Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square

Poetry is honored every day at the oldest continuous poetry book shop in the United States. Founded in 1927, the original shop stocked mainly private press books, some poetry, and a sampling of avant-garde literature. Over the years, Grolier's has hosted America's greatest poets including: e.e.cummings, Marianne Moore, Conrad Aiken, T.S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mary Oliver, Donald Hall, Robert Creeley, and others. Donald Hall, the 2006-2007 Poet Laureate of the United States, has put it, regarding the book shop, "The Grolier Poetry Book Shop is the greatest poetry place in the universe. If we love poetry, the Grolier is our temple, agora, cottage, mansion, coliseum, and estate."