Category Archives: Books

Travelogue

Posted on July 10, 2019 by

She never did go anywhere, you know? Some ghosts become totemic stand-bys for the lives they never led, gloaming potentialties that passed, in solemn wisp, from dream to dream, then fade.   (Photo by Cindy Sherman)

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At Present

Posted on July 9, 2019 by

Everything dissolved anyway, was how she consoled herself. She would do something, she would plant yellow daisies in the garden first thing tomorrow morning, yellow seemed appropriate, yes, even though the idea of morning seemed far-off and left her feeling … Continue reading →

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Cabin Fever

Posted on July 7, 2019 by

A getaway, he had reasoned brightly, it will be good for us, give us a chance to reconnect. Why did everything he said always sound perfectly rehearsed, a conviction born of rote directive? Was it the way he spoke, the … Continue reading →

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Soap Serial

Posted on July 5, 2019 by

If someone would have told her it would be like giving birth to a checklist of domestic servitude and falsely fresh produce on a numbingly repeatable basis, she might have seriously pursued her childhood dream of running away with the … Continue reading →

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Curiouser and Curiouser

Posted on June 26, 2019 by

Letter from Wonderland– Dear Miss So-and-So, Your husband injured himself chasing a young girl in fuzzy pink rabbit ears down a dark narrow hole. Do not expect him home any time soon. Yours Truly, A Secret Admirer.   (Photo by … Continue reading →

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Arclight in the Gyroscope Review

Posted on June 1, 2019 by

Review of Arclight appearing in the Gyroscope Review. “Arclight, by poet John Biscello, is an intriguing book brimming with possibilities. The book is divided into six diverse sections that carry themes through each section and tie them together with spirituality and … Continue reading →

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Pilgrimage

Posted on May 31, 2019 by

Sometimes you’ve got to walk alone through the desert to know your true place among the company of stars.

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A Girl Goes Into the Forest

Posted on May 20, 2019 by

Review of Pel Alford Pursell’s A Girl Goes Into the Forest. In the dream I was sitting with my mother in a restaurant lobby, waiting to be seated for dinner. The hostess came over, asked me my name, which I … Continue reading →

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Biscello & Badalamenti at the Rose City Book Pub

Posted on April 27, 2019 by

June 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Rose City Book Pub, 1329 NE Fremont, Portland, OR 97212   Portland’s new chill-n-chat literary hotspot, the Rose City Book Pub, will host Unsolicited Press authors, John Biscello and Frances Badalamenti, who will be reading from their respective … Continue reading →

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It’s a Secret: Tell Everyone

Posted on April 26, 2019 by

The heart’s sheerest capacity to marvel and see rightly is a gilded trespass into the world of true visionaries.

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