Edgar Allen Poe's 200th Birthday

**Jch999** · May 14th, 2009

Just a quick news update: Baltimore, Maryland will host the Poetry in Motion Tell-Tale Tour June 15-September 30. Celebrate Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday with Nevermore 2009, a year-long city-wide series of events. This summer, discover Poe's legacy with the Greater Baltimore History Alliance's Tell-Tale Tour.

**Srbo** · May 14th, 2009

One of the all time masters of the craft.

Always loved EA Poe.

**JRLauer** · May 14th, 2009

I've tried to read his stuff and I just can't get into it at all. I'm odd I know.

**pandora** · May 14th, 2009

Happy Birthday Poe!! One of my favorite stories of his is The Black Cat !

**rose key** · May 14th, 2009

He used to be my #1 all-time favorite author! (Before you-know who came into my life!)

**smooth operator** · May 14th, 2009

IMHO The Tell Tale Heart is one of the best short stories ever written. And I still remember every word to his poem The Conqueror Worm. Happy Birthday to a great talent who happened to be a very unhappy man. Did y'all know that he was the first well-known American writer to earn a living solely by writing? (Unfortunately, he was also quite poor.)

**aptpupil** · May 15th, 2009

EAP is 200?

Man, that dude has been keeping one seriously low profile for the last 160 years. I actually thought that he had died.

I wonder if he might share his longevity secrets with me. There is so much I still want to see and do. One life somehow never seems enough.

**Sms231** · May 15th, 2009

I just read The Masque of the Red Death last week by Poe (Sai King referenced it in The Shining which propmted me to read it). It has one of the most brilliant last lines of a story I have ever read:

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

Gives me chills every time I read it.