Yesterday, en route to meet my friends at book club, i stopped for a short visit at the grolier poetry bookshop in harvard square in cambridge. We would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. John ashbery, robert bly, robert creeley, and frank ohara were regular visitors while undergraduates at harvard. He has cotranslated two books by the albanian poet moikom zeqomost recently. It would be easy to miss the grolier poetry book shop, located on a little side street near the much larger. Ifeanyi menkiti, wellesley professor who rescued the. Search for other book stores on the real yellow pages.
Grolier poetry book shop 6 plympton st cambridge, ma book. The 89yearold store, which only sells poetry, was called indispensable to cambridge. We stock over 15,000 current volumes of trade, small press, and university publications as well as books related to prosody, poetry markets, and spoken word cds. Ifeanyi menkiti, 78, of somerville, was a longtime wellesley college philosophy professor and poet who purchased the grolier poetry book shop in 2006, keeping it from closing.
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Grolier poetry bookshop in cambridge, ma librarything local. Founded in 1927 by adrian gambet and gordon cairnie, the original shop stocked mainly private press books, some poetry, and a sampling of avantgarde literature. This small book store is nestled in harvard square behind the harvard book store and is said to be the oldest continuous poetry book store in the united states. The grolier poetry book shop the grolier is an independent bookstore on plympton street near harvard square in cambridge, massachusetts, united states. Six massachusetts bookstores named in new york times book. The grolier poetry book shop has held readings for almost a century now. Grolier poetry book shop cambridge 2020 all you need to know. Website designed by grolier poetry book shop 2020 at homestead list your business for free.
Search for other book stores in cambridge on the real yellow pages. Down a side street from the harvard book store, the tiny grolier has been catering to the voracious appetites of cambridge s poetry lovers for more than 80 year. We stock current publications of poetry and its concerns books, cassettes, periodicals, reference volumes with some 16000 volumes. The grolier poetry book shop in cambridge, ma is the newest addition to larbs reckless reader program.
Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Today, grolier is the oldest continuous poetry book shop in the united states, and stocks over 15000 current volumes of trade, small. This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising. Grolier poetry book shop, cambridge, massachusetts.
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