Filter: Award Winner (23 people)

Esther Allen

Esther Allen
William Bronk

William Bronk

Linda Coverdale
Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley

Frances Frenaye

Tom Geddes
David Hinton

David Hinton
Richard Howard

Richard Howard
Michael Hulse

Michael Hulse
William Jay Smith

William Jay Smith
Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa
Davide Lajolo

Davide Lajolo
Alexis Levitin

Alexis Levitin
Ralph Manheim

Ralph Manheim
Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates
José Emilio Pacheco

José Emilio Pacheco
Gregory Rabassa

Gregory Rabassa
William Saroyan

William Saroyan
Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz
Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín
Louise Varese

Louise Varese

Leila Vennewitz

Barbara Wright

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."