Sensations Magazine
Issue 20:
"Scenic New Jersey"
Released
June 9, 2000
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2000
Sharing the beauty of New Jersey, in a literary magazine
containing 45 pages of full color - then leaving New Jersey on a national tour
Only 65 copies were printed of the Scenic New Jersey
issue, with 45 of its 72 pages in full color. The height of our
experimentation with full-color processing, the Scenic New Jersey issue blending poetry about New Jersey
with full-color photography from all regions of the state - including obscure
areas not previously depicted in any coffee table book.
The
issue debut was an ambitious Scenic New Jersey tour: a one-day, 8-hour driving
marathon criss-crossing the state, with poets reading in places ranging from
Belmar at the Jersey shore to Asbury Park to northwestern New Jersey at the
conclusion of the day. In June 2000, after the release of the Scenic New
Jersey issue, Publisher David Messineo closed out the monthly Sensational Poets
Series at Centennial Hall, and dropped a bombshell: from July 2000 to
January 2001, he would drive 30,000 miles across America on a national tour.
Highlights from the Scenic New Jersey issue:
 | Precedent-setting 45 pages of full color, believed to be the largest use
of full color in any single literary magazine issue published in American
history |
| Poets published in the Scenic New Jersey Issue (17): Michael R. Brown,
Maude Carolan, Mary DeBow, Rebecca A. Feldman, Frank Finale, Phyllis Jean
Green, Gloria Rovder Healy, Gilda Kreuter, Denise LaNeve, Elizabeth Marchitti,
David Messineo, Paul Nash, Pina Pipino, Elizabeth Raymond,
John J. Trause,
Dianalee Velie, and Jacqueline de Weever |
| Fiction writer published in the Scenic New Jersey Issue (1): Ken Sieben |
"The time had come for us to leave." |
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(Above, L-R) Debut of the Scenic New Jersey issue, June 4, 2000,
Avon-by-the-Sea stop: Jacqueline de Weever, David Messineo, Michael
Brown, Gilda Kreuter, Gloria Healey, and Frank Finale are among
the writers published in the issue
(Above) Joel Allegretti at the Grand Finale of the Sensational Poets
Series at Centennial Hall, Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ, June 2000
(Above) Publisher David Messineo tests out the waters in Maine in July
2000, as his
Suburban Gothic/Coney Island National Tour begins with a
swing across the north-
eastern United States . . .
(Above) . . . while Videographer Kleber de Freitas gives a sense of the
winds off the Arizona mesas, in October 2000.
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