November 4th “Hey, mister! We got cupcakes!” I looked down at a little girl with pink and green barrettes smiling at me. It was Election Day, and the school where I was voting was having […]
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Kenan Trebincevic: A Voice From Genocide
Last summer, 33-year-old, Astoria-based physical therapist, Kenan Trebincevic, presented his patient, New School professor Susan Shapiro, with three pages of his childhood memoir. Just one year later he would publish, with co-author Shapiro, The Bosnia List, […]
Babble On: A Communal Poem
As the 12th Street Journal‘s 2o15 print submission deadline (Nov.15th) draws near, the staff has been engaging with the New School community in a variety of ways—not excluding creativity tarot readings by our managing editor, Charlotte […]
Who’s Your Audience? A Profile of Mel Ortiz
As part of our profile series on the Riggio: Writing and Democracy community, we asked 12th Street Journal’s reader, and writer, Mel Ortiz, who she searches for in an audience. For Ortiz the question is not […]
Byron On Byron: Interviews With Ghosts
12th Street’s fiction editor, Adane Byron, has a talk with Lord Byron, spinner of fictitious history. Sometime before 1819 Writer Lord Byron began work on his lengthy poem, Don Juan. It was an “epic satire,” […]
Who’s Your Audience? A Profile of Sharon Mesmer
As part of our profile series on the Riggio: Writing and Democracy community, 12th Street asked poet, essayist, fiction writer, FLARF poetry innovator, and New School professor Sharon Mesmer to meditate on the inquest, “Who is […]
12th Street Journal 2014-15 Submission Deadline: November 15th !!!
Greetings fellow Writers, Readers, Poets and creative Pronunciators! 12th Street is back for its 2014-15 issue! We are ruffled with excitement to, again, collaborate with and represent the Riggio Honors community and the extended New […]
New York Stories: Reel
Reel I asked you to take me somewhere, after I pulled you out of the middle of the movie, like in the movies when the girl asks the boy, so he takes her to the […]
New York Stories: astoria
astoria with limbs and sheets we build a fort. a maroon light licks our foreheads as we struggle to arrange our bodies inside; on the center of the mattress, in the middle of his bedroom, […]
12th Street Print Launch and Reading
12th Street Print Launch and Reading Click Here for Facebook Event Page Wednesday, April 30, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. At the Union Square Barnes and Noble: 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003 Politics […]
In Memory of Will Gary: My Friend Will
“This isn’t him,” she said. She was the closest person to me, and the second person closest to the casket. Out of somber, unwilling obligation, several onlookers nodded agreement with the woman. They were right. […]
12th Street Riggio Reflections (Part 2)
12th Street in an award-winning literary journal that is run by students in New School’s Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy. As this school year ends our staff wanted to reflect on our experiences within the program. Read […]
12th Street Gallery: Maximilian Mueller
12th Street is proud to feature Maximilian Mueller among our artists in Issue 7 of our print journal, which launches on April 30th at Barnes & Noble in Union Square. Please visit https://www.12thstreetonline.com/events/ for details! […]
12th Street’s Riggio Reflections (Part 1)
12th Street in an award-winning literary journal that is run by students in New School’s Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy. As this school year ends our staff wanted to reflect on our experiences within […]
In Memory of Will Gary: Secure Passage
I like to make up aphorisms, or little sayings. Recently, I made one up about the New School: “How can you tell a New School Student? Watch them walk through a revolving door.” I’m […]
New York Stories: Times Square
The spaces where you’ve walked fill almost before you’ve left them. It’s like you were never there. You began and ended a thousand times before your foot hit the pavement. And you are lost. Lost […]
New York Stories: The Space
Apartment living in New York City is having only what you need. There is no room for the past in my tiny apartment. Precious space to house only the ever-present life condensed and distilled […]
The Places I Once Knew: Meeting Sundown Songs
The Places I Once Knew: Meeting Sundown Songs a musical chance encounter “Lingers in your soul. It’s singin’ and it’s lingerin’ in your soul, lingerin’ in your soul and I wanna sing along…”—from “Glory […]
Interview with Adam Fitzgerald
Adam Fitzgerald is a poet and educator. Barely 30, he is a founding editor for Maggy poetry journal, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and NYU. Here at The New School, he is […]
Interview With Rosie Schaap
Fortune teller. Deadhead. Minister. Teacher. These are a few of the lives that New York Times columnist and This American Life contributor Rosie Schaap has led. But rather than relegating those memories to the past, […]