Sensations Magazine
Issue 10: Released
1994
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1994
Researching 450 years of hatred in
America, in an issue that won Honorable Mention, Editorial Content in
the 1995 American Literary Magazine Awards
Sensations Magazine took a shift to the darker side of
American history with Issue 10, as we examined hatred in America from 1544-1994:
juxtaposing "hate quotes" from the centuries with poetry and
fiction inspired by acts of hatred - and acts of hope for the future. Among the topics examined were lynchings,
slavery, domestic violence, and gay bashing - including graphic black
and white photography that captured the aftermath of such acts.
Warning: a graphic full-page black and white photograph of a
lynching victim opens the issue. Other highlights of
Issue 10:
 | Second "win" in the American Literary Magazine Awards
(Honorable Mention, Editorial Content |
| Poets published in 1994 (14): Moira Bailis, Baloian,
Michael R. Brown, Daniel Green, Steven Koenig, Eugenia Macer-Story,
Thomas E. Meell, David Messineo, Treva Myatt, Christopher Olson,
Phoebe Otis, K. Elizabeth Sieradzki, Melanie Sinnette, John J.
Trause |
| Fiction writers published in 1994 (2): Mark Aitchison,
James Vance Elliott |
| A portion of proceeds from this issue was donated to the
Domestic Abuse Awareness Project, New York City |
Issue 10 was the first in our trilogy of "social awareness" issues.
Click the "Up" button, then the "1998" button, for information about
our 1998 theme issue, "The 350th Anniversary of American Witchhunts,
1648-1998." Click the "Up" button, then the "2001" button, for
information about our 2001 theme issue, "Sexual Identity in the New
Millennium." "Whenever the vicious portion of population shall
be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds & thousands and burn
churches, ravage and rob provision-stores, throw printing presses into
rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons at
pleasure, and with impunity; depend on it: this government
cannot last." - Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois, Jan 27, 1838
(opener to the "Hope Against Hate" issue)
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(Above)
Michael R. Brown in a poetic moment as Publisher David Messineo looks on, at
the Provincetown Arts Gallery, Provincetown, MA, on Saturday Sept 10, 1994: one
of
six feature readings which formed the 1994 "Hope Against Hate" Tour
 (Above) Poets Steven
Koenig, Eugenia Macer-Story, and David Messineo explore the "reconstructed"
Indian village at Waterloo Village, Stanhope, NJ, in 1994, one of the many
unusual settings chosen by Sensations Magazine for a poetry reading.
 (Above) Publisher David Messineo
receives a New Jersey Writers Conference Author Award for his research work
on the "Rediscovering America in Poetry" series. The award is
presented by New Jersey Institute of Technology English Dept. chair Dr.
Herman Estrin (founder of the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame), on March
26, 1994.
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