The New Yorker has an interesting interview up with Phillip Levine and Galway Kinnell about their careers, Vietnam, and their first publishing experiences with the magazine:

LEVINE: I remember Howard Moss [The New Yorker’s poetry editor from 1950 to 1987] saying to me, “Don’t you think we should call this ‘Conscientious Objector’?” And I said, “No, that would be inaccurate.” I was not a conscientious objector. I refused to serve. I was not a pacifist. And when asked that very question by the draft board, I said, “No, I could kill some people, but they’re all here in Detroit.”