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