Tag Archives: voice

Others

Posted on September 12, 2025 by John Biscello

I couldn’t understand why I couldn’t hear myself in my head anymore. I was hearing someone else. This someone else was older, much older than me, and tired. Her words dragged, as if part of a funeral procession. Her voice … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged dark, fragment, grief, listening, mind, narrative, old and young, others, Prose, story, voice, words | Leave a comment

Gazing Strip

Posted on September 5, 2025 by John Biscello

I am Beket, and this is my life, not in so many words, and in so many words. Voices, mirrors, masks. That’s what I barter and traffic in, my raison d’être, as the French would say. There are also long … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged character, fiction, fragment, male gaze, mirrors, Prose, story, voice | Leave a comment

The Wonder Years

Posted on April 14, 2025 by John Biscello

We are here but briefly, fingered skeins and finite exhales threaded within a spiraling fable of ordered repetitions and infinite respiration— We are the supplest of gilded elegies, membered to the magnetic cause of wake and dream.

Posted in Poetry | Tagged dream, elegy, inspiration, poem, Poetry, voice, wonder | Leave a comment

Immigration Laws

Posted on January 23, 2025 by John Biscello

Posted in Audio, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged citizen of the world, identity claim, immigration lore, long term memory loss, Poetry, Spoken Word, the country was founded slash stolen by undocumented immigrants, voice | Leave a comment

Welcome to the Monkey House

Posted on October 24, 2024 by John Biscello

A man rattling the bars inside his cage that is the monkey house of writing and publishing, or, the holy seethe sounded in diminished chords and vinegar.

Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Video | Tagged New York, publishing, Spoken Word, story, tale, voice, words, writing life, writing the good write | Leave a comment

The Old Neighborhood

Posted on September 1, 2024 by John Biscello

Recorded version of my piece, “Fruit,” which was a 2023 Non-Fiction Prize Finalist in Brooklyn Film & Arts essay competition. The story revolves around shame, powerlessness, addiction, and survival techniques during days of Brooklyn youth.

Posted in Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Uncategorized, Video | Tagged addiction, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, brooklyn film and arts, family, film, italian american, mean streets, New York, Prose, shame, storytelling, Video, voice, witness | Leave a comment

Monkeys and Barrels

Posted on June 23, 2024 by John Biscello

Kinked reflections on the writing life, New York states of mind, Babe Ruth’s prodigious appetite, Einsteinian time-blips, desert blues, and the Aqua Net generation.

Posted in Artwork, Audio, Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Press, Prose, Publications, Video | Tagged aqua net, author, babe ruth, Brooklyn, einstein, graffiti, New York, Prose, publishing industry, reflections, Spoken Word, story, storytelling, the writing life, voice | Leave a comment

Stand-Up

Posted on February 22, 2024 by John Biscello

This is not a not a novel. This is a rhapsody. I rhapsodize, I bubble, I ferment, I fount. The amassing of word-shaped sounds have become rhapsodies, digressions, solos within spheres and platforms of soul-sounding species and choruses, the every … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Prose | Tagged black comedy, book, fiction, lenny bruce, lord buckley, mae west, nightclub, not novel, novel, Poetry, stand-up, story, storytelling, this lyrical life, voice, words | Leave a comment

Torch Song

Posted on December 13, 2022 by John Biscello

From the series, “Interior Lighting for Lost Cinema”

Posted in Audio, Cinema, photography, Poetry | Tagged cindy sherman, photography, sorcereress, spoke word, torch song, voice, words | Leave a comment

Dust

Posted on December 8, 2022 by John Biscello

Posted in Audio, photography, Poetry, Prose | Tagged Audio, dust, myth, Spoken Word, story, today, voice, words | Leave a comment