New Directions 47: An International Anthology of Poetry & Prose

Peter Glassgold is the former editor in chief of New Directions.

Born in Sackville, New Brunswick, where her father was a Baptist minister and her mother a music teacher, Elizabeth Harper attended Acadia University before moving to London, Ontario, where she taught high school English.

James Laughlin (1914-1997) founded New Directions in 1936 while still a student at Harvard. He wrote and compiled more than a dozen books of poetry as well as stories and essays; seven volumes of his correspondence with his authors are available from W.W. Norton.