Poetry and the mind of modern man / Conrad Aiken. - Answers to some questions posed by Howard Nemerox / Marianne Moore. - How I write poetry / Richard Eberhart. - Several kinds of short poems / J. V. Cunningham. - In search of the American Scene : a memoir / Ben Bellit. - A view of poetry / Barbara Howes. - Phases of my work / John Malcolm Brinnin. - Jack Gilbert and the landscape of American poetry / Jack Gilbert. - What is a poet / Vassar Miller. - Towards an open universe / Robert Duncan. - The experience of poetry in a scientific age / May Swenson. - On my own work / Richar Wilbur. - Some of my beginning and what I feek right now / Gregory Corso. - A frame for poetry / William Jay Smith. - Poetry as discovery / Reed Whittemore. - Towards a classical modernity and a modern classic / Teodore Weiss. - The poet turns on himself / James Dickey. - Attentiveness and obedience / Howard Nemerov.