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John Griffin

Russian Graves

Larissa Shmailo

One of my favorite places in the world is the Russian Orthodox Cemetery in Spring Valley, New York, which is known as Novo Diveyevo. An Anglo, used to containing his dead in unrelenting grids of slabs of stone atop preternat...

John Griffin – New Paintings

John Griffin

My dad, John Griffin Morrissey, was raised in Bay Ridge, Coney Island, and Sunset Park; a Brooklyn boy through and through. He is the eldest, (and craziest) of seven in an Irish Catholic family. His formal education only we...

Rose and other poems

Lyn Lifshin

ROSE when it’s behind my knees you’d have to fall to the floor, lower your whole body like horses in a field to smell it. White Rose, Bulgarian rose. I think of sheets I’ve left my scent in as if to stake a c...

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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Mayakovsky Maximum Access

Jenny Wade

24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade

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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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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

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

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Print Issues

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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Sensitive Skin 8

William S. Burroughs interview by Allen Ginsberg, James Greer, Chavisa Woods, Ruby Ray, James Romberger, Tom McGlynn, Rob Hardin, 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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Excerpt From Lollapalooza Tour Diaries

Wed. August 24th, 1994, Phoenix, AZ. It's 120 degrees here and the sky is huge. In spite of the heat they seem to be big on poetry in Phoenix. I read 4 poems then almost passe...

Flying, photograph by Holly Van Voast

Matt was a blind date, the only one I ever went on. He was an acquaintance of a girl who had the locker next to mine senior year. She thought I’d like him because he was an artis...

Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens Loses His Job

William Considine

Moment in flux: Tuesday, February 8, 1916. Place in passing: 55 Liberty Street, Manhattan, New York City: a new tower, the Liberty Nassau Building, Liberty Tower, first called t...

Gerard Petrus Fieret photograph 1

Gerard Petrus Fieret: Lurid and Exalted Photographs

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 ...

Herbert Huncke: Letter to Dad

Editor’s Note: This letter from Herbert Huncke to his Dad was first published in Peau Sensible, the print precursor to Sensitive Skin, in the summer of 1992. The issue also conta...

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