Baltimore to honor Poe's 200th birthday

BALTIMORE - Baltimore, the city where Edgar Allan Poe died, will celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth with "Nevermore 2009," a year's worth of exhibits and programs.

Events will include a one-man show, "POE in Person" at the Baltimore Theatre Project; a wine tasting inspired by Poe's sadistic revenge tale "The Cask of Amontillado" in the catacombs beneath Westminster Hall, a former church in west Baltimore; and exhibits at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Enoch Pratt Free Library.

The Web site for the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore has a link to the Baltimore Poe House and Museum, www.eapoe.org. Details on the festival are at www.Nevermore2009.com.