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 19 features a craft interview with May Swenson, an editorial regarding national endowments, an article on rock poetry by Barry Wallenstein, and poetry by Helen Adam, Allen Planz, Kenneth Pitchford, Jackson Mac Low, Charles Bukowski, A. R. Ammons, Constance Carrier, Leo Connellan, William De Voti, Eli Siegel, Peter Viereck, Judson Jerome, June Jordan, Ruth Herschberger, Louis Ginsberg, Stephen Stepanchev, Erica Jong, Harold Witt, William Mundell, John Pauker, Donald Lev, Lee Bartlett, William Baer Jr., Tom Crawford, S. K. Carew, Helen Chasin, Emily Chewning, Franz Douskey, Ron Federighi, Patricia Eakins, David Goodstein, Marjorie Finnell, Dorsha Hayes, Rachel Hadas, William Kushner, Julia Lebentritt, Ruth Lake, J. T. Ledbetter, Tamara Watson, Robert D. Swets, Bruce Smith, Norman Stock, Mary Kathryn Stillwell, H. L. Van Brunt, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Chris Petrakos, Michael Reck, Sheila Raeschild, Susan Zeni, and Jeffrey Greene.