POE

Edgar Allen Poe certainly was a poe.  A poe-t that is (poet).  A good one, maybe even the best ever; certainly the best I've ever read.  People often think he is a scary writer, but I think creepy would be the better word.  The Goosebumps guy is scary, but Poe is creepy.  So creepy he GIVES me goosebumps. 

EAP (for short, but he wasn't short, he was like 6'3) was a huge leader in the Romantic movement of that time period, which seems crazy because would you consider his work romantic?  Creepymantic is more like it.  But truth is stranger than fiction (except Poe's fiction because there's not much stranger than it) and there you have it, the truth.

A good way to sum up the strangeness of Poe's life is to point out that we're not even sure whose buried in his grave.  It's a long story but suffice to say that if you don't even know whose buried in your own grave, it certainly is a "grave situation."  But we're getting ahead, let's see what happened BEFORE his death.  Oh untimely death!

Poe was born in Boston which is known as Beantown.  Poe would make sure it would be known as SCREAMtown.  That doesn't exactly rhyme but its close.

Poe tried his hand at writing (literally using his hand) but wasn't all that successfull.  He then got a job as an editor of a magazine.  Then he published his poem The Raven and he was famous and he said "Now I don't ever have to do this editor stuff again, nevermore, nevermore."

Poe then went on to write and write and write.  One of his stories, The Tell Tale Heart was the basis for the movie Apocolypse Now and was featured in an episode of The Simpsons (when Lisa's heart beats after sabotaging the other girl in the science fair).  Another, The Pit and Pendulum won many awards when fortune SWUNG in his favor

Poe became so famous that he is on the cover of Sgt. Pepper along with all those other famous people.  Enough said.

Is the pen mightier than the sword?  If the pen is in the hands of Poe, most definitely.  Is the sword mightier than an insect?  Not if the insect is Poe's The Gold Bug.

Is Poe mightier than the writers of today?  That is up for history to decide.