12th Street staff talks about the media that’s kept them charged during the hottest summer in history. Whether you’ve found yourself on a rooftop or at the beach, or just sweating through your pants trying to catch a train, turn to our curated assemblage of recs!
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Subsisting and Social Distancing with 12th Street
At the end of the Fall 2021 semester, some of the 12th Street editors got together online and wrote some thoughts on how we keep ourselves amused and healthy these days. And from all of […]
“Seeing Up” by Timothy Cakebread, Audio Screenplay Part I
Timothy Cakebread is an actor, filmmaker and writer from Natick, Massachusetts. In 2018 he starred in the independent feature film What We Don’t Say, which is now available on Amazon Prime and Google Play. A […]
Works of Caitlin Du, Part 2
Caitlin was born and raised in Beijing, China. In 2018, her work was exhibited in the Metamorphosis Charity Exhibition in the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 art district. Caitlin moved to New York City in […]
Restructuring the Conversation: Richard Bernstein on The New School Layoffs
“For six months now, they’ve been talking to us about restructuring. There’s now a task force about this, but no one has a concrete idea of what that restructuring means. All you have to work on is rumors, and that’s terrible […] No faculty member has a clue about what this concretely means and when it’s going to happen. And that, I know, has caused enormous anger and frustration.”
Works of Caitlin Du
Caitlin was born and raised in Beijing, China. In 2018, her work was exhibited in the Metamorphosis Charity Exhibition in the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in the 798 art district. Caitlin moved to New York City […]
Works of Annie Fay Meitchik
Annie Fay Meitchik is an artist, blogger, and writer based in Southern California graduating from The New School this spring with her BA in Creative Writing. Annie plans to pursue a career at the intersection […]
Subsisting and Social Distancing with 12th Street
We’re taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming this week to tell you a bit about what we’ve been up to.
Mizuki Nishiyama
“Nostalgia” | Mixed Media on Canvas (2018) “1 Quarter Not Yet Whole” Acrylic on Canvas (2017) “Friends” Acrylic on Wood (2016) Mizuki Nishiyama is a painter currently based in New York City and a […]
Brenda Rodriguez
Self-reminiscence is my senior Thesis Collection used to explore my personal identity as an individual with a multicultural upbringing. The silhouettes and hues reflect a hybrid Mexican- American culture which is seen through the textile […]
Anna Gregor
Boundaries 40″ x 22″ Oil on paper 2017 Nostalgia 30″ x 22″ Oil on paper 2017 Anna Gregor is a junior at Parsons studying Fine Arts and Art & Design History.
Volume 3 is coming… And here is your staff:
Editor-in-Chief: Zoë Miller Managing Editor: Liz Axelrod Fiction Editor: Mario A. Zambrano Poetry Editor: Marisa Frasca Non-Fiction Editor: Luke Sirinides Interview Editor: Patrick Hipp Editors-at-Large: Anna Utevsky & Kathryn Waldron Faculty Advisor: Rene Steinke And […]
Kim Addonizio Reads "Ex-Boyfriends"
[wpvideo dletWcOK] Kim Addonizio reads “Ex-Boyfriends.”
Lit Bits
“Does being ‘great’ simply mean writing poems that are ‘great’? If so, how many? Or does ‘greatness’ mean having a sufficiently ‘great’ project? If you have such a project, can you be ‘great’ while writing […]
Blake Butler and Daniel Bailey
[wpvideo q7WYC6YV] Blake Butler and Daniel Bailey read “Catalogue Entry for Aging” from Someone Else’s Body by Claire Donato.
Don’t Yank My Yankerhorn
There are some things we overhear in our daily lives that stay with us, and sometimes they impact our writing. “I understand Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals. I don’t know who invented glasses, but Franklin, he […]
It Gets Better After the First Time
Bread is like sex and writing. The first time is the same for all three: afterwards you feel kind of proud but also disgusted and you’re not sure you want to do it again, but […]
Inaugural Poets
Officially, there have been four: Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Miller Williams, and Elizabeth Alexander. Frost recited The Gift Outright from memory at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. It’s a poem about place as identity, and a […]
Words As Weapons
New School president Bob Kerrey has started a blog. It is an attempt to reach out to the students and faculty of the university after the no-confidence vote that was handed down last week. There […]