Today’s Poem: Soul Bride Oddly Dead in Queer Death Pact

Franklin P. Adams’s newspaper crime-blotter recasting of Edgar Allan Poe

Édouard Manet’s Annabel Lee illustration for Stéphane Mallarmé 1888 translation, Les Poèmes d’Edgar Poe (Wikimedia Commons)

In Something Else Again, a 1920 collection of his magazine and newspaper work, Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960) gave us “Annabel Lee,” the 1849 poem by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) — as retold in the insinuating voice of crime reporting…