I am grateful for the opportunity to serve again as the president of the Poe Studies Association, an organization comprising nearly 250 scholars from around the world with a shared dedication to advancing scholarship on the life, works, times, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe, both formally and informally, in our publications, conferences, and other exchanges of ideas.As we celebrate the fifty-year, golden anniversary of the founding of the PSA, I invite all of us to reflect on what this association means to us and what we can accomplish in the future. I am especially grateful to the PSA officers, committee members, friends, and donors who have and continue to support our activities and mission. The PSA has never been in a stronger position than it is today.I would like to recognize the work of our immediate past president, Amy Branam Armiento, for her outstanding leadership throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Amy saw us through a difficult period, managing not only to preserve but also to expand our Poe community. I would also like to recognize the longtime dedication of Paul Lewis, whose term as immediate past president was punctuated by the success of the Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference held in Boston, which he and PSA past president Richard Kopley co-organized and for which PSA secretary Carole Shaffer-Koros served as registrar. Our conference was truly international with over 130 registered participants representing sixteen different countries. Sławomir Studniarz and Cristina Pérez, our outgoing PSA executive committee members-at-large, deserve our thanks for their work organizing ALA sessions and assisting with the Boston conference, as do all who have served on PSA committees, chaired conference sessions, and supported the association. Finally, on behalf of the PSA, I give special thanks to our donors, and especially Susan Jaffe Tane, for her sustained support of the PSA, the Boston conference, and many of the international scholars who presented their papers there. I am looking forward to working with our PSA executive committee, which includes newly elected members-at-large Margarida Vale de Gato and Renata Philippov, reelected vice president Emron Esplin, as well as Travis Montgomery (secretary), Carole Shafer-Koros (treasurer), and Barbara Cantalupo (editor of the Edgar Allan Poe Review).It is my pleasure to announce the election of Marilynne Robinson and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney as 2022 Honorary Members of the PSA, the highest award given by our organization to recognize significant contributions to Poe studies and the PSA. The award includes life membership and a commemorative plaque, which will be presented to each of them soon. Their citations appear in this issue of the journal. Please join me in congratulating our newest honorees on this well-deserved recognition.Looking ahead, the PSA will sponsor sessions at both the Modern Language Association in San Francisco, January 5–8, 2023, and the American Literature Association in Boston, May 25–28, 2023. The PSA executive committee has voted to sponsor the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association Conference to be held in Albacete, Spain, October 4–6, 2023. For more information, please visit http://eventos.uclm.es/go/congresoeapsa3.I’m happy to announce that the PSA is making plans—in partnership with the Nathanial Hawthorne Society and university partners in France—to hold its next international conference in Paris in 2025! Please check the PSA Listserv and the PSA website for updates and details on these and other events as they become available. In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!For the 2023 MLA Convention, January 5–8 (hopefully taking place in a wonderful hotel in San Francisco), members will gather to discuss the works that Poe published in 1849, the year of his mysterious death, on a panel titled “Gold Rush! Poe and 1849” chaired by Emron Esplin (Brigham Young University). The participants and their presentation titles are listed below.At the American Literature Association Conference in Boston (May 25–28, 2023), the PSA will sponsor a panel titled “Teaching Poe and/during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” For two and a half years, COVID-19 has reshaped habits and routines, including the ones related to teaching and classroom environments. Almost overnight, in-person courses were moved online around the globe as cities closed and lockdowns were enforced. Students, teachers, and university professors had to relearn how to communicate in distance learning settings, as well as how to make sense of what was going on outside schools and universities.Bearing this scenario in mind, some questions come up: What can Poe teach us about confinement? How do we teach Poe virtually, in digital formats, through streaming? Possible topics include but are not limited to Poe, disease, and death; Poe and confinement; teaching Poe beyond regular classroom settings; adapting Poe stories to the current pandemic theme; and making sense of Poe during the COVID-19 scenario.At the American Literature Association Conference in Boston (May 25–28, 2023), the PSA will sponsor a panel titled “Maritime Poe: Seafaring, Oceanic, and Other ‘Blue’ Studies.” Some questions arise: Is the “shrouded figure” of “the perfect whiteness of snow” emerging from the cataracts at the end of Arthur Gordon Pym a symptom of an apocalyptic debacle of our inequitable and environmentally endangering explorations (and extractions)? Or is it a paradoxical trope, a kind of inscrutable scripture, signaling both our human and wild condition? Is it refuting or affirming the racialization of the natives found in the remote Antarctic? How does Poe fare in the seafaring tradition? What are the oceanic entanglements of narratives like “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” “Ms. Found in a Bottle,” or poems like “The City in the Sea” and “Dream-Land”? Do they resonate with histories of chartering and exploitation, colonialism, debris, and flotsam?Possible areas of investigation include readings of Poe through the angles of critical maritime studies (e.g., representation and operations of the sea in art forms and their interdisciplinarity and intertextuality), “oceanic studies” encompassing the nonhuman scale, depth, and layering of the oceans as new critical categories, archipelagic studies and their fragmenting and clustering of conceptions in American studies, or the “blue humanities,” explicitly ecocritical in their approach.As of August 1, 2022, we have 229 members. A very successful Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference left us with a checking account balance of $57,477.92. Due to COVID concerns, $9,054.95 of the Susan Tane Travel Fund went unspent and was transferred from Merrill Lynch to the checking account, leaving us with a very healthy balance. This year’s royalties from the Poe Review totaled $1,008.81. Restricted funds include the Leslie Dameron Award, $1,198.81; the James Gargano Award, $3,460.10; and the Quinn Award, $2,093.00. Restricted funds total $6,751.91. We have one CD for $10,010.15. Adding the CD to the checking account, we have $67,488.07, but deducting the restricted funds, we have $60,736.16 in available funds.Please notify me (ckoros.kean@gmail.com) of any change in mailing or email address. We welcome all donations to the PSA.