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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 7d

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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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 22d

Happy birthday! Wishing you easier months ahead 💜

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 27d

Aww thank you Mattilda that means a lot.

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · 27d

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 · Sep 8

make a zine with me! online! pay what you can! in two weeks! register now. hopeamico.com/classes
#zine #zinesky #collage #artclass

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 · Sep 6

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!

laundromatresource.bsky.social @laundromatresource.bsky.social · Jul 9

1/ Meet Amy Berkowitz—a marketing strategist who lost her job the week before Christmas and decided to go “all in” on a dream: Owning a laundromat.

How My Network Acquired a Laundromat for Free with Amy Berkowitz

Welcome back to the Laundromat Resource Podcast! In this episode, host Jordan Berry is joined by Amy Berkowitz—an inspiring entrepreneur whose laundromat jou...

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Sep 3

Meta is building a data center in Wyoming that would use more electricity than every home in the state combined.

apnews.com/article/ai-a...

Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined

A massive AI data center proposed near Cheyenne, Wyoming, would use more electricity than all homes in the state combined.

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Aug 20

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.

Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Jul 23

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-...

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.

poetshouse.org

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Jul 30

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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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 · Jul 23

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-...

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.

poetshouse.org

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Jul 10

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!"

The Demons, "She's So Tuff" - The Demons (1977)

YouTube video by ShakinAllOver1

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Jun 19

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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Flux 🤍🩶💜🖤 @fluxandflow.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

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 · Jun 7

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 · Jun 7

Imagine choosing to make that face in your headshot

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Jun 5

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 · Jun 4

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 · May 30

*blogspot lol

Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · May 29

this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKzm...

I'm Thru

YouTube video by Tweeds - Topic

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · May 29

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 ...

The Feelies - Dancing Barefoot

YouTube video by Rachel Kaye

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · May 28

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 · May 27

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 · May 14

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!

Welcome to Writing Group

Have some hummus!

writinggroup.substack.com

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · May 4

Please tell me about your favorite collaboratively written poems!

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Amy Berkowitz @amyberko.bsky.social · Apr 29

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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