‘Tread softly / ghosts tolerate temporal creatures / parasitic or fruitful / but barely.’
—Dianne Kellogg from Monotropa Uniflora
Autumn 2018
Amsterdam Quarterly (AQ23)
GenealogyFiction by Jo-Anne Rosen
Memoirs by Renzo Besozzi, bart plantenga,
and Rosanne TrostAQ23 - Genealogy
Poetry by Charles Joseph Albert, Shawn Aveningo-Sanders,
Peter Neil Carroll, Jennifer Clark, Joe Cottonwood
Jennifer L. Freed, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Barbara E. Hunt,
Dianne Kellogg, Lynn M. Knapp, Jennifer Davis Michael,
Felicia Mitchell, Bryan R. Monte, Joyce Parkes, Ian C. Smith,
Meryl Stratford, David Subacchi, and Bob WardAQ23 - Genealogy
Digital art by Dianne Kellogg
Photos by Foppe Plantenga, Bob Ward
and an unknown photographerAQ23 - Genealogy
Book reviews of Jennifer Clark’s Johnny Appleseed:
The Slice and Times of John Chapman
and Jayne Marek’s The Tree Surgeon Dreams of Bowling
Welcome
Welcome to Amsterdam Quarterly’s original 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-third issue (AQ23) and we look forward to your comments at editor@amsterdamquarterly.org or submissions at submissions@amsterdamquarterly.org. AQ’s next theme is Media for its spring 2019 (AQ24) issue. Submissions for AQ24 will be read during the month of January 2019. For this issue, send AQ creative work about how much you enjoy completing the Sunday Times’ crossword puzzle or how the pinging of mobile telephones in restaurants disturbs your enjoyment of a night out. Art, articles, drama and essays are especially welcome. In honour of our 25th issue, AQ25’s theme will be Amsterdam (reading period April 2019). This is the time to send AQ work about your inspiring visits to Amsterdam’s museums and concert halls, the Red Light District, coffeeshops, the Vondelpark, etc. To complete the year, AQ26’s theme will be Borderlands and its reading period will be July 2019.
Twenty-third Issue
Amsterdam Quarterly’s twenty-third issue on Genealogy turned out to be its second most popular issue based on submissions. Unfortunately, AQ could only print a few pieces on genealogical searches, family trees, DNA strands, and family photographs. Fortunately, however, AQ received work on a wide variety of topics and in six different genres. There are memoirs by Renzo Besozzi, bart plantenga and Rosanne Trost, a digital image by Dianne Kellogg, photographs by Foppe Plantenga, Bob Ward and an unknown photographer, fiction by Jo-Anne Rosen, and book reviews of Jennifer Clark’s Johnny Appleseed: The Slice and Times of John Chapman and Jayne Marek’s The Tree Surgeon Dreams of Bowling. As always, there is a generous portion of poetry in a variety of styles and formats by Charles Joseph Albert, Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Peter Neil Carroll, Jennifer Clark, Joe Cottonwood, Jennifer L. Freed, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Barbara E. Hunt, Dianne Kellogg, Lynn M. Knapp, Jennifer Davis Michael, Felicia Mitchell, Bryan R. Monte, Joyce Parkes, Ian C. Smith, Meryl Stratford, David Subacchi, and Bob Ward.