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 35 features a craft interview with William Stafford, an interview with William Packard by Robert Peters, an essay by H. L. Hix, some translations by William Packard, and poetry by Michael Moriarty, Robert Hazel, Charles Bukowski, Macdonald Carey, B. D. Trail, Thomas McGrath, Lyn Lifshin, Burton Hatlen, Stephen Stepanchev, Karen Swenson, Karen Swenson, Andrew Glaze, Robert Peters, Jared Smith, Edmund Pennant, Lola Haskins, Will Inman, Arthur Winfield Knight, Anna Adams, Antler, Richard Kostelanetz, Tony Gloeggler, Joseph Martin, Peter Morris, Victoria McCabe, Paul McRay, Edward Gold, William Packard, Valerie Russell, Nathan Whiting, Doyle Wesley Walls, Robert Cooperman, Catherine Brewton, Roy F. Barrows, Anne-Marie Levine, Therese Becker, Shari Able, Fred Abrams, Hank Mannheimer, Robert Funge, Bill Marsh, Joseph Martin, Anne Katcher, and Robert Greenfield.