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 46 features a craft interview with Sharon Olds, an editorial about the NYQ archives, an essay by Charles Webb, and poetry by Karl Shapiro, Colette Inez, X. J. Kennedy, Leo Connellan, Anna Adams, James Broughton, Ralph Bates, Charles Bukowski, Lyn Lifshin, Antler, Robert Lax, Andrew Glaze, Donald Lev, Franz Douskey, Knute Skinner, James Weil, Lola Haskins, Seaborn Jones, Red Hawk, Carolyn Slapikas, Norman Stock, Lynne Savitt, Linda Tieber, William Packard, Suzanne A. Solomon, Andrew Harvey, Jeff Poniewaz, Ethan Gilsdorf, Anna Maria Caldara, Barbara Unger, Alison Stone, Thomas Rockwell, Joan Halperin, Victoria McCabe, Linda Lerner, David Gelsanliter, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, Joel Zeltzer, Robert Freedman, Daryl Rogers, Maria Palumbo, Walt Phillips, Peter Murphy, Janet McCann, Robert McDonald, Joe Lackey, Cherry J. Vasconcellos, Dale Vest, Michael Swift, Judy Stedman, Bill Shields, Jim Jensen, Charmaine Black-Olive, Henry Gerfen, R. Yurman, Ivars Balkits, Robert Richards, Nancy Lea Gorham, David Gilcrest, Arthur Winfield Knight, Jerah Chadwick, Stephen Hughes, Oren Izenberg, Andrew Liss, Leslie Bridewell, Robert Funge, and Lisa Palma.