Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

New Directions@85: Anniversary Celebration: Forrest Gander, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Susan Howe, more

3 JUNE 2021 — thursday

City Lights Books celebrates the 85th anniversary of New Directions publishers, founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, publisher of numerous legendary anthologies and authors, including Andre Gide, Gary Snyder, William Carlos Williams, Yoko Tawada, Pablo Nerudo, and many others, featuring poets Mei-me Berssenbrugge, Nathaniel Tarn, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, and others, translator Elliot Weinberger, Barbara Epler, president of New Directions, Declan Spring, vice president and senior editor of New Directions, and other surprise guests, emceed by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator Forrest Gander, Be With, free, online, 6:00 pm PDT (Register to attend: www.eventbrite.com/e/new-directions-85-the-anniversary-celebration-tickets-151262318667)