I am so delighted to be able to share this with you, not ust because it ties in so well to National Poetry Month, which is right around the corner, but because I do love Edgar Allan Poe, not just for his short stories but for his poetry, which sends chills down my spine. My daughter points out that this is more the product of an obsessive and frankly disturbed mind than a romantic heart, and she’s 100% right, but I still love “Annabel Lee” and its doomed, fairytale quality.

Thus when this excerpt from the soon-to-be published Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry by Julian Peters was sent my way,  I felt I had to share it. There are just too many people (and too many middle-schoolers and teens, for sure) who are ready to write off poetry entirely, and this is a wonderful way to draw them in. The book is a collection of 24 classic poems, not all (or even most) of them dark, but I was given permission to share with you all the pages illustrating “Annabel Lee”.