Author Archives: John Biscello

About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, writer, poet, performer, and playwright, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of four novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, and No Man’s Brooklyn; a collection of stories, Freeze Tag, two poetry collections, Arclight and Moonglow on Mercy Street; and a fable, The Jackdaw and the Doll, illustrated by Izumi Yokoyama. He also adapted classic fables, which were paired with the vintage illustrations of artist, Paul Bransom, for the collection: Once Upon a Time, Classic Fables Reimagined. His produced, full-length plays include: LOBSTERS ON ICE, ADAGIO FOR STRAYS, THE BEST MEDICINE, ZEITGEIST, U.S.A., and WEREWOLVES DON’T WALTZ.

Moon River

Posted on August 8, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. To engage the intimacy of distance one must attend from within the agency of absence to sensual contact.

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Portrait in Red

Posted on August 7, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the hushed expectant stillness of red, the wall waited for the day it would no longer have to hold the girl back or up, waited patiently for blue to pick up where she left … Continue reading →

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Web

Posted on August 6, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. We, lucent beads of rain, clinging indefinitely to a spider’s web— the climate of ephemera.

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Cell

Posted on August 5, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. In the loneliness of night she stares at her cell phone thinking about her next customer not thinking about them at all numb wondering about her high school friends what they are doing right now … Continue reading →

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Process

Posted on May 17, 2023 by John Biscello

One of my most sweetly savored pleasures: a freshly printed manuscript.Completed at the Casa de Currier retreat (May 2023).

Posted in Books, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged blue star trilogy, book, manuscript, new novel, Prose, seventh novel, trusting the process | Leave a comment

Drama Notebook

Posted on May 15, 2023 by John Biscello

Seven of my original children’s plays–The Shadow of Peter Pan, The Little Prince in Egypt, The Myth of Demeter and Persephone Revisited, Mythology Mash-Up, the Nutcracker in a Flash, Aesop Remixed, and Benchmark–are now available through Drama Notebook. Drama Notebook is … Continue reading →

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Cowpunk

Posted on May 15, 2023 by John Biscello

Another track from the jukebox catalog of None So Distant. COWPUNKLast night you set my quizzical pompadour on fire. Tonight, baby, I’m yours, behind the shed, all slangy and lonesome, in the needle’s eye of a hell-bellied storm. We are … Continue reading →

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Bluegrass

Posted on May 13, 2023 by John Biscello

Music plays a significant role in both the construction and tone of None So Distant, with one of the sections, titled Jukebox, functioning as a mythical and conceptual music catalog. Below is one of the “songs” from Jukebox. BLUEGRASSOffbeat lonesome … Continue reading →

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Paris Lit Up

Posted on May 11, 2023 by John Biscello

Grateful to have had three excerpts from None So Distant published on Paris Lit Up. Story, All Fours, and Lore and Order can be read here.

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Springing Forth

Posted on May 10, 2023 by John Biscello

As I sit here at my retreat enclave, feeling gratefully reflective and enjoying buttery afterglow effects, today in looking back through my records I realized: the three novels I have completed over the past three years–The Last Furies, No One … Continue reading →

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