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.