Jane Yolen & Peter Tacy, Carla Cooke, Chaya Grossberg, Jacob Chapman, Gerald Yelle, Elizabeth Appelquist, Richard Wayne Horton, Tommy Twilite and Charles Coe (do stick around for the end of Charles' reading - it's a treat!)"