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Two-day event to celebrate the glory of Grolier Bookshop
A two-part event next week celebrates the glory of the potent and storied Grolier Poetry Bookshop, tiny temple to poets and poetry in Harvard Square. On Monday, April 15, an oral history conversation will unfold with Fanny Howe, Gail Mazur, Carol Menkiti, Robert Pinsky, and John Yau. Lloyd Schwartz will moderate the conversation, which has been co-curated by the Grolier’s tireless manager James Fraser. The event, sponsored and curated by the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, will also include archival recordings and photographs from the Grolier’s near-century of existence. At an informal reception afterward, a pop-up installation will feature more photographs, some little-seen images by the late Cambridge photographer Elsa Dorfman among them. Part two of the celebration, on Tuesday, April 16, involves a Community Megaphone Recording Session at the shop itself. Between 2 and 7 p.m., visitors will be welcome to record recollections of the Grolier and perspectives on the place. Reservations are required. The event on Monday, free and open to the public, takes place at 6 p.m. at the Forum Room at Lamont Library at Harvard. The recording sessions will take place at the Grolier, 6 Plympton St., Cambridge. For more information and to reserve a time, visit grolierpoetrybookshop.org.