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 21 features a craft interview with Helen Adam, an editorial about self publishing, a tribute to James Dickey, an index of poets in issues 11-20 by Marjorie Finnell, and poetry by Helen Adam, Norman Rosten, Charles Bukowski, A. D. Winans, Eli Siegel, William Mundell, Donald Lev, Greg Kuzma, Judson Jerome, Franz Douskey, Stephen Stepanchev, Chris Brown, Stephen Ajay, Ronald Crowe, Lola Haskins, Vivian Jokl, Jon-Stephen Fink, Christine Zawadiwsky, John Allman, Ralph Adamo, Beth Biderman, Billy Collins, Carol Purdy, Elisavietta Ritchie, E. J. Cullen, C. Douglas Draime, Deborah Deutschman, Nadine Estroff, David Engel, Ellen Gilchrist, Nancy Grillo, Virginia Gilbert, Stan Jacoby, Brown Miller, Joyce Milton, Sharon Olds, Tom Crawford, Leonard Gilley, Peter Roberts, John Rosenman, R. D. Swets, Miriam Solan, Harold Theisen, Rita Valentino, Lisa Zeidner, Malcolm Glass, and James Dickey.