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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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
...
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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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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Dumbfound
Kristin Mathis
Let me write about all the ways I have no more words.
You do that to me: extract incoherent sounds
that mean more than this poem could ever say.
Sometimes I wake up and think: nothing.
Not in the way I used to—blank ...
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #7 – Amy Ouzoonian, Amy Barone, John S. Hall
The Editors
The seventh in the Sensitive Skin magazine series of Zoom quarantine readings, featuring:
- Amy Ouzoonian (Phoenix, AZ) 3:12
- Amy Barone (NYC) 16:20
- John S. Hall (NYC) 31:35
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Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #6 – D. James Smith, Mike DeCapite & Max Blagg
The Editors
Sensitive Skin presents more literature in the time of quarantine, featuring readings by:
- D. James Smith, Fresno CA (2:12)
- Mike DeCapite, NYC (13:02)
- Max Blagg, NYC (25:50)
You can read Max's epic coronavirus poe...
HULK SMASH
Marc Olmsted
the Hulk is my yidam my chosen anger deity
Marvel comicbook Avenger
blazing in apocalyptic fire
grunting wrathful 4-letter mantras
demolishing years of therapy
concepts of Buddhist attainment
& mastered sobriety
Green...
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...
