Edgar Allan Poe’s grave marker sits immediately inside the front gate of the Westminster Hall cemetery in downtown Baltimore. It’s not quite the location you’d expect for a cemetery—at the corner of […]
Quoth the writer: "Nevermore"
The Other Cat, the dead one; a Halloween tale
by Terry Hargrove On October 31, 1989, I was teaching my 8th-grade reading class a good and simple lesson. “In your writing, try to avoid absolutes,” I said. “Don’t use words such […]
VerseDay: The macabre and fantastic in verse
Poets have the (un)enviable duty to explore the entirety of human experience, from birth to death and everything in between. But in my experience, few poets have tried to fully explore the […]
