Fifth Annual New Year’s Eve Reading at Poe’s Grave 12.31.22
Jackie Oldham reads “A Dream Within A Dream” at the Fifth Annual New Year’s Eve morning reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe at his grave in downtown Baltimore. Photos: Macon Street Books Rafael Alvarez, with Poe fans (left) and Tyrone Crawley, with Poe fans on the right, celebrate the Fifth Annual coffee, doughnuts…
Fourth Annual New Year’s Eve Reading at Poe’s Grave 12.31.21
Alvarez takes notes on the poem “To Helen,” at the 4th Annual New Year’s Eve Reading at Poe’s Grave / 2021.
Third Annual New Year’s Eve Morning At Poe’s Grave
12.31.20 Rafael Alvarez and Tyrone Crawley observe the greatness of the 19th century poet on the last day of a plague-ravaged year, thus the lock on the boneyard gate and absence of crowd.
Second Annual New Year’s Eve Reading at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe / 2019
We gathered for the Second Annual New Year’s Eve Reading at Poe’s Grave at 9 a.m. with coffee, doughnuts and homemade baklava. It was a mild and sunny-to-overcast day. “I hold that a long poem does not exist…” / EAP
First Annual New Year’s Eve Reading at Poe’s Grave / 2018
Alvarez at the corner of West Fayette and Greene streets
History of Poetry in Baltimore / 1945 to the present 