Word: solano
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...teenager in the 1950s, Louisa Solano learned to tell time backwards at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop. She read a clock reflected in the mirror of a barber shop across the street...
...Solano sees the Grolier’s financial trouble as indicative of an overall change in Harvard Square. She says that the “imaginative atmosphere” of the old Harvard Square has been pushed out by chain stores. And she complains that things like poetry workshops have almost all been transferred from the community to the university...
...Solano works to contribute to the literary community by promoting poetry through regular readings in the Adams House Senior Common Room and by awarding an annual Grolier Poetry Prize...
...good poetry does not always make for good business. And Solano seems to realize this as a page turns on her store...
...Solano hopes that the Grolier’s location will soon receive a blue marker from the Cambridge Historical Society, dedicating it as a historical landmark...