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Welcome to Amsterdam Quarterly’s original website. AQ was founded in April 2011. Its goal is to publish, promote, and comment on writing and art in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the world. We hope you enjoy reading the work selected for this thirty-ninth issue (AQ39) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org.
AQ39’s theme is Generation. For this issue, we have fiction, an interview, news, photography, and poetry about digital infidelity, DNA, the environment, family history, Gen X v. Gen Z, orcas, senility, and pacificism v. war.
For AQ40, (reading period April 2024), the theme is Vibration(s). Send us pieces about music, background noise, or other aspects of your sensory or extrasensory perception. What do you see, feel, and/or remember when you hear certain pieces of music or environmental sounds? How have you been able to minimise the noise and increase the good vibrations in your life?
AQ41’s theme, (reading period July 2024), is Migration. Whether you have observed the annual migrations of birds, amphibians, fish, reptiles, mammals or the geographical dislocations and/or temporary or permanent emigrations of people, send us work that has moved you to commemorate these journeys.
Thirty-ninth Issue
Headlining this issue is an interview with poet, writer, and professor, Timothy Liu about his new book, Down Low and Lowdown: Timothy Liu’s Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues. In addition, there is gripping, unforgettable fiction by William Cass, Margaret Elysia Garcia, Zach Keali’i Murphy, and Marcus Slingsby as well as photography by Karin Chastain Turner.
There is also poetry by B. Anne Adriaens, Emma Atkins, Jane Blanchard, Joan Byrne, Naomi Foyle, Kevin Grauke, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Bryan R. Monte, Nora Nadjarian, Carl Palmer, Marcus Slingsby, Sharon Whitehill, and Mantz Yorke. And there is news of the February 2024 AQ 2023 Yearbook book launch and reading. Check out the feature article in the news section.
Forthcoming are reviews of Jane Blanchard’s poetry book, Metes and Bounds, and Matthew Brennan’s poetry book, The End of the Road. Enjoy!