…The mills / used to grind people small enough/ to stop caring that their hands hurt.
William Doreski—‘Winter Approaches Harrisville’
Spring 2020
Amsterdam Quarterly (AQ27)
Theme: Beginnings/EndingsFiction by Roísín Leggett Bohan, Susan E. Lloy, and Nathan Alling Long
AQ27 – Beginnings/Endings
Poetry by Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Colin Bancroft,
Keith Brighouse, Roger Camp, Joe Cottonwood
William Doreski, Claudia Gary, Gene Groves,
Robin Helweg-Larsen, Sigrun Susan Lane, LindaAnn LoSchavio,
Sharon Lask Munson, Antoni Ooto, Thomas Stewart,
Meryl Stratford, and Mantz Yorke.
AQ27 – Beginnings/Endings
Memoirs by Darya Danesh, Bryan R. Monte, and James Penha.
Art by Kevin Reid. Photography by Dianne Kellogg.
AQ27 - Beginnings/Endings
Book reviews of Claudia Gary’s Genetic Revisionism,
Erin Wilson’s At Home with Disquiet
and Margaret DeRitter’s Singing Back to the Sirens.
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-seventh issue (AQ27) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org.
The remaining themes for 2020 are The Weather (Summer 2020, reading period April 2020) and Choices (Autumn 2020, reading period July 2020). For AQ28 send work that takes place on a dark, stormy night of the soul, or on a warm, sunlit summer’s day. For AQ29 send work about choices: relational, financial, occupational, legal, etc.
Issue 27
Amsterdam Quarterly’s twenty-seventh issue brought in work in six different genres about Beginnings/Endings. Headlining AQ27 is fiction by Roísín Leggett Bohan, Nathan Alling Long, and Susan E. Lloy. There are also memoirs by Darya Danesh, Bryan R. Monte, and James Penha, art by Kevin Reid, and photography by Dianne Kellogg. As always, there is a generous portion of poetry in a variety of styles and formats by Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Colin Bancroft, Keith Brighouse, Roger Camp, Joe Cottonwood, William Doreski, Claudia Gary, Gene Groves, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Sigrun Susan Lane, LindaAnn LoSchavio, Sharon Lask Munson, Antoni Ooto, Thomas Stewart, Meryl Stratford, and Mantz Yorke. And lastly are book reviews of Margaret DeRitter’s Singing Back to the Sirens, Claudia Gary’s Genetic Revisionism, and Erin Wilson’s At Home with Disquiet.