Review
Kali’s Day By Bonny Finberg – A Review
Bonny Finberg
Kali’s Day By Bonny Finberg
An Autonomedia/Unbearable Book, 2014
Bonny Finberg's Kali's Day is an odd combination, a melancholy, picaresque spinning prayer wheel of a novel, almost contemporary and nearly timeless. It ...
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Art
Poetry Month, 2015
The Editors
What a Poetry Month it's been! Special thanks to Winston Smith for the back cover. Here's links to all 30 posts:
April 1 - John S. Hall and Rick Prol
April 2 - Bonny Finberg and Charles Gatewood
April 3 - JD King
April...
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PR
Sensitive Skin #12 – Poetry Month Special
The Editors
Presenting Sensitive Skin 12, published April 2015, a special issue dedicated to poetry and art, in celebration of Poetry Month.
Sensitive Skin 12 features 30 poems (one for every day in April) by John S. Hall, Bonny ...
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Sensitive Skin 12
B. Kold
Presenting Sensitive Skin 12, published April 2015, a special issue dedicated to poetry and art, in celebration of Poetry Month.
Sensitive Skin 12 features 30 poems (one for every day in April) by John S. Hall, Bonny Finb...
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Sensitive Skin 6
B. Kold
Sensitive Skin 6, released spring, 2011. Includes:
Short stories from Max Blagg, Mike DeCapite, jennifer jazz and Bonny Finberg.
Previously unheard music by downtown NYC avant garde legend Elliot Sharp.
Novel excerpts fro...
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Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #2
The Editors
A virtual reading presented by Sensitive Skin Magazine, on April 2nd, 2020, featuring:
- John J. Trause (New Jersey)
- Marguerite Van Cook (New York)
- Rich Ferguson (LA)
- Bonny Finberg (New York)
- Erika Schickel (LA)...
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Story
AS HE TOLD IT (In Kitchens)
Bonny Finberg
Love, built on mutual fantasy in order to fortify against loneliness, eventually becomes a prison.
I approach the beginning of the end never really having had love that doesn't feel like a betrayal.
Anyone I have ever...
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Book
Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018
The Editors
Sensitive Skin Books is proud to present our first writing anthology, Sensitive Skin Selected Writing: 2016-2018, Our (once print, now online only) magazine has been described as "The New Yorker on acid," and "almost underground." For almost 30 years, it has featured writing, art and music by artists famous, infamous, unknown and breaking, everybody from William S. Burroughs to Richard Hell to John Lurie to Alex Katz to Eileen Myles to Gary Indiana.
For many (mostly obvious reasons), our final print issue was released in early 2016. But we thought it would be a valuable resource to collect some of our favorite writing from 2016 to 2018, because print, though more and more difficult to justify producing, is still - well, great.
This 306-page anthology, edited by Bernard Meisler, collects selected stories, poems and essays, published online between 2016 and 2018, so you can finally enjoy them in physical book (and Kindle - we ma...
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Poem
NATURE
Bonny Finberg
We can rewrite the narrative.
Eve eats the apple and leaves the Garden
fortified by knowledge and multiplied by wisdom,
leaves the comfort of the first mirage,.
to find the greater world
where good and evil
make thin...
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Poem
Transubstantiation
Bonny Finberg
Transubstantiation
Cut from olive wood,
the straining
nails
of
hands
to
cross,
the body arched in holy
agony is ecstasy
and so, the other way around.
Once a year at Sacré Coeur,
the Bo...
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Poem
First Ladies First
Bonny Finberg
First Ladies First
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The gold on the lamp
is the gold on the chair
is the gold on her cheeks and slitted eyes.
Her skin, scrubbed to red,
the frost on her face matters,
fostered in dungeons,
by ogres and witches...
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Essay
Mark McCawley RIP
bart plantenga
“I had become periodically insane, with long bouts of horrible sanity...”
--Mark McCawley, “Sick Lazy Fuck”
I knew something was up on 3 counts: I had just posted something on the 19 April death of Richard Lyons ...
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Poem
(10.1.13 will never come again.)
Bonny Finberg
Take the gas mask off. Take a bath.
Take the cake. Take the China exit.
Hell is out there too,
Other people’s concern,
Gods’ voices, at it like grownups
In the front seat.
Photograph from the Wall Str...
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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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