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Victory City by John Strausbaugh – Review

Jim Feast

John Strausbaugh, Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II (New York: Twelve, 2018), 488 pages. John Strausbaugh’s Victory City is a chronicle of New York City right before, during and aft...

Episode 3 – Patrick O’Neil

Patrick O'Neil

In conversation with Bernard Meisler. Patrick O'Neil began his career as a visual artist, before getting involved with the San Francisco punk rock scene of the '70s and '80s. He worked as a roadie and road manager for the...

One Hundred Years Among the Daisies, poems by George Wallace – Review

Ron Kolm

One Hundred Years Among the Daisies, poems by George Wallace. Published by Stubborn Mule Press, 2018. I have this notion that the chunk of time we’re going through in ‘our’ American culture, under Mr. Trump, is ...

Episode 2 – John S. Hall

John S. Hall

Hosted by Bernard Meisler. John S. Hall is a poet, musician and lawyer. He's a fixture on the downtown NYC poetry scene, and achieved fame in the early '90s with the band he co-founded, King Missile (Jesus Was Way Coo...

Three Poems by Eve Packer

Eve Packer

146 she has red hair this girl, in an upsweep, sitting on the third step of the fourth floor in the hall, at 146— big sweat, first rush, head shoulders body back eyes thru ceiling shrugs ‘sometimes you g...

Episode 1 – Peter Blauner

Peter Blauner

In conversation with Bernard Meisler Greetings humans and welcome to the very first Sensitive Skin Magazine Podcast! Our format is simple - your host, Bernard Meisler, will have a 45-minute-or-so conversation with a guest...

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World – Review

Marc Olmsted

Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World By Tosh Berman City Lights Books $17.95 reviewed by Marc Olmsted I first came across Wallace Berman's artwork in an underground newspaper in the late '60s - I can no long...

Matty Jankowski, RIP

Ron Kolm

There was a posting on Facebook on Saturday, January 12th, by Joe Maynard, an old friend, saying that a buddy of ours, Matty Jankowski, had just passed away in Florida. It was a very moving tribute, and it also contained a l...

A Kind Of Love Story

Jennifer Juneau

A Kind Of Love Story Walking along Avenue A I was kind of drunk It was kind of desolate and kind of late All the stores were kind of closed And there was this guy who kind of looked like you He kind of smiled I kind ...

THE COMPUTER ARCANE

Jack Hirschman

1. To have this at one’s fingertips, the whole world before one and it not be zero—, that’s the humbling meaning of this revolution one’s a part of and one’s been party to for a long time now, at firs...