The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe, America250

FAIN: ZZ-310270-25

Ballet Five Eight NFP (Orland Park, IL 60467-4907)
Julianna Rubio Slager (Project Director: August 2025 to present)

Ballet 5:8 will present The Curious Life of Edgar Allan Poe in April 2026, engaging students and the public with Poe’s writings—Eureka, “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart”—through filmed scholar interviews, a free Chicago panel, and standards-aligned classroom materials. NEH support funds the humanities components: scholarly advising, public discussion, captioned video content, and student access for Title I schools. The project celebrates America’s literary heritage for the semiquincentennial by examining Poe’s ideas about grief, beauty, and meaning.