both accessible and meaningful to readers, poets, students, and teachers of poetry alike. NYQ 1 features a craft interview with W. H. Auden; an editorial regarding the NYQ craft concept; articles on poetry awards, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, writing exercises; photos of Sexton, Wakowski, Glaze, Rosten, Gardner and Bill Knott; and poetry by W. H. Auden, Stanley Kunitz, Selden Rodman, Robert Lax, Eli Siegel, Norman Rosten, Richard Eberhart, Paul Blackburn, H. L. Van Brunt, Ruth Herschberger, Barbara Holland, Isabella Gardner, Linda Lahey, Elizabeth Yazzetti, John O'Connell, Mary Jane Fortunato, Stephen Stepanchev, Andrew Glaze, Siv Cedering Fox, Linda Krenis, Wendy Rickert, Ronald Hobbs, Robert Burdette Sweet, Anne Sexton, Helen Adam, Lawrence Locke, Susan Rowe, Catherine Middleton, Donald Lawder, Susan Schell, Marina, Thomas Victor, Jean Garrigue, Elaine Sutton, David Ignatow, Jeanette Fasciocco, Manuchehr Sassoonian, and W. S. Merwin.