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Poem

For Bob Marley and other poems

Tsaurah Litzky

For Bob Marley I grind the beans for my morning coffee, organic fair trade beans from Trader Joe’s in the electric coffee grinder my father gave me so long ago, the smell of happiness fills my kitchen, th...
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Poem

No One’s Beat Samsara and Other Poems

Peter Marti

No One’s Beat Samsara You just can’t win vs. that Wheel of Birth & Death when you have women, mojo and looks, something else will be missing—your teeth haven't all been accounted for and now an ex is asking for ...
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Poem

This Cat Is Now My Cat & other poems

Craig Kite

This Cat Is Now My Cat I hope that my girlfriend doesn't come back tonight. In fact, I hope my girlfriend never comes back. I hope that her cat becomes my cat. It basically already is. I fucking love this cat. Thi...
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Pier 39

Julia Kissina

"Give me a blow job!" He bends me quite low to his crotch, and I want to tell him a few words more about how much I love him, but he doesn't leave me any time. He presses his hand on the back of my head and my gaze slide...
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Review

Thaddeus Rutkowski, Guess and Check — Review

Jim Feast

Thaddeus Rutkowski, Guess and Check (Arlington,VA: Gival Press, 2017) Although I daresay he didn’t originate this style, there is a form of writing where reality and dream are mixed in a special way, which has become as...
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Poem

Three Poems by Eve Packer

Eve Packer

in the realm of i was heading west from ave b between 1st & 2nd, a storefront opposite the Gas Station, to do the errand i had been asked, i was heading to e. 3rd between 1st & 2nd, to a building where dave burrell...
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Writing

Carmen Miranda on East 5th Street

Coree Spencer

Most of the kitchen staff and busboys at Mary Ann's Mexican restaurant on Fifth Street and Second Avenue in the East Village are from the Dominican Republic, like Luis, a cook in his early twenties. Despite being just a few...
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Sensitive Skin Books

Dime Bag

Vincent Zangrillo

The junkie as iconic anti-hero is a vein that runs through the body of mid-to-late 20th-century American literature, from The Man with the Golden Arm to Naked Lunch to The Basketball Diaries. Written and set in the demimonde...
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Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern

Franklin Mount

Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern At the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, through July 23, 2017 Art and celebrity meet, again, in this exhibition, under the guise of modernity. Actually, there is nothing more modern ...
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Review

The Miniature Lower East Side

Dennis Gordon

The Miniature Lower East Side I've been drawn to abandoned buildings for as long as I can remember. As a boy, the challenge and malice of breaking into forbidden places without getting caught and finding my own sec...
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Sculpture
Poem

Two Poems About the Village

Arthur Nersesian

EAST VILLAGE REMAINS Last night in East Village the garbage was tossed out only to wash ashore along 2nd Avenue resold by peddlers, bought by the hopeless few who see a nostalgia, a bargain, who take it home try ...
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Review

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN – Some Thoughts, No Spoilers

Marc Olmsted

Now that it's likely most of the most-interested have ingested the first 4 episodes of David Lynch's reboot of Twin Peaks on Showtime, I wanted to share some observations. As an elder, nearly 64, I watched the original se...
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Irving Penn Centennial

Franklin Mount

Irving Penn Centennial At The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through July 30, 2017 Money. Status. Power. Fashion. Style. Art. And some humanity, if it’s in the budget. Postwar New York. The first object we s...
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Photographs
Poem

Perfect

Sarah Bernstein

Perfect Precise line Formed On top of Precise line Invisibly Perfect Excel at Gluing at Handwriting at Removing Splinters Cutting Bangs Perfect Feeling Walk on Hot sand Hand on Stove Fingers in Oil Boil...
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Writing

Ghosts

Ryan Leone

Back in the days when relationships weren't digitized and couldn't just be deleted, you had to rip down pictures until there were only taped corners left on the wall that would taunt for a lifetime as torn and tiny ghosts. ...
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Sensitive Skin Books

Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.
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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
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King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 11

Featuring Arthur Nersesian, Celia Farber, Maggie Estep, Joshua Mohr, Marc Olmsted, Stephen Lack, Evelyn Bencicova, Sun Ra, Dîre McCain, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 9

Fred Frith, Samuel R. Delaney, John Lurie, JD King, Vladimir Mayakovsky/Jenny Wade, Justine Frischmann, Chris Bava, Doug Rice, Marty Thau, more.
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Sensitive Skin 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
Gizmo
Gary Indiana
(from Gristle Springs, a novel of intrigue) In a detention cell at Gizmo, Umma Obikhan Khan, supposedly blind as the proverbial bat (having dwelt in many caves, the Umma knew w...
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Timber at Brownies, NYC 1995
Timber Live At Brownies, NYC, June 1, 1995
Timber
Here's a gem that just resurfaced, a video of the complete performance by Timber live at Brownies, NYC, June 1, 1995. https://youtu.be/mRPQfvsUuq4 0:00 Let It Down 5:10...
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Dan Becker – compositions
Dan Becker
Dan Becker likes to compose music (current commissions include a work for Kronos), study music (he received his DMA from Yale), teach music (by way of the SF Conservatory of Music)...
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We Are All Alice B. Toklas
James Reich
Toklasization, being the condition of failing to materialize in one’s autobiography, or of being ghostwritten out by a biographer with more vanity than ours, has become the most ...
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on the b-38
steve dalachinsky
on the b-38 what are you waiting for / get covered / start here / a gift of happiness or risky listening? ya never can tell / drivin 26 yrs / 47 / nice humble guy surprised...
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