12th Street is produced annually by students enrolled in the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy at the New School University in New York City.
“...I feel the need to prove my identity as a Chinese-Japanese American. As if it’s a requirement, part of the ongoing check-list of “to-do’s” to get my asian stamp of approval...”
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Excerpt from the latest blog piece by Poetry Editor Matthew Young
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“The beauty that I saw in my mother—her brown skin, her large hips, her round tummy, her kinky hair—was not considered beautiful on her to the white homogeneity of the 90s. She had to strip some of that away in order to survive. Not just to be beautiful, but to be employable.”
Excerpt from the latest blog piece by Poetry Editor, Natalia Berry.
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“Beauty is a currency. I watched my mother transform each day to go to work, to look “professional,” to become more respected in the white spaces where she worked. I watched her perform similar rituals to become more desirable for Black spaces. I watched her ritualistically straighten her hair every few weeks. I frequently watched her get her nails done, in long petite acrylics painted with Essie pink color Lady-Like…”
Excerpt from the latest blog piece by Poetry Editor, Natalia Berry.
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“I daydream a lot about floating in the air. A slow, sort of dead man’s float across the sky. This doesn’t make much sense to me because I don’t like planes. Or swimming.”
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Excerpt from New Non-Fiction by Linda Kravitz
Six Poems by Christah Porter is now up!!! Link in bio! Poetry at its finest💕
New Blog #Sh*ttyLuck by @rileymdole is up!!! This is so good!!! #linkinbio
New Poetry Alert🗣” So Long, Farewell My Child” by Eleanor Aristide is now up!!!” #linkinbio
New #Poetry alert!!! So Long, Farewell My Dear by Eleanor Aristide is now up!!! #linkinbio
“We emerge from the froth and part our lips, singing in unison. Our song is a euphonious trill forged by seawater and regality. A sacred language of cadence and rhythm that has weighed on the stretched husks of the Bantay Tubig, guardians of the water, for centuries.”
Excerpt from the latest fiction piece by writer and designer, Jillian Rees.
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Join us…..IN PERSON, tomorrow at 6pm for our Student Reading:) We’ll also be streaming live, scan the QR code to register now!
Amazing new read by @stevielazarus !!! #DavidInTheDark
“In subway stations, at museums, on trains, in taxicabs, outside restaurants, on street corners, I found myself asking the question: What makes a New Yorker?”
Excerpt from the latest blog piece by Art & Multimedia Editor, Jillian Rees
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New #NonFiction piece, Why I Don’t Drink, is now ready for your eyes!!! Thank you Zahra Mansoor for such an incredible piece!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 #LinkInBio
“Instead of giving up on writing, on art forms altogether, I have been trying to find new ways to tell stories. Novel to me, at least. And when I simply cannot find the motivation or inspiration in my own stories, I look to the storytellers all around me. I always find them at 12th Street—in the forms of author, artist, and editor.”
Excerpt from Letter From The Editor 2021-2022, by Editor-in-chief, Sophia Benz (@sophiaromerobenz)
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Putting aside the scurvy, wooden fingers, and telepathic seagulls, ‘Our Flag Means Death’ is a show about outcasts for outcasts. It’s silly, sometimes irreverent, but brilliantly tender. It’s not just a rom-com or situational comedy; it’s a queer elegy—honoring those outcasts in history who chose to risk their lives for freedom and perhaps even love.
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New #NonFiction , #seeingisbelieving by #NoahMurray is now up!!! #linkinbio
New Poetry by Lexi Lane is up!!! Link in bio!
#CandyShop by @lilymonsour is now up! #LinkInBio
Our Mess by @lilymonsour is now up!!! Such a beautiful read💕
Take a walk through New Orleans’ 9th Ward in Dezy Fitzgerald Powers’ expansive and unflinching new fiction piece, “The Ewe’s Blood Trickles Down Mazant.”
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Link in bio!! Shout out to our own @stevielazarus for this dope blog! http://www.12thstreetonline.com/every-spotlight-has-a-shadow/
There’s still time to submit to 12th Street!!! Link in bio!!! We are waiting to review your awesome work!!!
We’re still accepting submissions of all kinds! Art! Poetry! Non-Fiction & Fiction! Media!!! Link in bio!
We are still accepting submissions for all work! Don’t hide your talent, share it with the world! Link in bio:)
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