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Edgar Allan Poe Gets Another Funeral!

  • John Madera

    • 180px-Edgar_allan_poes_graveAccording to Wikipedia, On October 10, 2009, Poe received a “do-over” funeral where “actors portraying Poe’s contemporaries and other long-dead writers and artists [paid] their respects, reading eulogies adapted from their writings about Poe”. The funeral included a replica of Poe’s casket and wax cadaver.
    Check out the video HERE.

    • John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024) and Nomad Science (Spuyten Duyvil Press, forthcoming in 2026).  His  fiction is also published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, Hobart, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His poetry is also published in elimae, Sixth Finch, Contrapuntos, and elsewhere. His criticism is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, two-time New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.

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