Haviaras, Stratis 1981
Friday, October 30, 1981
I will take this chair apart and build a tree with it. I will stick new leaves on it, new nests new birds new insects. The sun will brush against its exquisite limbs…
– Stratis Haviaras, “Tree”
Read this article about Stratis Haviaras’s work as curator of the Harvard Poetry Room:
Haviaras Retires After 26 Years as Curator of Poetry Room | News | The Harvard Crimson
When President James B. Conant ’14 sought to appoint a curator for the new college poetry room in 1932, he personally offered the post to Robert Frost, then at the height of his fame.
