KGB Bar

This Sunday: 7 - 9 PM Celebrate Halloween listening to stories, poems and essays by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 9, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic. As a short-story writer, Poe was a fascinating man of imagination. In theme, Poe places the human mind under investigation and probes insanity beneath the surface of normal existence. Poe’s most enduring tales are those of horror, the horror coming, from the working of an irrational or criminal mind, driven to evil or insanity by a perverse irrational force which, to Poe, is an elementary impulse in man. He was also highly lauded as a poet. Walt Whitman wrote:

Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page. … There is an indescribable magnetism about the poet’s life and reminiscences, as well as the poems.

Invited authors will read from selections that include:
The Raven
Annabel Lee
The Masque of Red Death
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
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Best costume of the evening drinks for free!
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Fiction Director: Suzanne Dottino contact: Suzanne@kgbbar.com
Happy Halloween!

Join us in an evening of readings of essays, poems and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe. 

About the Series: KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction

The KGB Bar Sunday Night Fiction showcases the finest in contemporary fiction from new and emerging writers.

Suzanne Dottino/fiction curator,