Amy Berkowitz's Blog
May 6, 2023
Gravitas is here!
My book Gravitas is coming out in a couple of weeks from Éditions du Noroît in Canada and Total Joy in the US.
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach women that their lives aren’t worth writing about. These poems bear witness not only to alienation but also to the bittersweet joy of being forced to invent alternative ways of living and writing.
The Noroît edition is bilingual (Gravitas / Poèmes deep), with French translation by Daphné B. and Marie Frankland. The Total Joy edition includes several poems from The Feeling Is Mutual, the out-of-print 2009 anthology of collectively written poems by the Washtenaw County Women’s Poetry Collective & Casserole Society.
Read a few poems from Gravitas here: https://thisissporkpress.com/sporklet...
Frank, conversational, and darkly funny, Gravitas examines the tendency of MFA programs to teach women that their lives aren’t worth writing about. These poems bear witness not only to alienation but also to the bittersweet joy of being forced to invent alternative ways of living and writing.
The Noroît edition is bilingual (Gravitas / Poèmes deep), with French translation by Daphné B. and Marie Frankland. The Total Joy edition includes several poems from The Feeling Is Mutual, the out-of-print 2009 anthology of collectively written poems by the Washtenaw County Women’s Poetry Collective & Casserole Society.
Read a few poems from Gravitas here: https://thisissporkpress.com/sporklet...
September 10, 2020
My post on accessibility and lit events is up on Brevity
"For sick and disabled people, it’s been painful to watch accommodations that have been denied to us—or even framed as impossible—for decades immediately manifest as soon as able-bodied people need them too. All of a sudden, remote work and virtual learning are the norm, and you can go to a reading without getting out of bed."
I was invited to contribute a blog post for Brevity's Experience of Disability issue. I wrote about lit events and accessibility, pre-COVID and today.
Check it out here:
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2020/09...
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the issue as it's posted.
I was invited to contribute a blog post for Brevity's Experience of Disability issue. I wrote about lit events and accessibility, pre-COVID and today.
Check it out here:
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2020/09...
I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the issue as it's posted.
August 5, 2016
Tender Points teaching guide
My publisher and I recently created a Tender Points teaching guide. Here is the short link: http://bit.ly/2aqJV2X
It was created for teachers (and with the help of teachers, from an NYU instructor to a high school teacher at Oakland School for the Arts), but it could also be great for a book club or for anyone who wants to explore new ways of thinking, writing, and talking around the book.
xo A
It was created for teachers (and with the help of teachers, from an NYU instructor to a high school teacher at Oakland School for the Arts), but it could also be great for a book club or for anyone who wants to explore new ways of thinking, writing, and talking around the book.
xo A
