Celebrate Creativity cover art

All Episodes

Celebrate Creativity — 616 episodes

#
Title
1

Turning It On!

2

Looking from Both Sides

3

What It Feels Like

4

Voice Control on the Mac

5

Voice Control - Promo Two

6

Voice Control - Promo One

7

The Mouse Trap

8

Get Thee to a Notary!

9

Spies and Players

10

Short But Loaded

11

The Ghost Speaks

12

Follow It!

13

Advice That’s Really Control

14

Get Over It!

15

The Ghost Arrives

16

Rhetoric as Wildfire

17

Cassius the Manipulator

18

The Falling Sickness?

19

Man, Myth, and Problem

20

Macbeth Is Not Hard

21

Macbeth’s Last Days

22

Hell Is Murky!

23

Macbeth's Morality

24

Macbeth and the Witches

25

Romeo and Juliet in New York

26

The Accelerants

27

Story of Woe

28

A Conversation with Romeo

29

Romeo, Romeo

30

Shakespeare 3

31

Shakespeare 2

32

Shakespeare 1

33

A Working Paywright

34

Shoreditch

35

First Footsteps in London

36

What We Owe the Dead

37

How Plague Trained Us

38

Plague Habits of Mind

39

The Audience of Survivors

40

After the Plague

41

Trust and Betrayal

42

The Social Contract

43

Numbers and Narratives

44

Cures, Quacks, and Miracles

45

Shut Up, Shut In

46

In a Time of Contagion

47

The Air Has Teeth

48

Hamnet and Stratford

49

Here Begins the Plague

50

A Day in Stratford

51

Rhetorical Triangle, Part 2

52

The Rhetorical Triangle, Part 1

53

Aporia: The Art of Uncertainty

54

Tricolon: List of Three

55

Opposites Attract: Antithesis

56

Say It Again, Will: Anaphora

57

Rhetoric Gym

58

Shakespeare's First Home

59

Transitions

60

We Need to Talk

61

The Patio Rebellion

62

Blank Slate

63

String Theory

64

The Color of Thinking

65

Lite-Brite, Artist in Residence

66

Furby After Dark

67

More Joy

68

Christmas Eve

69

Man in Motion

70

The Color of Thinking

71

The Hidden Reel

72

Practice Baby

73

The Tell Tale Toy

74

Poe and the Stars

75

Jealous Angels

76

Bard's Curtain Call

77

Plague & Playhouse

78

Quill After Midnight

79

Words at Play

80

Alphabet Blocks

81

The Pillow Everyone Cries Into

82

Click, Click, Bamboo

83

And Ken

84

Barbie and the Closet

85

Aisle 3: Imagination

86

Speed, Teeth, and Two Lanes

87

Hot Potato with a Bird

88

Conversations with Teddy

89

Conversations with Slinky

90

Museum Interview

91

Pre Conversations with Toys

92

Ryan’s Rocket Man

93

The Price of Being Michael

94

The Carter Code

95

Radical Control

96

Divine Miss Moment

97

The Jersey Gospel

98

American Mirror

99

Inner Visions

100

World's Favorite Alien?

101

The Price of Being Michael

102

Tears in Heaven

103

Who Are You?

104

Riffs and Myth

105

Both Sides Singing

106

Supreme Intentions

107

Feedback and Fire

108

The Queen of Soul

109

Dylan and the Fall

110

California Counterpoints

111

Tickets and Conscience

112

Enduring Stones

113

The Beatles Blueprint

114

The Elvis Trap

115

Rock’s Rough Architect

116

Creative Inheritance

117

West Side Stories

118

The Sinatra Method

119

Multimedia Pioneer

120

Precision & Passion

121

Debussy’s Paris

122

Cosmic Composer

123

Spooky Music!

124

From Morning to Mountain

125

Bohemian Voice

126

Tenderness Interrupted

127

Stern and Tender

128

From Village to Glory

129

Music and Majesty

130

Valkrie Voices

131

Burning the Piano

132

Inner Voices

133

Ghostwaltz

134

Romantic Resonance

135

Fate & Triumph

136

Small Town Boy in the Big City

137

Hallelujah!

138

The Baroque Star

139

Red Priest Rising

140

The Eternal Note

141

Music Comes Alive

142

Reflecting on Poe’s Podcast Debut

143

The Microphone Episode

144

Echoes of Horror

145

Magic and Mystery

146

Haunted Legacies

147

The Oxford Circle

148

Theater’s Dark Truth-Teller

149

Between Glitter and Gutter

150

Tolstoy Unveiled

151

Facing the Firing Squad

152

Leaves of Freedom

153

The Quiet Radical

154

Les Miserables

155

Storytelling for Social Change

156

Echoes Through the Lakes

157

Feeding the Rich!

158

Spy with a Pen

159

Darkness Visible

160

Death Be Not Proud

161

Greatest of Them All - Part 2

162

Greatest of Them All - Part 1

163

Chaucer - Not Just Paperwork

164

Architect of the Afterlife

165

Conversion, Contradiction, and Creativity

166

David - The Poet King

167

Moses the Writer

168

My First Promo!

169

Poe’s Words of Hope

170

Truman Capote

171

What the Dickens!

172

The Perfect Word

173

Ultimate Freedom

174

A Multitude of Ways

175

Fate, Illness, or Deception?

176

Was He Drunk?

177

Did Poe Have Epilepsy?

178

Crossing the Symbol

179

An Uneasy Mind

180

Epilepsy and Famous Writers

181

Poe’s Creativity - Part Two

182

Poe’s Creativity - Part One

183

Walt's Cloak

184

A Fierce Undeniable Attraction

185

Cataloging the Sensual

186

Flowing and Swelling

187

A Patient Spider

188

Yesterday and Tomorrow

189

Playing with Language

190

How to Say No

191

Yesterday and Tomorrow

192

Hear the Hungry Lion!

193

Signing Shakespeare

194

From Stratford to London

195

Things to Come ...

196

Poe the Swimmer

197

Dickens and London, Part 2

198

Dickens and London, Part 1

199

Why Dickens Matters, Part 3

200

Why Dickens Matters, Part 2

201

Why Dickens Matters, Part 1

202

Creativity for Dummies

203

Why Use Gemini?

204

Childhood Creativity, Part 2

205

Childhood Creativity, Part 1

206

Prompt for a Heat Stroke

207

Talking to Your Computer

208

Poe and Emily

209

Rent a Black Cat!

210

Living with the Beast, Part 2

211

Living With the Beast, Part 1

212

Redefining Humanity

213

Genealogy, Part Two

214

Genealogy, Part One

215

An Insider Pushing for Integrity

216

Judicial Suits

217

The Future of History

218

From Poe to AI, Part Two

219

From Poe to AI, Part One

220

The Controversial Cover

221

Leaves of Music, Part Two

222

Leaves of Music, Part One

223

Finding a Home, Part Two

224

Finding a Home, Part One

225

Simplicity

226

Schoolteaching Years

227

I Sing The Body Electric

228

Sojourn in the South

229

The Quaker Preacher

230

What Did Whitman Read?

231

Celebrating Whitman

232

Whitman's Voice, Part 2

233

Whitman's Voice, Part 1

234

First American Gay Novel

235

Drake the Rake

236

To Clasp Thy Hand in Mine Revisted

237

Poe's Pit and Pendulum

238

Edgar Poe Explains the Raven

239

More Supernatural Elements

240

Supernatural Elements

241

Chilled Into Stone

242

The House Is a Vampire!

243

A Crawling Shape

244

Tormented

245

Pushing The Boundaries

246

What Is Gothic?

247

Dracula and Doubles

248

The Black Vampyre

249

The Judge's House, Part Two

250

The Judge's House, Part One

251

Varney VS Dracula

252

The Blood Is the Life!

253

Sugar with Your Flies?

254

Vampire Brides

255

Dracula's Guest, Part Two

256

Dracula’s Guest, Part One

257

Poetry and Dreams

258

Vampires and Religion

259

Dracula at Church

260

Vampires and the Last Supper

261

Calling Me By Your Name

262

Pre Dracula

263

Poe and Vampires

264

Why All the Fuss About Dracula?

265

Encountering Poe’s Ghost Revisited

266

Loathsome Mass of Detestable Putridity

267

Poe's Hoaxes, Part One

268

From Feast of Blood

269

Be Content to Suffer

270

Varner (I mean, Varney) the Vampire

271

Feast of Blood

272

The Origins of Vampires

273

Challenging Male Authority

274

Stirring Sexual Desires

275

Leaving Me Trembling

276

The First Lesbian Vampire

277

Confined to a Castle

278

Liz in Court

279

Teaching Torture Techniques?

280

Blood Is My Beauty Secret

281

The Haunted Palace

282

The First Gothic Novel

283

A Medieval Soap Opera

284

Meddling with Life and Death

285

Poe and Frankenstein

286

The First Vampire Novel?

287

Darkness

288

The Year Without a Summer, Part Two

289

The Year Without a Summer, Part One

290

Vlad the Impaler, Part Two

291

Vlad the Impaler, Part One

292

How Terrible Was Ivan?

293

Don't Fool With Ivan

294

The Hero's Journey

295

Scrupulous Translations

296

Translating Poe

297

DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three

298

Answer to Listener

299

DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two

300

Intolerable Leaders

301

Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe, Part One

302

Flowers of Evil

303

From Ecstasy to Anguish

304

Bob Dylan and Poe

305

Salad Days, Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Poe

306

Home at Last

307

The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

308

The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible

309

The Rescue

310

The Search for the Wicked Witch

311

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

312

The Journey to the Great Oz

313

The Rescue of the Tin Woodman

314

How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow

315

Dorothy and the Cyclone

316

Usher and Oz

317

Poe and the 12 Days of Christmas

318

Poe's Legacy: 300 Episodes of Exploration

319

Where It All Began

320

Despotic Sway

321

Poe's Bread and Circuses

322

Searching for a Family

323

Attacked by the Fighting Trees

324

John Allan's Will

325

The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

326

The Most Influential Person in Poe’s Life?

327

Last Will and Testament of William Galt

328

Loss of Breath

329

Poe and the Outsider

330

Alien

331

Election Conflict, Part 2

332

Election Conflict, Part 1

333

Poe’s Views on Democracy and Donald Trump

334

Politics and the the Pendulum

335

Clinton and Collins: The Language of God

336

Continuity and Progres

337

Healthcare and the Character of a Country

338

Obama: Hope in Action

339

Let Us Continue!

340

The Power of Words

341

The Power of We: JFK's Call to Action

342

Whitman on Democracy

343

O Captain, My Captain - A Journey Through Love and Loss

344

Beat! Beat! Drums!

345

With Malice Towards None

346

A Two-Minute Masterpiece: The Gettysburg Address Explained

347

The Better Angels of Our Nature

348

The Hypocrisy of American Slavery

349

Life, Liberty, and Happiness

350

Give Me Liberty

351

Marrying Your Cousin

352

Poe's First Story - Part 2

353

Poes' First Story - Part 1

354

Celebrate Poe's Most Important Episode Yet

355

Baltimore, Part Two

356

Baltimore, Part One

357

John Allan's Death

358

The War of 1812 Revisited

359

Poe's Most Valuable Books

360

Self Destructive Elements

361

Waking at 6 AM

362

Literary Ambitions

363

A Dream and a Career

364

Poe and Democracy

365

Defending the Sacredness of Love

366

Call Me By Your Name

367

When Walter Met Peter

368

Whitman and the Civil War

369

America's First Gay Bar

370

America's Poet

371

Same Sex Attraction in the 19th Century

372

My Home Town

373

Byron's Influence on Poe

374

Darkness

375

Dangerous to Know

376

Dreamland, Continued

377

Dreamland

378

Animal Metaphors

379

Twain and Poe on Cats

380

Remains of a Friend

381

Like Taylor Swift

382

A Star is Born

383

Was Poe Baroque?

384

Spinning Top, Part Two

385

Spinning Top, Part One

386

We Are Such Stuff

387

Despair!

388

To Be or Not

389

The Right Time

390

What Is a Day?

391

Oppenheimer and Poe

392

Poe Review, 2

393

Poe Review, 1

394

Best Episode Yet?

395

Dangerous Missions

396

A Real Railway?

397

Rescue Missions

398

Oration for Lincoln

399

Escape

400

Bondage

401

Racial Issues in Poe's Works

402

Manumission

403

Poe 215, Part Three

404

Poe 215, Part Two

405

Poe 215, Part One

406

You Are Not Alone

407

Becoming Poe Again

408

Athletics, Shakespeare, and Dualism

409

Instrument of Death

410

Pronounced Dead

411

Crossing the Threshold

412

A Sense of Protection

413

Another Set of Poe

414

The Tell-Tale Verdict

415

A Tell-Tale Confession?

416

A Madman’s Manuscript

417

The Tell-Tale Sequel

418

The AI Raven

419

Poe and Nyad

420

Poe and Halloween

421

Very Superstitious

422

More Usher References

423

Usher Reimagined, Part One

424

Most Evil Family in America

425

Roger Corman’s House of Usher

426

Usher, Part Two

427

Usher, Part One

428

Poe As a Stoned Teenager Reprise

429

Reimaging Poe, Part 2

430

Reimaging Poe, Part 1

431

Poe's Day Off

432

Poe's Haunted House Party

433

O Captain

434

Call Me By Your Name Again

435

America's Poet

436

First American Gay Novel

437

To Clasp Thy Hand Revisited

438

Children of Poe

439

AI Poe on Google Bard

440

Arguing with a Coffee-Maker

441

Poe on Writing - Part 3

442

Poe on Writing, Part 2

443

Poe on Writing, Part 1

444

Poe Hosts SNL

445

Poe - the AI Rapper

446

Poe - the Stoned Teenager

447

AI PoeTalk

448

Back in Richmond

449

From a Horror Movie

450

Dancing on the Table

451

Total Loneliness

452

Poe in South Carolina

453

You're in the Army Now

454

Creatures of Terror

455

Ash Wednesday, Elizabeth Taylor, and Poe

456

Best of Netflix

457

Worst of Netflix

458

Poe Versus Dahmer, Part 2

459

Poe Versus Dahmer, Part 1

460

More Harry Melling

461

The Pale Blue Movie

462

The Pale Blue Process

463

Lafayette, Poe, and the Military

464

The Pale Blue Eye in Night Mode

465

The End of It (Really!)

466

Bells and Books

467

Before Christmas

468

The End of It

469

Future Ghosts

470

The Second Spirit

471

Ghosts of the Past

472

Marley's Ghost

473

Rare Christmas Books

474

Rare Books

475

MISSING!!!

476

Pyramids of Skulls

477

Where Did Poe Get THAT idea?

478

The Most Valuable American Book

479

End of Youth

480

Why WILL You Say I Am Mad?

481

The Black Cat

482

Poe's Halloween Poems

483

A Brief History of Halloween

484

Rot, Riot, and Rebellion, Part Two

485

Rot and Riot, Part One

486

Poe's Two Universities

487

The Real Thing

488

Advil Can Be Deadly!

489

Despair and Die!

490

Hearing with the Eyes

491

A Very Special Richard

492

Poe's Dream Poems

493

The Conflicts of 1814 and 2021

494

Call Me By Your Name Again

495

Another Look at America's Poet

496

To Clasp Thy Hand in Mine Again

497

The First American Gay Novel Revisited

498

Studies and Alcohol

499

Jefferson's Dream

500

Money, Part 2

501

Money, Part 1

502

Poe's Best and Worst

503

First Love and Deaf Culture

504

Poe's Boyhood

505

Poe and Elton John

506

Poe Salutes Lafayette

507

Helping Ukraine

508

Poe - The Long Distance Swimmer

509

A Teenager in Richmond

510

Louder! Louder!! LOUDER!!!

511

Not Your Tired Trope

512

Schemes! Schemes! Schemes!

513

Rhetorical Triangle

514

Back in the USA

515

Spiderman and Poe

516

Was Poe Abused?

517

The Uncanny Mr. Poe

518

Back in the (Poe) Saddle

519

The Festival

520

A Covid Christmas

521

Surprise Endings

522

Quaintness Mingled with Revelry

523

Generous and Happy Feelings

524

Revelry Encouraged

525

Santa Claus Establishes New York

526

Christmas and the Father of American Literature

527

The Raven and the Eye

528

Researching Poe

529

This SOUNDS like Poe's school!

530

Poe and the City

531

Poe Is Overwhelmed by London

532

The Best Poe Movie Ever! (Kinda)

533

Poe's Alcoholism

534

Poe's Vampires - Part Two

535

Poe's Vampires - Part One

536

Rats, Rats, Rats, Part Two

537

Rats, Rats, Rats, Part One

538

Children of the Night

539

Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula

540

The "Lost" Chapter of Dracula

541

The Manipulative “Lover”

542

Two Heroes Revisited

543

Call Me By Your Name

544

Vlad the Impaler and Tamerlane - Bloodthirsty Monsters?

545

Carmilla and Countess Dracula

546

Vampires Before Dracula

547

Implements of Torture

548

The Black Vampyre

549

Signing Shakespeare

550

Translating Vampires?

551

The Giant Rats

552

The Jolly Vampire

553

Gross Indecency

554

America's Poet

555

To Clasp Thy Hand in Mine

556

The First American Gay Novel

557

Becoming Poe Revisited

558

Anastasia and Other Imposters

559

Rocky Horror, Usher, and Dreamland

560

Young Frankenstein

561

Best Horror Movie Ever

562

Gods and Monsters

563

True to the Original

564

Mary Shelley at the Movies

565

Lord Byron at the Movies

566

The Birth of Frankenstein

567

The First Superstar

568

Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know

569

The Sensitive Plant

570

Can Spring Be Far Behind?

571

The Raven Versus the Nightingale

572

The Sensuous Poet

573

Taylor Swift, The Lakes, and William Wordsworth

574

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

575

Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Covered with Molasses)

576

Water, Water, Everywhere

577

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

578

The Marriage Hearse

579

Heaven in a Wildflower

580

Don't Drink the Water, Stupid!

581

Death by Diarrhea

582

Year Without Summer

583

Biggest Explosion Ever!

584

Bodies Under the Church

585

The Better Angels of Our Nature

586

Hotel Armageddon

587

Wishing You Were Here

588

Paradise Row

589

Shakespeare and Trains

590

Invasion of the Capitol

591

The Language of God

592

Wilson and the World’s Deadliest Pandemic

593

Blood on the Floor

594

Poe Reads Lovecraft's "The Outsider"

595

Poe Reads Lovecraft's "Dagon"

596

The Phantom Coach, Part Two

597

The Phantom Coach, Part One

598

Christmas With Edgar Allan Poe

599

The Gift of the Magi

600

A Set of Poe

601

War of 1812

602

Red Death - Part Two

603

Red Death - Part One

604

Two Heroes (The Blacksmith and the Gay Priest)

605

America's First Disaster

606

Mother's Death

607

Conspiracy Theory?

608

Poe Is Born

609

Poe's Parents, Shakespeare, and Lady Gaga

610

Poe's Ancestors

611

Revolution Generation

612

Sir Sean Connery and Poe

613

Halloween 2020 with Mr. Poe

614

Encountering Poe's Ghost

615

Becoming Poe

616

Celebrate Poe Trailer