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Prose Discourse: Nonfiction
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Anne Whitehouse
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THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE:
Edgar Allan Poe’s Misplaced Youth

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celebrating the publication of Anne Whitehouse’s chapbook.
About the writer:
Anne Whitehouse is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Meteor Shower (Dos Madres Press, 2016). She has also written a novel, Fall Love, which is now available in Spanish translation as Amigos y amantes by Compton Press. Recent honors include 2018 Prize Americana for Prose, 2017 Adelaide Literary Award in Fiction, 2016 Songs of Eretz Poetry Prize, 2016 Common Good Books’ Poems of Gratitude Contest, 2016 RhymeOn! Poetry Prize, 2016 F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Poetry Prize. She lives in New York City.
Image: Edgar Allan Poe portrait with a sketch in the background suggesting an alter ego or a doppelganger by O:JA&L staff creative. AI assisted digital image. Proprietary Image. 2025.
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