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Celebrate Creativity — 630 episodes
Jefferson Meets A.I.
President Jefferson
Life, Liberty, and Happiness
Jane Addams
Imagination Intro
Hall of Imagination Promo
Dictation
When Sounds Compete
The Power of the Grid
Painful Hands
Lesson Plan Interrupted
Drag and AI Graphics
Enter THAT!
Returning
Turning It On!
Looking from Both Sides
What It Feels Like
Voice Control on the Mac
Voice Control - Promo Two
Voice Control - Promo One
The Mouse Trap
Get Thee to a Notary!
Spies and Players
Short But Loaded
The Ghost Speaks
Follow It!
Advice That’s Really Control
Get Over It!
The Ghost Arrives
Rhetoric as Wildfire
Cassius the Manipulator
The Falling Sickness?
Man, Myth, and Problem
Macbeth Is Not Hard
Macbeth’s Last Days
Hell Is Murky!
Macbeth's Morality
Macbeth and the Witches
Romeo and Juliet in New York
The Accelerants
Story of Woe
A Conversation with Romeo
Romeo, Romeo
Shakespeare 3
Shakespeare 2
Shakespeare 1
A Working Paywright
Shoreditch
First Footsteps in London
What We Owe the Dead
How Plague Trained Us
Plague Habits of Mind
The Audience of Survivors
After the Plague
Trust and Betrayal
The Social Contract
Numbers and Narratives
Cures, Quacks, and Miracles
Shut Up, Shut In
In a Time of Contagion
The Air Has Teeth
Hamnet and Stratford
Here Begins the Plague
A Day in Stratford
Rhetorical Triangle, Part 2
The Rhetorical Triangle, Part 1
Aporia: The Art of Uncertainty
Tricolon: List of Three
Opposites Attract: Antithesis
Say It Again, Will: Anaphora
Rhetoric Gym
Shakespeare's First Home
Transitions
We Need to Talk
The Patio Rebellion
Blank Slate
String Theory
The Color of Thinking
Lite-Brite, Artist in Residence
Furby After Dark
More Joy
Christmas Eve
Man in Motion
The Color of Thinking
The Hidden Reel
Practice Baby
The Tell Tale Toy
Poe and the Stars
Jealous Angels
Bard's Curtain Call
Plague & Playhouse
Quill After Midnight
Words at Play
Alphabet Blocks
The Pillow Everyone Cries Into
Click, Click, Bamboo
And Ken
Barbie and the Closet
Aisle 3: Imagination
Speed, Teeth, and Two Lanes
Hot Potato with a Bird
Conversations with Teddy
Conversations with Slinky
Museum Interview
Pre Conversations with Toys
Ryan’s Rocket Man
The Price of Being Michael
The Carter Code
Radical Control
Divine Miss Moment
The Jersey Gospel
American Mirror
Inner Visions
World's Favorite Alien?
The Price of Being Michael
Tears in Heaven
Who Are You?
Riffs and Myth
Both Sides Singing
Supreme Intentions
Feedback and Fire
The Queen of Soul
Dylan and the Fall
California Counterpoints
Tickets and Conscience
Enduring Stones
The Beatles Blueprint
The Elvis Trap
Rock’s Rough Architect
Creative Inheritance
West Side Stories
The Sinatra Method
Multimedia Pioneer
Precision & Passion
Debussy’s Paris
Cosmic Composer
Spooky Music!
From Morning to Mountain
Bohemian Voice
Tenderness Interrupted
Stern and Tender
From Village to Glory
Music and Majesty
Valkrie Voices
Burning the Piano
Inner Voices
Ghostwaltz
Romantic Resonance
Fate & Triumph
Small Town Boy in the Big City
Hallelujah!
The Baroque Star
Red Priest Rising
The Eternal Note
Music Comes Alive
Reflecting on Poe’s Podcast Debut
The Microphone Episode
Echoes of Horror
Magic and Mystery
Haunted Legacies
The Oxford Circle
Theater’s Dark Truth-Teller
Between Glitter and Gutter
Tolstoy Unveiled
Facing the Firing Squad
Leaves of Freedom
The Quiet Radical
Les Miserables
Storytelling for Social Change
Echoes Through the Lakes
Feeding the Rich!
Spy with a Pen
Darkness Visible
Death Be Not Proud
Greatest of Them All - Part 2
Greatest of Them All - Part 1
Chaucer - Not Just Paperwork
Architect of the Afterlife
Conversion, Contradiction, and Creativity
David - The Poet King
Moses the Writer
My First Promo!
Poe’s Words of Hope
Truman Capote
What the Dickens!
The Perfect Word
Ultimate Freedom
A Multitude of Ways
Fate, Illness, or Deception?
Was He Drunk?
Did Poe Have Epilepsy?
Crossing the Symbol
An Uneasy Mind
Epilepsy and Famous Writers
Poe’s Creativity - Part Two
Poe’s Creativity - Part One
Walt's Cloak
A Fierce Undeniable Attraction
Cataloging the Sensual
Flowing and Swelling
A Patient Spider
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Playing with Language
How to Say No
Yesterday and Tomorrow
Hear the Hungry Lion!
Signing Shakespeare
From Stratford to London
Things to Come ...
Poe the Swimmer
Dickens and London, Part 2
Dickens and London, Part 1
Why Dickens Matters, Part 3
Why Dickens Matters, Part 2
Why Dickens Matters, Part 1
Creativity for Dummies
Why Use Gemini?
Childhood Creativity, Part 2
Childhood Creativity, Part 1
Prompt for a Heat Stroke
Talking to Your Computer
Poe and Emily
Rent a Black Cat!
Living with the Beast, Part 2
Living With the Beast, Part 1
Redefining Humanity
Genealogy, Part Two
Genealogy, Part One
An Insider Pushing for Integrity
Judicial Suits
The Future of History
From Poe to AI, Part Two
From Poe to AI, Part One
The Controversial Cover
Leaves of Music, Part Two
Leaves of Music, Part One
Finding a Home, Part Two
Finding a Home, Part One
Simplicity
Schoolteaching Years
I Sing The Body Electric
Sojourn in the South
The Quaker Preacher
What Did Whitman Read?
Celebrating Whitman
Whitman's Voice, Part 2
Whitman's Voice, Part 1
First American Gay Novel
Drake the Rake
To Clasp Thy Hand in Mine Revisted
Poe's Pit and Pendulum
Edgar Poe Explains the Raven
More Supernatural Elements
Supernatural Elements
Chilled Into Stone
The House Is a Vampire!
A Crawling Shape
Tormented
Pushing The Boundaries
What Is Gothic?
Dracula and Doubles
The Black Vampyre
The Judge's House, Part Two
The Judge's House, Part One
Varney VS Dracula
The Blood Is the Life!
Sugar with Your Flies?
Vampire Brides
Dracula's Guest, Part Two
Dracula’s Guest, Part One
Poetry and Dreams
Vampires and Religion
Dracula at Church
Vampires and the Last Supper
Calling Me By Your Name
Pre Dracula
Poe and Vampires
Why All the Fuss About Dracula?
Encountering Poe’s Ghost Revisited
Loathsome Mass of Detestable Putridity
Poe's Hoaxes, Part One
From Feast of Blood
Be Content to Suffer
Varner (I mean, Varney) the Vampire
Feast of Blood
The Origins of Vampires
Challenging Male Authority
Stirring Sexual Desires
Leaving Me Trembling
The First Lesbian Vampire
Confined to a Castle
Liz in Court
Teaching Torture Techniques?
Blood Is My Beauty Secret
The Haunted Palace
The First Gothic Novel
A Medieval Soap Opera
Meddling with Life and Death
Poe and Frankenstein
The First Vampire Novel?
Darkness
The Year Without a Summer, Part Two
The Year Without a Summer, Part One
Vlad the Impaler, Part Two
Vlad the Impaler, Part One
How Terrible Was Ivan?
Don't Fool With Ivan
The Hero's Journey
Scrupulous Translations
Translating Poe
DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three
Answer to Listener
DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two
Intolerable Leaders
Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe, Part One
Flowers of Evil
From Ecstasy to Anguish
Bob Dylan and Poe
Salad Days, Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Poe
Home at Last
The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible
The Rescue
The Search for the Wicked Witch
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Journey to the Great Oz
The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
Dorothy and the Cyclone
Usher and Oz
Poe and the 12 Days of Christmas
Poe's Legacy: 300 Episodes of Exploration
Where It All Began
Despotic Sway
Poe's Bread and Circuses
Searching for a Family
Attacked by the Fighting Trees
John Allan's Will
The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
The Most Influential Person in Poe’s Life?
Last Will and Testament of William Galt
Loss of Breath
Poe and the Outsider
Alien
Election Conflict, Part 2
Election Conflict, Part 1
Poe’s Views on Democracy and Donald Trump
Politics and the the Pendulum
Clinton and Collins: The Language of God
Continuity and Progres
Healthcare and the Character of a Country
Obama: Hope in Action
Let Us Continue!
The Power of Words
The Power of We: JFK's Call to Action
Whitman on Democracy
O Captain, My Captain - A Journey Through Love and Loss
Beat! Beat! Drums!
With Malice Towards None
A Two-Minute Masterpiece: The Gettysburg Address Explained
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The Hypocrisy of American Slavery
Life, Liberty, and Happiness
Give Me Liberty
Marrying Your Cousin
Poe's First Story - Part 2
Poes' First Story - Part 1
Celebrate Poe's Most Important Episode Yet
Baltimore, Part Two
Baltimore, Part One
John Allan's Death
The War of 1812 Revisited
Poe's Most Valuable Books
Self Destructive Elements
Waking at 6 AM
Literary Ambitions
A Dream and a Career
Poe and Democracy
Defending the Sacredness of Love
Call Me By Your Name
When Walter Met Peter
Whitman and the Civil War
America's First Gay Bar
America's Poet
Same Sex Attraction in the 19th Century
My Home Town
Byron's Influence on Poe
Darkness
Dangerous to Know
Dreamland, Continued
Dreamland
Animal Metaphors
Twain and Poe on Cats
Remains of a Friend
Like Taylor Swift
A Star is Born
Was Poe Baroque?
Spinning Top, Part Two
Spinning Top, Part One
We Are Such Stuff
Despair!
To Be or Not
The Right Time
What Is a Day?
Oppenheimer and Poe
Poe Review, 2
Poe Review, 1
Best Episode Yet?
Dangerous Missions
A Real Railway?
Rescue Missions
Oration for Lincoln
Escape
Bondage
Racial Issues in Poe's Works
Manumission
Poe 215, Part Three
Poe 215, Part Two
Poe 215, Part One
You Are Not Alone
Becoming Poe Again
Athletics, Shakespeare, and Dualism
Instrument of Death
Pronounced Dead
Crossing the Threshold
A Sense of Protection
Another Set of Poe
The Tell-Tale Verdict
A Tell-Tale Confession?
A Madman’s Manuscript
The Tell-Tale Sequel
The AI Raven
Poe and Nyad
Poe and Halloween
Very Superstitious
More Usher References
Usher Reimagined, Part One
Most Evil Family in America
Roger Corman’s House of Usher
Usher, Part Two
Usher, Part One
Poe As a Stoned Teenager Reprise
Reimaging Poe, Part 2
Reimaging Poe, Part 1
Poe's Day Off
Poe's Haunted House Party
O Captain
Call Me By Your Name Again
America's Poet
First American Gay Novel
To Clasp Thy Hand Revisited
Children of Poe
AI Poe on Google Bard
Arguing with a Coffee-Maker
Poe on Writing - Part 3
Poe on Writing, Part 2
Poe on Writing, Part 1
Poe Hosts SNL
Poe - the AI Rapper
Poe - the Stoned Teenager
AI PoeTalk
Back in Richmond
From a Horror Movie
Dancing on the Table
Total Loneliness
Poe in South Carolina
You're in the Army Now
Creatures of Terror
Ash Wednesday, Elizabeth Taylor, and Poe
Best of Netflix
Worst of Netflix
Poe Versus Dahmer, Part 2
Poe Versus Dahmer, Part 1
More Harry Melling
The Pale Blue Movie
The Pale Blue Process
Lafayette, Poe, and the Military
The Pale Blue Eye in Night Mode
The End of It (Really!)
Bells and Books
Before Christmas
The End of It
Future Ghosts
The Second Spirit
Ghosts of the Past
Marley's Ghost
Rare Christmas Books
Rare Books
MISSING!!!
Pyramids of Skulls
Where Did Poe Get THAT idea?
The Most Valuable American Book
End of Youth
Why WILL You Say I Am Mad?
The Black Cat
Poe's Halloween Poems
A Brief History of Halloween
Rot, Riot, and Rebellion, Part Two
Rot and Riot, Part One
Poe's Two Universities
The Real Thing
Advil Can Be Deadly!
Despair and Die!
Hearing with the Eyes
A Very Special Richard
Poe's Dream Poems
The Conflicts of 1814 and 2021
Call Me By Your Name Again
Another Look at America's Poet
To Clasp Thy Hand in Mine Again
The First American Gay Novel Revisited
Studies and Alcohol
Jefferson's Dream
Money, Part 2
Money, Part 1
Poe's Best and Worst
First Love and Deaf Culture
Poe's Boyhood
Poe and Elton John
Poe Salutes Lafayette
Helping Ukraine
Poe - The Long Distance Swimmer
A Teenager in Richmond
Louder! Louder!! LOUDER!!!
Not Your Tired Trope
Schemes! Schemes! Schemes!
Rhetorical Triangle
Back in the USA
Spiderman and Poe
Was Poe Abused?
The Uncanny Mr. Poe
Back in the (Poe) Saddle
The Festival
A Covid Christmas
Surprise Endings
Quaintness Mingled with Revelry
Generous and Happy Feelings
Revelry Encouraged
Santa Claus Establishes New York
Christmas and the Father of American Literature
The Raven and the Eye
Researching Poe
This SOUNDS like Poe's school!
Poe and the City
Poe Is Overwhelmed by London
The Best Poe Movie Ever! (Kinda)
Poe's Alcoholism
Poe's Vampires - Part Two
Poe's Vampires - Part One
Rats, Rats, Rats, Part Two
Rats, Rats, Rats, Part One
Children of the Night
Bram Stoker’s 1897 Dracula
The "Lost" Chapter of Dracula
The Manipulative “Lover”
Two Heroes Revisited
Call Me By Your Name
Vlad the Impaler and Tamerlane - Bloodthirsty Monsters?
Carmilla and Countess Dracula
Vampires Before Dracula
Implements of Torture
The Black Vampyre
Signing Shakespeare
Translating Vampires?
The Giant Rats
The Jolly Vampire
Gross Indecency
America's Poet
To Clasp Thy Hand in Mine
The First American Gay Novel
Becoming Poe Revisited
Anastasia and Other Imposters
Rocky Horror, Usher, and Dreamland
Young Frankenstein
Best Horror Movie Ever
Gods and Monsters
True to the Original
Mary Shelley at the Movies
Lord Byron at the Movies
The Birth of Frankenstein
The First Superstar
Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know
The Sensitive Plant
Can Spring Be Far Behind?
The Raven Versus the Nightingale
The Sensuous Poet
Taylor Swift, The Lakes, and William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Welcome to the Pleasure Dome (Covered with Molasses)
Water, Water, Everywhere
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The Marriage Hearse
Heaven in a Wildflower
Don't Drink the Water, Stupid!
Death by Diarrhea
Year Without Summer
Biggest Explosion Ever!
Bodies Under the Church
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Hotel Armageddon
Wishing You Were Here
Paradise Row
Shakespeare and Trains
Invasion of the Capitol
The Language of God
Wilson and the World’s Deadliest Pandemic
Blood on the Floor
Poe Reads Lovecraft's "The Outsider"
Poe Reads Lovecraft's "Dagon"
The Phantom Coach, Part Two
The Phantom Coach, Part One
Christmas With Edgar Allan Poe
The Gift of the Magi
A Set of Poe
War of 1812
Red Death - Part Two
Red Death - Part One
Two Heroes (The Blacksmith and the Gay Priest)
America's First Disaster
Mother's Death
Conspiracy Theory?
Poe Is Born
Poe's Parents, Shakespeare, and Lady Gaga
Poe's Ancestors
Revolution Generation
Sir Sean Connery and Poe
Halloween 2020 with Mr. Poe
Encountering Poe's Ghost
Becoming Poe
Celebrate Poe Trailer