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Readings

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...
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Readings

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:...
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Poem

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...
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Essay

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...
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Readings

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...
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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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Drawings

Cabaret Wuhan 2020

Julia Kissina

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Music

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...
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Story

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...
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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 Subscribe to our YouTube channel SenstiveSkinTV today and check...
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Story

You Said a Mouthful

David Huberman

The first time a woman told me she actually ate feces, we were both in our twenties. She was a Jewish blonde with that sexy Gloria Steinem look and that Jewish American Princess attitude. When we were introduced to each ot...
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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 Subscribe to our ...
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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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Review

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, ...
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Podcasts

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...
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Sensitive Skin Books

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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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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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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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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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 12

April 2015 Poetry Special, featuring John S. Hall, Max Blagg, Emily XYZ, David Rattray, Jack Micheline, John Farris, Taylor Mead, Julie Torres, Winston Smith, Jean-Christian Bourcart, many more.
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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 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!
Blade Runner 2049 essay by James Reich
Blade Runner 2049: The Enigma and Exegesis of ‘K’
James Reich
Zwei Selle wohnen ach! In meiner Brust. (Two cells live in my chest.) ... I must go on being a Christian, acting out the role of a genuine revolutionary apostolic Christian, as a s...
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The Locked Door Joel Allegretti
The Locked Door
Joel Allegretti
The door to the room next to my bedroom when I was growing up was always locked. It was the only door in the house that locked from the outside. Not once did I see Mom or Dad—or ...
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10mg Valium
Mink Stole
Vincent Zangrillo
Gregory loved Cookie Mueller. Cookie loved John Waters. John Waters loved Mink Stole. I was in a pub called Beggars Bush in Ubud, Bali, in 1989, when the guy sitting next to...
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Plants at Work
Lynn McGee
Plants at Work Sunflowers bob on a raft near Chernobyl, roots leaching atoms humming with intent to harm, but diffusing like sugar in the slow surge of some big flower...
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Post Pic
How They Fucked (In Three Parts)
John S. Hall
I Well, yes, they fucked like bunnies, and yes, they fucked as if it was their last night on earth (when in fact it was early afternoon), but more than that, they fucked like so m...
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Editor-In-Chief: Bernard Meisler

Associate Editors: Rob Hardin and B. Kold

Music Editor: Steve Horowitz

Contributing Editors:Ron Kolm,
Franklin Mount, Patrick O'Neil

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