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 15 features a craft interview with Howard Moss; an editorial about NYQ type styles; an essay, "The Poetry of the Peking Opera," by John D. Mitchell and Emanuel Shwartz; "The White Snake" translation by Donald Chang and William Packard; "Publishers of Poetry" by Helena Moynihan; photos of Shiraishi Kazuko, Tomioka Taeko, Judith Sherwin, James Lewisohn, Rosmary Daniell and NYQ Board; and poetry by Claire McAllister, Edwin Honig, John Updike, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Hugo, Jackson Mac Low, Charles Bukowski, Robert Lax, John Pauker, David Ignatow, James Lewisohn, Leo Connellan, Constance Carrier, Jesse Stuart, Gil Orvitz, John Tagliabue, Willis Barnstone, Nadia Christensen, Gyula Illyes, Miriam Andrews, Susan Schell, Norman Stock, Ira Wallach, Mark Halliday, Catherine Petroski, Virginia Brady Young, Jim Brodey, James Barry, Ken Smith, Ira Sadoff, Ron Adams, Jennifer Humphrey, Donald Schenker, Fritz Hamilton, Frank Sanford, Beth Bentley, James Lee, Joyce Odam, Betty Cue, Richard Shelton, Lorenzo Thomas, Ramona Weeks, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Robert Dugan, A. A. Dewey, Nancy Scott, Julie Suk, Anne Fremantle, Olga Cabral, Herbert Morris, Madeleine Keller, Elaine Barden, Jean Balderston, Linda Krenis, Layle Silbert, Kathleen Spivack, Charles Fishman, Joel Sander, Rob Swigart, Stuart Dybek, Douglas W. Lawder, Drew Hingson, and Kerry Thomas.