Jeanie and Carmen along with the Poe Unplugged group discuss Stephen King's essay, The Genius of The Tell-Tale Heart, along with Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart, and King's version of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Old Dude's Ticker.

Jeanie and Carmen review the 1942 version of The Mystery of Marie Roget based on Poe's second C. Auguste Dupin mystery, which was based on the true death of Mary Rogers.

To celebrate National Poetry Month for April, Jeanie and Carmen talk about how Poe used figurative language in his poetry.

Resources:

https://www.eapoe.org/geninfo/poebtsp2.htm

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/writing-tips/figurative-language/

Our 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest is in full swing. Submissions open until May 15th. Check out the details at

https://sixdegreesofpoe.com/poeit-like-poe-contest

Jeanie and Carmen interview Debbie Phillips who interprets history through living history programs she creates. Find out more about her through this interview and by subscribing to our monthly newsletter, The Favored Raven at the link below. She is our Gothic Guest for the month of April.

https://sixdegreesofpoe.com/poenews

Jeanie and Carmen, along with the Poe Unplugged group, discuss Poe's short story, The Assignation.

Jeanie and Carmen review the Poe adapted movie, The Black Cat, from 1941 starring Basil Rathbone, Broderick Crawford, and Bela Lugosi.

Hannah Raven is a graduate of the Actors Centre Australia. After graduating she was cast in the title role of the Australian feature film, Zoe Misplaced, and then worked on channel 7's City Homicide. She then went on to work with Red Line Productions at The Old Fitz Theatre, where she played the role of Phoebe in The Judas Kiss, directed by Iain Sinclair, and Pomona in Metamorphoses directed by Dino Dimitriadis, which was nominated for Best Independent Production at the 2019 Sydney Theatre Awards. More recently she played the role of Touchstone in As You Like It with Queensland Theatre Company, directed by Damien Ryan. Her other credits include Sara in Tom at the Farm with KXT Theatre, Dio in Not Now Not Ever with Belvoir 25A, Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby with Viral Ventures Theatre Company and Touchstone in As You Like It with Sport For Jove Theatre Company. Hannah is the creative director of Raven Productions Australia, and in 2022 their production of The Grotesque and Arabesque won the Edgar Allan Poe Saturday Visitor Award. She was then invited to Baltimore as a special guest performer at the 2024 International Edgar Allan Poe Festival. Hannah is also a professional Burlesque artist and is a resident performer at The Talk and Tease Show in Potts Point. In 2017 she won the national title of Miss Burlesque Idol Australia.

You may find Hannah at:

https://www.ravenproductionsaustralia.com/

https://www.ravenproductionsaustralia.com/about-3

https://www.facebook.com/ravenproductionsaustralia

https://www.facebook.com/eapaustralia

Jeanie and Carmen go to the degree of Surrealism with their talk on French poet, Paul Valery.

Resources

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-valery

https://www.eapoe.org/papers/psbbooks/pb19861b.htmhttps://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Valery_Moi.pdf