How "The Raven" Became America's Most Famous Poem

Join us for this special book launch event with author Paul Lewis, on the 177th anniversary of the day Poe died in 1849. Copies of Quothing "The Raven": The First Responses to America's Most Famous Poem will be available for purchase and signing. What factors influenced the attention devoted to Poe's "Raven" from the very day when it was first published in 1845? Why was it widely reprinted, praised, criticized, and mocked during the following weeks and months? How has it sustained interest from that first publication through to the present? And how did Poe's "Little Longfellow War" and Bostonian parodies of "The Raven" figure in the rollicking rollout of America's most famous poem? Blurbs:  "Paul Lewis's QUOTHING 'THE RAVEN' is a wonderful romp through the sea of parodies that proliferated in the wake of the publication of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven' in 1845. Here we meet not the saintly, stately Raven of Poe's poem, but 'The Owl,' 'The Turkey,' 'The Gazelle,' and even 'The Bed Bug.' Gathering these parodies together for the first time, Lewis expertly guides readers through the chaotic world of Antebellum magazines and newspapers that Poe himself navigated. Lewis has written an absolutely delightful book full of both humor and wisdom about America's most famous poem." --Sandra Tomc, professor of English Language and Literature, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and author of INDUSTRY AND THE CREATIVE MIND "QUOTHING 'THE RAVEN' is a significant contribution to Poe scholarship and a genuine pleasure to read. Poe said that he wrote his most famous poem 'for the express purpose of running,' and Paul Lewis shows us how it 'ran' through 1840s pop culture and reshaped Poe’s career and reputation. The parodies themselves are fascinating, and the context Lewis provides for them is invaluable. This book is essential to understanding how 'The Raven' became America's favorite poem." --Scott Peeples, author of THE MAN OF THE CROWD and THE AFTERLIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE   <a href="https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/morrissey/departments/english/people/retired-faculty/paul-lewis.html">Paul Lewis</a> is a professor emeritus at Boston College, past president of the Poe Studies Association, the curator of exhibitions on literary Boston, and the neologist who coined the word “Frankenfood.” The author of books and articles on humor, American literature, gothic fiction, and literary Boston, Lewis edited The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789-1820, for the University Press of New England. His newest book, Quothing "The Raven": The First Responses to America's Most Famous Poem, will be released October 6, 2026 from Mercer University Press.

Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Victorian Science and the Beyond: Ethereal Evening Tours

The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air. -From “Haunted Houses” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Scientific discovery – and the promise of glimpsing the world beyond our perception – captured the imaginations of 19th century Americans. Join Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters for a special evening of historic house tours exploring the intersections of Victorian scientific thought, the lure of the supernatural, and their echoes today. 50-minute tours will invite participants to examine the unknown as we consider the Longfellow family’s entanglements with forensics and phrenology, early views of outer space, the spiritualism movement, and their pioneering use of ether anesthesia. Tours available at 5:00PM, 5:30PM, 6:00PM, and 6:30PM. Please note: This tour will include sensitive but frank discussions of 19th century violence, medical procedures, and drug use. Please use discretion when registering.

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

A Closer Look at Charley Longfellow’s “Japan Room"

Charles Appleton Longfellow (1844–1893), the eldest son of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Frances Appleton Longfellow, was a globetrotter and avid collector. During his 20-month stay in Japan (1871–1873), he purchased and shipped home to Cambridge dozens of crates of artworks and decorative objects for himself, friends, and family. Upon his return in 1874, Charley transformed the sitting room at his family home into a “<a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/learn/historyculture/japan-room.htm">Japan Room</a>” with the help of his cousin Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow (1854–1934). One of its most striking features was a ceiling decorated with more than 35 fan-shaped paintings arranged in a “scattered fan” pattern. Although Japanese art and decorative objects had entered U.S. markets by the mid-1870s, their availability and visibility varied considerably by city. Created in 1874, on the eve of the transformative 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the Japan Room represents an unusually early American domestic interior devoted to Japanese art and design. This lecture examines its remarkable ceiling of fan paintings, exploring their origins and arrangement and considering how this distinctive feature of the room reflects the ways Japanese art was displayed and experienced in nineteenth-century America. This research was supported by the Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters 2025 Art Research Fellowship Program. ————————————— Elizabeth K. Eder, Ph.D., is a museum scholar, educator, and researcher who has worked at the Smithsonian Institution for more than 20 years, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Museum of Asian Art (formerly the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery), and the Anacostia Community Museum. Her museum career has also included positions at the Walters Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the American Alliance of Museums. Her research interests include nineteenth-century American art; Chinese, Japanese, and European artistic influences on American art; the history of cultural exchange; and women’s histories. Her publications include books, scholarly articles, and museum print and digital resources. She is currently a Research Associate at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and teaches in the Museum Studies Graduate Program at Johns Hopkins University, most recently History and Philosophy of Museums (in Global Context). She is also Principal of Elizabeth K. Eder &amp; Associates LLC, a museum consulting practice.

Concert: Owen Mar

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://college.berklee.edu/events/summer">Berklee Summer in the City</a> concert series. Owen Mar studies tap dance as a principal instrument in the Percussion Department at Berklee College of Music. He plays jazz and Latin jazz, both originals and standards, typically with bass, guitar, and piano accompaniment.

Concert: Juventas New Music Ensemble

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. A free outdoor concert of contemporary chamber music. Juventas New Music Ensemble is a dynamic contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices. They reimagine classical music as a vibrant living art form, uplifting rising voices and bringing audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time. Juventas has earned a reputation as a curator, with a keen eye for new talent. Since their founding in 2005, they have performed the music of over 300 living composers. Their musicians champion these artists with exceptional professional performances that open doors.

Concert: Pete Smith

The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. Pete Smith is a New York City-based guitarist (and H.W. Longfellow descendant) who performs in a wide range of musical settings.&nbsp;As a founding member of Grupo los Santos (Santos4tet), a vanguard Afro-Cuban and Brazilian-style quartet, he has played New York’s Town Hall and concerts throughout the U.S., Cuba &amp; Austria. He has performed at the Berlin Jazz Festival and Montreal Jazz Festival, as well as concerts in thirty countries throughout Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. He has worked with Norah Jones, trumpeter Donald Byrd, Cuban trombone master Juan Pablo Torres, Andrew Hill, Kat Edmonson, Vince Giordano &amp; the Nighthawks, the Moonlighters, Madeline Peyroux, Natalie Merchant and Huun-Huur-Tu, and is a member of Michael Feinstein’s Carnegie Hall Big Band. In 2023 he traveled to Congo-Kinshasa (DRC) as a member of the band Opius Bliss—as cultural ambassadors for the US Embassy—to perform for and teach, play and dialogue with local musicians in Kinshasa and Kisangani. 2023 also saw the release of Santos4tet's 4th album "Santos 4".&nbsp;In 2024, Santos4tet was the recipient of a JazzRoad Touring Grant from SouthArts, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, which supported their 5-city tour of the Sountheast.&nbsp;Pete will be recording a new album with bassist Sean Smith (The Smith Duo) in 2025.

Concert: Yujin Han

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://college.berklee.edu/events/summer">Berklee Summer in the City</a> concert series. Yujin Han, a South Korea-born jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, studied at Dongduk Women’s University in Korea.&nbsp; She started her career as the leader of an alternative R&amp;B band, the Blowers, in 2020. She developed a distinctive compositional voice with the support of the CJ Cultural Foundation, presenting her music to public audiences. After moving to the United States, she continued her studies at Berklee College of Music with the support of a Presidential Scholarship.&nbsp; At the Berklee Global Jazz Institute and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice, she deepened her exploration of creative harmonic approaches and rhythms, drawing inspiration from diverse global musical influences. She has performed at Panama Jazz Festival, Medford Jazz Festival, Boston Progressive Jazz Festival, and a variety of venues in Korea and Boston. She was featured as an emerging artist at the 2024 Vermont Solo Jazz Piano Festival.

Golden Rose Award (Poetry): Marie Howe

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Marie Howe, recipient of the 2026 Golden Rose Award for Poetry, is the author of New and Selected Poems, (W.W. Norton 2024.) which includes poems from her four previous books. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Marie Howe's The Good Thief (1988), was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood, who praised Howe’s “poems of obsession that transcend their own dark roots.” In that collection, Howe’s oracular yet self-doubting speakers often voice their concerns through Biblical and mythical allusions. Kunitz, on selecting the book for the Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets, observed, “Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” Howe has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and NYU. She coedited (with Michael Klein) the essay anthology In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). She has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was the Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Howe lives in New York City.&nbsp;

Poetry Reading: Major Jackson

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including Razzle Dazzle: New &amp; Selected Poems (Blue Flower Arts, 2023), The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2015), Holding Company (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2010), Hoops (W.W. Norton &amp; Company, 2006), and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia Press, 2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. Jackson’s edited volumes include Best American Poetry 2019 (Scribner), Renga for Obama (Harvard Review Monographs, 2017), and the Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems (2013). He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: Selected Prose of Major Jackson, edited by Amor Kohli (University of Michigan Press, 2022).&nbsp; A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson was awarded a Pushcart Prize and a Whiting Award and received honors from the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Orion magazine, the Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry magazine, Poetry London, and ZYZZYVA.&nbsp; Major Jackson lives in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He hosts The Slowdown podcast, a partnership between the Poetry Foundation and American Public Media, and is poetry editor of the Harvard Review.

Poetry Reading: Regie Gibson & Lloyd Schwartz

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Regie Gibson is Massachusetts's first Poet Laureate, appointed in 2025. He is an accomplished poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator who currently serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Pedagogy at the Arts for Social Change. He is also an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music, where he teaches courses on performance and spoken word poetry, and an Instructor at Clark University in Worcester, where he teaches the introduction to poetry. His poems for public occasions engage complex historical and social issues, inviting audiences into the dialogue with hope and often humor. He is intentional about using poetry to create common ground and foster social cohesion.&nbsp; Regie is a former National Poetry Slam Individual Champion, was selected one of Chicago Tribune's Artist of the Year for Excellence for his poetry.&nbsp;&nbsp;He has co-judge the Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Competition&nbsp;&nbsp;with Marc Smith and Mark Strand, has been regularly featured on N. P. R. and has appeared on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Regie has toured with the Chicago Mask Ensemble, performing dramatic and poetic adaptations of common myths from around the world. He founded the LiteraryMusic Ensemble Neon JuJu: a literary and musical arts ensemble utilizing classic, contemporary and original literary text combined with Middle Eastern, Contemporary American and European classic music. Regie is widely published in anthologies, magazines and journals such as The Iowa Review, Harvard Divinity Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Spoken Word Revolution (Source Books), The Good Men Project and several others. His full-length book of poetry Storms Beneath The Skin (EM Press) was published in 2001 and received the Golden Pen Award. In 2005 Regie was a featured on the PBS Arts magazine- Art Close-Up and was subsequently nominated for a Boston Grammy. Regie has received his MFA in Poetry from New England College, and continues to facilitate creative writing workshops, performances, and otherwise augmenting literary curricula for high schools and colleges across the United States. Lloyd Schwartz (Sam Cornish Award winner) is a poet and scholar. In his poems, Schwartz often uses a conversational frame to explore intimate and familial relationships. His collections of poetry include Who’s on First? New and Selected Poems (2021), Little Kisses (2017), Cairo Traffic (2000), Goodnight, Gracie (1992), and These People (1981). His poetry has also been featured in the anthologies Best American Poetry (1991, 1994, 2019), The Best of the Best American Poetry (2013), and Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud (2009). Schwartz is the editor of Prose: Elizabeth Bishop (2011) and coeditor of Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (1983) and of the Library of America’s Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008). &nbsp; Schwartz also served as the classical music editor of the Boston Phoenix. Three-time winner of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Deems Taylor Awards, he has received a Professional Music Fraternity’s Radio and Television Award as well as support from the Amphion Foundation. Music In—and On—the Air (2013) offers a selection of his classical music criticism for the National Public Radio program Fresh Air. &nbsp; Schwartz’s poems have been selected for the Pushcart Prize. Additional honors include a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Somerville Arts Council, an Associates of the Boston Public Library Literary Lights Award, and a 2019 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Poetry. Schwartz has served on the executive board of PEN New England and is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where he has served as director of the creative writing program. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where he was the Poet Laureate of the City of Somerville from 2019 to 2021.

Headquarters of a Revolution: Washington’s Arrival in Cambridge

Explore the people, ideas, and questions that shaped General George Washington’s first revolutionary headquarters 251 years ago this July. Choose your path through this free, all-ages event featuring historic house and outdoor walking tours; family activities; film screenings; living historians, a Story Walk, and more. Free and open to all! The house at 105 Brattle Street, now Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, served as Washington’s first military headquarters of the American Revolution from July 1775-March 1776. Headquarters was a testing ground for many of the ideals, institutions, and questions that still define our country. This event will reveal Cambridge Headquarters as a complex hub of revolutionary activity, where generals, enslaved people, paid laborers, poets, Indigenous diplomats, politicians, self-emancipated families, and soldiers shaped history.

Poetry Reading: Tracy K. Smith

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This reading is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://nepoetryclub.org/">New England Poetry Club</a>. Tracy K. Smith is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, memoirist, editor, translator and librettist. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017-19, during which time she spearheaded American Conversations: Celebrating Poetry in Rural Communities with the Library of Congress, created the American Public Media podcast The Slowdown, and edited the anthology American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time. Smith is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2022 New England Book Award; Wade in the Water, which was awarded the 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; Life on Mars, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and The Body’s Question, which received the 2003 Cave Canem Prize. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in nonfiction. She is the co-translator (with Changtai Bi) of My Name Will Grow Wide like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei, which was a finalist for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize; and co-editor (with John Freeman) of There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Her memoir-manifesto, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul, was a Time magazine and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times is a nonfiction celebration of poetry as a source of courage and emotional fortitude amidst the many upheavals of the 21st Century. She is the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, and a Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Concert: Celia Sieckert

The <a href="https://www.nps.gov/long/planyourvisit/summer-festival.htm">Longfellow Summer Arts Festival</a> brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public. This concert is presented in partnership with the <a href="https://college.berklee.edu/events/summer">Berklee Summer in the City</a> concert series. Celia Sieckert is a classically trained cellist currently completing her cello performance degree at Berklee College of Music. She has performed as an orchestra member, chamber musician, and soloist in a variety of genres, playing everything from standard symphonic works and cello concertos to musical pit orchestrations and improvised singer-songwriter accompaniments. As her career continues, Sieckert hopes to focus her capabilities in folk and jazz vernaculars while continuing to interpret major works of the classical and contemporary cello repertoires.

5th Annual Juneteenth Gathering

Gather for Juneteenth to honor those <a href="https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/black-history-at-the-vassall-estate-special-history-study.htm">who endured slavery and seized freedom on Brattle Street</a> 250 years ago, their descendants, and the long history of Black freedom activism in Cambridge and beyond. This free, all-ages event is marking its fifth year in 2025! Denise Washington (#Pop-Up Poetry Series), a descendant of Darby Vassall, has curated the Juneteenth Gathering at Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters NHS each year. Join us for the Juneteenth Gathering, A Denise Plays Hard Event, featuring poetry, music, historical displays, family activities, and refreshments. All are welcome! 4:00-5:00 pm Community partner tables, music, refreshments, and activities 5:00-7:00 pm Speakers and Juneteenth <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/pop?__cft__[0]=AZYaQxQTykhx3ICLlm487HhV32BHOQg8slGnYNtmq5BS3jlseovbtkbqwCslIJjkV7upfK32GGZSyCy3BxUYap34vGllLZ2yz4RGVlYheowA8SOV82if8H0vv37z4ZOyIJ3JmFO1cIo733TPK_DJj8mM&amp;__tn__=q">#Pop</a> Up Poetry, A Denise Plays Hard Event

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters NHS

How We Remember, What We Preserve: Washington's Legacy at Mount Vernon

To mark the 250th anniversaries of the American Revolution and the founding of the United States, a coalition of local non-profits and government agencies will present Washington in American Memory, a seven-part speaker series at the Cambridge Public Library (and streaming online).&nbsp; Explore the 19th century origins of preservation at Mount Vernon, current conservation work, and the estate’s future, featuring:&nbsp;<ul><li>Doug Bradburn, President and CEO of George Washington’s Mount Vernon and co-founder and editor of the book series,&nbsp;Early American Histories&nbsp;</li><li>Andrea Sahin, Vice Regent for Massachusetts to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association</li></ul>

Cambridge Public Library

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