Stephanie Leone is a third-year BA/FA student studying Fiction Writing at Lang and Communication Design at Parsons. If she had her way, Stephanie would write and illustrate children’s books and hyper-realistic novels. Her style is hard to define because she is still searching for it, but she hopes it looks loose, illustrative, and fantastical all at once.”
Poetry Archive
“You confused evasion and artistic tact”
Then in intermittent peeks, needled through the brick enclave saturated, as a stop-motion cartoon i saw him, my Uncle puffy like wild, overgrown mushrooms bruised magenta bloc sleepless caverns, now filled lined the bridge of […]
Beneath A Broken Bridge
Under a bridge,
Kicking rocks at battered walls,
We smoked a few Winston’s,
Not for the thrill
But out of habit.
The sun dropped below the earth,
And the cloudy waters
Rose to our bare ankles,
You told me tragic tales of your life,
And I shared a few of my own.
H.O.M.E.S.
H.
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.
12th Street Cover Art & Two Poems by Sylvia Bonilla
12th Street News The fourth issue of 12th Street Journal is printed and shipped. Please come join us for our launch at Barnes & Noble’s Union Square bookstore in NYC on Monday, May 9 at 7:00 […]
Julie Sheehan Recites
[wpvideo i7uniFhO] Julie Sheehan reciting “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W. B. Yeats.
Justin Taylor Reads
[wpvideo dhVLGi7W] Justin Taylor reading “I See Tiny Mouths” by Anthony McCann from the Agriculture Reader.
Amy Berkowitz Reads Ish Klein
[wpvideo 6Ed7lrK5] Amy Berkowitz reads a poem from Ish Klein’s new book UNION!
Jono Tosch Reads
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