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The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ("Grolier's") is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a "fine-arts" bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq. ft.), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the "oldest continuous bookshop" devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism. The only other for-profit store in the United States devoted solely to poetry is Open Books, in Seattle.

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  • The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ("Grolier's") is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a "fine-arts" bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq. ft.), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the "oldest continuous bookshop" devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism. The only other for-profit store in the United States devoted solely to poetry is Open Books, in Seattle.
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  • The Grolier Poetry Bookshop ("Grolier's") is an independent bookstore on Plympton Street near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Although founded as a "fine-arts" bookstore, its focus today is solely poetry. A small (404 sq. ft.), one-room store with towering bookcases, it lays claim to being the "oldest continuous bookshop" devoted solely to the sale of poetry and poetry criticism. The only other for-profit store in the United States devoted solely to poetry is Open Books, in Seattle. Over the years, Grolier's became a focus of poetic activity in the Cambridge area, which itself had, because of the influence of Harvard University, become a magnet for American poets. Grolier's became a point of call for visiting poets as well as a nexus of gossip, rumor and networking in the poetry community. Poets such as Donald Hall, Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, and Robert Bly were regulars at the store during their time as undergraduates at Harvard; the poet Conrad Aiken lived upstairs from the store in its early days. Numerous other poets, including T. S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings and, later, David Ferry and Adrienne Rich, have also been noted as store regulars.
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