Filter: Contemporary literature (49 people)

Esther Allen

Esther Allen
John Allman

John Allman
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca
John Banville

John Banville
Willis Barnstone

Willis Barnstone
Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite
Andrei Codrescu

Andrei Codrescu
Peter Cole

Peter Cole
Robert Coles

Robert Coles
Robyn Creswell

Robyn Creswell
Edwidge Danticat

Edwidge Danticat
William Empson

William Empson
Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Forrest Gander

Forrest Gander
Allen Grossman

Allen Grossman

Toming Jun Liu
Sue Monk Kidd

Sue Monk Kidd
Rosalie Knecht

Rosalie Knecht
Enrique Lihn

Enrique Lihn
Alfred MacAdam

Alfred MacAdam
Bonnie S. MacDougall

Bonnie S. MacDougall
Nathaniel Mackey

Nathaniel Mackey

Javier Marías
Breon Mitchell

Breon Mitchell
Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov
Sawako Nakayasu

Sawako Nakayasu
Victor Pelevin

Victor Pelevin
Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff
Evelio Rosero

Evelio Rosero

G. Schwebell
John Scott

John Scott
Aharon Shabtai

Aharon Shabtai
Katherine Silver

Katherine Silver
Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder
George Steiner

George Steiner
Antonio Tabucchi

Antonio Tabucchi
Nathaniel Tarn

Nathaniel Tarn
Yoko Tawada

Yoko Tawada
Charles Tomlinson

Charles Tomlinson
Tomas Tranströmer

Tomas Tranströmer
Yūko Tsushima

Yūko Tsushima
Frederic Tuten

Frederic Tuten
Dubravka Ugresic

Dubravka Ugresic

Leila Vennewitz
Enrique Vila-Matas

Enrique Vila-Matas
Rosmarie Waldrop

Rosmarie Waldrop
Eliot Weinberger

Eliot Weinberger
Paul West

Paul West

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."