Monday, Monday, Monday! April 26th is the New School’s 12 Street Magazine launch party. Contributors will be reading excerpts from this year’s journal. Refreshments will be served. The launch will be held at: 66 W. […]
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Behold, the Spring 2010 Journal
It is alive! Don’t forget: Next Monday, April 26, is the New School launch of 12th Street: Spring 2010. More details to follow. ~T
The Moment is Soon Upon Us
12th Street: Issue 3 is scheduled for release April 15. This year’s contributors include: Ben Clague, Vesper T. Woods, Selene Sonrisa, Julie Buntin, Jeff Vashista, Luke Sirinides, Patrick Hipp, Jay Boss Rubin, Buku Sarkar, Paul […]
Big Event: Riggio Student Reading Spring 2010 Opening Night! Lang Cafe 65 W. 11th Street, ground floor 6:30 pm This Friday, your fellow students are hosting a reading in the Lang Cafe at 6:30 pm. […]
The Fiction of Food
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer In Defense of Food, by Michael Pollan Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver I know it’s been said before, and I’m not here to raise the picket sign, ‘MEET […]
Death Becomes Them by Alix Strauss
Death Becomes Them by Alix Strauss Did you know that one person attempts suicide every thirty-four seconds and one death occurs for every twenty-five suicide attempts? In America eighty-six people succeed at killing themselves every […]
Events!
The Writing Program is hosting a couple of keen events this week, so don’t miss out. Tonight, Laura Cronk will be moderating a discussion with Catherine Bowman. They will be talking about Catherine’s new book, […]
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 […]
Foster Children, DJs, and Hermaphroditic Dogs
Yesterday was Wednesday, so I of course read the NYT Dining section. I generally read it online, but since I was Long Island-bound, I got myself a copy for the train ride. Eventually I found […]
Worried, or Just Plain Lazy?
The blog has been quiet as of late. The print journal has been shipped back and forth, from New York, to California, to Canada, then back around again. The next time I see it, it […]
Some People Came for the Wine
The Adriana Trigianni and David Baldacci event, Wine and Words, at the Virginia Festival of the Book last week, was held at a Charlottesville wine bar called Enoteca. It’s a knock off of the wonderful […]
Fateful Acts
On February 26, 2009, Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times of Philipp Meyer: “American Rust announces the arrival of a gifted new writer — a writer who understands how place and personality and […]
What are you doing here in the first place?
I climbed up the creaking stairs, 10 minutes late, as Jeffrey Renard Allen read from his story “The Green Apocalypse” from his collection Holding Pattern. I was immediately reminded of how much I enjoy the […]
Virginia Festival Of The Book
This week in Charlottesville is the 15th annual Virginia Festival of The Book—five days of literary events to honor book culture and promote reading and literacy. This year 12th Street will be in attendance, so look […]
Getting Away
There is something to be said for a change of environment. For the past couple of weeks my writing has been stuck, stagnant. The answer was to get away. I am a creature of habit. […]
Julie Sheehan Recites
[wpvideo i7uniFhO] Julie Sheehan reciting “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats.
Justin Taylor Reads
[wpvideo dhVLGi7W] Justin Taylor reading “I See Tiny Mouths” by Anthony McCann from the Agriculture Reader.
Amy Berkowitz Reads Ish Klein
[wpvideo 6Ed7lrK5] Amy Berkowitz reads a poem from Ish Klein’s new book UNION!
Jono Tosch Reads
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