Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry which captures all the splendor and insights of North America's greatest writers.

The Black cat (1 hr. 6 mins.): Two honeymooners find themselves stranded at the house of a Satanist. The Raven (1 Hr., 2 mins.): A retired surgeon conspires with an escaped murderer to wreck vengeance on a prominent family. The Invisible ray (1 Hr. 20 mins.): A group of scientists discover the remains of a meteorite that exhibits extremely strange properties. Black Friday (1 Hr. 11 mins.): A doctor gives an injured friend a partial brain transplant,...

CSA Word Productions presents twenty classic short stories read by a cast of entertaining contemporary actors and written by such legendary authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

"Here is Teddy Goldenberg's dense, murky treatment of Dashiell Hammett's "The Road Home," often considered the first hard-boiled detective story ever published. Shawn Cheng renders the first serial-killer story, the so-called fairy tale "Bluebeard" by Charles Perrault. Landis Blair reimagines The Trial as a choose-your-own-adventure story that you cannot win. Plus twenty-three other contributors using a wide range of illustrative styles. As with previous...

Why Poetry? Easy answer: I love poetry. I love reading it. I love memorizing it. I love hearing great actors recite it. As the poet Mark Strand wrote, "Ink runs from the corners of my mouth / There is no happiness like mine / I have been eating poetry."

In the past, when I was full from the eating, I have had the audacity to set poetry to music. But, in this production, you will hear the music of the poems. Poetry unadorned. Words. Because in

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