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New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914 - 1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies. "I asked Ezra Pound for 'career advice,'" James Laughlin recalled. "He had been seeing my poems for months and had ruled them hopeless. He urged me to finish Harvard and then do 'something' useful." Intended "as a place where experimentalists could test their inventions by publication," the ND anthologies first introduced readers to the early work of such writers as Tennessee Williams, William Saroyan, Louis Zukofsky, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Kay Boyle, Delmore Schwartz, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Merton, John Hawkes, Denise Levertov, James Agee, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Soon after issuing the first of the anthologies, New Directions began publishing novels, plays, and collections of poems. Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, who once had difficulty finding publishers, were early New Directions authors and have remained at the core of ND's backlist of modernist writers.

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Summer 2009 Newsletter

For the real deal, read it on our website: http://www.ndpublishing.com/newsletter.htmlNEWS & EVENTS :- New Directions Party! (The aftermath)- Awards: Evilio Rosero, Jeffrey Yang, William Carlos Willia...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:30:00 GMT

MAY 2009 NEWSLETTER: Rosales, Rabassa, Bolaño & more

MAY 2009 NEWSLETTERMyspace has been doing funny things to our html, so if you want the real version (with pictures & links) please visit our website: http://www.ndpublishing.com/newsletter.htmlNEWS & ...
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NEW DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER: April 2009

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MARCH 2009 NEWSLETTER

.. MARCH 2009 NEWSLETTER IN THE NEWS: - Feature: In Celebration of...
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DECEMBER 2008 NEWSLETTER

.. .. DECEMBER 2008 NEWSLETTER IN THIS ISSUE: FEATURED TITLE: - Christmas Poem...
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NEW DIRECTIONS NEWSLETTER: November 2008

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Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:39:00 GMT

JULY/AUGUST 2008 NEWSLETTER

Read it online at http://www.ndpublishing.com/newsletter/2008/07.htmlIN THIS ISSUE:NEWS & REVIEWS:- New Faces at New Directions- Summer Awards Round-Up- Coral Bracho, Forrest Gander, and Peter Col...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:59:00 GMT

JUNE 2008 NEWSLETTER: Moya, Howe, Patchen...

Read it our website, in full html format, at: http://www. ndpublishing. com/newsletter/2008/06. htmlIN THIS ISSUE:NEWS & REVIEWS:- ND at the BEA- Horacio Castellanos Moya on Tour- ND Authors at th...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 08:51:00 GMT

MAY 2008 NEWSLETTER: Kluge, Snyder, Pound, and more...

MAY 2008 NEWSLETTER: Read it on our website at http://www.ndpublishing.com/newsletter.htmlIN THIS ISSUE:NEWS & REVIEWS:- Kluge Wins LIfetime Achievement Award- Snyder Wins 2008 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize...
Posted by on Thu, 01 May 2008 17:46:00 GMT

APRIL NEWSLETTER: Ferlinghetti, Howe, Mackey & more

Read our newsletter in all its glory - pictures, links, and all - at http://www.ndpublishing.com/newsletter.htmlIN THIS ISSUE:NEWS & REVIEWS:- Lawrence Ferlinghetti Turns 89; Coney Island Turns 50!- P...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:47:00 GMT