Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday, greatest podcaster and literary genius, Edgar Allan Pooo-ooe.  Happy birthday to me! And as a special birthday treat, we proudly present all "7 Rooms" together, unabridged for your listening pleasure!  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Listen to the dramatic final conclusion of Poe's first draft of "The Masque of the Red Death". Poe is very pleased with it. Mrs. Poe, not so much.... Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com). . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In this episode, The Red Death finally makes his dramatic reveal and introduces himself to some of Prospero's guests. Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com), Mark Prokes, and Leila Toba. . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In this episode, everyone one is invited to the grand, masked ball of the lively and eccentric Prince Prospero......everyone, including an unexpected guest.  Starring Jade Ansell, Mark Prokes, and JJ O'Sullivan.  . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In this episode, The Red Death makes his way into the abbey and spills the tea with some of Prospero's guests.  Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com) and Leila Toba. . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In room three, we meet the bumbling guardsmen tasked with shutting up the abbey "from the sudden impulses of despair".....as well as an unexpected guest. Starring Francis Sheenan and JJ O'Sullivan. . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In this episode, we fully enter the world of the the Red Death and meet some of its potential and colorful victims.  Starring Mark Prokes and Shaughn Earle.  . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In the first room of 'the imperial suite', Poe gets the creative spark from his industrious, sock-knitting wife, Virginia.  Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com) as Virginia.  . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

"The Masque fo the Red Death' is one of my favorite stories that I've written ( and one of your favorites too, I correctly assume.) But, have you ever wondered what happened in the 7 rooms of the "imperial suite" in which it was held? Well, wonder nevermore! This Halloween you can begin listening to what went on in those rooms whilst the Red Death "long devastated the country". Every new episode will reveal a different room, and a different story, from the beginning to the dramatic...

Poe and Usher sit down with poet, politician, and one-time pharmacist Dante Alighieri to relive Poe's old glory days only to discover that maybe they were a little too glorious (?). It's the season finale of The Dead Poets Society Podcast, starring Mark Prokes as Dante Alighieri! Be sure to check out the official website: www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com for more exciting updates!   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. ...

Didn't get what you want for Christmas AGAIN this year? Before you exchange your gift for one of even less value, check out the one-stop-shop that's a real scream!! @ www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Poe and Usher pour some libations out to enjoy the hooch and happiness of Edna St. Vincent Millay. They even get to meet her surprising entourage, and they're pretty sweet....  . Featuring Kate Eppers as Edna St. Vincent Millay --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Poe and Usher get wrapped up in the wit and puzzling intellect of the master of light verse, Ogden Nash. Just how did he craft such whimsical verses? Well, it's quiet the riddle... Starring Killarney Traynor (https://www.killarneytraynor.com) as Ogden Nash. . . www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this...

This time Poe and Usher sit down with the great iconoclast, Allen Gins-Quarter pound hamBERGer with cheese! (....and things get more than a little spacey). Starring Leila Toba as Allen Ginsberg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

In this season opener, Poe and Usher return from being out "on the road" to interview Beatnik poet, daddy-o, Jack Kerouac.  Starring Terry Tamm as Jack Kerouac.  Join us, won't you? www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Breaking free from the jaws of death, it's Season 4 of the Dead Poets Society Podcast!  This season is chalk full wit and wisdom from all of your favorite poets, including: the original Dharma Bum, a poet who's a real scream, and an old friend addresses a new controversy.   You'll be bored nevermore on Season 4 of the Dead Poets Society Podcast! Coming Oct. 20th!   www.deadpoetssocietypodcast.com  Instagram: Dead_Poets_Society_Podcast  Facebook: @deadpoetssocietypodcast --- Support...

"I will now play the Oedipus to the Rattleborough enigma. I will expound to you- as I alone can- the secret of the enginery that effected the Rattleborough miracle- the one, the true, the admitted, the undisputed, the indisputable miracle, which put a definite end to infidelity among the Rattleburghers and converted to the orthodoxy of the grandames all the carnal-minded who had ventured to be sceptical before..." Featuring Shaughn Earle as Claudio.  --- Support this podcast:...

"The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat." Featuring Mark Prokes as Ernest Hemingway. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Recovering from his wounded pride, Poe summons the great and "most learned of all English Poets", John Milton. (And also summons up an unexpected guest). Featuring Killarney Traynor (www.killarneytraynor.com) as John Milton. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

After having his window repaired by Carl Sandburg, Poe takes an intimate look at the short life and times of fellow Bostonian, Sylvia Plath. Featuring Caroline Hawthorne (Twitter @carolthecomic and Instagram: caroline_e_hawthorne) as Sylvia Plath. And guest appearance by Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Still suffering from a broken window, Poe braces the cold to interview the one-of-a-kind children's author, illustrator, songwriter, and playwright: Shel Silverstein (well, maybe not one of a kind).  Featuring Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) and Lillian Kelly as Shel Silverstein.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Still recovering from his interview with Ernest Hemingway, Poe receives fashion advice from guru and master of the aesthetic Oscar Wilde and his special animal companions.  Featuring Leila Toba as Oscar Wilde, with special guest appearances by Shasha "The Madness" as Svetlana, and Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as Robert Frost.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast:...

Poe comes back from the Pit of Despair to get some pearls of wisdom from tough guy author and real-life macho-macho-man: Ernest Hemingway.  Featuring Mark Prokes as Ernest Hemingway.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support

Poe returns from the great beyond in a big way to interview everyone's favorite children's author: Dr. Seuss.  Featuring William Annand as Dr. Seuss and Jack Cappadona (www.jackcappadona.com) as W. B. Yeats.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kyle-w-porter/support