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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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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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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Poem
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 ...
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Readings
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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Readings
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)
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Poem
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...
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Poem
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...
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Poem
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...
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Poem
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...
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Readings
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
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Poem
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...
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Poem
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 ...
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Readings
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...
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Poem
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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