The Writer’s Center welcomes contributors to Amsterdam Quarterly for a reading in celebration of the latest issue. Readers include Claudia Gary, AQ editor Bryan R. Monte, Jim Ross, and Karin Chastain Turner.
FREE & open to the public. RSVP below.
About the Readers
Claudia Gary is a poet, editor, essayist, health science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal songs and chamber music. She teaches workshops on Villanelle, Sonnet, Meter, “Poetry vs. Trauma,” “Whole-Brain Poetry,” Persona Poems, and more, at The Writer’s Center, currently via Zoom. Author of Humor Me (2006) and of chapbooks including Genetic Revisionism, Let’s Get Out of Here, and others, she is also an advisory editor for the New Verse Review. Her 2022 article on setting poems to music can be found online at Expansive Poetry Online and elsewhere. Several of Claudia’s chapbooks will be available here.
Bryan R. Monte was a 2021 finalist in the Hippocrates Open Poetry Contest and the Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award and a 2022 Hippocrates Contest commended poet. His poetry has been published in The Arlington Literary Journal, Irreantum, Italian Americana, Kaleidoscope, Poetry Pacific, and South Florida Poetry Journal and in the anthologies Gathered: Contemporary Quaker Poets, (Sundress Press), and Immigration and Justice for our Neighbors, (Celery City Books). His book, On the Level: Poems on Living with Multiple Sclerosis, (Circling Rivers), has been praised by Philip Gross and Jacob M. Appel for its candor and humor. Monte edits Amsterdam Quarterly. (Photo: María Miniya)
A Best of the Net nominee, Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits after obtaining a graduate degree from Howard University and a rewarding research career. In nine years he’s published nonfiction, fiction, poetry, photography, plays, hybrid, and interviews in 200 journals on five continents. His writing publications include Barrelhouse, Columbia Journal, Hippocampus, Lunch Ticket, Manchester Review, The Atlantic, and Typehouse. His text-based photoessays have been featured in Amsterdam Quarterly, DASH, Kestrel, Litro, and Sweet.
Karin Chastain Turner (she/her) is a Virginia born and raised artist currently working out of Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating Virginia Commonwealth University with a BFA in photography in 2021, she has found herself living up and down the East Coast photographing the everyday. Focusing on themes of escapism, closeness, and what it truly means to be alive, she uses both digital and film photography to capture a glimpse of the world around her in an attempt to better understand it herself.
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