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Barnes and Noble Poetry Book Fair, Bel Air, Maryland, Sunday, April 19 at 2-6 p.m.



A smorgasbord of featured readers, open mic, and music hosted by Harford Poetry Society. Readers include Christopher T. George, Clarinda Harriss, Leslie F. Miller, Dr. Michael Salcman, and Colleen Webster. Barnes and Noble, Tollgate Marketplace, 620 Marketplace Drive, Bel Air, MD 21014. Tel. 410-638-7023.


Edgar Allan Poe in 1848

Also poet and historian Christopher T. George will be teaching a one-evening class with a day tour of sites associated with Poe in the Kaleidoscope program at Roland Park Country School on "The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe." The class will discuss the mystery of Poe's death here in Baltimore in October 1849 as well as his many connections to the city.

Class night Thursday, April 30, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, with field trip, Saturday, May 2, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. Download the Kaleidoscope program in pdf form or call (410) 323-5500 x 3045 with any inquiries.

Congrats. Looks like you are staying busy in your neck of the woods.

bluejay wrote:Congrats. Looks like you are staying busy in your neck of the woods.

Thanks, Steve. Indeed!

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Poe Statue at the University of Baltimore

I will be teaching a one-evening class with a day tour of sites associated with Poe in the Kaleidoscope program at Roland Park Country School on "The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe." The class will discuss the mystery of Poe's death here in Baltimore in October 1849 as well as his many connections to the city.

Class night Thursday, April 30, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, with field trip, Saturday, May 2, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. To download the Kaleidoscope program in pdf form go to http://www.rpcs.org/kaleidoscope/index2.htm or call (410) 323-5500 x 3045 with any inquiries.

Also, to be given out as a class handout but accessible on-line is an essay on Poe in Loch Raven Review that I co-edit. Go to "Rediscovering Poe: the Mask and the Man" by Michael Fallon. I am hoping to have UMBC literature instructor Mike Fallon along for the Saturday tour. Also newly out in The New Yorker is a fine essay, "The Humbug: Edgar Allan Poe and the economy of horror" by Jill Lepore in which Lepore provides a good perspective on the writer. The essay might anger some Poe fans since it paints him as a habitual liar and con artist. What else is new? :wink:

All the best

Chris