As the Poe House prepares for a season of transformation, we’re thrilled to partner with Creative Nomads to bring vibrant public art to our historic site. This project will celebrate both the legacy of Edgar Allan Poe and the unique creative identity of our surrounding community.

Creative Nomads, a local arts collective known for fostering community through artistic expression, will lead the creation of large-scale public art installations reflecting the rich literary heritage of the Poe House and honoring the history of the Poe Homes as Baltimore’s first public housing project.

The new creative works will be installed at Poe House/Poe Homes later this Spring. While we await their arrival, visitors can see these works in a special temporary installation this month at Carroll Mansion. Join us in celebrating the power of art to connect our past and future.

Bidding is open! Poe Baltimore and the Baltimore Camera Club’s POE-tography silent auction is now accepting bids. Check out Edgar Allan Poe-themed photography donated by members of the Baltimore Camera Club, the oldest continually-operating camera club in the United States.  Proceeds benefit the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum in Baltimore.

Bidding will close during Poe’s 216th Birthday Party and Poe Toaster Murder Mystery, Saturday, October 18th, at Westminster Hall. You do not have to attend to bid and support Poe House.

From Poe Baltimore staff, volunteers, and Board of Directors, we wish you a most poetical holiday season! Click here to see some of the latest from Poe Baltimore.  And for those who might join us in Baltimore next month, or if you’re looking for a last-minute gift for your favorite Poe fan, score tickets for a special Poe Birthday event next month!

Once upon a Thanksgiving dreary, we’re filled with gratitude (not weary!) for you, Poe Nation, our beloved supporters, friends, and fans who keep the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe alive in Baltimore and beyond.

Poe House will be closed for Thanksgiving and Black Friday, but will be open Saturday and Sunday for regular tours. This is also the final weekend to visit the Phoenix Shot Tower before it closes with a clang for the season–while there, be sure to stop in to see The Death Exhibit and Raven Room at historic Carroll Mansion. Those who Poe also know to mark your Poe House calendars for some delightfully Poe-esque celebrations for Poe’s birthday in January: tickets are on sale now for our infamous Poe bus tours and  macabre-yet-merry birthday bash to toast Poe’s 216th year at Westminster Hall. Finally, don’t forget that call for entries for the 2025 Saturday ‘Visiter’ Awards will open January 19th–read our newsletter to see the 2024 winners!

This season, we humbly ask you to consider an end-of-year gift to Poe House. Your contributions sustain our work, allowing us to preserve this hallowed site and continue sharing Poe’s hauntingly beautiful legacy. Your donations are critical as the next chapter for Poe House (including expansion!) is already being written.

Enrica Jang
Director, Poe Baltimore

It feels INSANE to say we are fewer than 60 days away from the 2024 International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards. This year is particularly special as we roll out the crimson carpet for The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum’s 75th Anniversary coinciding with the 175th anniversary of Poe’s death in Baltimore.

Programming for this FREE community event does not happen without support from our sponsors. For a second year, Wells Fargo Foundation has committed $100,000 to grow festival programming and to celebrate Poe’s legacy here in Baltimore and beyond. They join La Cite Development, RavenBeer, Maryland Public Television, Hippodrome Foundation, Poe’s Magic Theatre and over 40 organizations contributing funds and programming for this event. All proceeds benefit The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum. Poe Baltimore will share plans for expansion of the museum with attendees at our Diamond Anniversary events this October.

Read this month’s newsletter for updates on festival and museum program announcements including The Poe Museum (Richmond), the NSA’s National Cryptologic Museum, and year two of the Costume POErade. And congratulations to all of the Official Nominees for the 2024 Saturday ‘Visiter’ Awards, presented by Poe Baltimore, recognizing a new generation of artists and writers inspired by the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe. Winners will be announced festival weekend at The Black Cat Ball, the official party of Poe Fest International.

Yours in Poe,
Enrica Jang
Director, Poe Baltimore

P.S. Our year-long commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Poe House & Museum in Baltimore continues. Each month we’re sharing facts, points of interest, and hidden history of Poe House, from its savior from demolition in 1940, to the future of the museum as we look ahead to transformation and expansion. This month, meet the first tour guides at Poe House!

The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival
& Poe House 75th Anniversary

This year we commemorate two very special anniversaries: the 175th Anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s Death in Baltimore in 1849 and the 75th Anniversary of The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum established in 1949. Join us festival weekend for three days of programs, exhibits, and of course the street festival just outside Poe’s chamber door at the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum in Baltimore! 75th Anniversary Programs include:

• RED MASQUE MOVIE NIGHT: Tribute to Vincent Price, Roger Corman & 75th Anniversary Reception
• The Black Cat Ball & 75th Anniversary Diamond Gala

Poe Fest International is a free, family-friendly weekend of events featuring Edgar Allan Poe-themed performances, art, exhibits, vendors, music and food, celebrating Poe’s life, works and his influence in the arts. The street festival takes place at The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum at 203 N. Amity Street in Baltimore, in “Poe Park” at Center/West. Additional exhibits, tours, and programs at several locations in Baltimore City, October 4-6.

If previous years’ attendance is any judge, this year’s festival may just be the biggest Poe event in three-quarters of a century (again!) Don’t miss an incredible Diamond Anniversary for the Poe House in Baltimore.

Yours in Poe,
Enrica Jang
Director, Poe Baltimore

P.S. Our year-long commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Poe House & Museum in Baltimore continues. Each month we’re sharing facts, points of interest, and hidden history of Poe House, from its savior from demolition in 1940, to the future of the museum as we look ahead to transformation and expansion. Read our newsletter this month  as we take a peek at the very first “Poe Week” in 1949, a precursor to today’s festival.

Blame it on my historian heart, but I love marking anniversaries. 2024 is especially full of them, however, and all these numbers are a tad alarming: it’s the 175th Anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death in Baltimore, the 75th Anniversary of the Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum, the 60th Anniversary of Roger Corman’s 1964 classic horror film Masque of the Red Death starring Vincent Price, and the 200th Anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s triumphant 1824 return to the United States after the Revolutionary War.

One of these things seems not like the others? <insert historian voice> Well, actually… Edgar Allan Poe’s grandparents served in the Revolutionary War and were noted by the Marquis during that eponymous visit for their contribution to the cause of Liberty. We’re excited to share plans for an upcoming exhibit, “Poe, Revolution, and the Marquis de Lafayette,” at a fundraiser in June!

All of this to say that this year’s International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards coincides very neatly with all of these worthy commemorations and therefore this year’s festival (our 7th!) is promising to be one for the ages, including a special tribute and MOVIE NITE to honor the extraordinary life and passing of Roger Corman and Vincent Price. More math: discount pre-sales end May 31st and General Admission and events tickets go on sale June 1! David Gaylin’s new book on the death of Poe has arrived. And one more: deadline is TONIGHT for artists and writers to enter the Saturday ‘Visiter’ Awards. Shiver.

Enrica Jang
Director, Poe Baltimore

P.S. Our commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Poe House & Museum in Baltimore continues. Each month we’re sharing facts, points of interest, and hidden history of Poe House, from its savior from demolition in 1940, to the future of the museum as we look ahead to transformation and expansion. In our newsletter this month we share how the E.A. Poe Society of Baltimore took over stewardship at Amity Street.