Category Archives: Artwork

Inlet

Posted on August 25, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Stalking fervently inlaid territories and textures, ribbed intimacies scaling soundly an overture to evolutionary bonds and leaps— lizard, fish, man splashing wildly in pools jazz forming freely in the river’s fast-moving mouth— notes, air, ground … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry | Tagged free form, free jazz, inland fish, japan, japanese jazz, motoharu yoshizawa, music, play on, poem, portrait, vinyl | Leave a comment

Vanishing Point

Posted on August 15, 2023 by John Biscello

From the series, Japan Poems. Until I can see you, the cities will vanish, effaced mutely in swaths of white on white, a glaring monopoly and divide— alone these distances prevail to hail symmetry, its pageants and faults, the legacy … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, photography, Poetry | Tagged Artwork, city, dream life, furumachi, gallery, japan, miyu fujita, niigata, poem, vanishing point | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications | Tagged bardo, cowpunk, jukebox, music, novel, Poetry, song | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications | Tagged excerpts, novel, paris, Prose | Leave a comment

Novel Origins

Posted on May 9, 2023 by John Biscello

New novel completed.Bardo jazz, psychic vaudeville, bop odyssey of internal consciousness…. For me it’s always been the novel living within is the possession, the spirits dancing their jig of the dead and living, and the novel written is the prolonged, … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged bop, hallelujah, jazz, music, novel, Prose, seventh novel, the writing life, word to the mother, Word Up | Leave a comment

Daydream Believer

Posted on February 23, 2023 by John Biscello

In this fantastical tale for young people, and the eternally young at heart, enter the fractured world of eleven-year-old Pip. A chronic daydreamer, Pip discovers the enchanted realm of Pycopay, where he undertakes a quest for the mythical Kindness Trees. … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater | Tagged adventures of a young daydreamer, children's play, coming soon, debut, Drama, fantasy, New Mexico, surreal, Theater, theater troupe, world within, youth theater | Leave a comment

Cinematic Matrimony

Posted on February 23, 2023 by John Biscello

THE BRIDE In the shadowy, obscure and mostly silent world world of The Bride, a woman, garbed in a wedding dress and veil, directly engages the mirror and “seeing eye” of the camera, as she confronts both codified ritual and internal pressures–rooted … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications | Tagged Cinema, experimental, indie film, liberation, metamorphosis, Poetry, short film, surreal, the bride, work in progress | Leave a comment

Street Beat

Posted on January 25, 2023 by John Biscello

New edition of No Man’s Brooklyn. Signed copies available for pre-order directly through me (Paypal or Venmo). Digital copies are available for prospective reviewers. Can also be purchased through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other cyber-outlets soon. “Biscello succeeds in … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications | Tagged Brooklyn, coming of age, first love, ghost story, New York, novel, street beat | Leave a comment

The Bride

Posted on January 17, 2023 by John Biscello

A series of experimental stills from our short film, THE BRIDE, which we plan to shoot in February. I wrote the script to The Bride, based on a story concept by Jaylan Salman, which was inspired by her poem, “You … Continue reading →

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged Cinema, experimental, indie film, knife, light and shadow, Poetry, scissors, short film, surreal, the bride, veils | Leave a comment

Sub-Versive

Posted on January 9, 2023 by John Biscello

It was a pleasure working with the supple-minded, vision-eyed, Michael Falasco, on the Sub-Versive photo series. Two hybrid snaps from our collaboration.

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged camera, improv, photography, pix, radio, street art, through the lens, vagabond | Leave a comment