Author Archives: John Biscello

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About John Biscello

Originally from Brooklyn, NY, novelist, poet, performer, playwright and filmmaker, John Biscello, has lived in the high-desert grunge-wonderland of Taos, New Mexico since 2001. He is the author of six novels, Broken Land, a Brooklyn Tale, Raking the Dust, Nocturne Variations, No Man’s Brooklyn, The Last Furies, and No One Dreams in Color; 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 plays have been staged and performed both nationally and internationally.

Noir

From the series, Japan Poems. Screen black. The sound of waves lapping against the shore. Fade in to three police officers and an unshaved man gathered around the empty boat carried in by the sea. The poem ends, the movie … Continue reading →

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Strangers

From the series, Japan Poems. We are all pretending here. Hoping not for the best but for not the worst to claim unsettle or overtake us. The young girl in the rented summer kimono taking a selfie with the misty … Continue reading →

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Passage

From the series, Japan Poems. If only in trespasses and glimmers, if only the passages within possessed lasting value— What is that thing, at the edge of waking, that thing without agenda or the burden of always moving freight?

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Forgotten Temple

From the series, Japan Poems. Moss-carpeted stone steps leading up to the forgotten temple, fewer and fewer guests paying their respects to these hallowed grounds, a song of stately decay, of bones and overgrown grass, a rusted bell tolling absence … Continue reading →

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Moon River

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

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

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

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

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

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Drama Notebook

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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