Poem
Across the Wounded City
Kevin R. Pennington
I.
Riding the bus,
going to the doctor.
Today, it’s the psychiatrist.
Tomorrow the therapist.
I ride in silence,
staring at my phone.
The trip is long,
as measured in poetic
meter. Too many stops
for an en...
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Poem
Steve Cannon’s Parting Words
Jim Feast
were usually, “Here take $20” or “Take this $40”
which was to pay for stuff at the bodega
I read to him late Saturday afternoons, and, as no one was usually due to drop by till Sunday, I got the supplies before I...
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Poem
Ordinary Death in the Time of Plague
Peter Marti
RIP Vincent Zangrillo
One by one the pillars we lean on crumble into
an equally impossible horizon—
you are gone and the City you loved is far away
the dead command the living now, are afforded
freezer-trucks bu...
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Story
Brushes With Fame
Bernard Meisler
When I lived in New York City, I frequently had brief, meaningless encounters with celebrities.
I used to have a place on 6th Street between 2nd and 3rd. One time I was at my front door and a limo pulled to a stop ri...
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Story
Overtime
Glenn Russell
For many years Neal Merman commuted back and forth to his place of work like countless others. Neal performed the job of an everyday clerk in an insurance office; a room with blank walls, linoleum floor and forty desks under...
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Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #12 – Suzi Kaplan Olmsted, Carl Watson, Arthur Nersesian
Suzi Kaplan Olmsted
Quarantine is effectively over (for now...) so this is the final Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading! We go out with a bang! This week features:
- Suzie Kaplan Olmsted (5:40)
- Carl Watson (23:40)
- Arthur Nersesian (38:5...
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Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #11 – William Considine, Maggie Dubris and Andrei Codrescu
William Considine
Another in our virtual(ly) endless series of online Beer Virus readings during quarantine! The smart reading series with the stupid name! This week, June 4, 2020, features:
- William Considine (3:22)
- Maggie Dubris (18:...
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Poem
What Will Come of It All
Ron Kolm
I’m sitting
In the Parkside Lounge
With a good friend, drinking
Too many White Russians
And bemoaning
The state of the world.
“What’s going to happen?”
I ask her.
“Well,” she says,
“There wi...
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Essay
The National Guard Have Been Deployed
Patrick O'Neil
Sirens fill the warm night air. A helicopter hovers. Then disappears behind a plume of black smoke—its spotlight strafing the crowded streets of downtown Los Angeles. “Protestors are being removed from Whole Foods.” Th...
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Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #10 – Peter Bushyeager, Patricia Carragon and George Wallace
Peter Bushyeager
Sensitive Skin magazine presents yet another in our seemingly endless series of online readings during quarantine! This week's show, recorded live via Zoom on May 28, 2020, features:
- Peter Bushyeager (0:00)
- Patricia...
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Poem
DAVID BYRNE
Dean Kostos
From a series of digital portraits by Lucas Samaras, Poses.
The Pace Gallery, New York, 2010
Your face:
invitation
to gray fire, dissolving
was, will be. Photographed black &
white, your
head is
a George Hurrell ...
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Story
No Pictures at the Exhibition Please
Omer Wissman
A man and a woman sit on a museum bench staring at a Malevich. Simultaneously they wonder what would happen should they both have the same thought at a same time. The woman, Sara, answers anything at all, the man, Abby, repl...
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Readings
Beer Virus Reading #9 – John Macon King, Francine Witte and Ron Kolm
The Editors
Sensitive Skin magazine presents Beer Virus Reading #9, featuring work by:
- J. Macon King (SF) 2:45
- Francine Witte (NYC) 19:29
- Ron Kolm (NYC) 35:58
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Story
You Said a Mouthful
David Huberman
The first time a woman told me she actually ate feces, we were both in our twenties. She was a Jewish blonde with that sexy Gloria Steinem look and that Jewish American Princess attitude. When we were introduced to each ot...
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Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #8 – Kristin Mathis, Drew Hubner, Gregory Pardlo
The Editors
The eighth in the Sensitive Skin magazine series of Zoom quarantine readings, featuring:
- Kristin Mathis (Brooklyn!) - 2:35
- Drew Hubner (Brooklyn!!) - 14:35
- Gregory Pardlo (Brooklyn!!!) - 32:08
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