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    The purpose of the Edgar Allan Poe Foundation of Boston is to honor Edgar Allan Poe in the city where

he was born on January 19, 1809.

Our goal is to stimulate interest in Poe’s controversial role in the literary heritage of Boston, and in the importance of Boston and New England to Poe’s development as both a man and one of America’s most influential writers. The primary activity of the foundation is to advocate for the creation of a permanent Poe memorial in the city.

• For details about this public art project, please visit the Poe Foundation’s Poe Square Public Art Project blog.

• For other news about Poe, including about events such as the foundation’s annual birthday celebration in January, and our walking tours of Poe’s Boston that originate in Poe Square in the fall, please visit our Facebook page.

• For further information about Poe and his relationship to Boston, please visit the groundbreaking Poe bicentennial exhibition now online at The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston.

“Their poetry is not so good. Their common is no common thing–and the duck-pond might answer–if its answer could be heard for the frogs.” 

• Poe on the “Frogpondian” literary establishment of Boston, Nov. 1, 1845

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“For my little son Edgar, who should ever love Boston, the place of his birth, and where his mother found her best and most sympathetic friends.”

• The inscription on a watercolor of Boston Harbor painted by Eliza Poe in 1808

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