Sensations Magazine
Issue 25, Spring 2002: Released 2002
Sensations Magazine
Issue 26, Summer 2002: Released 2002
Sensations Magazine
Issue 27, Fall 2002: Released 2002
Sensations Magazine
Issue 28, Winter 2002: Released 2002
What bad economy? 2002 brings the release
of four new Sensations Magazine issues and two new Snake Hill Press books
First Impressions
By
David Messineo
ISBN 0-9676066-1-6 Released Oct. 2002
Restoration
By David Messineo
ISBN 0-9676066-4-0
Released Oct. 2002
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2002
Keeping momentum going after a
national tragedy . . .
As America continued to reel from the aftereffects of
September 11, 2001, we agreed with the public figures who encouraged us to go on
with our daily lives. In 2002, Sensations Magazine released four
issues, and Snake Hill Press released two books. Publisher David Messineo
addressed September 11th in Restoration, his fourth poetry collection, and Sensations Magazine
decided to tackle that topic in September 2003, after two years had passed, in a
two-part issue on the theme of "America at War" (hardly expecting American would
be at war at that time).
Here are some highlights from 2002:
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Spring 2002 "People" issue, featuring cover photography
by Christopher Coppola |
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Summer 2002 "History" issue,
featuring cover photography by Wes Carson |
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Fall 2002 "Poetry" issue, featuring cover
photography by Simen Johan |
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Winter 2002 "Fifteenth Anniversary Fiction Issue"
issue, featuring a painting by Pina Pipino, photographed by David Messineo |
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Poets published in 2002 (50): Barbara Aleksandrowicz,
Joel Allegretti, Michael Apinyakul, Raphael Badagliacca, Doris C. Baker,
Baloian, Eleanor Bell, Norma Ketzis Bernstock, Robert Bovino, Dennis Wayne
Bressack, Scott Caputo, Sara Claytor, Blair Ewing, Carole Felix, Martin
Fortune, Sam Friedman, Daniel Green, Phyllis Jean Green, Kerri M. Habben,
Calvin Hardwick, Eleanor W. Joy, Gilda Kreuter, William O. Laningham,
Wendy J. LaTulippe, Eugenia Macer-Story, Helen W. Mallon, Elizabeth
Marchitti, Tommy Mendez, David Messineo, Cheryl J. Moore, Vicki Moss, Stan
Pinkwas, Elizabeth Raymond, Lynn Veach Sadler, Trina Scordo, Sean Shea,
Christine Strevinsky, Al Tacconelli, Jennifer Tappenden, Peter Tourian,
John J. Trause, Dianalee Velie, Faith Vicinanza, Jacqueline de Weever, Jim
Whelden, Monika Wikman, Xavier Wise, Natalia Zaretsky, Daria Zelenina |
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Fiction writers published in 2002 (11): Andrew Bomback,
Rex DePaola, Barrie Creedon, Stephanie Dickinson, Frank Grzyb, Arnold L.
Miller, Vicki Moss, Katherine B. Rambo, Diana E. Sheets, James Steinberg,
and Dianalee Velie |
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Winter 2002 issue first use of laser foil on front cover |
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All four issues achieve "Sold Out" status |
. . . by continuing our series of sensational poetry, music, and
dance performances . . .
(Above) Poets Doris C. Baker, David Messineo, and Xavier Wise debut the
Spring 2002 "People" Issue at the Black Box Theater on Cookman Avenue in
Asbury Park, NJ in early 2002. (A western NJ debut was held earlier the same day in
Pemberton, NJ.)
(Above) The Coney Island issue is re-released for 2002-2004, to celebrate
the 75th anniversary of the Cyclone in 2002, the 100th anniversary of Luna
Park in 2003, and the 100th anniversary of Dreamland (May 2004) and 40th anniversary of
the closure of Steeplechase Park (September 2004)
(Above) Singer Karen Kelly brings a touch of class to the debut of
Restoration by David Messineo
(Above) Singer Karen Kelly, flanked by David Messineo and Kleber de
Freitas, at the debut of Restoration, October 17, 2002, at the Brick
Cultural Arts Center, Brick, NJ
(Above) Tina Turner impersonator Karen Kelly shimmies while Publisher
David Messineo makes a poetic point at the Sensations Magazine
Fifteenth Anniversary Reading at The Little Theater at Felician College,
Rutherford, NJ, on November 17, 2002. Photograph taken by Nina
Grande.
... and publishing two new poetry collections "in the aftermath of American
pain"
Continuing the process of releasing his poetry books akin
to a "Star Wars" episodic release, David Messineo debuts two new poetry
books at the end of 2002.
First Impressions (Episode 1) contains material
written between the ages of 9 and 18 - the prequel to Suburban Gothic
(Episode 2, released in 1999). Restoration (Episode 4) contains
material written between 1995 and 2002 - the sequel to A Taste of Italy
(Episode 3, released in 1994).
Restoration (Episode 4) contains 131 pieces, on 200 pages of
acid-free paper: a hardcover poetry book with gold leaf on the front
cover and spine, published and scored in a book binding process harking to
the days of fine library-quality volumes. The First Edition is a print
run of 100 copies, only 15 of which remain as of this writing. Go to
the "Purchase Items" button, then the "Restoration" button, for available
locations.
Together, the four books published by Snake Hill Press
offer 3/4 of the lifetime poetic output of David Messineo - "undiscovered,"
yet well-known in local literary circles. His lifetime goal is to have
99% of his poetry published in book form.
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