Boston selects winning design to honor Edgar Allan Poe - The Poe Foundation of Boston said Monday that it had selected a design of a New York sculptor to honor Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe with a life-sized bronze statue. While the peripatetic poet derided Boston as a provincial “Frogpondium,” residents today are embracing him.

Boston selects winning design to honor Edgar Allan Poe

- The Poe Foundation of Boston said Monday that it had selected a design of a New York sculptor to honor Boston-born Edgar Allan Poe with a life-sized bronze statue. While the peripatetic poet derided Boston as a provincial “Frogpondium,” residents today are embracing him.

Date April 24, 2012

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Tags #Edgar Allan Poe    #Baltimore    #Boston    #Frogpondium    #author    #Stefanie Rocknak   

  1. egl350poe reblogged this from boston and added:
    Been to Boston twice the last couple months, and still didn’t get a chance to check out the Poe Square!
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    shit guys, this is awesome.
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