our palms pulping blue as homage, farewells.
Tag: Poetry
Poetry By Charlotte Slivka
I am too bothered to see correctly
Poetry by Deandra Brunson
PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR MY SKIN
Poetry by Stü
“America”
Poetry by Carré Kwong Callaway
Tragic cases of avian behavior
Poetry by Aubrianna McCarter
Mother Nature wants revival
Poetry by Victoria Iglesias
the opposite of lifeless
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. Two)
You can’t write the book that you think other people wanna see. It’s not worth it.
From History to Poetry, and Back Again (Pt. One)
Tyehimba Jess earned his BA from the University of Chicago and his MFA from New York University. He is the author of leadbelly, a biographical poetry collection about the history of the blues musician, and […]
Two Poems by Madelyn Monaghan
feathered changelings in living cages
Poetry by Basil Vaughn Soper
staring up at fluorescent lights
Two Poems by Daniela Ochoa
chicken juice-heart
April 28, 2017 6 PM Barnes and Noble, Union Square Readers: Nick Flynn, Amber Sparks, Jenny Zhang Juliana Broad, Daniela Ochoa, Kaylin Dodson It’s free and so are you. Come over!
Awake.
We wait. On crimson mornings, layers of leaf loam lie So deep they are an ocean of land. A heart is imprisoned in the heart of a tree And only fire can free it. So, […]
told me you’ll thank me some day – language borrowed from 1-star yelp reviews of cosmetic surgeons
“a hung out hexology” by Laura Heckel 1 reality is that i have only seen the doctor once after my surgery and that is because i haunt him. 2 i had drains in my legs and […]
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 […]
H.O.M.E.S.
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Water finds ways
to communicate
to look inside the unspoken door of history.
Listen during a North-Eastern wind
and the waves and commotions of the molecules
will rumble like a chorus
Amiri Baraka – Somebody Blew Up America
Poet icon Amiri Baraka was interviewed by Rebecca Melnyk in the 2011 edition of 12th Street. On May 9, 2011, at the Barnes & Noble launch of the 2011 journal, he read his controversial poem, “Somebody Blew Up America”. The audio below was recorded live by 12th Street Editor-in-Chief Jen Sky.
Julie Sheehan Recites
[wpvideo i7uniFhO] Julie Sheehan reciting “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats.
Amy Berkowitz Reads Ish Klein
[wpvideo 6Ed7lrK5] Amy Berkowitz reads a poem from Ish Klein’s new book UNION!