Sensations Magazine
Issue 3: Released
June 22, 1989
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1989
We become the first literary magazine in
America to put a hologram on the front cover . . .
The construction of Issue 3 took 200 hours of spare time,
from the process of selecting poetry, to typesetting, to the scanning and
printing of black and white photographs, to the affixing of holograms onto
each front cover (sea coral, affixed to the lower right), to the printing,
hand-collating, and binding. Reeling for exhaustion after its release
in June 1989, we announced we would not publish again until the end of 1990.
On the back page of Issue 3, in a message from the Founder,
comes this quote: "As far as our financial goals go, there is one:
to break even."
Some highlights of Issue 3:
 | Poets published in 1989 (6): Mauro F. Bruno, Brenda Clark, Carlo DeVito, J.
Anthony Heck, David Messineo, and Laura Tedford |
| Fiction writers published in 1989 (4): Mauro F. Bruno, Edward Condon, Patricia Flinn,
and John Morvay |
| Line art by Christopher Bing and David Messineo |
| Photography by Eddie Wexler |
Sensations Magazine Issue 3 was the first literary
magazine in America to have a hologram on the front cover. But it would
be Issue 4 that would set the tone and style for the many issues to come.
. . . and begin a process of contemplating
the future that leads us into America's past.
(Above) The Publisher walks the streets of San Francisco for inspiration,
October 1989
(Above) Sharing the beauty of New Jersey, by bringing
participants to poetry readings in unusual (and often scenic) locations.
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