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Tag Archives: the writing life
New York to New Mexico
My interview on the podcast, What’s Up ABQ, is now streaming (2/10). I had a blast talking with Chris and Ryan, not only about my new poetry book, Moonglow on Mercy Street, but also the world of comics, Choose Your … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications
Tagged Albuquerque, Brooklyn, John Biscello, moonglow on mercy street, New Mexico, podcast, poetry book, Taos, the writing life, whats up abq
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Blue Boy
There’s something wrong with him, my father said. Look at him. Something’s not right. Something happened to him. He’s sick. All he thinks about is writing. That’s all he thinks about. He is blue. Even though I wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Prose
Tagged blues, dreamscape, fathers and sons, imagination, johnbiscello, Prose, the writing life
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Before the Big Bang Makes A Sound
Listen closely. You will hear the rhythmical jazz of a leaky faucet. The creaking floorboards in the attic of memory. The sound of a heart crunching beneath the weight of a life, and then again, that heart’s resilient rising announced … Continue reading
Illuminations
“You know of course that slowness is the only illumination I’ve ever had.” — Peter Handke, The Afternoon of a Writer A writer, fastening his worth to the tempo of grass, to the yellow leaves separating their grief from their … Continue reading
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Tagged John Biscello, peter handke, poem, Prose, slowness, the writing life
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Moonglow on Mercy Street
I am happy to announce that the hardcover edition of my new poetry book, Moonglow on Mercy Street, will be published in early December (CSF Publishing). Anyone potentially interested in reviewing the book for their blog, or other site/forum, please … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Books, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications
Tagged 2020, CSF Publishing, John Biscello, moonglow on mercy street, new publication, poems, poetry book, the writing life
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Tall Black Armchair, or, Anais Nin Revisited
“The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have … excessive living weighs down the imagination: we will not live, we will only write and talk to swell the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged anais nin, attic, ghost, imagination, John Biscello, poem, Prose, the writing life
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Crow Talk
I close my notebook, and everything that goes with it, and listen to the crow cawing outside my window. I get confused. Is he saying Winter is coming soon, or, It’s time to dream rightly, as I do, with zero … Continue reading
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Tagged crow, John Biscello, notebook, poem, the lore of crows, the writing life
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Impossible You Say?
“Literature is an exaggeration, a dramatization, and those who are nourished on it (as I was) are in great danger of trying to approximate an impossible rhythm.”—Anais Nin Leave the impossible to the fishes and the stars, to packed suitcases … Continue reading
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Tagged alice in wonderland, anais nin, impossible, John Biscello, poem, the writing life
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Hunger
“Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.” How many, committed to their record of days upon the earth, crusade with … Continue reading
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Tagged anais nin, banquet, hunger, John Biscello, poem, the writing life
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Naming Desire
Whoever I am, I have always depended on the kindness of words– such strange company, these solitary verses.
Posted in Poetry
Tagged blanche dubois remixed, John Biscello, poem, tennessee williams, the writing life, words
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