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Celebrate Creativity

This podcast is a deep dive into the world of creativity - from Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman to understanding the use of basic AI principles in a fun and practical way.

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28:33

The Year Without a Summer, Part One

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/02/13

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is Episode 330 - The Year Without a Summer, Part One - the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora would have been much longer, and much louder, and become an ecological terror. Now, In the past few episodes, Poe has delved into Ivan the Terrible and Vlad the Impaler - two historical figures, whether by sensibility or mythology, have played a role in the development of Poe’s approach to subject matter for writing - but an event occurred in 1815 that cha...

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21:43

Vlad the Impaler, Part Two

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2025/02/11

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 355 - Vlad the Impaler, Part Two In the previous episode, I talked excusively about the historical figure - Vlad the Impaler. But in this episode, I want to introduce a literary figure - Dracula - who is often confused with that historical figure - Vlad the Impaler. Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Poe.

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30:20

Vlad the Impaler, Part One

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/02/10

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 328 - Vlad the Impaler, Part One Vlad the Impaler was a 15th-century ruler of Wallachia, a historical region in modern-day Romania. His life and reign were marked by political intrigue, military campaigns, and extreme cruelty, earning him a fearsome reputation that persists to this day. Vlad's legacy is deeply tied to his brutal methods of punishment, particularly impalement, which has made him both a national hero in Romania and he is said t...

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24:55

How Terrible Was Ivan?

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2025/02/08

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 327 - How Terrible Was Ivan? I hope that from the previous episode, you have come to the conclusion that Ivan the Terrible was a very formidable guy. But how did he get the name Ivan the Terrible? Well, you see, Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, earned his most common name due to a combination of linguistic interpretation, his fearsome reputation as a ruler, and his actions during his reign. The nickname "Ivan t...

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24:46

Don't Fool With Ivan

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2025/02/07

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 326 - Don’t Fool with Ivan From Poe’s favorite melody to Russia’s darkest czar - now In this episode, I want to continue an exploration of Gothic works and the psychological complexities that resonate with Poe’s literary works - in other words, go back and explore the influences on Poe’s works - especially the dark and Gothic. Obviously, I won’t be able to look at all dark literature and relevant historical events, but I ended u...

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28:51

The Hero's Journey

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/02/04

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 325 - The Hero’s Journey During the Christmas holidays, you may remember that I went over the the complete The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, written in 1900. And by the way, when I finished writing the transcript for this episode, I realized that, while it was meant as a temporary transition from Poe’s works to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, examining the similarities, and especially the differences between the literary ...

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31:13

Scrupulous Translations

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2025/02/04

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 325 - Translating Poe Before Celebrate Poe goes any further, I want to admit that I am going back and dealing with some of the influences of Poe - emphasizing that they were part of Gothic literature or writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, fear, and dread. But Edgar Allen Poe got later ahold of Gothic literature in the mid-1800s and s...

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31:13

Translating Poe

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/02/03

Send us a text Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 325 - Translating Poe Before Celebrate Poe goes any further, I want to admit that I am going back and dealing with some of the influences of Poe - emphasizing that they were part of Gothic literature or writing that employs dark and picturesque scenery, startling and melodramatic narrative devices, and an overall atmosphere of exoticism, mystery, fear, and dread. But Edgar Allen Poe got later ahold of Gothic literature in the mid-1800s and s...

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28:48

DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three

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2025/01/31

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 321 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Three)I hope you listened to the previous episode that deals with Thomas De Quincy and his 1821 autobiographical work "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.But before we go any further, I wan to try and clear something up. An opium-eater is not actually someone who eats opium, but rather a person who uses opium as a recreational drug or an opium addict. The term "opium-eater" was popularized by Thomas...

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34:58

Answer to Listener

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/28

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 321 - Answer to ListenerThe intro music was Come Rest in This Bosom - said to be Edgar Poe’s favorite song. I’d like to start with a whooper of an apology - last month - yes, last month - I got a kind message with my podcast episode on my iPhone - I was so elated that I did an entire episode in response to the individual’s comments - but I was moving some files around and promptly lost it - I had fool...

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33:11

DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part Two

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2025/01/27

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 320 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part TwoWhen I started this podcast, my plans are to delve more into Charles Baudelaire, but I ran into something that I did not expect. Oh sure, there was his great collection known as Flowers of Evil and his classic and highly influential translation of Poe’s works. And I began reading a book about the controversial topic of the use of opium by Baudelaire - but I soon found that mu...

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28:51

Intolerable Leaders

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/24

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 319 - Intolerable LeadersThis should be episode 319 - Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe - Part Two. But while I was looking through some past transcripts on my web site, I ran across one that addressed the invasion of the Capital in Washington. It was an issue that I strongly felt needed to be addressed 4 years ago when it happened, and our recent President has taken actions that just pour salt on the wounds.Thank you for experiencing Celeb...

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28:24

Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe, Part One

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2025/01/22

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 318 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part OneRecently, I ran across a book about Charles Baudelaire called A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict. There is no question about it - According to the author - Charles Baudelaire, the translator of Edgar Allan Poe's works, was a heavy user of opium. Baudelaire wrote extensively about his experiences with opium and other drugs in his book (Artificial Paradises), published in 18...

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21:56

Flowers of Evil

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/17

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 317 - Flowers of EvilToday I want to look at some of Baudelaire’s masterpiece - Les Fleurs du Mal - or The Flowers of Evil. First published in 1857, the poems were extremely controversial upon publication, with six of its poems censored due to their immorality. Now it is now considered a major work of French poetry. The poems in The Flowers of Evil frequently break with tradition, using suggestive images and unusual forms. They deal with ...

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30:17

From Ecstasy to Anguish

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/13

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 316 - From Ecstasy to AnguishMany years ago, when I was working at the Poe Museum in Richmond, I remember the brilliant curator, Chris Semptner talking about a French writer who was greatly influenced by Poe and translated Poe’s works into French. Chris seemed to be very excited at the connection, but to be honest, I forgot the writer’s name and basically did not give a second thought to this French writer until last week.Anyway, I recently bou...

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25:18

Bob Dylan and Poe

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/10

Send us a textI guess you could say I unconsciously (or maybe even consciously) devoted at least 11 or 12 of the previous episodes reading the complete version of the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - because the movie Wicked is currently popular. Then I considered the movie A Complete Unknown about the great Bob Dylan. But the problem was that I didn’t think there was ANY connection between Edgar Poe and Bob Dylan - none at all.But I did some more research, and found out that...

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25:49

Salad Days, Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Poe

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/07

Send us a textWelcome to Episode 318 - Salad Days, the Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Poe. And yes, this podcast has returned to the subject of Edgar Allan Poe - and I know you will enjoy the ride as this podcast delves deeper into the life and works of America’s Shakespeare.I hope you had a great 2024, and have an even better 2025. This year, one of my New Year’s Resolutions (in addition thoroughly cleaning my apartment) is to try and release an episode of Celebrate Poe every Monday and Fr...

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16:38

Home at Last

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/03

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - This should be episode 314 - Home AgainThe four travelers passed through the rest of the forest in safety, andwhen they came out from its gloom saw before them a steep hill, coveredfrom top to bottom with great pieces of rock.“That will be a hard climb,” said the Scarecrow, “but we must get overthe hill, nevertheless.”Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Poe.

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22:07

The Magic Art of the Great Humbug

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/02

Send us a textChapter XVI The Magic Art of the Great HumbugNext morning the Scarecrow said to his friends:“Congratulate me. I am going to Oz to get my brains at last. When Ireturn I shall be as other men are.”“I have always liked you as you were,” said Dorothy simply.Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Poe.

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18:55

The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible

Celebrate Creativity ·

2025/01/01

Send us a textWelcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 311 - Chapter XV The Discovery of Oz, the TerribleThe four travelers walked up to the great gate of Emerald City and rangthe bell. After ringing several times, it was opened by the same Guardian of the Gates they had met before.Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Poe.

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