Poundians will be interested in the MLA session on "James Laughlin of New
Directions" that will take place in San Francisco on Tuesday, December 29
from 12:00-1:15 p.m. in Union Square 19-20 (this is the room) of the
Hilton Hotel; it is Session 537 in the convention program.  Here are the
speakers and titles of the papers that will be presented.  Hope to see you
there!
 
     1.  "'Sticking to Licherachoor': New Directions' Marketing of the
Avant-Garde," Greg Barnhisel, Univ. of Texas, Austin
 
     2.  "James Laughlin and Henry Luce Publish Modernism: The Case of
William Carlos Williams," Daniel C. Morris, Purdue Univ.
 
     3.  "The Publisher as Prosodist" James Laughlin's 'Visual-Couplet
Metric,'" Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Univ. of New Brunswick
 
                                        Yours sincerely,
                                        Hugh Witemeyer