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 26 features an interview anthology, an editorial regarding the NYQ/NPF merger, and poetry by W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Anne Sexton, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Harlow, Norman Rosten, Stephen Stepanchev, Muriel Rukeyser, Robert Lax, Joel Lawrence, Charles Bukowski, Marjorie Finnell, Helen Adam, Andrew Glaze, Linda King, Ken McLaren, Charles Haseloff, David J. Dwyer, Karl Shapiro, John Updike, Richard Hugo, Jackson Mac Low, Norman Stock, Betty Cue, Robert Dugan, Diane Levenberg, Leo Connellan, Dennis Bernstein, Lola Haskins, Elisavietta Ritchie, Carol Purdy, and Patricia Farewell.