If you would like to meet Dedgar and me at a poet's grave, or offer to put us up for a night on our journey, please email me at [email protected]
(* spl after a name indicates the poet was a State Poet Laureate)
Sat May 30 : Baltimore, MD ; POE GRAVE High Noon Cognac Kick-Off Party
Sun May 31 : (AM) Annapolis, MD ; Vincent Burns, spl
Sun May 31 : (PM) Silver Spring ; Mattie Stepanek
Mon June 1: Washington, DC ; John Luckey McCreery; Albert Pike graves.
Mon June 1: Washington, DC ; (PM) Library of Congress;
Tue 2nd : Alexandria, VA ; Arlington National Cemetery; 4 poets
Wed 3rd : (Aft) King George, VA ; Thomas Lomax Hunter, spl
Wed 3rd : (PM) Fredericksburg, VA; Stonewall Jackson's arm
Thur 4th : Charlottesville, VA : George Garrett, spl
Thur 4th : (PM) Charlottesville : Poe Room at UVA
Fri 5th : Richmond, VA ; Carter Warner Wormeley, spl
Fri 5th : Richmond ; POE HOUSE ; John Bannister Tabb; James Branch Cabell
Sat 6th : (AM) Petersburg, VA ; William Gordon McCabe
Sat 6th : (PM) Lynchburg, VA ; Anne Spencer House
Sun 7th : (AM) Roanoke, VA; Lee Buckner Hanes, spl
Sun 7th : (PM) Christiansburg, VA ; Ruby Roberts, spl
Mon 8th : (AM) Oxford NC ; Thaddeus Stem, Jr.
Mon 8th : (PM) Chapel Hill, NC ; Paul Eliot Green
Tues 9th : Greensboro, NC ; Randall Jarrell
Tues 9th : (PM) Hillsborough, NC ; Gov. Thomas Burke
Wed 10th : (AM) Moravian Falls, NC ; James Larkin Pearson, spl
Wed 10th : (PM) Rutherford College ; Rev. Arthur Talmage Abernethy, spl
Wed 10th : Black Mountain School Campus
Thur 11 : Asheville, NC ; Black Mountain School Museum
Fri 12th : Hendersonville, NC ; Sandburg House ; Carl Sandburg was IL spl
Fri 12th : (PM) Spartanburg, NC : Margaret Lathrop Law
Sat 13th : AM Southern Pines, NC STATE BASH ; Samuel T. Ragan, spl
Sat 13th : (PM) Spring Hill; NC ; John Charles McNeill, unofficial spl
Sun 14th: (AM) Hampton Plantation ; Archibald Rutledge, spl
Sun 14th : (PM) Sullivan's Island ; & POE TAVERN
Mon 15th : Charleston, SC STATE BASH Helen Hyer, spl
Katherine Simons, DuBose Heyward
Tues 16th : (AM) Aiken, SC ; James Matthews Legare
Tues 16th: (2 PM) Augusta, GA ; Starkey Flythe, Jr.
Wed 17th : (AM) Forsyth, GA : Agnes Bramblett, spl
Wed 17th : (PM) Zetella, GA ; Bettie Mixon Sellers, spl
Thur 18th : (AM) Atlanta, GA : Frank Stanton, spl
Thur 18th : (PM) Atlanta, GA STATE BASH ; Albery Whitman
Fri 19th : Drive to Mobile / Rest Day
Sat 20th : Mobile Alabama BASH ; Eugene Walter
Sunday : New Orleans ; Everette Maddox; Stan Rice
Mon 22 : (PM) , Hubert Creekmore ; Forest, MS; Turner Cassity
Tue 23rd :Jackson, MS State BASH ; Margaret Walker
Wed 24 : Greenville, MS ; Maude Prenshaw, spl, William Alexander Percy
Monroe, LA ; Ethel Russell, spl
Thur 25 : DeRidder, LA ; Ahmos Zu-Bolton
Fri 26 : Dallas, TX BASH ; Grace Crowell, spl
Sat 27 : Caddo, OK ; Annie Ruth Semple, spl
Sun 28 : Oklahoma State BASH ; Leslie McRill, spl
Mon 29 : Guthrie, OK ; Melvin Tolson, spl Nigeria
Mon 29 : Guthrie, OK ; Jennie Harris Oliver, spl
Tues 30 : Tulsa, OK ; Maggie A. Fry, spl
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