At two years old, Annabelle fell into a pool. Just dropped in and floated down through the water like an egg dropped through soup all the way to the bottom where she settled. She didn’t swim […]
Do You Feel Safe
This piece is a part of 12th Street Journal‘s series, “Crisis Expressive,”which focuses on why and how we, as humans, creatively express during personal and public moments of crisis. If you have a story to express, we would be exulted to […]
A House Divided Against Itself
This piece is apart of 12th Street Journal‘s series, “Crisis Expressive,”which focuses on why and how we, as humans, creatively express during personal and public moments of crisis. If you have a story to express, we would be exulted to read […]
2014-15 Online Launch, Tuesday December 2nd, 7PM
Date: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014, Time: 7 p.m. Location: Union Square Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. Please join us for the 2014-15 12th Street Journal Online launch, with an evening of readings […]
Finding Beckett
12th Street Journal’s Editor-In-Chief, Daniel Gee Husson, closes his eyes and sits down to a dreamy and eccentric conversation with the ghost of the avant-garde playwright, Samuel Beckett. It was winter in my junior […]
The Bonsai EP–Songs By Simone Stevens, NSPE Student.
When 12th Street set out this 2014-15 school year to glean the New School for all possible creative talent to showcase in the journal, we were unprepared for the amount of high-caliber submissions flocking our […]
Two Days in November
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 […]
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 […]