Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library)

The Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard was established in honor of Professor George Edward Woodberry. It was opened in 1931 in Widener Library and was moved in 1949 to Lamont Library. From the beginning, poetry readings, funded by the Morris Gray Fund, were given in the Woodberry Poetry Room. The Poetry Room now has assumed responsibility for recording all poetry readings given at Harvard. These include, in addition to those funded by the Morris Gray Fund (administered since 1939 by the English Department), the Corliss Lamont Poetry Reading Series, readings funded by the Kurt Brown Audio Preservation Project, the Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter Fund of Radcliffe College, the John Lincoln Sweeney Memorial Fund, readings given under the auspices of the Harvard Vocarium, and readings sponsored by the Poetry Room itself.