The rowhouse at 1307 Park Ave. in Bolton Hill, where Scott Fitzgerald lived while he was writing "Tender Is the Night" and Zelda, while writing "Save me the Waltz," was being treated at Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt.

Edith Hamilton, headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School and author of several popular books on the classical era, liked at 1314 Park Ave.

H.L. Mencken's house is at 1524 Hollins St.

My favorite site is gone now, The Peabody Bookshop and Beer Stube. Sigh.

Can an entire neighborhood be a literary landmark? If so, I nominate Roland Park for evoking the spirit of an Anne Tyler novel.

Westminster Burying Ground, for Poe's grave
Fells Point, for Laura Lippman's Tess series

If any neighborhood can be nominated for Anne Tyler, it's Homeland where she took her daily 7:15AM walks around "The Lakes." Some of us here set our clocks by her (until she moved and left us bereft).

Sid Lanier's (o yes i know them all quite personally) beautiful pink bouldeer cemetery marker , Greenmount cemetery (north side of the cemetery nr, North Ave., 1/2 way up the hill)- his bronze bust at Johns Hopkins nr. tennis courts on Chas St.)

Lizette Reese's grave and the wonderful Yeatsian inscription there on- St. ? Episcopal, Greenmount at 30th

places where poet/genii are RIGHT NOW- their homes- or, like Normls Book Store where you can find surreal poets, Blaster Al Ackerman and Rupert Wondolowski- or just arrange a visit with the Tinklers- Chris Mason and Chas Brohawn- their visionary house- let's remember the living!!

MINAS shop on 36th st. in Hampden- Constantine Minas and wife, Peggy, are the premier Baltimore poetry reading hosts and a wonderful shop

There's going to be a tour of "The Wire" filming spots some day- I've already given a couple- such poetry- the poetry of the hood; talk to Felicia Pearson! Yo!

to eds- you dobn't have to include this- but I refer readers to Dan Cuddy and Dave Eberhardt's essay "Baltimore Poetry Scene- 1967-2007" in the Loch Raven Review- we talk abt a lot of sites

i'm sorry- i see that you ask for maryland sites- wow- that broadens it out- but here's couple of more baltimore sites:

naturally, you must go to Ft. McHenry and bawl yr. nationalistic eyes out screaming the Francis Scott Key poem as the movie ends and they draw open the shades to reveal?!?!? a humongus AMERICAN FLAG!!!

baltimore city jail where abolitionist, edited abolition newletter- 1850's,Wm L Garrison, wrote a very moving anti slavery poem

as to the whole state? Fitzgerald grave in Rockville; Fritchie home in Frederick- pleez go directly there after ft mchenry ("Shoot if you must this old grey head...) (stand in street and wave yr. flag for passerbys) ; all Poe sites; Antietam Battlefield on a guided tour (believe me you will start feeling poetic- "Battle Hymn of the Republic" words, for ex.)another balto one- go to statue of black songstress, Billie Holliday- recite the woreds to "Strange Fruit"!

nothing could be quirkier than the poe house!

I thought of a couple of Baltimore County ones:

Lt. Harry Campbell's Civil War memoir- don't you love the part where he blows up (dynamites) the Towson postal line? Go find the ruins of his estate at Loch Raven Resevoir.

I always think of Lincoln on his trip up the North Central rail line- rehearsing? composing the GETTYSBURG address!?!?!?!?

John Smith and the Bay- he wrote about his travels and a water trail is in progress; Frederic Douglas sites in Balto and Eastern Shore- his memoir; (the Nat Turner diary was published in Baltimore);
Langston Hughes wrote a poem abt. his bad experiences in Baltimore- but I don't remember that he said where; Mencken of course- maybe the Menkcen rm at the Pratt- (many first editions there)