SPRING 2025

The World at Arm's Length
​In conversation with Suphil Lee Park

​Amsterdam Review talks to poet Suphil Lee Park about inspiration, switching between genres, writing in a second language, and the themes and qualities that define her poetry.
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SPRING 2025

The Innocent Immorality of Things and Life
​Günter Grass in conversation with Marin Sorescu

Günter Grass talks to Marin Sorescu about his deep-rooted connection to poetry despite his global fame as a novelist. He explores the tactile reality of objects and reflects on creativity as both a spontaneous and contemplative act, revealing how poetry, drawing, and political awareness shape his vision of a world rich in contradictions, irony, and unresolved tensions.
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FALL 2024

A Poem as an Open Field
​In conversation with Victoria Chang

Amsterdam Review meets poet Victoria Chang after one of her readings at the 54th Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. She talks about her recent artistic dialogue with Agnes Martin's work, the inadequacies of language, and how we're simply waiting for art to wake us all up.
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FALL 2024

No Landing, Only Wonder
​In conversation with Carl-Christian Elze

Writing as an act of courage—that's the poetry Carl-Christian Elze wants to gift his readers. He talks about growing up at the zoo, sleepless nights in the Venice labyrinth, and how getting lost and not knowing are the key elements of a literature that endures.
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SPRING 2024

To Capture Thinking over Time
​In conversation with Elisa Gabbert

Elisa Gabbert takes us to the strange edges of art and culture in her new essay collection, Any Person Is the Only Self. The New York Times poetry columnist talks about the complementarity of nonfiction and poetry, and the latest influences behind her work. 
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SPRING 2024

Writing on Impulse
​Andrei Voznesensky in conversation with Marin Sorescu

Andrei Voznesensky on the representative power of poetry and carrying a people's spirituality through words.
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SPRING 2024

Lines at the Crossroads of Uncertainty
​W. S. Merwin in conversation with Marin Sorescu

W. S. Merwin on bringing the force of innocence into the modern world and "slicing more deeply into the great reality."
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SPRING 2024

Shades of Language
​​Elisa Biagini in conversation with Adele Bardazzi and Roberto Binetti
(transl. Caroline Maldonado)

Elisa Biagini talks to Adele Bardazzi and Roberto Binetti about shades of language, feminism, translation, and poetry as tapestry of the world.
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FALL 2023

Thoughts on the Beat Generation
​Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti
In conversation with Marin Sorescu

An exclusive interview by Romanian poet and playwright Marin Sorescu in conversation with Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti about performance poetry, the art of contemplative breathing, and how the Beat Generation redefined American poetics.
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SPRING 2023

Borges: A Character by Borges
​In conversation with Marin Sorescu

Romanian poet and playwright Marin Sorescu talks to the great Jorge Luis Borges about poetry and science as means of orientation in the labyrinth that is the world, in an interview never before translated into English.
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SPRING 2023

Reaching for Meaning: Rediscovering the World as a Way of Finding Ourselves
​In conversation with Anna Badkhen

Anna Badkhen on how seeing the world requires us to look inward, and her attempt at finding the right questions over the correct answers.
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SPRING 2023

The Human Mind Is Its Own World
​In conversation with Rosanna Oh

Rosanna Oh on her experience as a first-generation Korean American woman, finding her path to poetry, and publishing her new book The Corrected Version.
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SPRING 2023

From Mirror Stage to Creative Identity
​In conversation with Shifra Steinberg

Shifra Steinberg talks to Katherine G. Bergman and Daniel Carden Nemo about her influences and Imaginary Order, her stunning debut novel. 
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SPRING 2023

Khashayar Mohammadi’s Moe’s Skin and Persian feminist activism in Toronto
​by Terry Trowbridge

Terry Trowbridge recounts his encounter with poet, translator, and photographer Khashayar Mohammadi about their chapbook Moe’s Skin, and how mixing Iranian and Western cultures, embracing one’s sexual identity, and exploring a new kind of art became the driving force for the work of a new generation of Persian writers.
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FALL 2022

Circling the Wound of the Void
​In conversation with Diana Khoi Nguyen

Diana Khoi Nguyen talks about art as a reaching toward and beyond, trusting the unconscious, and making the absent present.
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SUMMER 2022

Writing Is Like Finding Which Window to Open
​In conversation with Kristina Andersson Bicher

Exilé Sans Frontières talks to Kristina Andersson Bicher about poetry, translating Marie Lundquist, and how her own writing comes to life.
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