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Poem

God, Vodka, Suicide

Michael Lindgren

God hurt her in a place that doesn’t show so she drank until there was no more God and they told her but you will die and she sd of course I will die. every body dies and she didn’t believe it until the sky cracke...
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Survivors

Amy Barone

Cahows re-emerged on Bermuda’s Nonsuch Island after a three-hundred-year absence. They thrive amid native flora, wildlife, and limited access to man. Tangier Island in the middle of Chesapeake Bay supplies the world...
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Poem

STEAMROLLED

Thaddeus Rutkowski

I come to where I usually take a detour— a stretch where the pavement has been roughed up in preparation for new pavement. Now, I see machines laying new blacktop, so I ride on the new surface. The material is sticky,...
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Printer’s Delight

John J. Trause

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Something Good is Going to Happen Today

Jennifer Juneau

A red-bellied bird said, as it flew up on a windowsill in this big red city, red as a red room or read as a postcard on a rainy day Something good is going to happen today and this symbolized hope Something good is g...
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Poem

Frankie

Marc Olmsted

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Podcasts

Episode 10 – Max Blagg

Bernard Meisler

Poet, writer and performer Max Blagg in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Max Blagg is an English poet, writer and performer, who has lived in the United States since 1971. We start out talking about the retail apoca...
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Review

Birds of Passage – Review

Franklin Mount

The indigenous people of the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, the Wayuu, are the stars of Birds of Passage. Their resilience and pride (they were never conquered by the Spanish) is evident in everything they do. The Wayuu hold...
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Podcasts

Episode 9 – Tony DuShane

Bernard Meisler

Tony DuShane in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Tony DuShane is the godfather of the indie lit podcast. His show was on terrestrial radio for many years, and featured guests from Wim Wenders to Irvine Welsh to Nick...
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John Farris – Final Poems

John Farris

These are a few of the final poems by poet, novelist, playwright, raconteur, artist and original Sensitive Skin editor John Farris. Andrew Castrucci knew him for over thirty years on the downtown arts scene, Chris Molnar an...
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Podcasts

Episode 8 – Stewart Home

Bernard Meisler

Stewart Home in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Stewart Home is one of my favorite writers, because he manages to pull off something that seems easy but is extraordinarily difficult - he writes intellectual pulp fi...
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Story

Warren Oates Possessed It

Philip Quinn

It was more important than importance itself to get it right, to shoot the damn movie and make sure the actor actually a friend who wanted to be an actor got it right, namely that expression on his face that made him seem li...
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Podcasts

Episode 7 – James Reich

Bernard Meisler

James Reich in conversation with Bernard Meisler. James Reich is the author of the novels Soft Invasions, Mistah Kurtz! A Prelude to Heart of Darkness, Bombshell, I, Judas and, most recently, the astonishing The Song ...
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Podcasts

Episode 6 – Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Rebecca Weiner Tompkins is a fine poet. Her most excellent collection of poems, King of the Fireflies, was recently published by Sensitive Skin Books. Ad...
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Story

The Locked Door

Joel Allegretti

The door to the room next to my bedroom when I was growing up was always locked. It was the only door in the house that locked from the outside. Not once did I see Mom or Dad—or anyone else—open it. I must have been six ...
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Plants at Work
Lynn McGee
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 flowerâ€...
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Sex, God and Violence
S. A. Emmons
The stars must have been aligned when, entirely by chance, I happened upon The Spitters way back in 1994. I had caught a short blurb on them while flipping through some metal magaz...
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Timothy Leary Letter to Allen Ginsberg – from Algeria, 1970
Dr. Timothy Leary
Here it is the the third (and final) letter we received anonymously, from Timothy Leary to his friend Allen Ginsberg. Things haven't gone so swimmingly for the dear doctor since hi...
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Eat Me
Jóhanna Ellen
Jóhanna Ellen is an Icelandic artist working with video, performance and installation who is living in Oslo, Norway. "Eat Me"(2010) is a part of series of videos that deal with th...
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Sensitive Skin #10
The Editors
Sensitive Skin 10, published September 2013, an anthology of post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing, music and whatnot, features work by both world-famous and new-and-emerging art...
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Editor-In-Chief: Bernard Meisler

Associate Editors: Rob Hardin and B. Kold

Music Editor: Steve Horowitz

Contributing Editors:Ron Kolm,
Franklin Mount, Patrick O'Neil

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