May 2008
New poems by Spencer Reece, Jane Hirshfield, Seth Abramson, Liz Waldner, Sandra M. Gilbert, Cathy Park Hong, and others; notebook by Eavan Boland; exchange between Cate Marvin and Joshua Mehigan, and more!
New Directions founder James Laughlin published the brightest lights of the last century's avant-garde everyone from Pound and Borges to William Carlos Williams and Nabokov. In the November 2007 issue of Poetry, David Biespel offered an assessment of The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin. Images from the book are presented with Biespel's commentary. See the slide show >>