“For nearly thirty years Howe has occupied a particular and invaluable place in American poetry. She is a rigorously skeptical and a profoundly visionary poet, a writer whose demystifying talent is matched by a passionate embrace of poetry's rejuvinating power.”
— John Palattella, The Boston Review
on Susan Howe
Semadar Megged was born and raised in Israel. She has been designing covers for New Directions since the 1990s. Megged currently works as a children’s books art director.