Francis Nguyen studies and creates art
in New York City. “My interests primarily lie in drawing, which I believe is
the foundation to many other forms of visual art. I like to imagine drawing as
if I were threading a spider web; a natural pattern that is reminiscent of the
essence. Ever since I was a kid, the beauty of man-made images compelled me to
draw, paint and sculpt the characters in my mind. As in the tradition of the
old masters, my style appropriates its meaning through the depiction of the
human body and reveals its archetypes. For more of Nguyen’s work see long1337.blogspot.com
New York poet Robert Gibbons has been featured
on paintersand poets.com several times. His poetry appears in Uphook Press, Three Rooms Press, Brownstone Poets Anthology, Dinner with the Muse, Cartier Street Review, Nomad’s Choir and the Palm Beach Post. He has studied with master poets Cornelius Eady, Marilyn Nelson, Kimiko Hahn, Nathalie Handal, Linda Susan Jackson, Kevin Young, and Kwame Dawes. Three Rooms Press published Close to theTree in 2012.
elegy to
an airhead
I thought
this was the city, but it could be the country
being so
conceited and self-involved, minding my
business,
looking the other way, I am afraid
being a
man, keeping to myself, caught up
in my own
brine of thought, my hair as explosive
as it is
hypnagogic with all the material available
for my
use, some may think I am enlightened
but in my
distance I am benighted because
it is
difficult to read outside my canon, to involve
another
genre so I become as thematic as a cliche
always
out to compete, to climb the mountain's
tightrope,
the high wire or plower into earth
and frack
never an estimation, always exacerbation
I will
end in my head before I am dead.
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