But his work in the library has drawn Haviaras into a number of other ventures, including editing, librarianship and even marriage--he met his wife Heather Cole, who is now librarian of the Lamont and Hilles libraries, in the Widener staff room in 1970.

In 1992, Haviaras founded The Harvard Review with a volunteer staff and preliminary funding from the Harvard Extension School. He personally supervises all aspects of the Review, editing all of the contributions, doing the layout, coordinating the international distribution and even drawing the small sketches that appear every few pages.

He will continue his role as editor of the journal in his retirement, though the coordinating editor will take care of all administrative matters.

The Review has always been a Haviaras production, said Dean of Continuing Education Michael Shinagel, who is the journal's publisher.

"It is a very elegant and eloquent extension of Harvard University in the field of letters," Shinagel says. "The quality of the work, the people who are invited to participate, in particular in the issues that are dedicated to a major poet: that's very much Stratis' work."

Haviaras's tenure also brought poetry readings--which had been suspended since World War II--back to the poetry room. He personally raised an endowment of over $100,000 that allows for writers like Bennett, Donald Hall and Seamus Heaney to visit for lectures.

On the occasion of Haviaras' retirement, an anonymous donor gave $25,000 to establish an annual Stratis Haviaras Lecture in poetry; Heaney gave the first address in April.