AQ Writers’ Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary On Sunday, 17 October 2021, four members of Amsterdam Quarterly’s Writers’ Group raised a glass to celebrate their group’s 10th anniversary. Unfortunately, due to past Covid restrictions, the members hadn’t seen each other and discussed their work face to face since their last physical meeting in Amsterdam on 16 […]
Four Amsterdam Quarterly Poets Win Poetry Awards [Amsterdam] 15 June 2021—Four Amsterdam Quarterly writers, Jennifer L. Freed, Bill Glose, Sigrun Susan Lane, and Bryan R. Monte, won major poetry awards in the second half of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Jennifer L. Freed, (AQ20, 21, 22, 23, 29 & 31), won The Samuel […]
Amsterdam Quarterly Marks Three 10th Anniversaries in 2021 In 2021, Amsterdam Quarterly was scheduled to celebrate three 10th anniversaries. However, due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, two of these three anniversaries could not be celebrated. The first anniversary would have been in January 2021 and marked the 10th Amsterdam Quarterly yearbook launch party and reading at […]
AQ Writers’ Group Meetings Go Virtual Due to COVID-19 [Amsterdam] On 19 March 2020 the Amsterdam Quarterly monthly writers’ group meetings went virtual due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. This was the first time the writers’ group, which had met physically for over nine years every third Sunday of the month, (July and August excepted), […]
The Beat Goes On—Stratford Teaches Beat Poetry Writing Workshop [Palm Beach, FL] On 7 March 2020, poet Meryl Stratford (AQ 12-13, AQ 15-20, AQ 22-27) led a poetry workshop, The Beat Goes On: The Poetry of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Diane Di Prima, for the Palm Beach Poetry Festival (PBPF). Thirty years ago, Stratford studied with […]
Amsterdam Quarterly Celebrates Ninth Yearbook Nine A’dam/NL-Resident Contributors Present On 24 January 2020, Amsterdam Quarterly held its ninth annual yearbook launch party and reading at the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Present were nine Amsterdam or Dutch-resident writer and/or artist contributors—the most ever at an annual reading—and an audience of approximately 25. Readers included Nina […]
Amsterdam Quarterly 2019 Yearbook Launch Party/Reading American Book Center 16 Jan. 2020 (AMSTERDAM) On Friday, 24 January 2020, Amsterdam Quarterly will celebrate the publication of its ninth annual yearbook with a launch party and reading at the American Book Center, Spui 12, Amsterdam from 6 to 7.40 p.m. Admission is free. Readers for the evening […]
AQ Writers Read at The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, Maryland On Monday, 21 October 2019, four Amsterdam Quarterly writers read their work at the The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The audience heard from Claudia Gary, Hiram Larew, Bryan R. Monte, and Irene Hoge Smith. Claudia Gary read poems from her new chapbook, Genetic Revisionism: Poems […]
Amsterdam Quarterly and publisher/editor Bryan R. Monte mentioned in Het Parool On 2 February 2019, Amsterdam Quarterly and its publisher/editor Bryan R. Monte were mentioned in an Het Parool article ‘Boekenmachine: Eigen beheer. Van enkel exemplar tot toonbanksucces’. (Book machine: Self-management. From single copy to commercial success’) In a section, entitled: ‘Delen van kunst and […]
Amsterdam Quarterly Holds 8th Annual Yearbook Launch Party & Reading On 25 January 2019, approximately 30 people attended Amsterdam Quarterly’s eighth annual launch party and reading to celebrate the publication of its eighth yearbook at the American Book Center in Amsterdam. Launch party readers included Simon Brod, Darya Danesh, Amina Imzine, Bryan R. Monte, bart […]