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Osip Mandelstam

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Osip Mandelstam

In an interview from 1976, Nadezhda Mandelstam, the widow of the great Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, was asked if she had any favorite poems. She mentioned two, both written in the winter of 1937: “Verses about an unknown ...
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Classics

The Twilight of Freedom, a poem by Osip Mandelstam

Jenny Wade

Let us praise, brothers, freedom’s twilight, The great diminishing year! A heavy forest of nets is lowered Into the turbulent waters of night. You are ascending in desolate years, Oh sun, judge, people. Let us prai...
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Sensitive Skin Books

Mayakovsky Maximum Access

Jenny Wade

24 selected poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated and with commentary by Jenny Wade
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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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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 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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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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John S. Hall at the Bowery Poetry Club
John S. Hall
April 30, 2012 (or thereabouts), Sensitive Skin celebrated the release of its 8th issue with a mondo reading at the Bowery Poetry Club. Essentially everybody who'd been in the maga...
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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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Ecce Homo – Photographs by Evelyn Bencicova
Evelyn Bencicova
Natalia Evelyn Bencicova is a 21-year-old visual artist exploring mixed media and photography. She grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia and currently lives in Berlin. She began taking d...
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Erika Schickel at Buxton, 1980
Unsupervised: My Life as a Bad Girl
Erika Schikel
I recently watched a “reality” show called “The Bad Girls Club” and was saddened to see what has lately become of the Bad Girl brand. The show devotes itself to a lot of sc...
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Looking Back: Anxiety’s Greatest Hits
Patrick O'Neil
San Francisco, June 24, 1997 I’m in a dark, trash-filled alley between tall brick buildings. Two men stand in shadows. I can’t see their faces. I hand one of them money and ...
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