The NYQ is widely known for featuring poems and/or interviews with writers such as Charles Bukowski, W. H. Auden, Anne Sexton, Ted Kooser, Franz Wright, Karl Shapiro, Macdonald Carey, Richard Eberhart, Michael McClure, and Lyn Lifshin.
Lyn Hejinian | Lyn McClements | Lyn | Lyn St. James | SFK Lyn | Lyn Yvonne Abramson | Lyn Fotball | Lyn (Src family Kinase) | Lyn Nofziger | Lyn Lifshin | Lyn Larsen | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | Jaime Lyn Bauer | Carly Lyn | Tara Lyn Hart | Lyn Swinburne | Lyn Jones | Lyn Hagan | Lyn (Gjøvik) | Lyn Collins | Lyn Allison | LYN | Jennifer Lyn Jackson |
Other former contributors to the journal include, among others, Ai Weiwei, Louie Crew, Duo Duo, Ma. Luisa Aguilar Igloria, Alan Jefferies, Sushma Joshi, Christopher Kelen, Shirley Lim, Lyn Lifshin, Alvin Pang, Todd Swift, Amy Uyematsu, Alison Wong, Cyril Wong, Bryan Thao Worra, Xu Xi and Ouyang Yu.