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 28 features a craft interview with Leo Connellan, an editorial about poetry and nuclear war, an essay by William Joyce, and poetry by Leo Connellan, W. D. Snodgrass, Gregory Corso, Charles Bukowski, Helen Adam, Amiri Baraka, Lola Haskins, William Stafford, May Sarton, Daniel Berrigan, Peter Viereck, Janet Cannon, Dan Shot, Andy Clausen, Andrew Glaze, Enid Dame, Edmund Pennant, Wing Tek Lum, Madeline Beckman, Kirsten Wasson, Mark Kaminski, Jared Smith, Mark Reinsberg, Chris Brown, Bill Durham, Andrew Harvey, Janey Waggener, Sheila Murphy, Donald Junkins, Dion Pincus, Rudolph Wittenberg, Charles Hanson, Henry Johnson, Pamela Laskin, Sanford Fraser, Robert Wilkinson, Joseph Gustafson, Nancy Scott, Jean Balderston, Mary Bemis, Keith Rahmmings, David Zeiger, Judith Kusnitz-Leibmann, Jim Daniels, William Jackson, Herman Gold, and Joseph Richey.