Amy Berkowitz

Not travel but I did recently walk into a restaurant for my reservation for six only to realize I had merely THOUGHT ABOUT making a reservation for six

Matt (@deptofmeteors.bsky.social) made a dreamy poetic board game called 'air light water moon shadow sky' and you can order it from Bathers Library today! And in a very Matt move he recorded drone music for players to listen to while playing (lap steel!).
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Happy birthday! Wishing you easier months ahead 💜

Aww thank you Mattilda that means a lot.

I'm making final (?) edits to a novel and it feels like being inside a sock that I'm darning various holes in / also kind of feels like being inside a cocoon. I guess the thing about sewing is that it doesn't matter how messy the inside is. Trying to figure out how I feel about being in the cocoon.

ONLINE: Instant Zine (Pay What You Can) Sept 2025 — hope amico Sunday September 21 2-4 pm PST Online & recorded for participants. Introducing a monthly series for the rest of 2025: Pay What You Can Classes! Register here to save your spot, choose your ...

make a zine with me! online! pay what you can! in two weeks! register now. hopeamico.com/classes
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As you may know I love learning about what the other Amy Berkowitzs of the world are up to and this is a new plot twist for us!

Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry

There are still spots available in my virtual collaborative poetry writing workshop :) Writing collaboratively is a way to resist alienation, embrace interdependence, & reconnect with the pure pleasure of writing — I'm obsessed with it & you can be too! No poetry or collaboration experience needed.

In praise of hijinks, part 1 Death to gravitas, long live goofin' — celebrating Gravitas's second anniversary by appreciating its opposite. In part 1 of our hijinks deep dive, we're looking at hijinks movies and hijinks music.

Writing about the importance of hijinks in cinema and song — post includes a link to my long awaited hijinks song playlist!
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Remote 3-Hour Workshop: Amy Berkowitz: The Magic of Collaborative Poetry 9/20: We’ll experience the joy, play, and intimacy of collaborative writing and consider what is gained when we embrace interdependence.

What happens when we “animate [our] privacy with another person’s magic”? I'm leading a virtual collaborative poem writing workshop via @poetshouse.bsky.social on September 20 and I hope you'll join / spread the word! There are need-based scholarships available.

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YouTube video by ShakinAllOver1 The Demons, "She's So Tuff" - The Demons (1977)

A great song (that in my personal opinion could be one minute shorter), I hadn't thought of it in a long time and then my toddler fell down and wasn't really phased by it and a friend said "she's so tough!"

My seven-year-old neighbor wrote a very similar message on the sidewalk recently, you’ll have to come to the Sunset and keep an eye out for her chalk commands.

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Need a reason to mask up?

Here you go:

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Who are the World Health Network? The Lancet has info for you.

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Perfect Tides: Station to Station - See you on 1/22/26! On PC, Mac and Switch.

Release date unlocked!

Imagine choosing to make that face in your headshot

On the back of a piece of torn-out notebook paper previously used to write a collaborative poem, serif text reads: writing collaborative poems all day and forever, winslow house, sunday june 29, 10 am - 6 pm, lunch provided, a workshop for anyone who likes to write and is curious about collaboration. The paper is decorated with stamps that I borrowed from my kid, purple and yellow flowers balancing on green stems, green curlicues suggesting grass, black dots that look like moons and match the holes punched in the paper.

I'm excited to be hosting this workshop at Winslow House in Vallejo on 6/29!

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I personally think collaborative writing is the perfect antidote to the doom & isolation many of us are trying hard not to feel 💜

Just realized that the reason I didn't get a grant 2 years ago is that I never submitted the application 😂

*blogspot lol

YouTube video by Tweeds - Topic I'm Thru

this:

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YouTube video by Rachel Kaye The Feelies - Dancing Barefoot

This is more of a blogpost post but have you ever noticed how much these songs sound the same?

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and ...

Just reread the review a doctor wrote of Tender Points years ago and am cracking up at the line "Yet for all her truth telling, Berkowitz reaches some questionable conclusions about physicians and the field of medicine"

I recently received the proof copy of my latest poetry book, Itinerant Songs, and it was such an incredible feeling to hold this complete work in my hands after 8 years of slowly chipping away at it. Itinerant Songs is available to preorder here: www.recenterpress.com/store/p15/it...

Welcome to Writing Group Have some hummus!

Hi I really enjoyed writing this (my first substack post) and I hope you'll subscribe / check it out because I plan to enjoy writing more!

Please tell me about your favorite collaboratively written poems!

I don’t get the commotion about the new press that plans to focus on male writers. It’s unsurprising, inevitable, and frankly boring. Men have been doing stuff like this for years. No judgement if you wanna share the article online but may I suggest - we don’t have to give these guys more attention.

Having a very charoset is basically a Luna bar Wednesday how about you

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever:

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oh god fuck this guy

We have to do brisket this year because my husband was gifted a shirt that says RISK IT FOR THE BRISKET.

Which also makes you think ... what are you risking for the brisket???