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Edgar Allan Poe Cottage

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Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, East Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse, in Poe Park, is open year-round, on Saturdays and Sundays, and closed on major holidays. The house became a museum in 1917, and is now a National Historic Landmark.

Woodlawn Cemetery

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Woodlawn Cemetery is the final resting place for Nellie Bly, Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Countee Cullen, Clarence Day, Harry C. Fisher, William Clyde Fitch, Jay Gould, W. C. Handy, Frank Belknap Long, George McManus, Herman Melville, Thomas Nast, Blanche Oelrichs, Joseph Pulitzer, Damon Runyon (Memorial), Francis Hopkinson Smith, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Exoterica

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Contact: Rick Pernod. Organization profile: Exoterica is a nonprofit, Bronx-based literary organization now entering its seventh year. Exoterica means accessible to the public, and it was my belief that if poetry was presented in a certain manner, people would not only come but would experience a gift which Stanley Kunitz called, “life-sustaining, life-enhancing, and absolutely … Continued