Tuesday, January 20, 2009

News at Eleven: Since [Edgar Allen] Poe made his literacy bones

in Philly, isn't it only right they be returned there?

"What gets me is, Poe is treated like the son of Baltimore, but Baltimore wanted no part of Poe when he died," [Edward] Pettit says. "There were three people at his funeral, no tomb."

With a pen mightier than Ben Franklin's and and an underdog story worthy of Rocky Balboa, Poe would be a perfect fit for Philadelphia, the former magazine capital of the U.S.

from Courier-Post: Cities gear up for celebrations of Poe
also South Coast Today: Even at 200, Poe endures in pop culture

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