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Poe’s Eureka: From Stage to Silver Screen

Posted on: December 19th, 2013 by
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Michael performs Eureka at the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival.

Michael performs Eureka at the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival.

Embodying Poe, Robert Michael Oliver’s one-man performance piece, opened to rave reviews in the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival.  “The Raven” and “Eureka: a prose poem” were two key ingredients to that success. Timah Ruth Elisheva Howard, Continue reading the story "Poe’s Eureka: From Stage to Silver Screen"

Poe’s Eureka –The Fundraising Campaign

Posted on: December 16th, 2013 by
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Few people realize that with Edgar Allan Poe's Eureka: a prose poem Poe successfully fused the language of science with that of poetry. His imaginative speculation, similar in shape to a thought experiment, takes his audience on a fantastic journey through the cosmos, but not as an uninterested bystander. The journey that Poe offers his reader is that of participant, a participant in a cosmic Continue reading the story "Poe’s Eureka –The Fundraising Campaign"