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Edgar Allan Poe & Sarah Helen Whitman

1848 daguerreotype by William Hartshorn 1856(?) daguerreotype attributed to J. White Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, two hundred and four years ago. This anniversary has coincided with my...

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When Digitization and Ancestry Collide

There are generally few personal revelations in the review and exportation of digital files. Once a group of materials has been scanned, I export the folder of digitized images into Adobe Lightroom,...

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Unusual Nature Poetry

In honor of the changing of the seasons, Curio is featuring two (quite odd) visual poems from 1950 by Daniel H. McCalib (author) and Dennis McCalib (author-illustrator): “Love and Fecundity” and...

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February

With the heavy snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures we have been experiencing this month, there is something that doesn’t quite ring true about John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “February.” Suffice to...

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Reconstructing the Berrigan Airplane

Brown University Library’s Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, housed at the John Hay Library, contains a wealth of poetry-related ephemera. A promotional flyer from 1969 — designed to...

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