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 1 features a craft interview with W. H. Auden; an editorial regarding the NYQ craft concept; articles on poetry awards, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, writing exercises; photos of Sexton, Wakowski, Glaze, Rosten, Gardner and Bill Knott; and poetry by W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Selden Rodman, Robert Lax, Eli Siegel, Norman Rosten, Richard Eberhart, Paul Blackburn, H. L. Van Brunt, Ruth Herschberger, Barbara Holland, Isabella Gardner, Linda Lahey, Elizabeth Yazzetti, John O'Connell, Mary Jane Fortunato, Stephen Stepanchev, Andrew Glaze, Siv Cedering Fox, Linda Krenis, Wendy Rickert, Ronald Hobbs, Robert Burdette Sweet, Anne Sexton, Helen Adam, Lawrence Locke, Susan Rowe, Catherine Middleton, Donald Lawder, Susan Schell, Marina, Thomas Victor, Jean Garrigue, Elaine Sutton, David Ignatow, Jeanette Fasciocco, Manuchehr Sassoonian, and W. S. Merwin.