Readings
Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #6 – D. James Smith, Mike DeCapite & Max Blagg
The Editors
Sensitive Skin presents more literature in the time of quarantine, featuring readings by:
- D. James Smith, Fresno CA (2:12)
- Mike DeCapite, NYC (13:02)
- Max Blagg, NYC (25:50)
You can read Max's epic coronavirus poe...
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Poem
A rhyming rant in the time of Corona
Max Blagg
I want this poem to become as curvy
as the hottentot Venus's posterior
I hope it's worthy of your serious survey
you can see I'm rather nervé, nervous in the service
but tonight I discard my corona fears
so open your e...
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Podcasts
Episode 10 – Max Blagg
Bernard Meisler
Poet, writer and performer Max Blagg in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Max Blagg is an English poet, writer and performer, who has lived in the United States since 1971. We start out talking about the retail apoca...
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Essay
John Ashbery – an Oblique Remembrance
Max Blagg
I was introduced to John Ashbery's poetry in the summer of 1971, by a beautiful young American poet living in London. We met at a church jumble sale in Belsize Square. Her flat was across the street. I woke up on her couch l...
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Poem
Dawn Patrol
Max Blagg
Dawn Patrol
Lord I am risen from that misery and I wait for you
Like the sleepless man waits for dawn
The light was up at 5.45 am and I rose to meet it
first hours of the day filled with rain
lightning over Montauk so...
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What Not
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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Poem
Marine 1–10
Max Blagg
A collaboration between Max Blagg and Alex Katz for the Marine Series’ Exhibition Catalogue, Jablonka Gallery, Berlin, 2008. This piece is an excerpt from the forthcoming book, Slow Dazzle: Poems & Prose For 23 Artists, pu...
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Poem
Some of My Friends
Max Blagg
“Some of my friends don’t know who they belong to.”
Dipsomanic daytrippers kicking it
in small motels on desert mornings
dancing a june bug sonata
percussive staccato legato
flowing smooth and certain as a rive...
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Story
Tenth Between Fear & Trembling
Max Blagg
We lived one floor up from a woodworking shop from which the tools had long since been stolen. It was on East Tenth Street, way over almost to the river, a view of the smokestacks of Con Edison’s 14th Street plant painted ...
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Story
The Best Night of His Life
Max Blagg
an excerpt from 101 Nights
Every two weeks the exterminator came by the bar to suppress the vermin that swarmed beneath the sinks, behind the kitchen walls and in the basement. There were no rats, but the place had a fluc...
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Art
Photographs
Hal Hirshorn
Hal Hirshorn makes 21st century photographs using 19th century materials and methods. Specifically, salt prints, a technique invented by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1841. The intention however is not to recreate period f...
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