In this illustrated lecture, writer A. N. Devers will revisit Poe's burial, his subsequent re-burial years later, and the restaging of his funeral in 2009, a huge affair in which a horse-drawn casket carrying Poe's life-size wax cadaver was pulled through the streets of Baltimore before being eulogized by actors in costume from his past and from the future (like H.P. Lovecraft and Walt Whitman). Find out more »