Heather Hartley is the author of Knock Knock and Paris Editor for Tin House. Her poems, essays and interviews have appeared in The Guardian, Tin House, Post Road, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris, where she curates Shakespeare & Company Bookshop's weekly reading series, and teaches creative writing and poetry at the American University of Paris.
On January 19th, for the second year in a row, the infamous ‘Poe Toaster’ failed to appear at Edgar Allan Poe’s grave. Virginia Clemm (the pen name of this essay’s…