This guest post is from senior Samantha Smart, who received an Arts Innovation Grant to bring more Hopkins students into contact with one of Baltimore’s most intriguing historical figures, Edgar Allan Poe. Every September, football fans put on their purple jerseys and migrate to M&T Bank Stadium for the National Football League’s Opening Day. Every […]
There are two days during the year when you are bound to come across some version of the portrait above: Halloween, when we gather about us anything spooky, ghostly, ghastly, or tragic; and the anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth in 1809, which is today. The source of this well-known image is actually a daguerreotype, […]
What’s that dark shadow creeping in the corner?!? Yes, it’s your term paper, lurking and looming as the witching hour of the semester draws near. Each day you procrastinate your research, it’s shade deepens and grows more terrifying. EEK! Like the sinister words of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” the specter speaks only in omens, […]