Essays and poems: https://bettinarolyn.substack.com/
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Poem “Rats” part of Singing Birds collaborative art show with artist Marion Ehrsam et al. at the Kommunale Galerie Berlin, 13 June 2024.
Flash CNF “Inspectable Item” published in the anthology “Things We Carry Still” Fall 2023 by Middle West Press, Johnstone, Iowa, print
Poem “Valentine’s Poem” 19 June 2023 Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 25 online
Essay “Action Figure” As You Were: Military Experience and the Arts Literary Journal Vol. 18, 29 May 2023 online
Book Review of Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie, Issue 43.3 American Book Review February 2023 print
Poems “Seasons,” “The Management,” and “Last Supper” 19 January 2023 in Stadtsprachen Magazin, Issue 24.
Essay “Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?” The Wrath-Bearing Tree 5 December 2022 online
Poem “Red-White-Blue” Stadtsprachen Magazin Nr. 21, March 2022 online
Poetry Chapbook “Growing Pains and Birdfeeder” Aelzina Books, 2022 print
Essay “Adjustment Disorder” The Wrath-Bearing Tree 11 November 2021 online
Essay “Missing the Forest for the Trees” Walking Through the Woods Interdisciplinary Art Exhibit St. Marien-Nikolai Kirche, Kreuzberg, Berlin on 21 October 2021 print
Essay “Leaving a Mark” Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 19, October 2021 online
Fiction “Original Sin” Issue Ten of First Page September 2021 print
Poem “Hibiscus” Volume Two, The TCFFFV Poetry Journal August 2021 print
Poem “Limp” Jul/Aug 2021 Ethel 8: Ethelzine print
Essay “Art is Dead–Long Live Art!” Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 18, June 2021 online
Essay “Greenhouse Berlin” Refugee Week Issue 6 Ekō Magazine June 2021 online/print
Essay “Smile! You’re Alive” The War Horse 24 March 2021 online
Essay “Veil” Stadtsprachen Magazin Nr. 17 March 2021 online
Essay “Book Bug” Wanderlust: A Travel Journal 1 November 2020 online
Essay “Sweaty Concepts: On Being a Woman in the US Army” Human Parts 31 August 2020 online
Essay “Unterwegs in Berlin” Stadtsprachen Magazin Issue 14 13 June 2020 online
Poem “First Communion” Women Writing Berlin Lab Quaranzine May 2020 online/print
Essay “Talking to the Hand” The Startup 19 Sept 2019 online
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Founding member of the Kinbaku Society of Berlin Journal, a limited-edition print-only literary journal. September 2019–2024
Published in Kinbaku Journal:
Fall 2019: Essays: “Freedom of Movement” and “Shroud”; Poem “Rope Mat”
Winter 2020: Essays “Leaving a Mark” and “Grief”
Spring 2020: Essay “Steigerung Durch Abnahme”
Summer 2020: Poem “The Leash”
Summer 2022: Book Review “Eric Stanton and the Bizarre Underground” by Richard Seves
Summer 2023: Essay “Ode to the Old Jam”
Fall 2024: Essay “On Transformation”