And wondering what the day will bring
New stories of those missing, those gone
And what their next plans might be.Amlanjyoti Goswami—from ‘Fresh fire’
Autumn 2020
Amsterdam Quarterly (AQ29)
Theme: ChoicesAn epistolary memoir of beat poet FrancEyE
by her daughter, Irene Hoge SmithAQ29 – Choices
Poetry by Stephen Boyce, Keith Brighouse,
Peter Neil Carroll, Jennifer L. Freed,
Amlanjyoti Goswami, Margaret Koger,
Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Cheryl Pearson, Pat Seman,
J. J. Steinfeld, Meryl Stratford, and Mantz Yorke.AQ29 – Choices
Art by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad.
Essay by Wendy Kennar.
Fiction by Pia Bhatia, Nate Ealy,
Camilla Holland, Juliana Johnson,
Gracjan Kraszewski, Mandira Pattnaik,
Judy Upton & Constanza Baeza Valdenegro.AQ29 – Choices
News about the AQ Writers’ Group
meetings during COVID-19
and reviews of Diarmuid Hester’s Wrong
and Bernard Horn’s Love’s Fingerprints
Welcome
Welcome to Amsterdam Quarterly’s main website. AQ was founded in April 2011 and 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 twenty-ninth issue (AQ29) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.nl or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.nl.
AQ29’s theme is Choices: choices that people make for themselves or which are sometimes made for them. AQ30’s theme will be Pandemic (reading period January 2021). Submit work about the COVID-19, AIDS, Spanish Influenza or other pandemics. AQ31’s theme will be The Classics (reading period April 2021). Submit work based on classical Greek, Roman, Biblical, or other religious/cultural stories. Work, in the form of sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, or other classic modes, is also welcome. AQ32’s theme will be The Future (reading period July 2021). Submit work about life in the near or distant future. Science fiction pieces are especially welcome.
Twenty-ninth Issue
Amsterdam Quarterly’s twenty-ninth issue is about Choices. AQ29 brought in work in six different genres. Headlining this issue is Irene Hoge Smith’s epistolary memoir of her mother, the poet FrancEyE. There is also fiction by Pia Bhatia, Nate Ealy, Camilla Holland, Juliana Johnson, Gracjan Kraszewski, Mandira Pattnaik, Judy Upton, and Constanza Baeza Valdenegro, an essay by Wendy Kennar, and art by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad.
As usual, there is a wealth of poetry about all kinds of choices by Stephen Boyce, Keith Brighouse, Peter Neil Carroll, Jennifer L. Freed, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Margaret Koger, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Cheryl Pearson, Pat Seman, J. J. Steinfeld, Meryl Stratford, and Mantz Yorke. There is also news of the Amsterdam Quarterly Writers’ Group meetings during COVID and reviews of Diarmuid Hester’s Wrong: a critical biography of Dennis Cooper and Bernard Horn’s poetry collection Love’s fingerprints.