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Caroline Rothstein
@carolinerothstein.bsky.social
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Freelance writer, poet, performer, educator, & documentary filmmaker. Prolly posting re: #amwriting, liberation, Chicago Bulls, & Phish.
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Come through! Sign ups & more info here: www.carolinerothstein.com/show/writeyo...

#amwriting
Background is an image of ruled white paper with images and text. At the top center is large bright yellow text reading, “WRITE YOUR HEART OUT.” Below is all black text reading, “a caroline rothstein writing workshop.” Below that is black text that reads, “Sunday, December 14 1 - 4 p.m. ET ONLINE! Email booking@carolinerothstein.com to reserve your spot today! Cost $85. Payment plans & scholarships available for those in need. On the bottom left corner is an image of a yellow notebook and on the bottom right corner is an image of two number 2 pencils. Below that at the bottom of the slide is a black heart with two black squiggly lines on either side.
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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On the dry erase board in my college classroom when I walked in to prep for class today. What a time.
A white dry erase board that says in black marker, “who was sen. Joe McCarthy and why is he important?”
September 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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“You Could Be Next,” my second spoken word poetry album, is now available:

orcd.co/youcouldbenext

Thank you to everyone who helped make this project possible.

I hope this album can help us all to alchemize the destructions we have witnessed, experienced, & enabled into collective liberation.
The image is the album cover for Caroline Rothstein’s spoken word poetry album “You Could Be Next.” There is a black background with white text. There is light gray Hebrew lettering that reads, “Baruch ata adonai eloheinu melech ha’olam” over and over throughout the image in traditional Hebrew block letters. In the middle of the album, it reads “You Could Be Next” in white text and all caps in Caroline Rothstein’s handwriting. At the bottom of the album, it reads, “Caroline Rothstein” in white text and all caps in Caroline Rothstein’s handwriting.
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Touching base on Tuesdays.

My second poetry album “You Could Be Next” releases on Monday, August 25, the first of Elul.

Stay, tuned.

Sending love & liberation to all.
A black background with white text that reads, “YOU COULD BE NEXT. CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN. SAVE THE DATE. AUGUST 25, 2025. 36 POEMS. 1 ALBUM. WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR TUNES. STAY, TUNED.” A black background with white text that reads, “SUBSCRIBE TO MY QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER FOR RELEASE UPDATES & LISTENING LINKS AT: WWW.CAROLINEROTHSTEIN.COM. STAY, TUNED.”
August 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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From Friday’s #BehindthePoem.

Sending love & liberation to all.
A yellow background with black text that reads, “FROM ‘JEWISH COMEDY’ ““Because the thing is this: I can’t believe that people are still so uncomfortable with Jews after all these years, just like I can’t believe that people are still so comfortable with holocausts after all this time.””––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
May 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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BEHIND THE POEM • Episode 157

Here’s a snippet from “AOL The Musical,” which I’ve been cooking up with Ethan Lipsitz & Raymond Caldwell.

Full video here: youtube.com/shorts/QPkhB...

Enjoy.

Sending love & liberation to all.
April 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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From Friday’s #BehindthePoem.

Sending love & liberation to all.
A yellow background with black text that reads, “BEHIND THE POEM | EPISODE 156.’ “I have softened, but have I slowed?”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “fourteen. Nirtzah נירצה | desired’ ‘next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, next year, and still too, many it be today, completely. Worldwide. a sanctification of holiness for all.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “thirteen. Hallel הלל | praise’ ‘and oh, to the prophets, who live within our grief, who set the table of our tears, whose oceans wash our bitterness into sweetness through a body of trauma that nobody sees: please break us from this divided grief.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “twelve. Bareich ברך | blessing’ ‘blessing. Blessing. blessed.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “eleven. Tzafun צפון | hidden, concealed’ ‘might it be a washing that might wash away the chosen bitterness and sweeten that which we have hidden in the divide? might we break open the sanctification of that which we choose to pass over and find inside the broken breaks of sweetness the bitterness of that which we choose to hide? it is possible to reveal that which we have hidden. completely. worldwide. and yet, we have chosen to put it in a section at the grocery store. let it be a tear dipped in a body of salt. water. broken. parted. divided. see.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Ten. Shulchan oreich עורך שלחן | set table’ ‘it is possible to eradicate hunger. completely. worldwide. and yet, we have chosen to put it in a section at the grocery store. let it be a total wash.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “nine. Koreich כורך | to wrap, encircle’ we remember the bitter. we remember the sweet. we remember the bitter. we remember the sweet. we remember the bitter. we remember the sweet. the bitter. the bitter. the sweet. the sweet. the bitter. the bitter. the sweet. sweet.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Eight. Maror מרור | bitter herb’ ‘if bitterness falls in a body of a trauma and nobody breaks it is it also a total wash?”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Seven. Motzi Matzah מצה מוציא | blessing of the matzah’ ‘a blessing for all of the American groceries that put matzah in a “Jewish” section at the front of the store on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and Hanukkah. what an ocean of tears. the seder writes itself. divide. divide. a total wash.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Six. Rachtzah רחצה | second washing’ ‘wash. A wash. awash.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Five. Magid מגיד | narrate’ ‘i. is any life different from any other life? ii. onto what have we reclined? iii. whose deaths have we chosen to pass over? whose lives have we chosen to pass? iv. why? again. and again?”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Four. Yachatz יחץ | to breaK, divide’ ‘the seder writes itself. the seder breaks itself. the seder divides itself. the seder hands itself to itself. and so of what must we be free? from what must we break? and break? break? break? break? break? break? break? not this ocean. not this sea.?”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “Three. Karpas כרפס | spring vegetable’ ‘if a tear gets dipped in a body of salt water and nobody sees it did we actually grieve?”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “two. Urchatz ורחץ | washing’ and what hands are we washing? from what are we trying to wash ourselves? clean? holiness? freedom? sanctification? grief? are we trying to wash and clean ourselves free of this grief?”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A yellow background with black text that reads, “one. Kadesh קדש | holy.’ ‘and for whose sanctification have we sanctified this sanctification and does it sanctify us into a sanctification that is a sanctification that sanctifies the sanctification of the holy holy holy sanctification of all”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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BEHIND THE POEM • Episode 155

Today’s poem is a SEDER.

There are 15 slides below. ⬇️

Chag Sameach.

Next year in collective liberation.

Sending love & redemption to all.

#poetry #poem #Passover #behindthepoem
A yellow background with black text that reads, “BEHIND THE POEM | EPISODE 155.’ today’s poem is a SEDER (“order”)”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Happy Tuesday. Shout out to Amir Talai’s 2017 protest sign that—in a vital way—lives rent-free in my mind—& spirit & heart.

Full video here: youtu.be/fTCW93iV2Rs?...

Sending love & liberation to all.

#quotes #quote #march #protest #touchbasetuesdays
April 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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From Friday’s #BehindthePoem.

Sending love & liberation to all.
A yellow background with black text that reads, “FROM ‘I’M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE IN THERAPY’ “Because I’m looking for someone with whom to know I am alone, but feel less alone. That’s the whole secret, after all. That’s the whole treatment, after all. How we treat each other because therapy is a treatment for how to do the treating and receive the treatment.”––CAROLINE ROTHSTEIN.”
April 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Happy Tuesday. Here’s an anti-fascist reading of Salt-N-Pepa.

Not an April fools joke.

I mean every word from the depths of my bones.

Sending love & liberation to all.

Full video here: youtube.com/shorts/2Dqoo...

#hiphop #lyrics #touchbasetuesdays
April 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM