Past Events

Sat, Oct 26, 2pm, at Port Richmond Library, 77 Bennett St, SINY 10302

We’ll screen “The Raven” – a hilarious send-up of Poe’s classic.  Starrying Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff and a very young Jack Nicholson.  This B-movie classic is an “embellishment” on Edgar Allan Poe’s immortal poem.  But the embellishments go so far afield that the poem is all but unrecognizable.  Hilarious, but almost unrecognizable – though the bird does make a personal appearance.  One critic called it “Cheesecake meets pure cheese.”

Kids will get a kick out of the saber-light swordplay between Vincent Price and Boris Karloff.

Fun for all ages!

Plenty of free parking on the street. For directions via public transportation, visit www.hopstop.com

Friday, Oct 25, 6:30pm at Staten Island Academy, 715 Todt Hill Road, SINY 10304

All ages are welcome to join us for this intriguing story.  And if you have a favorite poem by Edgar Allan Poe, please bring it along to read with everyone!

The Oblong Box is one of Poe’s mysteries at sea….

Who was that mysterious family on the ocean voyage?  Where did the wife go, every night after midnight, aboard that vast ship?  And what’s up with their crazy luggage?  Who travels with a six-foot suitcase?

For directions via public transportation, visit www.hopstop.com

Community celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday.  Saturday, January 18, 2014 – at the Stapleton Branch Library, 132 Canal St, SINY 10304

Readings, music & giveaways. There will be Ravens!  Stories & games for kids.  Spoken-word performance & literary fun for all ages. Music by Gary Moore. This event is good for all ages.  Join us!

Saturday, Jan 11, 2pm at Poe Park Visitors Center, 2640 Grand Concourse (@ East Kingsbridge Ave, near 193d St), Bronx, NY 10458. Take the D tran to Kingsbridge; the Kingsbridge stop is across the street from Poe Park.

Staten Island OutLOUD is delighted to be invited back to Poe Park to present a program celebrating America’s favorite Goth, whose birthday is in January.  This event has something for everyone: Art & games for kids, and Poe readings for all ages.  This event is free!

You can also tour the historic cottage where Poe lived with his wife Virginia and her mother Maria Clem. The cottage is also located in Poe Park, and is managed by the Bronx County Historical Society. For details on visiting the Poe Cottage, check their website, http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/poecottage.html  (They ask for a small donation for touring Poe’s Cottage: $5/adults, $3/seniors & kids)

For directions via public transportation, visit www.hopstop.com.  (If you take the #D train to Kingsbridge, the exit will bring you to Grand Concourse & Kingsbridge, right across the street from Poe Park.  If you take the #4 to Kingsbridge, you have just a 3-4 block walk to Poe Park.)

For details on Poe Park, visit http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/poepark/

Staten Island OutLOUD’s event is free.

To tour Poe’s Cottage, the Bronx Historical Society’s admission is $5 for adults, $3 for students, children & seniors.

Sunday, Oct 20, 3pm at Comic Book Jones, 2220 Forest Ave, SINY 10303

Join us to explore the creative resources of graphic novels, which our neighbors at Comic Book Jones curate with knowledge, care and enthusiasm.  Have a snack with us, as we explore graphic novels inspired by Poe. Be sure to check out their awesome Zombie Section!  Meet neighbors, share ideas.  Zombie attire encouraged, but not mandatory.

Plenty of free parking.  For directions via public transportation, visit www.hotspot.com

Sat, Oct 19, 7pm at St John’s University, 300 Howard Ave, SINY 10301  (In Spellman Hall’s Black Box Theatre)  Spellman Hall is to your immediate right as you come up the entry road from Howard Avenue.  Free & open to the public.

Join popular St John’s Professor Ed Fiorelli as we enjoy some 19th century science fiction, with light refreshments.  Poe was a pioneer of the science fiction form.  OutLOUD will host readings of two Poe stories that are witty examples of proto science fiction…

Poe’s wry story,  Some Words With a Mummy  – chronicles an unusual interview. Rumor has it that a mummy will be on the guest list when OutLOUD features this story.

We’ll read another of Poe’s sci-fi short stories, Three Sundays In a Week.  Did Poe discover time travel?  This story inspired Jules Verne’s Around the World In 80 Days!  Verne idolized Poe, and counted Poe among his literary heroes and inspirations.

Sunday, Oct 13, 2pm at Island Tattoo, 203 Old Town Road (off Hylan Blvd), SINY 10305

Join us to read Poe’s frightening tale, The Masque of the Red Death, in a tattoo parlor!

Best for ages 10 & up.

Plenty of free parking on Hylan Blvd.  For directions via public transportation, please visit www.hopstop.com.

Saturday, Oct 12, 2pm at Historic Fountain Cemetery, 1634 Richmond Terrace, SINY 10301

We’ll read Poe’s haunting poem, “Spirits of the Dead” in this beautiful historic cemetery, which was lovingly restored by Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries.  As we stroll amongst the funerary sculpture, we’ll speak of some spirits who do NOT rest in peace there!

Details to come.  Plenty of parking on the street.  For directions via public transportation, visit www.hopstop.com.