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 39 features a craft interview with Desmond Egan, an editorial on medications, an essay by Harold Witt, and poetry by Desmond Egan, Richard Eberhart, Charles Bukowski, Macdonald Carey, Leo Connellan, James Laughlin, Michael McClure, Lyn Lifshin, Antler, Judson Crews, Gray Burr, Anna Adams, John Tagliabue, Michael Moriarty, Stephen Stepanchev, Victoria McCabe, William Mundell, William Packard, Arthur Winfield Knight, Lola Haskins,Tony Gloeggler, Jon Forrest Glade, Deborah Harding, Patricia Farewell, Cheryl Kaplan, Richard Kostelanetz, Yoon Sik Kim, Michael Yots, Christopher Brown, Lois Bacys, Terry Wiggs, Robert Lewis Weeks, Hale Chatfield, Sharon Weightman, Wanda Coleman, Rachel Loden, Irene Willis, Carolyn Slapikas, and Jean Balderston.