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Tag Archives: the craft
Inspiration’s Track
Inspiration is not a matter of chance, or waiting, or a magic spell that demands bated breath and fretted suspension— it is the fact that you pick up a pen, your fingers growing warm and intimate with its weight and … Continue reading
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Tagged course on being, devotion, dreamscaping, inspiration, John Biscello, lore, the craft, the writing life
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Calling
Beyond the slimmest margins, a paling, a cooling, where you can assume the role of engaged witness and translate intimacy into a remembered calling, a friend without want or ceiling.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged calling, intimate measures, poem, Poetry, soulplay, the craft, witness
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The Writing Life
These are the tools of my trade. I have written in spiral-bound notebooks, college-ruled, for a long time. They are always of varying colors. Red, yellow, blue, purple, black. Never green. I write with a Zebra F-402 ballpoint pen, black … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged devotion, John Biscello, notebooks, novels, passion play, pen to page, poems, the craft, the writing life, word-pray
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The Greatest Job on Earth
So much depends upon a red spiral notebook opened to a blank page, beside a pen’s barest volition to longing, within silence’s meted reign.
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Tagged devotion, John Biscello, love of writing, poem, Poetry, The Calling, the craft, willkiam carlos williams remixed, word-pray
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This Word’s Life
Words are wonderfully illegitimate and unhurried placeholders for psychic disturbances and vagrant quandaries. To frame it differently– Using a broken compass to navigate through a paper town on a vintage red bicycle is, in itself, immaculate. Words, in other words, … Continue reading
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Tagged creative expression, John Biscello, poem, text, the craft, word is bond, words, worlds within words
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The Writing Life
Sneak-peek into the process: I always write by hand, with my F-402 ballpoint pn (black ink), in one-subject spiral notebooks, the cheap kind that come in different colors (mostly I go with red, purple and yellow, occasionally blue or black, … Continue reading
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Tagged in progress, John Biscello, lyrical living, poem, Poetry, Prose, sneak-peek, the craft, the writing life, word by word
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Quill
Within the unbearable lightness of love’s proofed labor, a single feather pen, producing words that sing, traceless, and move worlds to shake and reckon. (Image by Izumi Yokoyama)
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Tagged featherproof, izumi yokoyama, John Biscello, love's labor, quill, the craft, the writing life, words change worlds, worlds within
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