We met under the JMZ in Bushwick, Brooklyn at 4pm. The cheesemakers had to deliver their cheeses on time to the restaurant, otherwise, our night wouldn’t go according to plan. I had coordinated the evening’s […]
A Conversation with Rene Steinke
René Steinke’s most recent novel, Friendswood (Riverhead), was named one of National Public Radio’s Best Books of 2014. Her previous novel, Holy Skirts, an imaginative retelling of the life of the artist and provocateur, Baroness […]
A Conversation with Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the story collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, and I Am the Virgin Islands, a poem and children’s book illustrated by her husband, photographer Moses Djeli. Yanique […]
A Conversation with Rigoberto Gonzàlez
Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California, and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He is the author of several poetry books, including So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks (1999), a National Poetry Series selection; Other Fugitives […]
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp, A Review
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richards Meyers (2013, Harper Collins) Richard Hell would tell you he invented New York Punk Rock. And he does tell us this along with many […]
I’m Not A Journaler, But…
I’ve never kept a journal or a diary. The idea always seemed odd to me. It reminded me of books by Judy Blume that I read when I was a kid. I wasn’t the […]
IDOLS
I’ve never snorted rat poison before but I was glad that I could cross that from my list of things I shouldn’t have done. That feeling of being so close to death brought me […]
Many Dead, And A Funeral
He grew up in this house with plastic covers on the chairs, and the decrepit couch with stuffing escaping the leather. This is my second time here. I should be uncomfortable sitting here. I […]
Excerpts from Author Interviews in Print Journal 2015
(conducted by Charlotte Slivka) 12th Street: When did you know you’d be a writer, and what propelled you to go for it? Tiphanie Yanique: My grandmother was a children’s librarian, which really means–especially in the Virgin […]
A Consultation with the Doctors
Managing Editor Charlotte Slivka engaged the drDOCTOR team in conversation via email. They discussed their reading series/podcast and where they’re going next. Sam Farahmand and Luke Wiget are the New School MFA Grads that make […]
James is saying
James is saying “good actors have no education. they know very little” not like James, I guess where James keeps his knowledge, these actors put their character not theirs, really but character none the less […]
Soft Bark
Soft Bark I. It starts with a slow growl, the vocal chords colliding in unison— what I’ve learned of separation in a merging of two vehicles headed in opposite directions— though our bodies may be […]
Surprise
Surprise that warm burst of liquid: soft skin breaking beneath teeth, an expectation of puncture, pressure instead, evenly spaced under mandible. intimate as it is, the usual exchange of fluid, relapse sewing closed the space […]
insomnaut
insomnaut the night creeps past the future and into the present. terminably now and interminably when. the silence sufferable by no mind but mine own. by crushing the now, and being crushingly zen. iron maidens […]
fourlets
fourlets language language is a small child all day you carry her around peer into her blue eyes at night she wakes up screaming august it’s August and the snow has just melted last year […]
Interview with Jeffery Renard Allen, Author of: “Song of The Shank”
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places and Harbors and Spirits, and two works of fiction, the novel Rails Under My Back and the story collection Holding Pattern. His new novel, Song of […]
Interview with Alysia Abbott, Author of: “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father”
The tender-rooted honesty in Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, is of refreshing minority compared to the often fast and exploitative writing currently in the genre. Expertly braiding her memories of growing up […]
Interview with Poet Marisa Frasca
Poet Marisa Frasca graduated from the New School’s Riggio Honors Program, where she was also the poetry editor for 12th Street Journal. She received her MFA in poetry from Drew University. Her poems have appeared in […]
I Never Wanted To Be A Poet
This piece was chosen to be read by Reyes at 12th Street 2015 Online launch, this month. It is also apart of 12th Street Journal‘s series, “Crisis Expressive,”which focuses on why and how we, as […]
