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, […]
Who’s Your Audience? A Profile of Daniel Gee Husson
As part of our profile series on the Riggio: Writing and Democracy community, 12th Street asked our Fiction Editor, playwright and Riggio student Daniel Gee Husson, to consider the question: “Who’s your audience?” Below is […]
Syria’s Poetic Justice
In the United States the conflict in Syria, although known, has been an issue recognized only during times when the media has made it a topic for evening headlines or endless partisan debates. However, some […]
The Shadow
The Shadow makes his mark on the world with invisibility. His central achievement is making his achievements unknown–disappearing from consciousness and awareness. His greatest accomplishment is that there’s no way to tell if he was […]
12th Street Gallery: Kaitlyn Wylde
Artist Statement: I’ve always wanted to be a painter. I’m so easily overwhelmed and moved by the things I see and feel, I dream about how they might cathartically manifest on a canvas. Alas, I […]
12th Street Gallery: Stephanie Leone
[imagebrowser id=4] Stephanie Leone is a dual-degree candidate at The New School University in New York City pursuing a BFA in Communication Design/Illustration from Parsons The New School for Design and a BA in […]
The CBGB Movie: The Greatest Story Ever Told?
It’s the premiere of the CBGB film and the first night of the festival. Big movie lights outside the Sunshine Theater throw circular beams into the sky and metal barricades fence in a red-carpeted […]
Who’s Your Audience? A Profile of Isaac Lobel
As part of our profile series on the Riggio: Writing and Democracy community, 12th Street asked Riggio student, poet, essayist, fiction-writer, and photographer Isaac Lobel to ponder about his audience. Here is what he had to say: […]
Interview with David Levithan
David Levithan began his career writing for the young adult genre a decade ago with Boy Meets Boy. He has since written several acclaimed novels such as The Lover’s Dictionary, Every Day, and, most recently, […]
Online Launch, This Friday at 7PM
12th Street Launch And Reading Friday, November 22, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. At the Union Square Barnes and Noble: 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003 Politics and Letters come together for an evening of readings […]
Oasis
It was all they could do to bear the time of the drought. Long, dusty and cracked, every day was dryer than the last. The weeks stretched beyond recognition. Tumble weeds moseyed into the […]
Date Night With William and John
Date Night with William and John Two poems: A free verse poem inspired by Shakespeare and a sonnet inspired by Ashbery. As You Like It Let’s review from […]
Who’s Your Audience? A Profile of Kate Cox
As part of our profile series on the Riggio: Writing and Democracy community, 12th Street caught up with alum Kate Cox to ask, “Who’s your audience?” To which she replied with lyrical wit: Dear Reader: I am […]
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Security?
It keeps coming. Week after week; month after month. Reports are uncovering new evidence of the New York Police Department spying on the Muslim community: undercover personnel were sent to mosques, college campuses, student group […]
