The New York Quarterly ( NYQ ) was a popular contemporary American poetry magazine. Established by William Packard (1933-2002) in 1969, Rolling Stone magazine has called the NYQ "the most important poetry magazine in America".
4-490: After the death of William Packard in 2002, Raymond P. Hammond assumed control of the magazine. The NYQ was widely known for featuring poems and/or interviews with writers such as Carol Jennings, Charles Bukowski , W. H. Auden , Anne Sexton , Ted Kooser , Franz Wright , Karl Shapiro , Macdonald Carey , Richard Eberhart , Michael McClure , Robert Peters (writer) and Lyn Lifshin . The magazine also regularly published work by emerging authors. This article about
8-547: A poetry literary magazine published in the US is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Raymond P. Hammond Raymond P. Hammond is an American poet, critic and editor of the New York Quarterly magazine since assuming control after the death of William Packard in 2002. Hammond
12-588: The influence of "po' biz" and writing programs on contemporary American poetry became a timeless treatise on poetry itself. Using his experience with NYQ and devouring many literary critics across the ages from the ancient Greeks to contemporary critics, Hammond examines at once both our current literary environment and the essence of poetry. In seeking to answer the questions "What is poetry?" and "Where does poetry come from?" for himself, he encourages readers to ask those questions for and of themselves as well. This biographical article about an American poet born in
16-505: Was born August 31, 1964, in Roanoke, Virginia . Packard had "willed" the magazine by asking Hammond in writing to take control of the magazine should anything happen to him. Hammond is the author of Poetic Amusement . Originally written in 2000 as his Master's thesis, Poetic Amusement was passed around underground as a digital file for ten years among those associated with the New York Quarterly . What began as Hammond's observations of
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