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Beer Virus Reading #9 – John Macon King, Francine Witte and Ron Kolm

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Sensitive Skin magazine presents Beer Virus Reading #9, featuring work by: - J. Macon King (SF) 2:45 - Francine Witte (NYC) 19:29 - Ron Kolm (NYC) 35:58 Subscribe to our YouTube channel SenstiveSkinTV today and check...
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Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #8 – Kristin Mathis, Drew Hubner, Gregory Pardlo

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The eighth in the Sensitive Skin magazine series of Zoom quarantine readings, featuring: - Kristin Mathis (Brooklyn!) - 2:35 - Drew Hubner (Brooklyn!!) - 14:35 - Gregory Pardlo (Brooklyn!!!) - 32:08 Subscribe to our ...
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Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #7 – Amy Ouzoonian, Amy Barone, John S. Hall

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The seventh in the Sensitive Skin magazine series of Zoom quarantine readings, featuring: - Amy Ouzoonian (Phoenix, AZ) 3:12 - Amy Barone (NYC) 16:20 - John S. Hall (NYC) 31:35 Subscribe to our YouTube channel Se...
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Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #6 – D. James Smith, Mike DeCapite & Max Blagg

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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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Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #2

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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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Sensitive Skin Beer Virus Reading #1

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Sorry, no April Poetry Month this year - but we've still got plenty of poetry coming your way (and prose too!). We'll be running virtual online readings for the duration of the shelter-in-place order (so...September 2021?). ...
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Sensitive Skin Books

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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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

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

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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Sensitive Skin 9

Fred Frith, Samuel R. Delaney, John Lurie, JD King, Vladimir Mayakovsky/Jenny Wade, Justine Frischmann, Chris Bava, Doug Rice, Marty Thau, more.
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Maggie Estep
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...
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They part 1, James Romberger
They
James Romberger
They, a comic written and drawn by James Romberger, from Sensitive Skin Number 8.
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Photograph by Charles Gatewood
Code of Violence
Thaddeus Rutkowski
On the subway, I see a boy who is about 10 years old; he’s with his father. Both of them have red hair, but the boy has Asian features—a round face and pointy eyes. His father ...
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Patrick O'Neil Sixty
Sixty
Patrick O'Neil
There is nothing easy about turning sixty. The days whip by in a whirlwind, kids look younger, and you can’t understand what they’re even talking about. Cops, bosses, and docto...
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Mink Stole
Vincent Zangrillo
Gregory loved Cookie Mueller. Cookie loved John Waters. John Waters loved Mink Stole. I was in a pub called Beggars Bush in Ubud, Bali, in 1989, when the guy sitting next to...
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Editor-In-Chief: Bernard Meisler

Associate Editors: Rob Hardin and B. Kold

Music Editor: Steve Horowitz

Contributing Editors:Ron Kolm,
Franklin Mount, Patrick O'Neil

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