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, […]
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 […]