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12th Street Issue # 5 Launch and Reading
12th Street Issue #5 About the Event: POLITICS AND LETTERS COME TOGETHER FOR AN EVENING OF READINGS BY ELISSA SCHAPPELL, TÉA OBREHT, AND STUDENT CONTRIBUTORS TO 12TH STREET ISSUE 5, PUBLISHED BY THE...
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A Conversation with Elissa SchappellAn Excerpt from the 12th Street Interview
In this excerpt from the 12th Street interview, Elissa Schappell discusses womanhood from era to era with Charlotte Slivka. Author Elissa Schappell Photo Credit: Emily Tobey Elissa Schappell is the...
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Téa Obrhet: How We Make Meaning, Makes UsAn Excerpt from the 12th Street...
In this excerpt from the 12th Street interview, Téa Obreht talks backstory, process and the questions we’d love to ask our own work with Online Managing Editor, Kate Cox. See Téa Obreht at 12th...
View ArticleA Conversation with Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta will appear at 12th Street‘s launch event friday, November 30 at 7:00 p.m. at the Union Square Barnes & Noble (33 E. 17th Street, New York, NY 10003.) Dana Spiotta is the author of the...
View ArticleWill Hermes: The Sounds of New York 1973-77
1973, New York City is broke, falling apart and over run by crime. It has the worst reputation in the country and even the president won’t help. Neglected and left to its own devices, the City is a...
View ArticleOn the Language of Poetry: A Conversation with Tina Chang
TINA CHANG was raised in New York City. Brooklyn Poet Laureate, she is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011). She is co-editor of the anthology...
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Interview with David Levithan
David Levithan began his career writing for the young adult genre a decade ago with Boy Meets Boy. He has since written several acclaimed novels such as The Lover’s Dictionary, Every Day, and, most...
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Syria’s Poetic Justice
In the United States the conflict in Syria, although known, has been an issue recognized only during times when the media has made it a topic for evening headlines or endless partisan debates....
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Interview With Rosie Schaap
Fortune teller. Deadhead. Minister. Teacher. These are a few of the lives that New York Times columnist and This American Life contributor Rosie Schaap has led. But rather than relegating those...
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Interview with Adam Fitzgerald
Adam Fitzgerald Adam Fitzgerald is a poet and educator. Barely 30, he is a founding editor for Maggy poetry journal, and teaches creative writing at Rutgers University and NYU. Here at The New...
View ArticleKenan 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...
View ArticleInterview 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...
View ArticleInterview 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...
View ArticleInterview 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...
View ArticleA Consultation with the Doctors
Managing Editor Charlotte Slivka engaged the drDOCTOR team in conversation via email. They discussed their reading series/podcast and where they’re going next. Sam Farahmand and Luke Wiget are the New...
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Excerpts from Author Interviews in Print Journal 2015
(conducted by Charlotte Slivka) 12th Street: When did you know you’d be a writer, and what propelled you to go for it? Tiphanie Yanique: My grandmother was a children’s librarian, which really...
View ArticleA Conversation with Rigoberto Gonzàlez
Rigoberto González was born in Bakersfield, California, and raised in Michoacán, Mexico. He is the author of several poetry books, including So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks (1999), a...
View ArticleA Conversation with Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique is the author of the story collection, How to Escape from a Leper Colony, and I Am the Virgin Islands, a poem and children’s book illustrated by her husband, photographer Moses Djeli....
View ArticleA Conversation with Rene Steinke
René Steinke’s most recent novel, Friendswood (Riverhead), was named one of National Public Radio’s Best Books of 2014. Her previous novel, Holy Skirts, an imaginative retelling of the life of the...
View ArticleSyria’s Poetic Justice
In the United States the conflict in Syria, although known, has been an issue recognized only during times when the media has made it a topic for evening headlines or endless partisan debates....
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