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 25 features a craft interview with Amiri Baraka, an editorial on the history of NYQ, and poetry by May Sarton, Russell Edson, Lola Haskins, Donald Lev, Andrew Harvey, Charles Bukowski, Albert Santoli, Van Thi Van, Franz Douskey, Wesli Court, Barbara Ras, John J. Ronan, Joel Rudinger, Robert Siegel, Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Leo Romero, Elizabeth Patton, Mario Petaccia, Larry Rapoport, Robert Red Hawk, Nina Nyhart, Marc J. Sheehan, Chuck Oliveros, Jerome Sala, Joan Colby, Antonio Cisneros, MacDonnell Gordon, Leonard Gilley, James McGlyn, Ron Lanyi, Carol Henrie, William Slaughter, David Wann, David Tucker, Tom Hansen, Jim Hall, Madeleine Hennessy, Nixeon Civille Handy, David Kirby, Ernest Kroll, John Kay, Alan Lewis, Dorothy Lee, Charles Vandersee, Donna M. Lane, Lois Lindblad, Paul Jenkins, Vivian Jokl, R. A. Johnson, Walter McDonald, Jane P. Moreland, Jerry McGuire, Phillip McCaffrey, Hastings Wyman Jr., Paul Weinman, Mark D. Miller, Patrick A. Milliken, Keith Moul, Linda Moyer, Morrie Warshawski, Roberta Metz, David Dayton, Jack Driscoll, Anne Webster, and Carol Tarlen.