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Sensitive Skin 13 – Table of Contents
The Editors
Here's the complete list of all the pieces from our 13th issue, along with the back cover, a collage of mugshots from the collection of Mark Michaelson, submitted for your perusal. If you'd like to support us, please purchas...
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Art
Best of 2015 – Sensitive Skin More Better Favorites
The Editors
This was so much fun last year, I thought we'd do it again. (Two of my favorite books of the year were ones I picked up from last year's list: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, recommended by Deborah Pintonelli, and ...
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Art
Sensitive Skin 13
The Editors
Presenting Sensitive Skin 13, the Crime Special, featuring a multitude of criminally insane artists and writers.
Sensitive Skin 13 features original fiction from Peter Blauner (Slow Motion Riot, The Intruder), Thaddeus ...
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Sensitive Skin 13
B. Kold
Presenting the 13th edition of Sensitive Skin, the crime issue, featuring a multitude of criminally insane artists and writers.
Sensitive Skin 13 features original fiction from Peter Blauner (Slow Motion Riot, The Intrude...
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Sensitive Skin Books
Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming
Carl Watson
“Amongst the oil fumes and the briny dinge of the sea, greasy, tired, frustrated, I had a flash. Suddenly, I had it all figured out—the psychology of despots and CEOs. I figured that in order for civilization to exist, p...
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Events
Poetry Month Release Reading at Bowery Poetry Club, 5-17-15
The Editors
To celebrate the release of Sensitive Skin #12, the Poetry Month special, we had a reading at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. About half of the published poets were able to make it. It was a lot of fun, but if you weren't the...
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Poem
Kiss of Kind
Carl Watson
Virtue and Fear
Stare at each other in the mirror,
They feed upon & tease each other
Until neither one remembers what it used to be.
That mirror’s name is Vanity,
It can make a body live in harmony ...
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Review
Duchamp et Moi – review of the short story collection by Jill Rapaport
Jim Feast
I think Jill Rapaport’s new collection of short stories, Duchamp et Moi, has been praised for the wrong reasons, talk of “individual sentences shimmering,” and so on. This has been said in the mistaken impression that ...
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Sensitive Skin 6 and 7
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin 6 and 7, released spring and fall 2011. Two issues combined into one, now available in print!
From Sensitive Skin 6:
Short stories from Max Blagg, Mike DeCapite, jennifer jazz and Bonny Finberg.
Previ...
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Sensitive Skin Number 2, Vol. 1
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin Number 2, Summer 1994
Seemed like everybody wanted to be in the skin by the time we wrapped up our original print run with our 2nd issue (or is it Peau Sensible #6? A great mystery...). Contributors include...
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Sensitive Skin Number 1, Vol. 1
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin Number 1 - or is it #5?
It took us almost a year to figure out that Peau Sensible in English meant Sensitive Skin. A lot of water passed under the bridge between Peau Sensible 4 and this first issue to go by ...
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Peau Sensible 4
B. Kold
Peau Sensible 4 - Summer '92
We started getting some attention - outside of the Lower East Side, that is - with this issue, as we were joined by not one but two beat generation giants, Herbert Huncke (Guilty of Everything) ...
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What I Did Today, Part IV
Ron Kolm
So we’re about to be hit by hurricane Irene, alright! And, at the same time, Carl Watson spends the day in an upstate hospital with something akin to colitis – so it goes. Carl is the very person who would give both his ...
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What I Did Today, Part III
Ron Kolm
If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’ll remember that there are four 2,000 word “essays” in each What I Did Today chapbook, and that Dan Waber is the publisher, and that if you want a copy you have to c...
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What I Did Today, Part II
Ron Kolm
It’s been a week or two since I posted the first of four essays from Dan Waber’s What I Did Today Chapbook series (published by chapbookpublisher.com but, as it turns out, not available from them – to get a copy you ha...
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