What does Edgar Allan Poe mean to you?  He was a great poet and writer, if on the mournful and even macabre side.  Inventor of the detective story if not the horror genre.  Presenter Christopher T. George has been fascinated by the life and works of Poe since the early 1970's when he wrote "A Poe Tour of Baltimore" published in Maryland magazine in Summer 1974, an article recognized with an honorable mention in the A. D. Emmart Award that same year.  Since then, Chris has written multiple poems about the ever fascinating author of "The Raven" as well as given talks about the mystery about Poe's death in Baltimore on October 7, 1849.  The workshop will give participants the chance to consider Poe's life and works and to express their ideas about the writer on the basis of a number of prompts to be provided by the speaker.  The workshop promises to be an enlightening and enriching experience for participants.

CHRISTOPHER T. GEORGE

Christopher T. George was born in Liverpool, England in 1948 and first emigrated to the United States in January 1955. He is a published historian on the War of 1812, having published two books on the conflict, Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 in the Chesapeake (Shippensburg, PA: White Mane, 2000) and, with John McCavitt, The Man Who Captured Washington: Major General Robert Ross and the War of 1812 (Norman, OK: Oklahoma University Press, 2016), as well as a picture book of historical images of Baltimore City, Baltimore Close Up (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 1999).  He regularly gives talks on the War of 1812, the American Revolution, Jack the Ripper, and Edgar Allan Poe.  He is currently a board member of the Eastern Shore Writers Association.  Check out Chris's poetry site at http://chrisgeorge.netpublish.net/ and reading his poems at https://soundcloud.com/christophertgeorge. Chris can be found on Facebook and Twitter, handle @CThompsonGeorge and he can be reached by email at editorctrip@yahoo.com

"Nevermore" image credit, Mel Poole.

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