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Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday Bash at the Poe Museum

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Every year the Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia hosts an annual birthday bash for their namesake Edgar Allan Poe. It’s usually a one day celebration but this year at the close of their centennial they are having a 3-day long party! Saturday and Sunday will be all day affairs with live music, food trucks, libations, performances, tours, and more. We’re providing the Saturday schedule to give you a sense of what the events look like and we’ve added in the links to the lineup for Sunday and Monday. We’ve gone to 2 birthday bashes, and while we can’t make it this year, we hope to go to many in the future. From the museum -Come celebrate Edgar Allan Poe’s 214th birthday! Enjoy a day of festivities including live music, performances, food, libations, and much more. It’s a party to die for! Indulge in TBT El Gallo, Bryant’s Cider, and Garden Grove Brewing. See the Shadows…

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Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday Celebrations

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It’s Edgar Allan Poe’s 214th birthday on Thursday, January 19, 2023, and there are tons of celebratory activities going on. We’re featuring two here for the actual day, and we’ll be bringing you information on a weekend-long birthday bash in tomorrow’s post. Poe Baltimore presents a murder mystery – Death of the Poe Toaster Join Poe Baltimore as they celebrate Poe’s birthday with cake, refreshments, tours, and a fun murder mystery. You can also take a bus tour around key Poe sites – including his burial place – around Baltimore Event details Poe Toaster Murder Mystery & Bus Tour For Poe’s Birthday The Poe Toaster is dead, murdered at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe and his killer is on the loose. Solve the mystery for Poe’s birthday! For decades, a mysterious figure left a tribute of cognac and roses at literary horror master Edgar Allan Poe’s grave in Baltimore.…

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Celebrate 100 Years of the Poe Museum

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Looking for something to spread misery this month. The Poe Museum in Richmond is celebrating their centennial this year and we couldn’t be happier – or miserable. We’ll be celebrating on April 28th at our Unhappy Hour at the museum with music, libations, trivia, a 1920’s costume contents, food trucks, and more. Photo credit: The Poe Museum You will also witness history when the museum unveils its new collection, donated by Susan Jaffe Tane. You will be among the first to view rare items such as Edgar Allan Poe’s pocket watch, his fiance’s engagement ring, a piece of Poe’s coffin, and much more… This event is hosted at the Poe Museum on April 28th, 2022. It’s a miserable time from six to nine! We hope to see you there…

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A Wilder’d Being From My Birth by Edgar Allan Poe

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April is National Poetry Month, and here at Poe in Wonderland, we love poetry. In addition to posts on travel and home, we like to bring you beautiful poetry to brighten your world. Since it is poetry month, we’re going to post several for you to enjoy. The first is, of course, from the master himself Edgar Allan Poe. This poem comes courtesy of his collection Tamerlane. A Wilder’d Being From My Birth A wilder’d being from my birth My spirit spurn’d control, But now, abroad on the wide earth, Where wand’rest thou my soul? In visions of the dark night I have dream’d of joy departed — But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. And what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turn’d back upon the past? That holy dream —…

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Virginia Clemm Poe Child Bride of Edgar Allan Poe

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This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Virginia Clemm Poe famous wife of Edgar Allan Poe. Her life is a bit of mystery. March is International Women’s Month and the perfect one to talk about Mrs. Poe. In conjunction with  the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum / Poe Baltimore there’s a presentation today, March 15, to discuss her life. Tonight is the first of the events about Virginia and it is a ticketed event. Tickets are very reasonably priced. MUSE, the Life and Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe’s Beloved Child BrideTuesday, March 15th, 7:00 to 8:30 PMTickets here $5 – $10 Source: Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum/Poe Baltimore **This event will be a live recording with interactive Q&A. Attendees register to participate in the discussion series. Edited portions will stream later on Facebook and YouTube.**Edgar Allan Poe famously claimed the “death of a…

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Happy Birthday Edgar Allan Poe

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Happy 213th Birthday Edgar Allan Poe! We wouldn’t live up to our blog name if we didn’t celebrate the master of the macabre. In a normal – non-pandemic – year, I’d fly up to the Poe Museum in Richmond and attend the all-day birthday bash they hold for this special occasion. 12 hours on a Saturday of tours, lectures, bands, and performers, and even a giant birthday cake. It is a lot of fun and meaningful for a dedicated Poe fan or one who wants to learn more about him. Due to the ongoing health crisis in the world, the museums had to adapt and move to virtual activities. The kick-off to the celebrations is a live toast on the Poe Museum’s Facebook page on Wednesday, January 19th, from 8 – 9:00 PM. Don’t miss it! Below is the schedule of virtual tours for you to check out. 1,000 Ways…

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A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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A Dream BY EDGAR ALLAN POE In visions of the dark nightI have dreamed of joy departed—But a waking dream of life and lightHath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by dayTo him whose eyes are castOn things around him with a rayTurned back upon the past? That holy dream—that holy dream,While all the world were chiding,Hath cheered me as a lovely beamA lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro’ storm and night,So trembled from afar—What could there be more purely brightIn Truth’s day-star? Source: PoetryFoundation.org

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The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Sleeper BY EDGAR ALLAN POE At midnight, in the month of June,I stand beneath the mystic moon.An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,Exhales from out her golden rim,And softly dripping, drop by drop,Upon the quiet mountain top,Steals drowsily and musicallyInto the universal valley.The rosemary nods upon the grave;The lily lolls upon the wave;Wrapping the fog about its breast,The ruin moulders into rest;Looking like Lethe, see! the lakeA conscious slumber seems to take,And would not, for the world, awake.All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where liesIrene, with her Destinies! Oh, lady bright! can it be right—This window open to the night?The wanton airs, from the tree-top,Laughingly through the lattice drop—The bodiless airs, a wizard rout,Flit through thy chamber in and out,And wave the curtain canopySo fitfully—so fearfully—Above the closed and fringéd lid’Neath which thy slumb’ring soul lies hid,That, o’er the floor and down the wall,Like ghosts the shadows rise and fall!Oh, lady dear, hast thou…

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