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Vain Endeavor & other poems

Dan Sofaer

Vain Endeavor It was a vain endeavor. All the plants and leaves Took pity on it as it Hung out in the wind. Princesses noticed its Ridiculous asinine shadow As it hung out there torn For a moment and said Poor, po...

A Tribute to John Coltrane

The Editors

In celebration of the birthday of John Coltrane, Sensitive Skin had its first reading in San Francisco, Thursday, September 23rd 2010 at: The Luggage Store Gallery Craig Clevenger reads from Dermaphoria, part 2 https://ww...

Sensitive Skin Live at Bowery Poetry Club, 8-15-2010

The Editors

Contributors to past, present and future issues showed up at the Bowery Poetry Club, August 15, 2010 in New York City. Much thanks to the proprietor, Bob Holman, for hosting us (and for joining us as a special guest star). E...

The Sinners & other great Latin garage rock bands

Bernard Meisler

So after watching Simon of the Desert last week, and being blown away by what is perhaps the most ridiculous (or sublime?) ending to any film ever made, I did my research and figured out the name of the band - The Sinners. ...

Inception Antidote – Luis Buñuel’s "Simon of the Desert"

Bernard Meisler

I hate to write a negative review of anything - what's the point, really? - and I don't want to rain on anyone's parade who might have enjoyed it - but I hated Inception. I mean, I didn't just not like it, it made me angry. ...

New Work – Al Kresch

Al Kresch

Al Kresch has been dealing with the same motifs for at least 40 years. The earlier paintings that I have seen, not unlike the best work of Derain and Marquet, show him reacting not only to the largest forming and emotion...

Lapis Lazuli

Kurt Wolf

Lapis Lazuli is a solo instrumental project written, produced, and performed by Kurt Wolf on laptop, guitar, and analog synth. Kurt Wolf is known for his contributions to downtown noise rock acts, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, Lo...

MM2

Rebecca Gaffney

Rebecca Gaffney is obsessed with out of phase strobelight, reflections, pulling ephemeral light/vid moments out of the air, weird underground bands, experimental everything, ghetto layers, transcendence, "happenings", epic c...

Motor City is Not My Home

Emily XYZ

Motor city is not my home / but I love it just the same Murder city, kill city ok but that’s just one way to look at the place where so much comes from and I know GM should have been allowed to fall but for all the goo...

Merthiolate (and Other Futile Antiseptics)

Robert C. Hardin

Merthiolate After failing to kill myself for the eighteenth time, I decided to be more positive. Why focus on failure? I thought. Why not appreciate the character added by damage to my once-perfect body? But despite the p...

Night Train Heading South

Christian X. Hunter

Excerpts from A Fistful Of Rupees There is a train to Dharmavaram at 5:00 for fifty-seven rupees. That allows about fourteen minutes buy a platform ticket, retrieve my pack from left luggage, buy some food and find the trai...

That’s Entertainment – Chapter One

B. Kold

Aliens do exist, but humans should try to avoid any contact with them - Stephen Hawking You’re fired. - Donald Trump New York City: The Near Future Vion Sandor was cold. Everybody else on line was cold too, but th...

Dennis Hopper – Outlaw Artist

Bernard Meisler

I've wanted to pay tribute to the great Dennis Hopper, one of my all-time outlaw artist heroes, since he passed May 29th. I'm not gonna say much, but I'll pass along a few tidbits of info that perhaps you weren't familiar ...

Tuli Kupferberg, RIP

The Editors

Another great shuffles off this mortal coil. Here's a gem from the '60s. https://youtu.be/2mQJSxX5sGg Tuli would sometimes (a lot?) show up at the Unbearables readings. I remember him singing "Slum Goddess" like it w...

Georges Bataille : Literature And Evil

The Editors

This is a fascinating interview with Georges Batailles from 1958, regarding his essay, La Littérature et le Mal (hat tip, Rob Hardin). Some of the high points include the statements that all literature is essentially evil, ...