Amsterdam Quarterly publishes 13th yearbook; party/reading 9 Feb. ABC A’dam

Amsterdam Quarterly publishes 13th yearbook; party/reading 9 Feb. ABC A’dam On Friday, 9 February 2024, Amsterdam Quarterly (AQ) will hold a launch party and reading to celebrate the publication of its thirteenth, annual, print-on-demand yearbook. The event will take place from 4 to 6.00 p.m. at the American Book Center, Spui 12 in Amsterdam. Entrance […]

Amsterdam Quarterly Celebrates Its Twaalf en Half Lustrum

[AMSTERDAM] On Sunday, 19 November 2023, Amsterdam Quarterly celebrated its Dutch twaalf en half lustrum (twelfth and one half year anniversary) virtually during its monthly writers’ group meeting. (Dutch tradition is that the twelfth and one half, twenty-fifth, fiftieth, and every tenth anniversary thereafter are officially celebrated.) AQ writers ‘present’ for this celebratory meeting included […]

AQ Poets Claudia Gary & Bryan R. Monte to Read at Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD, 27 Oct. 2022, 7 PM

AQ Poets Claudia Gary & Bryan R. Monte to Read at The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, MD, 27 Oct. 2022, 7 PM Amsterdam Quarterly poets, Claudia Gary and Bryan R. Monte, will read from their books, Genetic Revisionism (Loudoun Scribe) and On the Level: Poems on Living with Multiple Sclerosis (Circling Rivers), at The Writer’s Center, […]

AQ Writers’ Group Celebrates 10th Anniversary

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 AQ Writers Win Poetry Awards

Four AQ Writers Win Poetry Awards 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 Allen Washington Prize, judged […]

Amsterdam Quarterly Marks Three 10th Anniversaries in 2021

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

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

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 […]