Tag Archives: music

The Killing Moon

Posted on October 2, 2025 by John Biscello

From the Polaroid Noir series

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Theater, Uncategorized | Tagged film, killing moon, lost highway, music, noir, polaroids, slow burn, torch song | Leave a comment

Nouvelle Vague

Posted on October 2, 2025 by John Biscello

From the Polaroid Noir series

Posted in Artwork, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Theater, Uncategorized | Tagged bathroom, Cinema, Mirror, motel, music, new wave, noir, polaroid, weary blues, woman | Leave a comment

Upcoming Readings/Events

Posted on September 22, 2025 by John Biscello

A schedule of upcoming events, pertaining to the publication of my new novel, The Last Furies (Lost Telegram Press).

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Theater, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged author apperances, Book-signing, canada, conceptual, events, live performance, music, New Mexico, northern ontario, novel, ontario, Publication, readings, Santa Fe, sault ste. marie, Surrealism, Taos, tour, Video | 4 Comments

Miko

Posted on September 19, 2025 by John Biscello

Miko was a singer with her voice in the clouds. They called Miko blue. Occasionally there would be flashes of red. In the fall, Miko would softly mimic the elegy of leaves and become yellow. She would, in voice and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged fiction, fragment, ghost story, lost hours, music, Poetry, Prose, search, singer, song | Leave a comment

Hips Don’t Lie

Posted on September 16, 2025 by John Biscello

The hips don’t lie. They are the truth-telling giants, and the whistle-blowers transmitting through pirate radio. They are also the catacombs and weather satellites of one’s cumulative genealogy. When an old person falls and breaks their hip, it is not … Continue reading →

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Notation

Posted on April 17, 2025 by John Biscello

Ghosts, in lucid drag, bare to the drifts and unerring grace of realms unending— we, in human-rent shape, exercise particles in a quantum plot of recall and dramatic flair— these mortal coils, shed, in frets and arpeggios, scale by scale, … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged ghosts, gospel, mortal, music, poem, Poetry, spirit | Leave a comment

All That Jazz

Posted on April 4, 2025 by John Biscello

In the Beginning was the Be All End All, and from out of lidless silence and void emerged a beat, hailing another beat, and it wasn’t long before the Universe, speaking in tongues and verses, was percussin’ its ass off … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged groove is in the heart, jazz, light show, music, poem, Poetry, spirit, writing | Leave a comment

Here, Now

Posted on April 2, 2025 by John Biscello

All is a mutable feast, a panoply and paragon of lore and dropped beats, of here, and not here, all at once— effect upon the cause are the visionary takes of the radiant children, sampling source-feed from stunning slates of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged beat goes on, children of the moon, into the mystic, moonstruck, music, poem, Poetry, seasons, visionaries | Leave a comment

Sonata of the I

Posted on April 1, 2025 by John Biscello

The hatless pilgrim, roving this way and that, a man embodying the virtues of scat (in every sense of the word), roving through starched cardstock fields in search of an impossible flower and its stingy nettles—proud, pistil-engraved, the flower’s gullet … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged fiction, music, pilgrimage, Poetry, Prose, samuel beckett, self, solipsistic kicks, sonata, story, variations on I, what's in a name | Leave a comment

In Praise of Patti Smith

Posted on March 28, 2025 by John Biscello

Posted in Cinema, Poetry, Video | Tagged music, patti smith, Poetry, Spoken Word | Leave a comment