Amy Berkowitz

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

I wrote a substack post celebrating the second anniversary of my book Gravitas by appreciating what might be its opposite: hijinks — post includes a link to my long awaited hijinks song playlist! open.substack.com/pub/writinggro…

Thank you so much for coming @FeralHeather! I laughed so much, too.

@chickadi When I was a teen in the 90s and saw bisexuality represented as something that didn't really exist (ahem Sex & the City), watching a movie with a characters who were attracted to men & women made me finally feel like ... I could exist. Problematic, but for me, a problematic fave.

“is rocky horror problematic and transmisogynistic?” yes. it was made in 1975. you can consume and enjoy and love art that you understand is harmful

Are you sitting on a manuscript of essay, memoir, fiction, hybrid/experimental prose? Send it to me: prose (at) fonografeditions (dot) com. I'd love to consider your work !

Missing Chihuahua returns after sausage enticement bbc.in/4etiDGc

Exactly. We're in the "stuck in a nightmare" scenario we hypothesized in 2020 of constant new variants + low vax uptake. It creates sustained risk for repeat-infection induced #LongCOVID. The lack of progress on LC means we're actually worse than our worst-envisioned scenario.

@ElenP79608464 @deerhoof @thrasherxy lol yesss my favorite crossover episode. Deep respect and appreciation for you both 🙏

@deerhoof @thrasherxy this is a true "you got peanut butter in my chocolate" moment. one of my favorite bands and one of my favorite academic types like each other?!? well that's cool. maybe you could do a really bizarre concept album together like when Michael Moorcock worked with Hawkwind?

Dr @thrasherxy is an inspiration and a true friend to me and to Deerhoof. His treatment by those who seem to be prioritizing impressing the fascists they expect to be in power till the end of time is completely ridiculous.

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Yeah! But be forewarned that anything ordered now will arrive after the Sealey Challenge because I'll be traveling until early Sept! Just ... buy Liam's book in a few weeks!

I am writing to you about a conversation that took place with one of the people under the rubble of his bombed home. Unfortunately, this is what happens to us every day in Gaza...

@steppinlazer compares Fernanda Trías' oozing meditation on isolation, climate change, and illness to J.G. Ballard's short stories in this review for Pink Slime: reactormag.com/book-review-pi…

@theyellowdress I guess maybe it's something you don't need a book for? But surely it should be possible to write a good book about it?

is there a potty training book that's less obnoxiously sexist or do I have to read this one?

Beloved Oakland bookstore, @EB_Booksellers, has been devastated by fire—please support them if you’re able. gofundme.com/f/help-east-ba…

Honored to have my covid poem in the new issue of @aSICKmagazine. This poem was my way of making sense of a dissonance that I've struggled to understand. I hope that you'll read it, even (especially!) if you're not chronically ill. Featuring a line from a @RealGayArbys tweet. :)

Finally! You can order @liammcurley's Mondo Bummer book, Up River! It's an honor to publish this excerpt from Liam's in-progress collection of lyrical prose, Wallkill. It's Liam's first chapbook and MB's last chapbook! Get your copy here: mondobummer.com/Liam-Curley-Up…