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 41 features a craft interview with Anne Waldman, an editorial on Lincoln, and poetry by Karl Shapiro, Charles Bukowski, Michael McClure, James Broughton, James Laughlin, Donald Lev, Antler, Amiri Baraka, Lyn Lifshin, Macdonald Carey, Judson Crews, Harold Witt, Lewis Turco, Lynne Savitt, Albrecht/Siman/Eberhart, Christy Sheffield Sanford, Stephen Stepanchev, Victoria McCabe, Richard Kostelanetz, Lola Haskins, Desmond Egan, Robert Peters, Laurel Blossom, Anna Adams, Peter Blaxill, Christopher Brown, Sanford Fraser, David Levine, April Lahar, Robert Lewis Weeks, Carl Will, Orlando Warren, Terry Wiggs, Jeff Worley, John Urbain, Linda Tieber, Moulds/Rybicki, Terry Ryan, William Packard, Tony Gloeggler, Marc Olmsted, Patricia Farewell, Carolyn Slapikas, Michele Scarff, and Sylvester Pollet.