(Above) Front cover,
Suburban Gothic
Sensations Magazine
Issue 19:
Released
July, 1999
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1999A magazine publisher's second poetry collection launches a new American poetry press
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Snake Hill Press was started in 1999 to be a
self-publishing mechanism for poet/performance artist David Messineo.
The first of these books, Suburban Gothic, was a 264-page
collection of 13 years of formative writing, on acid-free paper, and with
a full color front and back cover. Other releases from Snake Hill
Press include First Impressions (2002), Restoration (2002),
A Taste of Brazil (2006), and Formal (2006).
Click the "Join" button at left, then the respective
right buttons for additional information about these books.
... the Publisher releases a 230-page literary
magazine, including the
conclusion of our 10-year effort to reprint 17th century American
poetry on acid-free paper ...
The release party for our Summer 1999 "Millennium
Turning" issue, with its gold-frame front cover, drew over 60 people
to Newark Public Library on a 100-degree afternoon in July.
The issue still stands as the largest in our history of almost two
decades.
Some highlights of the "Millennium Turning" issue:
 | The "gold framed" front cover features a color
photograph taken by Estrella Gabrie-Garcia |
| Mary DeBow accepts the position of Guest Poetry Editor
for this issue |
| 20 of our previously published poets return:
Baloian, Mauro F. Bruno, Maude Carolan, Sara Claytor, Colin D. DeVault,
Frank Finale, Michael Gabryszewski, Cynthia Sheperd Jaskwhich, Eleanor W.
Joy, Jeff Lovejoy, Elizabeth Marchitti, David Messineo, Rena Navon, Frank
L. Niccoletti, John O'Brien, Terri O'Malley, Elizabeth Raymond, John J.
Trause, Jacqueline de Weever, Dianalee Velie |
| 19 poets are new to our pages: Leonardo Alishan,
Charles Bivona, Rosemary Clark, Amy E. Coupe, Mary Engel, Rebecca A.
Feldman, Daniel Harr, Leighton Hollar, Bernadette Kokosinski, F.P. Lewis,
Dianna Vagianos Miller, Michele Morgan, Paul Nash, Pina Pipino, Eddie
Rivera, Denise Rue, John Salacan, Helena TerBush, and Brian S. Zwolinski |
| Denise Rue is selected as winner of our Best Newcomer
Poetry Contest |
| Rebecca A. Feldman, at age 12, is the youngest author
to date to be published in Sensations Magazine |
| 3 of our previously published fiction writers return:
Michael Pallotta, Ken Sieben, G. Warren Taylor |
| 7 fiction writers are new to our pages: Bruce
Burrows, Sara Claytor, C. Berton Irwin, Don Lehmann, Vicki Moss, Chan S.
Ricord, Bradd Saunders |
| The "Rediscovering America in Poetry" series concludes
after 10 years, with 25 pages of research that feature the republication
of 47 poems written in America between 1671 and 1699 |
| 3 books reviewed: Spinning Straw by
Phyllis J.D. Green, Thin Air by Mary Grow, and The Sentence
That Ends with a Comma by Dean Kostos |
| Despite its size (230 pages) and cost ($30), Issue 19
achieves "sold out" status by the end of 1999 |
| No additional print runs are currently planned |
(Above) Dean Kostos, Mary DeBow (Florio), and David Messineo at The
Bookstore in Pompton Plains, NJ, April 1999. Dean and Mary were Guest
Poetry Editors for Issue 19, Millennium Turning (1999). The
debut of Issue 19 would draw over 50 people to Newark Public Library on a
100+-degree day that July: the fourth largest turnout for any
Sensations Magazine event.
... continues to offer performances by sensational writers,
musicians, and dancers ...
(Above, L-R) Publisher David Messineo is flanked by Centennial Hall feature
poets Sara Claytor and Phyllis Jean Green in a visit to the Manchester Inn at Ocean Grove in
1999 - a foreshadowing of things to come (see 2003-2005 buttons)
(Above) Harp player Aideen O'Donnell joins David Messineo in "Something
Old Is New Again,"
his feature performance at Centennial Hall on October 23, 1999
(Above, L-R) John J. Trause and David Trause perform "The Assassination
of John F. Kennedy,
Composed for .22 Caliber Rifle," as part of John's
feature in the Sensational Poets Series at
Centennial Hall, Newark Public
Library, November 20, 1999 (in the pre-9/11 days, when loaded rifles could
be brought into public libraries).
... and , in January 2000, partners
writers with marionettes for creative inspiration at our second Writer's
Retreat in Hope, New Jersey
(Above, L-R) Retreat participants Vera Gelvin, Pina Pipino, Eddie
Rivera, Cathy Cimillo
(now Cavallone), Kleber de Freitas, David
Messineo, Vicki Moss, John J. Trause, and
Jacqueline de Weever at The Inn
at Mill Race Pond, January 2000
(Above, L-R) Cathy Cavallone, Kleber de Freitas, John J. Trause, David Messineo,
and Jacqueline de Weever at the Inn at Mill Race Pond
(Above) Eddie Rivera shares his marionette-inspired poem, as Chris Kluge
works the strings
(Above) Mr. Logicontrol - the inspiration for a poem by John J. Trause
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