Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today’s the day. So in the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe’s legendary poem “The Raven,” here is a new version in the distinctive style of the old: Once upon a ...

Here's a fun fact to impress your book nerd friends: Charles Dickens' pet raven inspired Edgar Allan Poe to write his most famous poem. "The Raven" turns out to have been an actual, living creature, ...

“Once upon a midnight dreary, / while I pondered, weak and weary . . . .” Thus begins the most celebrated spooky poem by the most celebrated of spooky 19th-century American writers. For readers ages 6 ...

Listen to a compilation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” read by Megan Marshall, Marilynne Robinson, Paul Lewis, Matthew Pearl, Jeffrey Meyers, Jerome McGann, Stuart Gordon, James ...

“The Raven” was first published in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845 – 170 years ago today. It tells the story of a talking raven’s midnight visit to a distraught lover, tracing the ...

It was award-winning Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic Margaret Atwood who made the following sage observation: 'War is what happens when language fails.' Many people don't realize that the ...