NEW YORK DAY BY DAY

Remembering, Evermore

F ew poets are more honored in their own precincts, perhaps, than Edgar Allan Poe in the Bronx, which annually celebrates his Jan. 19 birthday at the Poe Cottage at the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road. Moving into the village called Fordham in 1846, three years before his death, Poe chose what he called ''the sweetest little cottage imaginable.''

The Bronx has its poets today, too. Yesterday at the cottage, celebrating the 174th anniversary of Poe's birth, members of the Northeast Bronx Poets and Writers Forum read ''The Bells,'' ''Ulalume'' and a dozen other works written there.

For two years, forum members have been reading their own writings twice monthly at the Parkchester branch library. It was the childhood public library of Marilyn Gordon, the forum's founder-director, who graduated from New York University in Manhattan but has lived in the Bronx area ''over 40 years.''

Miss Gordon, an executive secretary at the Embroiderers' Guild of America in Manhattan, writes poetry and short fiction. She described the members of her group as ''lawyers, students, housewives, unemployed -from the affluent to people just barely existing.'' She says she dreams of ''a renaissance in the Bronx'' and works, meanwhile, for neighborhood stabilization. Robin Herman Laurie Johnston