Soft Bark I. It starts with a slow growl, the vocal chords colliding in unison— what I’ve learned of separation in a merging of two vehicles headed in opposite directions— though our bodies may be […]
Surprise
Surprise that warm burst of liquid: soft skin breaking beneath teeth, an expectation of puncture, pressure instead, evenly spaced under mandible. intimate as it is, the usual exchange of fluid, relapse sewing closed the space […]
insomnaut
insomnaut the night creeps past the future and into the present. terminably now and interminably when. the silence sufferable by no mind but mine own. by crushing the now, and being crushingly zen. iron maidens […]
fourlets
fourlets language language is a small child all day you carry her around peer into her blue eyes at night she wakes up screaming august it’s August and the snow has just melted last year […]
Interview with Jeffery Renard Allen, Author of: “Song of The Shank”
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of two collections of poetry, Stellar Places and Harbors and Spirits, and two works of fiction, the novel Rails Under My Back and the story collection Holding Pattern. His new novel, Song of […]
Interview with Alysia Abbott, Author of: “Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father”
The tender-rooted honesty in Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, is of refreshing minority compared to the often fast and exploitative writing currently in the genre. Expertly braiding her memories of growing up […]
Interview with Poet Marisa Frasca
Poet Marisa Frasca graduated from the New School’s Riggio Honors Program, where she was also the poetry editor for 12th Street Journal. She received her MFA in poetry from Drew University. Her poems have appeared in […]
I Never Wanted To Be A Poet
This piece was chosen to be read by Reyes at 12th Street 2015 Online launch, this month. It is also apart of 12th Street Journal‘s series, “Crisis Expressive,”which focuses on why and how we, as […]
Nilda
Nilda Lottery Tickets get scratched. The Hennessey forms a stream. Newport ashes decorate the concrete. Hold it tight in your hands—hope, It’s called Hope. The Bachata was strung by guitars, By the lowest of the […]
Ferguson Revisited
The mission of 12th Street Journal has always been to give a space to the writers and artists of the New School, and to the wider net of our fellow creatives, to voice their experiences […]
One of Two
At two years old, Annabelle fell into a pool. Just dropped in and floated down through the water like an egg dropped through soup all the way to the bottom where she settled. She didn’t swim […]
Do You Feel Safe
This piece is a part of 12th Street Journal‘s series, “Crisis Expressive,”which focuses on why and how we, as humans, creatively express during personal and public moments of crisis. If you have a story to express, we would be exulted to […]
A House Divided Against Itself
This piece is apart of 12th Street Journal‘s series, “Crisis Expressive,”which focuses on why and how we, as humans, creatively express during personal and public moments of crisis. If you have a story to express, we would be exulted to read […]
2014-15 Online Launch, Tuesday December 2nd, 7PM
Date: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014, Time: 7 p.m. Location: Union Square Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. Please join us for the 2014-15 12th Street Journal Online launch, with an evening of readings […]
Finding Beckett
12th Street Journal’s Editor-In-Chief, Daniel Gee Husson, closes his eyes and sits down to a dreamy and eccentric conversation with the ghost of the avant-garde playwright, Samuel Beckett. It was winter in my junior […]
The Bonsai EP–Songs By Simone Stevens, NSPE Student.
When 12th Street set out this 2014-15 school year to glean the New School for all possible creative talent to showcase in the journal, we were unprepared for the amount of high-caliber submissions flocking our […]
Two Days in November
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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,” […]