Sensations Magazine debuts
five new issues in 2004: a record
Sensations Magazine
Issue 33, Spring 2004: Released April 13, 2004
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Issue 34, Summer 2004: Released Aug 1, 2004
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Issue 35, Fall 2004: Released Aug 1, 2004
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Issue 36, Winter 2004: Released Dec. 2004
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Issue 37, Late Winter 2004/2005: Released Dec. 2004
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2004
Finishing goals at the Jersey Shore with ambition and flourish:
Sensations Magazine completes its goal of bringing poetry
to all 16 oceanside towns in Monmouth County . . .
(Above) Denise LaNeve and Kleber de Freitas channel Ginger
Rogers and Fred Astaire, at the debut of the Summer 2004 Cinema
Issue, at Remember When Cafe, Belmar, NJ. Photograph by Vera
Gelvin.
(Above, L-R) Bringing poetry to Sea Bright, NJ: Vera
Gelvin, Eugenia Macer-Story, Galen Warden, Eddie Rivera, Marilyn
Hartl, David Messineo (holding Winter 2004 Music issue), Gilda
Kreuter, and Jack Kreuter
(Above) . . . Gilda Kreuter reads at Surrey Lane Antiques in
Deal, NJ, in a reading featuring Jewish writers . . .
(Above) . . . Vera Gelvin and David Messineo bring
haiku to
tiny Loch Arbour, NJ . . .
(Above) Daniel Donatacci reads his work in the Winter 2004
Music
issue at Wonder Bar in Asbury Park . . .
. . . releases five new issues in one year
. . .
After the seriousness of "America at War,"
Sensations Magazine decided to lighten things up in 2004, with a
four-part Salute to the Arts [Theater (Spring), Cinema (Summer),
Television (Fall), and Music (Winter)] and a fifth Late Winter
issue. Here are some highlights from our 2004
issues:
 | Spring 2004 "Theater" issue launches a series
of "insider" essays, with producer/director Daniel Quinn sharing
his 20+ years of experience in producing theater |
| Summer 2004 "Cinema" issue has Terri-Lei
O'Malley talking about her experiences in producing independent
film, producing a large-budget animated film, and working on an
animated television series |
| Fall 2004 "Television" issue first covers poems
that recapture moments in the history of television, then takes a
darker turn as individuals reveal their personal stories, and how
television factors in to them, in "When Television Gets Personal" |
| Winter 2004 "Music" issue is first to be
released in two editions - a "Standard Edition" containing five
"movements," and a "Deluxe Edition" containing an insider essay by
Daniel P. Quinn, on productions of Italian operas in the 20th and
21st centuries |
| Both "Music" issue editions contain our first
CD reviews (of skott freedman, Thomas Raniszewski, and Green
Machine) |
| Late Winter 2004/2005 issue contains poems and
stories with a winter theme, and includes reviews of books by Vera
Gelvin, Jackie Pirro, Daniel P. Quinn, and Dianalee Velie |
| Poets published in 2004 (43): Baloian,
Dennis Wayne Bressack, Adele M. Bourne, William P. Buckley, Sara
Claytor, James M. Dixon, Daniel Donatacci, skott freedman, Michael
Gabryszewski, Davidson Garrett, Vera Gelvin, Daniel Green, Phyllis
Jean Green, Lissette Gutierrez, Carlos Hernandez Pena, Raymond K.
Kaelin, Steven H. Koenig, Eugenia Macer-Story, Elizabeth Marchitti,
Joseph Masiello, David Messineo, Dianna Vagianos Miller, Cheryl J.
Moore, Vicki Moss, Ng Yiu-Tsan, Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, F.L.
Niccoletti, Pina Pipino, Wanda S. Praisner, Daniel P. Quinn,
Patrick T. Randolph, Velma Jean Reeb, Kimberly Rodarte, Sylvia
Forges Ryan, Lynn Veach Sadler, Leeander Scott, E.A. Socolow,
Alice Stern, Laurie Summer, John J. Trause, Francine L. Trevens,
Dianalee Velie, Joan Heller Winokur |
| Fiction writers published in 2004 (4):
James Vance Elliott, Lynn Veach Sadler, Ken Sieben, Dianalee Velie |
| Essay writers published in 2004 (2):
Terri-Lei O'Malley, Daniel P. Quinn |
. . . offers a scenic and inspirational Writer's Retreat in Ocean Grove
(retreat #5) .
. .
(Above) Writers enjoy the comfortable surroundings and view from
the Laingdon Hotel, Ocean Grove, NJ, location of the
fifth Sensations Magazine Writer's Retreat, September 25, 2004
. . . and achieves the goal of having the Coney
Island issue reach "sold out" status, one year earlier than anticipated (with final copies purchased by bookstores).
As of June
2006, they're all gone.
(Above) In October 2004, Publisher David Messineo achieves his
long-sought goal of having the Coney Island Issue reach sold-out
status, and simultaneously proves that it is possible to pay poets
and writers, publish a literary magazine, host numerous events,
and break even financially without relying on Federal, state, or
local government grant funding. David is pictured above at the
New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, CT--one of many stops the
Coney Island journey has brought him during the nine years since its
1995 release.
"I will not stock this in Barnes & Noble on those terms.
There is no way I am going to let them treat it like other
magazines, and rip the front cover off if it doesn't sell in what, 3
months? Are they crazy? This is not Newsweek with
hundreds of thousands of copies printed weekly; this is a limited
edition work of art. (Glances at the 42 cases, 50 magazines
per case, in his living room, and sighs heavily.) It'll
take ten years for me to sell this out." - David Messineo,
October 1995 (the final store copy would sell out in June 2006)
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