On April 24, the New School Writing Program relaunched the undergraduate literary magazine 12th Street, last published in 1950. The magazine consists of new work by students currently enrolled in the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy; a work of art from the Spring 1949 issue appears on the inside cover.

The Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy is an innovative sequence of writing workshops and close-reading seminars designed to offer gifted undergraduate writers in the New School Bachelor’s Program a balanced and substantial literary education. A part of the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School, the program focuses on “the writer in the world” and extends to undergraduates the mission and accomplishments of the New School’s renowned graduate program in creative writing.

The relaunching of 12th Street will be marked with a celebration on Tuesday, May 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the Union Square Barnes and Noble, 33 East 17th Street. Faculty members Shelley Jackson, Zia Jaffery, and Paul Violi and students from the Riggio program will read from the magazine, which will be nationally distributed by Barnes and Noble.

Publication of 12th Street is made possible by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School.