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 18 features the first craft interview with W. D. Snodgrass (the second is in NYQ 61); an editorial about Laotse and the Tao; photographs of poet statues of Longfellow, Poe, Burns, Dante, and Whitman; and poetry by William Meredith, Robert Pack, A. R. Ammons, Helen Adam, Toby Olson, Erica Jong, Charles Bukowski, Linda King, Knute Skinner, Jackson Mac Low, Peter Viereck, Eli Siegel, William Mundell, Barbara Holland, Stephen Stepanchev, Siv Cedering Fox, David Shapiro, Anne Waldman, Leo Connellan, James Lewisohn, Rudolf Wittenberg, Harold Witt, Robert Clayton Casto, Sam Toperoff, John Romano, Lynne Savitt, Greg Kuzma, Marc Tretin, Virginia Bortin, Helena Moynihan, Judith Minty, Lola Haskins, Florence Elon, Tom Cuson, Jeff Wanshel, Norman Stock, Diane Raintree, Robert Carney, Charlie Lebeda, David Wann, and Robert Hoeft.