MURFREESBORO — An
examination of American author Edgar Allan Poe is coming back to life at MTSU.
The unfinished segment of “A SymPoesium on Place” will be
held at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, in the Simmons Amphitheatre of the Paul
W. Martin Sr. Honors Building.
Originally scheduled for Feb. 18, only the first half of the
program, “Poe and Europe,” was presented due to inclement weather.
The second half of the analysis, titled “Poe and the
Universe,” will delve into how the master of the macabre perceived science and
spirituality in terms of place.
Dr. Harry Lee Poe, an indirect descendant of Edgar Allan Poe
and a professor at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, will describe his
ancestor’s concepts of space and science in “Everywhere Man: Poe and the
Universe” during the symposium.
“(Edgar Allan Poe’s) conception of the universe is one that
sort of permeates many of his writings,” said Dr. Philip Phillips, associate
dean of the University Honors College and a Poe scholar.
Harry Lee Poe also will put some Edgar Allan Poe artifacts
from his personal collection on display from noon to 6 p.m. in the fourth floor
special collections area of the James E. Walker Library. At 3 p.m., Harry Lee
Poe will describe his artifacts with a gallery talk.
Dr. George Poe, a professor of French and French studies at
the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and a cousin of Harry Lee
Poe, will discuss some additional materials he will contribute to the display. A
brief reception will follow.
“A SymPoesium on Place” and the display of Poe artifacts in
the James E. Walker Library are free and open to the public. They are sponsored
by the University Honors College, the Virginia Peck Fund and the MTSU chapter
of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
“We want the symposium to be something that people who have
any level of interest in Poe to enjoy,” Phillips said.
For more information, contact Phillips at 615-898-2699 or
philip.phillips@mtsu.edu.
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