i am samurai.
I am a South Florida-born and Raleigh-based writer who studies poetry for inner peace.
My pen is the sword of a peacekeeper – the kind who leaves you a flower cut from a branch to decline the invitation to cross blades. At its caffeinated best, my writing is perceptive and sharp. It often strikes at the truths I see between feudal Japan, single parenthood, and lone air travel, drawing from my experience as a second-gen Filipino-American raised on 90’s treehouse culture. I write with the same fortitude of spirit that masterless Samurai use to forge their own paths through adversity. Although my name carries little to no renown, my voice was once featured at the Green Mill in Chicago - a low profile jazz joint where the slam poetry movement began.
My words have quietly made their published mark in a handful of eclectic spaces: a column for a magician magazine called Vanish, articles for a Raleigh newspaper called the Downtowner, poetry-forward zines like the Deadline and the Quercus Times, and once, on the drink menus at Foundation, a subterranean bar that I’d count on weekly for a good Old Fashioned.
I’m the creator of Raleigh for Ronin, a series of downtown walking guides that celebrate the resilience of local businesses in 2020. Besides poetry, I write for a marketing agency, perform poetry-infused magic shows on increasingly rare occasions, and routinely impart to my daughter, Nali Katana, the virtue of trusting your spirit.
My name is Art: poet with a sword. Remember it.
Peacefully,
Antino Art
(954) 608-9144
IG: fatherofnali
antinoart@antinoart.com
My pen is the sword of a peacekeeper – the kind who leaves you a flower cut from a branch to decline the invitation to cross blades. At its caffeinated best, my writing is perceptive and sharp. It often strikes at the truths I see between feudal Japan, single parenthood, and lone air travel, drawing from my experience as a second-gen Filipino-American raised on 90’s treehouse culture. I write with the same fortitude of spirit that masterless Samurai use to forge their own paths through adversity. Although my name carries little to no renown, my voice was once featured at the Green Mill in Chicago - a low profile jazz joint where the slam poetry movement began.
My words have quietly made their published mark in a handful of eclectic spaces: a column for a magician magazine called Vanish, articles for a Raleigh newspaper called the Downtowner, poetry-forward zines like the Deadline and the Quercus Times, and once, on the drink menus at Foundation, a subterranean bar that I’d count on weekly for a good Old Fashioned.
I’m the creator of Raleigh for Ronin, a series of downtown walking guides that celebrate the resilience of local businesses in 2020. Besides poetry, I write for a marketing agency, perform poetry-infused magic shows on increasingly rare occasions, and routinely impart to my daughter, Nali Katana, the virtue of trusting your spirit.
My name is Art: poet with a sword. Remember it.
Peacefully,
Antino Art
(954) 608-9144
IG: fatherofnali
antinoart@antinoart.com
Photo credit: Agnes Pasco-Antonio, @Gizzi's Coffeehouse, Delray Beach
