A rhyming rant in the time of Corona
Max Blagg
I want this poem to become as curvy
as the hottentot Venus's posterior
I hope it's worthy of your serious survey
you can see I'm rather nervé, nervous in the service
but tonight I discard my corona fears
so open your e...
RINGED
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
I wear the heaviness of my mother’s rings:
the deep shaded carnelian--burgundy
slab--and the veined malachite--oblong green.
I don’t usually favor silver, plus they’re huge
even on my own large long hands.
My si...
I Held Her Like a Pencil Drawing
Anton Yakovlev
That was my first mistake.
Whoever expected us to become the best movie of the decade
needs to go home and become a better person.
The rain stayed right where it fell.
Even shadows failed better than we. Perhaps
I coul...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading # 5 – Gerald Nicosia, Emily Carter, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Bob Holman
The Editors
Here's the fifth Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading live via Zoom! Readings in the time of quarantine, featuring work by:
Gerald Nicosia (MEMORY BABE) - 2:11
Emily Carter (GLORY GOES AND GETS SOME) - 13:57
Jeffrey Cypher...
Talking Alligator Therapist Puppet™
Sharon Mesmer
I read there’s a talking alligator puppet
that doubles as a therapist.
He is realistically rendered, with velour ruching
and soft plastic teeth.
Sliding pole action enables his mouth
to open up and down, and his head...
Wasps
Osip Mandelstam
In an interview from 1976, Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, was asked if she had any favorite poems. She mentioned two, both written in the winter of 1937: “Verses about an unknown ...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #4 – April 16, 2020
The Editors
An online Zoom reading presented by Sensitive Skin magazine featuring work by:
Mia Hansford (Chattanooga, TN)
Liza Béar (NYC)
Jose Padua (Washington, DC)
Tony DuShane (Los Angeles)
Online readings every Thursday for...
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...
Walking with Steve to the Book Party
Linda Kleinbub
I picked Steve up at his apartment
his was door’s ajar, when I arrived
I don’t remember if I rang or knocked
but he yelled, Come in.
Steve was sitting on his sofa, wearing shades.
He began telling me his stories
h...
Lucky, Lulu, and a Cat Named Bo (Cold Turkey)
Phillip Giambri
Thanksgiving, 3:00 PM
Sixth floor walk-up in an old tenement building
next to the Ukie funeral parlor on 7th Street.
Black and white TV on,
rabbit ears up, sound off.
Thanksgiving Day Parade is over.
Santa’s bee...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #3
The Editors
On April 9, 2020, we had another terrific show via Zoom, featuring readings by:
- Puma Perl (NYC)
- Larissa Shmailo (NYC)
- Marc Olmsted (Portland, OR) and
- Joshua Mohr (San Francisco)
Vinnie Zangrillo (Strong Isla...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #2
The Editors
A virtual reading presented by Sensitive Skin Magazine, on April 2nd, 2020, featuring:
- John J. Trause (New Jersey)
- Marguerite Van Cook (New York)
- Rich Ferguson (LA)
- Bonny Finberg (New York)
- Erika Schickel (LA)...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #1
The Editors
Sorry, no April Poetry Month this year - but we've still got plenty of poetry coming your way (and prose too!). We'll be running virtual online readings for the duration of the shelter-in-place order (so...September 2021?). ...
SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNALS January – July 1960 by Allen Ginsberg – review
Marc Olmsted
SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNALS
January - July 1960
by Allen Ginsberg
edited by Michael Schumacher
University of Minnesota Press
$29.95
First, I was immediately struck by how much unpublished poetry or early drafts (suc...
S02E14 – Keshav Das
Bernard Meisler
Writer, poet and musician Keshav Das in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Keshav Das
Keshav Das, was, once upon a time, an editor at Sensitive Skin magazine, when he went by the nom de plume Christian X. Hunter. He ...
