Poe sold his poem, “The Raven,” to The American Review and it appeared in its February 1845 issue under the pseudonym "Quarles." The poem's first publication with Poe's name was in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. Shortly after its publication in the Evening Mirror, "The Raven" appeared in publications across the country, including in the Alexandria (Virginia) Gazette on February 8, 1845, as seen below. 

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