The 2023 New Year’s Eve Reading at Poe’s Grave commenced at 9:30 a.m. at the corner of Fayette & Greene. It was a small group this year, anchored by braciolejournal.com founders Alvarez, Oldham and Crawley along with regulars Amy Scattergood and Anne Haddad.
Fortified by a “box of Joe,” a dozen doughnuts and gourmet goodies from the Ovenbird Bakery in Highlandtown, we were visited – as always — by the “rough sleepers” living on the downtown streets and this year — because of a big game at the stadium down the street — football tourists from around the country, including a 6th grade girl from Dallas/Fort Worth who aspires to be an architect.
That afternoon, the Ravens crushed the Miami Dolphins 56-to-19.
Of the poetry and prose read this year, one piece stood out as an outlier, an essay away from the well-worn favorites and unknown to a few of the Poe acolytes in attendance.
It was “The Philosophy of Furniture”, brought to us that cold, clear morning by Ms. Scattergood.
All are invited to join us on the morning of 12.31.24
History of Poetry in Baltimore / 1945 to the present 