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Ifeanyi A. Menkiti, born in Nigeria and now a professor of philosophy at Wellesley, is the owner of the oft-overlooked Grolier Poetry Book Shop, nestled behind the more prominent Harvard Bookstore...
...Grolier, which opened in 1927, has struggled through several major financial difficulties throughout the years. Its second owner had just announced the shop’s closing in 2006 when Menkiti made the decision to rescue...
Menkiti, who can sometimes be spotted walking slowly down Plympton Street with a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee in hand, relies on his work at Wellesley to support his store. He is the first owner of Grolier to hire vendors to man the shop, he says, and his wife also stops by in the mornings to check on the shop...
...Grolier often invites guest speakers for poetry readings and recitations—events that Menkiti says “encourage a meeting of world poets and world voices...
...detract from the street’s sentimental value to generations of Crimson editors and also lead to material costs and difficulties, and Bhayani questioned the idea of honoring only one particular individual. When the proposal was first presented last spring, Dan J. Wuensche, the manager of Plympton landmark Grolier Poetry Book Shop, said that the logistical changes from the renaming would be costly. In addition to The Crimson, other Harvard buildings that would be affected by the renaming of the street include Adams House and Quincy House. Duehay said that while he may have underestimated the opposition...