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...confident of their ability to produce it. City Poet recalls an era when a dispute over the relative merits of Eliot and Stevens could strain a friendship, when a pro-Yeats faction at the Advocate battled with a pro-Auden contingent of modernist mavericks, and when the smoke-filled Grolier Bookshop was a bona-fide artists' hangout. All of these pretensious goings-on would be laughable if they hadn't spawned some of the most talented artists in the nation, and Gooch does an excellent job of evoking the air of social frivolity that surrounded these innovative discussions...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Parties and Poetry | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...bookstores have always been the cornerstones of Harvard Square life. The legend is true--there are more bookstores per square foot here than in any other neighborhood in America. We have the nation's biggest poetry bookstore (Grolier's) and the largest foreign bookstore (Schoenhof's). We also have a few chain bookstores that can be found in any suburban mall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Square Change | 3/3/1993 | See Source »

Louisa Solano, who owns the Grolier PoetryBookshop, said that her father instilled a love ofbooks in his children, many of whom have gone onto careers in publishing and academia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Language Professor Louis Solano, 88, Dies | 8/11/1992 | See Source »

...Square also has its share of specialty bookstores. Wedged next to Harvard Book-store is Grolier Books, which specializes in poetry. A tiny store crammed to the top of its high walls with poetry books, Grolier is also well-known for its mascot of sorts, a sad-looking, mild-mannered dog who usually sits in front of the store's Plympton Street entrance...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bookstores Draw Bargain-Hunters And Browsers to Harvard Square | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

What Kevin calls "the failure of Harvard to provide a community of writers" compelled him to join the Dark Room. He met Thomas Ellis in the Grolier Bookshop, and Ellis and Ellis introduced Kevin to the group after reading some of Kevin's poetry. Kevin states that mission of the Dark Room is to create a community "to help young writers while honoring our living ancestors." In connection with the Dark Room, Kevin has repeatedly travelled to New York where he read at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and mosaic-Books. "I can leave Harvard...

Author: By Kelly A. E. mason, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Poet Who Is Wary of the 'Burden of Representation' | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

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