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Pryscilla Hebel

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Managing Editor of Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social Cover photo @danielnemo.bsky.social

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Man is not the center of things. The animals too are envoys of the divine, voices of the universal mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know there are “underlying commonalities in emotional perception and expression” in all mammals?

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 3d ago

"A solid glass sphere becomes our planet Earth, a floating ball, or an orange in an orange dye bath... Nature, growth, essence." - Marion Röst #Paintings by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐨̈𝐬𝐭 in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #Finearts #Visualarts

Focus on Marion Röst
"A solid glass sphere becomes our planet Earth, a floating ball, or an orange in an orange dye bath. A garden full of surprises, light and dark places, a metaphor? Daydreaming, walking through my mind. Underwater, everything sways, moves. Nature, growth, essential. More or less recognizable, abstract, open to multiple interpretations, without a preconceived, fully detailed plan. That is how I work."
Marion Röst

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 4d ago

All our economic and environmental crises are fundamentally driven by an extractive relationship with nature. Look it up wherever you can, or at bit.ly/world-revisited #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know “animal farming generates more than five times the greenhouse gas emissions of all aircraft in the world taken together?”

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 5d ago

"To / be a safe house for secrets was the high architecture / of romance, I believed. I, oh no, might. The having / of secrets, the holding." Two poems by 𝐉𝐞𝐧 𝐉𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲-𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐧 @jenjblackburn.bsky.social in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Red Bead: Interiors

Don’t make me name the film. All I’ll say: interiors this red can’t exist in the world. It rains so much & the number of alcoves for sheltering in exists in direct proportion to the number of secrets & volume of rain. In the final scene, the man speaks the unsayable into a vacancy in a temple wall. A vacancy? Fuck it; a hole, & how desperately the man traces a single finger on its edge before he can even begin to speak. Of the wall, the hole, the hand, the mouth, the clean, sharp part of the man’s hair, the shadow, the orange light, the dust, the infinite & tender quiet— it is the secret itself that most asserts its thingness.

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last wk.

"The trick (the winemaker cries) is not to stop / as he prances, bottle in hand, / across the carpet of embers. / And who would not follow such a leader / into the valley of flare, of flash, of light?" Two poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞 in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Two
by James Norcliffe
Bach on the beach: Ruby Bay
Of course there is firewalking:
rockets above, cinders below.

The Dionysian winemaker shakes
his wild white locks and rakes

coals over the sand, coals glowing
like knowledge in the darkness.

Lord, have mercy on our souls,
the loudspeakers implore, and

choruses crash as the surf smashes
with rushing phosphorescence

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last wk.

Read an #essay by one of South America's most significant contemporary writers, 𝐑𝐚𝐮́𝐥 𝐙𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚, on the 𝐀𝐦𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 Substack. amsterdamreview.substack.com/ #nonfiction #poetry #writingcommunity

Funeral Rites

An essay by Raúl Zurita translated from Spanish and with a foreword by Karen Elizabeth Bishop

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last wk.

"Did you ever buy something from columbia flower market for the twenty second rush of pure virtue, / or walk down the regents canal eyeing up balcony flats that will never be for you" A poem by 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐲 in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

british english
by Harriet Bradley
i’m not being funny but

did you ever stumble half pissed into an east london morning when you’re sour like cranberry,
hang off the phone in a box on high holborn begging your sister to let you in cos
you lost your keys at the jazz cafe
in camden town

and stupid cow she screams but you’ll cop to it, catch the 23 with the loose change in your
pocket and stand outside in the sunday market waiting for the keys to land violent
at your feet, scoop them up fuck’s sake this lock is complicated

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · last wk.

"Each animal is surrounded by its own bubble of significance." - Jakob von Uexküll All creatures have a right to life. They aren’t just a part of nature, they 𝒂𝒓𝒆 nature. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know animals have cultures and strategies for social learning, especially mammals?

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Abusing and killing animals creates a boomerang effect for the whole world: animal exploitation by humans —> environmental damage and disease —> human suffering. Look it up wherever you can, or at bit.ly/world-revisited #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Can ethical treatment really exist in a system that ends in the killing of the subject after a life of suffering?

Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 2w ago

An important essay by @danielnemo.bsky.social in #AmsterdamReview about how literary gatekeepers marginalize unconventional writing and why we must embrace “literature as high-wire act, as revolution from within.”

Amsterdam Review@amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Power structures, literary ones included, have trouble making out what’s written in a language different from the one they speak." Read an #essay by @danielnemo.bsky.social in the Fall issue of Amsterdam Review bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #writing #nonfiction #poetry #writingcommunity

The Never-Beens
An essay by Daniel Carden Nemo

"Maybe the time has come to revive that elemental uncertainty of art. Because through art, especially through poetry, one ought to feel lost and vulnerable at times, as that’s evidence the art is doing something new."

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 2w ago

"There is nothing that can’t be solved / by complete and total extraction, / and there is no gravity in my human heart / to get strung out on." Five poems by 𝐁𝐞𝐧 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐡 in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

Selected Poems
by Ben Jorisch
Beneath the Bridge
I sit in my apartment dreaming
of the women I’ve been with
whose names I never knew,
their memories completely
undisturbed by their absence.
And the heroin in Washington Heights
is like a fine wine.

The television glows beneath the window,
with the George Washington Bridge lit up
like a crucified thief.

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 3w ago

The production, retail, and consumption of animal products, especially meat, are a destructive force not for a couple of reasons, but for ALL the reasons. Look it up wherever you can, or at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Are you aware that industries promoting meat and dairy products have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, even if it's at odds with scientific, environmental, or ethical insights?

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Islanders are people / who inhabit an island / You may find their accent / or language differs from yours / Get used to it" A poem by 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐍𝐚𝐨𝐦𝐢 @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

$Island: some definitions by Katrina Naomi Not sea Only a fraction of the land mass is visible see iceberg Doesn’t necessarily have palm trees Often has a feeling of inferiority but very good at hiding this see above$

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 3w ago

"It is a curious thing, that in observing animals closely, one sometimes feels as if they are attending to us with an intelligence parallel to our own, though built on different lines." - Charles Darwin More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know animals not only influence the living environments of the planet but also lead “complex lives that involve feelings and mental control?”

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 3w ago

"I was a stranger / ashamed under a wind-shaped tree, / and knew my life, / the recrudescence of it, / was in my hands." Two poems by 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐞 in the Fall issue bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #poetrycommunity

I didn’t want to be myself for a while,
or by myself—being me was lonely
even when I pretended to be
someone else. To lose myself
I went for a walk through the snow.

My fear of the future followed.
Of late it felt close at hand,
ready to stalk up behind me

troy farah @troyfarah.bsky.social · 4w ago

dang this was especially good @amsterdamreview.bsky.social www.amsterdamreview.org/whale-sharks...

Whale Sharks by M. Anne Avera | Amsterdam Review

Read "Whale Sharks" by M. Anne Avera

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Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Industrial animal farming is a destructive force not for a couple of reasons, but for ALL the reasons. Look it up wherever you can. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that dairy cows can anticipate positive events and show excitement behaviors when expecting rewards?

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 4w ago

Read an #interview with one of the greatest contemporary fiction writers, 𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐚 𝐂𝐚̆𝐫𝐭𝐚̆𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮, in the Fall issue of Amsterdam Review. bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #writing #fiction #novels #writingcommunity

The Möbius Strip of Reality and Dream

Amsterdam Review in conversation with Mircea Cartarescu

"If the words don't shine with all their power, if you don't send 'most of your stars out,' as Salinger wrote, everything is in vain, because for a real writer literature is more than a profession and even more than an art: it is a religion."

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo.

Our Fall 2026 issue is OUT NOW! Featuring #interviews with Mircea Cărtărescu and Diane Sahms, as well as works by Iain Britton, Angela Townsend, Marcia Yudkin, Kevin Grauke, Carla Schwartz, Jane Lockwood, and many more. Read here: bit.ly/AmsterdamReview #poetry #fiction #translations #amsterdam 🇳🇱

Amsterdam Review Fall 2026

Mircea Cartarescu, Katrina Naomi, Marion Rost, M. Anne Avera, Alina Stefanescu, Jen Jabaily-Blackburn, Daniel Carden Nemo, Gabriela Denise Frank, and many more...

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · last mo.

Can we only “live life to the fullest” by killing and putting these amazing creatures in a bucket, KFC? More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that chickens demonstrate self-control, delaying gratification to obtain better rewards?

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo.

"But maybe the meaning is / it’s all music. / Maybe that is what music is?" Three poems by 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 @stdougherty.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-sean-thomas-dougherty.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

What Music Is
Have you ever seen a Pomeranian goose?
One comes to visit me every morning
at the end of third shift. It's domesticated
& the people next door to our medical facility
let it wander. It waddles up to the walk
as I leave work: honk honk do you have bread sir?
Perhaps a fish or two? It's brown
& white & big & a bit pushy.
Pretty bird I tell it & it preens
like an addled swan.
I always wonder what the birds are saying.
How do starlings sway in their murmuration
across the sky? After do they tell each other,

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo.

"Doubt, mortality, desire— / You know—a comedy. Nothing / To discard from the slaughter ..." Three poems by 𝐄𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐲 in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-eric-pankey.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

LATE QUARTETS
The canyon walls’ striations
Wrought by water, by wind,
Reveal deviations
In the parallel of lines.

: :

How to integrate the minutiae—
The febrile marks, a torn web,
A ragged rope bridge— when
Each act of ritual distances?

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo.

"we come forth and sometimes singing. but no one / cares after the song or what promise, this thing / called faith. the revelation is always home-grown" 3 poems by @kebishop.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/three-by-karen-elizabeth-bishop.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

alight
i thought we were trees,
shrieking, dense, millenial. but no, we were hands,

we were ocean hands, blind,
fleeing, ignorant. unknowing we swept seawater into

speech, cleaving, the fugitive
madness settles, grief a feathered mouth, a mother

that stays, when we face
pain she says, alight, child, alight, we are torn, born

wanting. hollow as moon &
sometimes the fragment is a continent that floats

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · last mo.

Reducing a sentient being to a commodity is the exact same cognitive toolkit used to justify human atrocities, racism, violence, and exploitation. See it for what it is. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #biodiversity #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that pigs show empathy-related behaviors, responding emotionally to the distress of other pigs?

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo.

"She knew it was something strange / because if it happened to anyone she knew they never / talked about it..." Two poems by 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐂𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 @patrickcotterpoet.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-patrick-cotter.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Scenes from the Lives of a Girl
i
The dead leaves clung to the young girl. They leapt
from the earth to clothe her. The linden and the oak,
elm and sycamore. Every time she arrived home she
was met by her exasperated mother moaning about
the leaves’ flaky deposits in her hallway, the baby slugs,
the not completely dead aphids. “Why don’t you brush
them off before you come home?” Her mother presumed
electricity in some static form had a hand. She never
witnessed the looks of astonishment that greeted her
daughter all along the road as leaves swept themselves up
to envelop her, astonishment too deep to rally an insult
or catcall. Astonishment of a kind no emoji exists for.

Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · last mo.

"The capital of capital / is a city impossible to besiege. It moves, / after all, all the barons and pirates..." Two poems by 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐙𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 @janezwart.bsky.social in Amsterdam Review www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-zwart.html #poetry #poetrycommunity

Market Forces
When there was less, it was easier to tell
a story about why there wasn’t enough.
Inside the lion’s emptiness, the zebra’s;
inside the zebra’s, the field’s; inside that,
the sky’s. In the age of sieges, you could
draw a circle around a city and, just like that,
boost the cost of flour. And doors’ futures.

In the age of abstractions, a market force
can not be demoed in dominoes. Instead
the tongues of our sneakers tell tales.
In all of them, the capital of capital
is a city impossible to besiege. It moves,
after all, all the barons and pirates
setting up shop over and over, halfway
between a zeitgeist and the latest fad.

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · last mo.

Did you know the limbic activity of mammals draws their emotions into immediate congruence?

Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We sacrifice everything that’s real, the natural world, sentient animals, our health, our climate, to uphold a contrived paradigm that equates meat with wellness and prosperity. But MEAT is a linguistic shield. We eat DEAD BODIES. More at bit.ly/world-revisited #nature #veganism #animalethics

Did you know that empathy is measurable in many species, not just in behavior, but in neurological patterns mirroring human compassion?