Thirty-fifth Issue

Amsterdam Quarterly’s thirty-fifth issue about City and/or Country features work in six different genres: fiction, memoir, news, photography, poetry, and review. Headlining this issue are 1980s memoirs by bart plantenga and Katacha Díaz about living in New York City’s East Village and an eco-village in Davis, California respectively. There is fiction about an inner-city teenager wanting a gold tooth and an Australian encountering a wild cat while camping in the forest by Katherine Gustafson and Karen Lethlean respectively, and a combination of city and/or country photos by Gaby Bedetti, James M. Hodge, Edward Lee, Susan E. Lloy, Kevin Vivers, Bob Ward, and Ray Zhang.

As usual, there is an embarrassment of riches related to poetry about urban and/or rural environments by Polly Brown, Claudia Gary, Jasper Glen, James M. Hodge, Sandhya Krishnakumar, Donna J. Gelagotis Lee, Timothy Liu, Uchechukwu Onyedikam, Evelyn Posamentier, and Eoin Rogers. In addition, there are reviews of Jacob M. Appel’s Shaving with Occam and Pat Seman’s Ariadne’s Thread, and news about AQ poets Claudia Gary’s and Bryan R. Monte’s upcoming reading at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland on 27 October 2022.