Story
The Milky Way
Jill Rapaport
The children of George Washington can thank their thirteen-plus stars that wooden teeth like his do not mar their cheerful visages; and I speak as one descended in part from the brave general, and specifically the daughter o...
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Music
This is! Ralph Carney!
Ralph Carney
Ralph Carney
is a multi-instrumentalist/horn player who has spent the better part of the last 2 decades criss-crossing the world, on stage and in studios with the likes of Tom Waits, Jonathan Richman, William Burroughs, Al...
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Flesh and Memory
Jose Padua
When I moved to New York I got a job with Nice Titties/Show
Us Your Cock magazine. We were the competition and I wrote
the captions. Whenever the Village Voice used the phrase “post-
modern urban griot deconstr...
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Events
Reading with Darius James, Patricia Eakins, Craig Clevenger, Heather Folsom & D. Scot Miller
The Editors
And now, the moment you've all been waiting for - Darius James reads a hilarious excerpt from his novel "Froggy Chocolates," a tender Xmas story for all the little boys and girls...wait, scratch that, nobody under 25 or so s...
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Writing
Beer Mystic, Excerpts 35 and 36
bart plantenga
Two more excerpts from the continuing sage of the Beer Mystic, by bart plantenga.
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Interview
Interview with Steve Horowitz
The Editors
The brilliantly eclectic (eclectically brilliant?) composer/musician Steve Horowitz spoke with KPFA (94.1 FM Berkeley) host Derk Richardson on September 9, 2010 and shared examples of the "odd but highly accessible sounds" h...
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Art
Ted Barron – Photographs
Ted Barron
A thief of the imagination, Ted Barron takes the photographs that we have in our heads. He came to NYC from St. Louis, a teenage East Village Tom Sawyer with a movie already lived that he made up in his head and began c...
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Story
Mercury
Craig Clevenger
Lyle let his engine rattle for a ten count before he killed the ignition and stepped out. The snuffed porch light and the blanket nailed across the apartment window served as warning that he had best signal his arrival, that...
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Poem
Electronic Dialogue & other poems
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins
Electronic Dialogue
I
At my wife’s grave
it's changed a lot in a month;
someone's planted some forget me nots.
It's windy and flower petals from the trees are making pink
whirlwinds.
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Story
Maupin Row
Ron Kolm
We were totally unprepared for the winter of 1968; it was bleak and cold, and it seemed to last forever. My wife and I were from the North -- Reading, Pennsylvania -- and we had joined a government program to help organize ...
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Music
In Spite of the Devil
Spuyten Duyvil
Spuyten Duyvil names the creek that separates northern Manhattan from the Bronx. It is bastardized Dutch and might mean 'spitting devil' or spinning devil' in reference to the cross currents that boil the water at this junct...
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Art
Balloons, Beads
John Farris
“What you gonna be when you blow up? I bet you gonna be a balloon…kee kee kee!” That was Willie T’s salutation these days -- delivered with an eye-rolling guffaw registering satisfaction with his cho...
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Poem
Bananas
Eddie Woods
The poem "Bananas" is a true story. I was flat broke in Hong Kong, strolling along Kowloon's Nathan Road vaguely wondering how to pay my rent. But also thinking poems. Suddenly this stunning black GI on R&R from Vietnam stop...
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Poem
Vain Endeavor & other poems
Dan Sofaer
Vain Endeavor
It was a vain endeavor.
All the plants and leaves
Took pity on it as it
Hung out in the wind.
Princesses noticed its
Ridiculous asinine shadow
As it hung out there torn
For a moment and said
Poor, po...
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Events
A Tribute to John Coltrane
The Editors
In celebration of the birthday of John Coltrane, Sensitive Skin had its first reading in San Francisco, Thursday, September 23rd 2010 at:
The Luggage Store Gallery
Craig Clevenger reads from Dermaphoria, part 2
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