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 62 features two craft interviews, one with Franz Wright and the other with Ted Kooser; an editorial on originality and poetry; an essay, "Scientific Thought and Poetic Vision," by Jared Smith; an essay, "A Challenge to American Poetry," by Antonio de Nicolas; and poetry by Franz Wright, W. D. Snodgrass, Douglas Treem, Gary Goude, Antonio de Nicolas, Sascha Feinstein, Andrew Glaze, Fred Yannantuono, Antler, Kevin Pilkington, Ira Joe Fisher, Christopher Goodrich, Lyn Lifshin, Tony Quagliano, Timothy Liu, Amanda J. Bradley, Michael Montlack, Scott Greenleaf, Jared Smith, Stephen Stepanchev, Bill Zavatsky, Melanie Huber, Mark Bibbins, Knute Skinner, Scott Bailey, Melissa Christine Goodrum, Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Ted Jonathan, Mookie Katigbak, Yoon Sik Kim, Reginald Sinclair Lewis, Scott Odom, Patricia Ryan, Jackie Sheeler, Virgil Suárez, Amber Tamblyn, Gael Miller, Michael Cirelli, Shanna Compton, Pat Farewell, Douglas Goetsch, Jennifer Gresham, Chris Dusterhoff, Víctor Rodríguez Núñez, Katherine M. Hedeen, David Koehn, Chip Livingston, Gerald Locklin, Matthew Yeager, Joanna Fuhrman, Jud Wolfskill, Richard Kostelanetz, Paul Lieber, Shelley Stenhouse, Donald Lev, Tony Gloeggler, Urayoán Noel, Stephen Herz, Donavan Hufnagle, William Meyer Jr., Justin Marks, Mary Reilly, Nicole Andonov, Robert Nazarene, Peter Arcese, Roger Armbrust, Amelia Ashton, Kurt Brown, Joseph Housley, Sommer Browning, Janusz Czubakowski, Neil McCarthy, Matt Rasmussen, William Baer, Emily Brungo, E.M. Schorb, Chris Tonelli, Michael Spence, Kristen Tracy, Claudia Burbank, Stephanie Rauschenbusch, Angelo Verga, Bob Watts, Daneen Wardrop, Wendy Barker, and Allison deFreese.