Word: solanoã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...immensely comforting to those who already knew and loved the place, it was an inescapable distraction to newcomers wishing to browse. Some people thought the store should have been closed after Cairnie’s death, while those who had been excluded before came back with threats. Solano??s feminist views also made things harder, especially because the literary industry was still run almost entirely by men. “It was a rocky but exciting road. I punched around a lot—it was good training,” said Solano...
What, exactly, is the role of this unassuming shop in the community? Solano??s self-declared goal is to make poetry accessible to everyone. It is true that professionals and students of poetry patronize the shop, but so do laborers, MBTA workers, post office workers, guards and those who have never even considered going to college. Poetry evidently has a wider appeal than is sometimes obvious. Solano has an idea about that: “Once a person has found even one poet or poem that really touches him or her, eventually a love of poetry works away...