"The Big Read" is a National Endowment for the Arts project that invites communities around the nation to choose an author to celebrate. Tucson readers, organized by the non-profit Literacy Connects, chose Edgar Allan Poe. 12-year old student Forrest Zepezauer was intrigued when he read about Poe in school, and decided to commit some of his poems to memory. Next, Forrest takes us to the edge of the lonely, moonlit shore that is the setting for Poe's 1849 tale, "Annabel Lee"...
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