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S02E12 – Tom McGlynn

Bernard Meisler

Painter and critic Tom McGlynn in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Tom McGlynn Mob T-Shirt copyright 1994 Tom McGlynn Small Standard 1, 36" x 36" copyright 2018 I had a good time talking to my old pal, painter ...
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Podcasts

Episode 15 – Steve Cannon

Bernard Meisler

Steve Cannon in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Professor Steve Cannon is the founder and publisher of Gathering of the Tribes magazine, and author of the filthiest book of all time, Groove, Bang and Jive Around - ...
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John Farris – Final Poems

John Farris

These are a few of the final poems by poet, novelist, playwright, raconteur, artist and original Sensitive Skin editor John Farris. Andrew Castrucci knew him for over thirty years on the downtown arts scene, Chris Molnar an...
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Poem
Podcasts

Episode 5 – Chavisa Woods

Chavisa Woods

Chavisa Woods in conversation with Bernard Meisler. Chavisa Woods is a New York-based literary fiction author, and poet. She is the author of three books. The first, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, (2009) is bot...
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Essay

John Farris Readings

John Farris

John Farris - writer, poet, raconteur, curmudgeon, mentor, genius - died last week at his home at the Bullet Space Gallery in NYC's East Village, where he'd lived since 1992. John was a friend to many, and took us young'uns ...
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Call Up

John Farris

Today the world is wet & white: everybody tries to throw the snow back (a girl, determined, handles a shovel gingerly, sends a pile of it scattering; it flies to the court below, exposing a red-stained Kreolite stair, ...
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Art

Balloons, Beads

John Farris

“What you gonna be when you blow up? I bet you gonna be a balloon…kee kee kee!” That was Willie T’s salutation these days -- delivered with an eye-rolling guffaw registering satisfaction with his cho...
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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...
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Sensitive Skin Books

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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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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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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Print Issues

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 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 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!
Evil Polish Boners & Other Flarf Poems
Sharon Mesmer
Evil Polish Boners I don’t know what it is about spandex suits for wrestling and rowing, but they always seem to create the most evil Polish boners. The Polish boner is a...
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Billy's Topless Carl Watson
Meme Drift
Carl Watson
West Midtown, when empty, could seem like an ancient old growth forest formed of concrete, granite, iron and glass. And like such a forest it had a dual nature— peaceful yet simu...
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JD King illustration for Mesrine
Mesrine
Jacques Mesrine (translated by Catherine Texier & Robert Greene)
In late February 1972, all my friends finally ended up in block 2. The winter was harsh. We had more than three feet of snow. Right away, Jean-Paul Mercier became a close friend. W...
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Gerard Petrus Fieret photograph 1
Gerard Petrus Fieret: Lurid and Exalted Photographs
Greg Masters
The women are posing, yes. But they are not engaged in a casual flirtation with a man who has persuaded them to return to his studio with him. I am supposing that the ordinariness ...
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cicatrix dreaming, a video by David Graves, Justin Clifford Rhody and Jay Kreimer
cicatrix dreaming
David Graves, Justin Clifford Rhody and Jay Kreimer
cicatrix dreaming is video collaboration that began with the moldy & degraded, found 35mm photo slides color slides, restored and curated by Justin Rhody, shown in September of 201...
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Associate Editors: Rob Hardin and B. Kold

Music Editor: Steve Horowitz

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Franklin Mount, Patrick O'Neil

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