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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 ...

RAY BY RAY: A Daughter’s Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray – Review

Marc Olmsted

RAY BY RAY: A Daughter's Take on the Legend of Nicholas Ray by Nicca Ray Three Rooms Press $20.00 If you really want to know about Nick Ray's films, track down Nicholas Ray: An American Journey by Bernard Eisenschitz, ...

S02E07 – Vincent Zangrillo

Bernard Meisler

Author Vincent Zangrillo in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Vincent Zangrillo back in his salad days Vincent (Vinnie) Zangrillo is the author of Dime Bag, a collection of short stories recounting his misadventures i...

TRICKS OF LIGHT – Selected Poems by Thaddeus Rutkowski – Review

Amy Ouzoonian

TRICKS OF LIGHT Selected Poems by Thaddeus Rutkowski 100 pages, Great Weather For Media I am one of those people who can find connections and associations between concepts and coincidences in just about any situation. I’ll be thinking about someone and then they call me or send me a message. I love connecting the dots of current events with astrological shifts and I have blamed mercury retrograde for unfortunate events as many times as I have thanked my lucky stars for good fortune. I started reading Thaddeus Rutkowski’s book of poetry, Tricks of Light, in the first week of April. At that time the Governor of Arizona, (where I live) had announced that we were to observe “shelter in place” to help “flatten the curve” and reduce cases of COVID-19. The speaker in Tricks of Light makes simple philosophical observations and engages with people on a limited basis, but for the most part, one could imagine him being ...

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 Subscribe to our YouTube channel Se...

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...

Russians in Milan

Genna Rivieccio

The Russians have taken over Milan. They of the hearty stock and with their unflappable physical and emotional essence. It didn’t take them long to infiltrate in clusters and then droves. Now that no one else is left to vi...

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...

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...

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 Jeffrey Cypher...

Some Thoughts on Party Crashing

Neil Martinson

At this stage of my life, I don’t crash nearly as many parties as I used to. Free time is at a premium, and there’s simply less wandering to do now that I live in Los Angeles. While my two decades in San Francisco proved...

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...

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 ...