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Amy Berkowitz

@amyberko.bsky.social
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Author of Tender Points and Gravitas • Host of the Light Jacket Reading Series • Working on a novel that I like to call Untitled Bisexual Jumpsuits Project • they/she • amyberko.com • writinggroup.substack.com

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I was playing a game with my almost four year old where we were imagining people coming to a party at our house, and she told me about John Fuzzman, who would be bringing burritos because he’s a burrito cooker. “He’s real,” she assured me. This is the first time she’s invented a last name.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m so bad at bluesky but YES the collab poetry workshop on 8/29 is going to be a lot of fun (no poetry experience required!), and I’m excited for Matt’s reverb talk on 8/27. Why not buy a pass to the Symposium and go to everything? 👀https://batherslibrary.cargo.site/summer-symposium-schedule-2026
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Summer Symposium Schedule 2026 — Bathers Library
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Alec Hamilton @alecchamilton.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I am so excited about our event Weds! Come hang w/ @michael-hill.bsky.social, @kctrommer.bsky.social of QUEENSBOUND, @meralagish.bsky.social & some of our fave poets at @wnyc.org. The awesome @amyberko.bsky.social even made a zine for it! 🩵📻🩵 Register here (it's free!): wnyc.org/poetrymonth
Two copies of a super cute little zine called "I'd Rather be Writing Collaborative Poems."
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
it’s almost passover and that means it’s time for me to share this silly Haggadah insert I made of the four children as sesame street characters as a printable PDF static1.squarespace.com/static/64418...
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This piece from @charlespulliam.bsky.social interviewing Valerie Veatch is fascinating and also opens up a horrifying angle to the foundations of genAI I hadn’t quite put together so directly
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The gen AI Kool-Aid tastes like eugenics
Ghost in the Machine director Valerie Veatch wants you to understand gen AI’s roots in race science.
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
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EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
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deptofmeteors @deptofmeteors.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out this Thursday m.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_r...
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cub - New York City (Official Video)
YouTube video by Mintrecs
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Emily Pinkerton ♿️ @poetryfriend.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Because @amyberko.bsky.social is a friend that truly sees me, she made me a Christmas ornament of this cover. It cannot be topped.
A small Christmas tree with glowing lights and a felt ornament of the 1995 Newsweek bisexuality cover that can only be described as “shadowy”
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
There's something so perverse in the way that Waymo uses San Francisco--and more generally, public space--as their hype ground for a technology that is not ready for primetime, has had multiple high-profile failures, and is poorly supported when infrastructure goes down.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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!). bathers-library.square.site/product/air-...
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Bathers Library
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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.
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Hope @hopeamico.com · 08/09/2025
make a zine with me! online! pay what you can! in two weeks! register now. hopeamico.com/classes #zine #zinesky #collage #artclass
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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 ...
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
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!
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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Destroying the planet in search of a computer program powerful enough to count the 'b's in blueberry
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Writing about the importance of hijinks in cinema and song — post includes a link to my long awaited hijinks song playlist! open.substack.com/pub/writingg...
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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.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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. poetshouse.org/event/magic-...
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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.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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!"
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The Demons, "She's So Tuff" - The Demons (1977)
YouTube video by ShakinAllOver1
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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Need a reason to mask up? Here you go: whn.global/want-to-redu... Who are the World Health Network? The Lancet has info for you. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Want to Reduce Your Risk of Cancer? Heart Disease? Diabetes? Dementia? And More? Here's How. - WHN
What if simple changes could significantly reduce your risk for serious illnesses, such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and more? We all want to protect our health: eat better, move more...
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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 07/06/2025
Release date unlocked!
Perfect Tides: Station to Station - See you on 1/22/26! On PC, Mac and Switch.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I'm excited to be hosting this workshop at Winslow House in Vallejo on 6/29! Read the description & sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... & please repost / share I personally think collaborative writing is the perfect antidote to the doom & isolation many of us are trying hard not to feel 💜
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.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Just realized that the reason I didn't get a grant 2 years ago is that I never submitted the application 😂
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
This is more of a blogpost post but have you ever noticed how much these songs sound the same? www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0H... and ...
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The Feelies - Dancing Barefoot
YouTube video by Rachel Kaye
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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"
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Terra Oliveira @terraoliveira.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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...
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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!
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Welcome to Writing Group
Have some hummus!
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Please tell me about your favorite collaboratively written poems!
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Having a very charoset is basically a Luna bar Wednesday how about you
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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: www.404media.co/nih-archives...
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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."
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
As long as we're talking about passover, we cook the same things almost every year - brisket*, asparagus, mashed potatoes, farfel. I yearn for change but also I love these things. Tell me your suggestions.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I finally did it. I made a version of the four children with Sesame Street characters. Here's a PDF if you want to include it in your haggadah this year! static1.squarespace.com/static/64418...
The four children 

Black text with black and white photos illustrating each character 

The Count says "1, 2, 3, 4! 4 children in the haggadah, ha ha ha ha ha!"

Kermit, the wise child, says "Hi ho, this is Kermit the Frog, and I'm here to ask, why do we celebrate Passover with a seder? What's the meaning behind these foods and customs?" 

Oscar the Grouch, the wicked child, asks "What are all of you making such a fuss about? Why is the house so disgustingly clean? What did you do with my crumbs?" 

Elmo, the simple child, asks "What's going on?" 

Slimey the worm, the child who does not know how to ask, says nothing.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
If your writing, like mine, was used to train Meta’s AI without your consent, you can fill out this form to let them know how you feel about it. I did it, it took less than 5 minutes. actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
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Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I was at a bookstore today and someone was roaming the aisles while talking very loudly on the phone about how they wanted a haircut but haircuts were too expensive and how their nonbinary friends don't get along with their trans friends. And I wouldn't be telling you this except they were SO LOUD!
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Come see me read in Oakland on Saturday afternoon! I’m going to read the art gallery scene from my novel, which I don’t think I’ve ever read before, and I get to read it in an actual art gallery!
An event flyer featuring abstract, yellow, red, aqua and purple shapes. Black text boxes contain the following information: acknowledge the shadows poetry reading featuring Alyssa Bardge, Amy Berkowitz, Jake Spertus, Luz Marina Ruiz, Peach Kander, Quinn Keck. Saturday march 22 4-6 pm seven mirrors 481 9th st Oakland.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There's a huge audience eager for more accessible mass acts of protest (evidenced by the one-day boycott) and I feel like we could be doing more to serve this audience and on-ramp them into getting more involved. 1/
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Every time I drive across the bridge I become more and more convinced that fastrak or invoice is a great band name
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I can't believe how many people are patting themselves on the back for participating in a fake one-day "boycott" when they could be doing something really USEFUL AND RADICAL like criticizing this boycott on social media without providing any alternative suggestions for taking action!!!
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I read that essay about “bad poetry” and I feel like Lester Bangs here but let’s pay attention what we’re losing when we equate “emotional directness” with “cringe.” I really do believe that there are some things you just have to SAY and there is no inherent superiority to “self-aware restraint.”
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Aww it's an honor. It felt good to put these complicated feelings into words and I'm glad they're resonating with you and your group.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Poets! I want to hear about the methods you've used for writing collaboratively. 90% of my collaborative writing has been in the form of exquisite corpse sonnets but I know there are so many other ways. Tell me!
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Reposting this article the great @sahotchkiss.bsky.social wrote about Light Jacket if you want a little more context about what we’re about.
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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
First Light Jacket event flyer on bsky, bb! @lucidtraversal.bsky.social and I have been hosting this outdoor reading series in SF for almost 2 years and it’s a lot of fun. I’ll post again closer to the event to announce the location. See you there!
A flyer for light jacket 18 featuring a shiny pink leather jacket that reminds me of Brittany Newell’s book soft core. Text says the names of the readers, Cornelius, Karla Khine, Annie Malcolm, Brittany Newell, as well as the date and time of the event, Saturday 2/22, 2 PM, and a note saying that the outdoor location is TBD.
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