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Bella Rotker
@bellarotker.bsky.social
(Reformed) victim of the teen poetry industrial complex. Essayist, theater maker, & American sonnet superfan

I eat spinach bread to keep my sanity.

Find me on insta @bellarotker
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CW: Imagery includes minor body horror

All girls want to do nowadays is nail
books to trees. I write poems while the world
thunders around me.

Read more by @bellarotker.bsky.social in The B'K Volume 16, Issue 1: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
March 9, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Spiritually speaking, I’m in a Joann’s touching all the fun fabrics while chatting with old ladies
February 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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February 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
YAY SO GLAD 2 BE HERE #luminouscompany
The B'K Volume 16, Issue 1 features poetry by: Aanum Khan, arushi (aera) rege, Ash Reynolds, Audric Adonteng, @bellarotker.bsky.social, J. D. Harlock, Jen Persici, Lydia Mathis, Maggie Bowyer, Neda Dallal, Paige Eaton, Quin Killin’, Quinn Ponds, Regine Jackson, Rhiannon Briggs...
December 31, 2024 at 2:06 AM
They need a feed for girls who miss the time it was socially acceptable to wear tweed coats at all times
December 22, 2024 at 12:58 AM
The insatiable desire to start every essay with that one mitski lyric about the wrath of the devil also being given him by god
December 22, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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I will never die.

I mean, I will, but after I die you'll be able to chat with some black mirror version of me built by a teenager on Tumblr who fed my YouTube videos into an algorithm.

I hope that AI me will be intolerably supportive.
December 21, 2024 at 7:05 PM
Forever obsessed with this poem in the Interlochen Review, circa 2004 or so
November 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Let it be pointless. It may ultimately one day serve a purpose, but it doesn't right now and no one will ever care and that's fine. This is how you start writing.
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
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Here's my recurring post about how much I hate the way Submittable has enshittified itself. They had such a great platform, but they keep making it more complicated and less helpful. Submittable costs too much to be this annoying.
November 21, 2024 at 12:11 PM
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“For me, the revision is often when a poem is too controlled... I haven't really disrupted it from the bottom -- and that's when I step in to mess with it and experiment.”

-- Allison Adair
November 21, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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So far I haven't gotten a cease and desist from corporate. The social media team monitors us and has reassured them I haven't broken the airlock of the insular literary world yet, but it's coming
November 20, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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So, I got starter-pack FOMO and decided to make one for writing people who know stuff and pass it on through courses, workshops, newsletters etc.

It includes all the savants who teach me stuff. I've probably missed people but these were the ones who sprung to my head.

go.bsky.app/K7ftxtv
November 20, 2024 at 9:23 AM
CLOCKED ok 😭
November 18, 2024 at 4:33 PM
“Art school will be fun,” they said. NO! I’ve cried over glee three times this weekend. Bring back throwing slushees in the faces of people you don’t like
November 18, 2024 at 2:17 AM