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...detract from the street’s sentimental value to generations of Crimson editors and also lead to material costs and difficulties, and Bhayani questioned the idea of honoring only one particular individual. When the proposal was first presented last spring, Dan J. Wuensche, the manager of Plympton landmark Grolier Poetry Book Shop, said that the logistical changes from the renaming would be costly. In addition to The Crimson, other Harvard buildings that would be affected by the renaming of the street include Adams House and Quincy House. Duehay said that while he may have underestimated the opposition...
...landmark Grolier Poetry Bookshop on Plympton, a former hangout for poets like E. E. Cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10 and Allen Ginsberg and one of only two for-profit poetry-only stores in the country, would have to spend money changing all of their mailing labels and packaging, and it may at first lose customers who have trouble finding the street with a different name. It could be enough to put the struggling bookstore, which was sold in 2006 after losing money for two years, out of business...
Standing in the cramped main room of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, manager Dan J. Wuenschel said that while he agreed that Halberstam should be honored, his store could not afford the logistical changes that would come with renaming the street...
...John Pyper, an Adams non-resident tutor and a local artist in charge of the underground press, the space was first established in the 1950s as a means of publishing left-wing propaganda and protest literature. In the mid-90s, the press had a close relationship with the local Grolier Poetry Book Shop and commissioned several poems from distinguished poets such as Donald Hall ’51. But when Pyper first walked into the press four years ago, he found the space in shambles.Today, the Bow and Arrow Press caters mainly to students who wish to create flyers...
...Someone like Peter Payack, who sort of thinks beyond the convention with very creative ideas of presenting poetry, I think is a kind of person who serves this kind of role very well,” said Daniel J. Wuenschel, manager of Grolier Poetry Book Shop, a local store...