Walter Skold, who has been on a personal quest to honor America's literary greats, is bringing his Dead Poets tour to Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore. I spoke to Skold today and he was very excited about the visit, which will feature readings of Poe's work by local poets. It's scheduled for Friday night at midnight, at Westminster Hall, on the corner of Fayette and Greene streets.
When we spoke, Skold was headed from Lexington, Va., the resting place of Margaret Junkin Preston, to the Poe Museum in Richmond. Friday includes a stop in Washington before his white van, known as Dedgar the Poemobile, heads to Baltimore. It's all part of a 20-stop tour that Skold, a poet and former teacher from Maine, is filming for a documentary called "Finding Frost: Graves of American Poets."
Poets and the general public are invited to the midnight reading. (I won't be able to attend, so let me know how it goes.) Skold promises: "It won't be a midnight dreary."