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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...

New Work – Leslie Hardie

Leslie Hardie

I aim to create a sense of energy in my work that stimulates emotion and thought. In a word, my work is about energy--the energy of human experience, of thought and emotion, of the chaos and order of Nature, and of the visua...

Art

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Cabaret Wuhan 2020

Julia Kissina

Steve Horowitz- Duets Volume 1

Steve Horowitz

DOUBLE DOUBLE, the 24th album by composer/bassist Steve Horowitz. “Double Double conjures up musical magic that is quite celestial and yet strangely grounded.” —Daniel Lutz, Creative Strategist, Amsterdam T...

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...