Since its founding in 1969 by William Packard, The New York Quarterly has been devoted to excellence in the publication of a unique and fervent cross-section of contemporary American poetry regardless of school of thought, style, or genre. Our only concern is to focus on the craft that underlies effective poetry writing. The New York Quarterly features works by both known and emerging poets. The NYQ Craft Interviews present the views of some of our most outstanding poets on the general subjects of style, prosody and technique. The issues are rounded out with an essay or two on the subject of contemporary American poetry that is both accessible and meaningful to readers, poets, students, and teachers of poetry alike. NYQ 13 features a craft interview with Robert Creeley; an editorial about contemporary poetry; an essay, "Narrative Poetry: The Round Earth Under," by John Williams Andrews; "How To Submit Poetry Manuscripts" by William Packard; an interview with Tanikawa Shuntaro by Helena Moynihan; photos of Mark Van Doren, Peter Orlovsky, Allen Ginsberg, D. H. Melhem, Tony Towle, and Sandra Hochman; and poetry by Rochelle Owens, Stephen Stepanchev, Norman Rosten, William Packard, Helen Adam, William Mundell, Miriam Andrews, Philip Appleman, Linda King, Charles Bukowski, Siv Cedering Fox, Ken McLaren, Marie de L. Welch, James Lewisohn, Jill Hoffman, Herbert Krohn, Deborah Richardson, Edmund Pennant, Elisavietta Ritchie, Leslie Ullman, Marjorie Finnell, Michael Crawford, Rosemary Daniell, Douglas Eichhorn, Jack Weiskott, Diane Raintree, Martha Zweig, George Tarnawsky, Richard Pearce, Leven Dawson, Robert Hoeft, Elizabeth Klein, Jon Beckman, Julia Aldrich, Ken Smith, George Behrman, Tom Crawford, Lloyd Van Brunt, Jack Geller, Mary Richter McCartney, Mervine Lane, Albert Salsich, Lola Haskins, Henry Taylor, Yvonne, Arthur Vogelsang, Ronald Wallace, Carl Matney, Albert Drake, Charles Haseloff, Tony Petrosky, Christine Zawadiwsky, and David Dwyer.