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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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Story
A Bad Day – An Excerpt From Duke And Jill
Ron Kolm
Duke knew it was going to be a bad day, even before he got out of bed. He had a splitting headache, and a lump the size of a nickel bag on the back of his neck. He couldn’t remember where he’d been last night—or how he...
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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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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
8th Street Station (Yin-Yang)
Ron Kolm
I met you
At the Grey Gallery
Across from Washington Square Park.
We were going to the opening
Of The Left Front: Radical
Art in the “Red Decade.”
We ate all the peanuts
And most of the chips
That were set out...
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Art
Sensitive Skin Most Best of 2014 More Favorites or Whenever
The Editors
I thought it would be fun to ask some Sensitive Skin editors and contributors what they thought was the best of 2014 - not necessarily the "best of" the year—what they liked best during the year, whenever it came out. So I...
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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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Poem
The Hurricane
Ron Kolm
My Sister is a pastor
For a hospice
In New Jersey—
She’s part of a team
That drives up and down
The length of the state
Helping the dying die.
She spends her nights
In motels and keeps her files
In her car; her...
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Sensitive Skin 10
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin 10, published September 2013, an anthology of post-beat, pre-apocalyptic art, writing, music and whatnot, features work by both world-famous and new-and-emerging artists, writers, and musicians from around the...
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Sensitive Skin 8
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin 8, published spring 2012, features:
A rare interview with William S. Burroughs, by Allen Ginsberg, from the early 90s, with previously-unpublished photos of Burroughs by Ruby Ray
Speaking of Ruby Ray, she...
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Sensitive Skin 3
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin 3, published September, 2010.
We did something a little different this time. Ted Barron, our featured photographer (and co-author of East of Bowery, from Sensitive Skin Books) provided gorgeous photographs...
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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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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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