Join us to celebrate 12th Street Online’s launch with an evening of readings by Patrick McGrath, Leigh Stein, Sarah Schulman and student editors and contributors. Hosted by Robert Polito.
What do raps about the working class, Shakespeare monologues and stories about the south have in common? What responsibilities do writers have within the OWS movement?
On Friday, November 4, New School Riggio Writing and Democracy students along with friends gathered to find out during an event entitled Reading + OWS Discussion While the Reading is a regular event, the discussion about Occupy Wall Street was added as an acknowledgement that the movement is impacting lives.
AWP Recap by Liz Axelrod Every year thousands of writers, professors, school teachers, students, Ph.D. candidates, publishers, booksellers, bloggers, posers, and other assorted literary peddlers and pushers convene en masse in a chosen locale for the annual Association of Writer and Writing Programs Conference—a locale most definitely not ready or even aware of the magnitude [...]
On Sunday, September 26, New School Professor Joseph Salvatore gave an amazing and ardent reading at Googies Lounge. The room was filled with a community of readers and writers, former students, friends, and literary admirers sweating in the oppressive humid heat while anxiously waiting to hear the piece from his upcoming book of short stories, [...]
The East Village was alive this past Wednesday night with both those who haunt and those who need to be haunted In St. Marks Church on 10th Street, hundreds of people filed into the Poetry Project’s Memorial for the poet Peter Orlovsky who died this past May. His name becomes more recognizable when it precedes the fact the he [...]
12th Street Website: Online Editor-in-Chief: Liz Axelrod Online Literary Editor: Philip Anderson Assistant Online Editor: Jennifer Giglio Assistant Online Editor: Jeff Vasishta 12th Street Journal: Editor-in-Chief: Mario A. Zambrano Managing Editor: Liz Axelrod Interview Editor: Patrick Hipp Fiction Editor: Eric Marsh Nonfiction Editor: Tony Grassi Poetry Editor: Rebecca Melnyk Readers: Jennifer Sky Band, Noah Beigelmacher, [...]
Don’t forget to come by the Lang Center this Friday, May 7, for the finale in the Riggio Reading Series. Graduating seniors will be reading excerpts from their thesis projects. It’s an event not to be missed. Formal attire is expected.
12th Street Celebrates the Release of Issue Number 3! The literary journal of The New School’s Riggio Honors Program, Writing and Democracy, will celebrate the launch of its third issue at Barnes & Noble in Union Square at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, May 18th. The reading will feature New School undergraduate student contributors, Robert Polito, [...]
Monday, Monday, Monday! April 26th is the New School’s 12 Street Magazine launch party. Contributors will be reading excerpts from this year’s journal. Refreshments will be served. The launch will be held at: 66 W. 12th St., Rm. 510 @ 7:00pm. We look forward to seeing you there.
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