From the Editor

Abstract

I'd like to begin by thanking the following outgoing members of the editorial board for their service to the Edgar Allan Poe Review over the past few years: Noelle Baker, Mary DeJong, Kevin Hayes, Johan Wijkmark, and Brett Zimmerman. I'm happy to announce the following new members who agreed to join the editorial board beginning in mid-August 2015: David Cody, Dennis Eddings, Kent Ljungquist, and J. Gerald Kennedy. We are grateful to have such a distinguished group of fifteen Poe scholars on our editorial board; their careful and detailed responses to submissions greatly benefit our journal.In addition to our “Poe in Cyberspace” column, a new column begins in this issue: a “Poe in Richmond” column. So much of Poe's life was influenced by his time in Richmond, and it seems fitting to bring the more obscure details of that history to our readers. While on a visit to Richmond's Poe Museum, I suggested that possibility to Chris Semtner, its curator, whose knowledge of Richmond and Poe is encyclopedic. I was very pleased when he agreed to take on the task.I would also like to encourage readers to contribute their responses to our articles, columns, reviews, and so forth by sending a “letter to the editor” directly to me at bac7@psu.edu. We have one such letter in this issue, and it would benefit the journal and our readers to have more such letters in the future.This issue marks the end of the sixteenth year of publication of the Edgar Allan Poe Review, and even writing that fact seems astonishing. I continue to be grateful to the staff at Pennsylvania State University Press for their hard work, copyediting, and advice on how to manage Editorial Manager—a sometimes-unyielding program but one that is invaluable to me as editor. It organizes, reminds, demands, and in the end, helps produce concrete evidence and reassurance that nothing got misplaced or forgotten.