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Gerald Nicosia

Having moved to San Francisco from Chicago in 1979, Gerald Nicosia became part of the post-Beat circle of poets in the Bay Area, and eventually numbered many of the Beat poets among his close friends. He’s also the author of the classic Kerouac biography MEMORY BABE. Beginning with Lunatics, Lovers, Poets, Vets & Bargirls</em. (1991), he also began publishing books of his own poetry, and this fall will publish the sixth volume, a collection of his poems remembering the Beats called BEAT SCRAPBOOK.

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Poem for Gregory Corso’s Ashes in the English Cemetery in Rome

Gerald Nicosia

Dear Gregory, as long as I knew you They were throwing you out of places I watched Bob Levy Normally a kind man Give you the bum’s rush out of City Lights Yelling, “We want your books here But not you!” (There w...
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Podcasts

S02E02 – Gerald Nicosia

Gerald Nicosia

Gerald Nicosia in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Gerald Nicosia An absolute must-listen for all fans of Jack Kerouac and the Beats. Gerry and I spoke about his role as an advisor to the film version of "On The Road...
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Sensitive Skin Books

King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
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Mayakovsky Maximum Access

Jenny Wade

24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade
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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 11

Featuring Arthur Nersesian, Celia Farber, Maggie Estep, Joshua Mohr, Marc Olmsted, Stephen Lack, Evelyn Bencicova, Sun Ra, Dîre McCain, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 8

William S. Burroughs interview by Allen Ginsberg, James Greer, Chavisa Woods, Ruby Ray, James Romberger, Tom McGlynn, Rob Hardin, more.
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Shiny Kitten - Marina Loeb
I’ve Got My Shiny Kitten
Gerald Nicosia
— for Yun Peng Hell yeah I’m skinny. My body is COVERED in skin! But I’ve got my shiny kitten and I am not the same person I used to be. Shopping naked with my shi...
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Human Be-In Timothy Leary
Timothy Leary Letter to Allen Ginsberg, from Berkeley, CA, 1969
Gerald Nicosia
OK, as promised here's the second Timothy Leary Letter to Allen Ginsberg. (We received three of these, anonymously, and published the first, from Mexico, 1963, last week). In this ...
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Road Kill
Gerald Nicosia
In an alley on the fringes of the march, Glory stuffed toilet paper bits in her ears and got out of danger, whispering to the baby in her tummy, running deeper into the alley for s...
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Plants at Work
Gerald Nicosia
Plants at Work Sunflowers bob on a raft near Chernobyl, roots leaching atoms humming with intent to harm, but diffusing like sugar in the slow surge of some big flower...
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What Friends Say
Gerald Nicosia
Jason moved across the floor on his hands and knees, I see him this way constantly, in that scooting motion, making his way to the records lined against the other wall. Dawn is ...
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