Vincent John Ancona
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| Occupation | Poet |
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| Location | Philadelphia, PA |
| Introduction | Vincent is a published poet currently working on his third collection of poems. His work has caught the attention of such renowned artists and writers as David LaChapelle, Lili Bita, The Commodores, Bryant Mcgill, Susaye Green, Rae Desmond Jones and CA Conrad, to name a few. He was one of 4 poets nationwide to receive an honorable mention in the esteemed McGill Poetry Award, and has been published in various magazines and journals such as The American Review Literary Journal, The Bicycle Review, The Absurdist Monthly Review, Web Digest Weekly and Wilhelm Magazines. Vincent has done readings both City & Country wide and has been featured in various newspapers and other online media for these events. He is currently involved in several well regarded poetry competitions world-wide and continues to work vigilantly at building a name for himself and living his dream of being a poet and artist in the 21st century. |
| Interests | Writing. Observing. Creating. Innovating. Breaking old rules. Creating new ones. Meeting people that do the same. Avoiding pretension. Defying odds. Straight Talk. Boundary breaking. Learning to use the other 92% of my brain. |
| Favorite Movies | A FEW NEEDLES IN THE HAYSTACK: La Dolce Vita 8 1/2 Raise The Red Lantern Satyricon American Beauty Cries And Whispers Dancer In The Dark I Am Curious (Yellow) I Am Curious (Blue) Magnolia Requiem For A Dream Ballast Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb The Elephant Man Y Tu Mama Tambien All About My Mother Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind Adaptation Being John Malkovich Boys Dont Cry American History X Mulholland Drive Blue Velvet Ghost World Manhattan Sleeper Memento The 400 Blows Monsters Bal Brazi Ghost World Boogie Nights Living In Oblivion Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors American Splendor The Straight Story Midnight Express 2001: A Space Odyssey The Exorcist Bowling For Columbine Judy Berlin Apocalypse Now Redux Full Metal Jacket In The Bedroom Blood Simple Hard Eight Punch Drunk Love Schindler's List The Royal Tenenbaums Rushmore Crumb Knife In The Water Solaris (Original) The Squid & The Whale About Schmidt Traffic Talk To Her Bad Education Election |
| Favorite Music | Anything with meaning: Nina Simone Annie Lennox Jeff Buckley Wilco Ghostland Observatory Robin Thicke Maxwell Etta James Regina Spektor Billie Holiday Bjork Jamiroquai Pineapple Thief Gnarls Barkley Radiohead Imogen Heap Eric Whitacre Fiona Apple Sia Emiliana Torrin Mary J Blige Santogold Bob Dylan War Portishead Duncan Sheik Porcupine Tree Tori Amos Stevie Wonder Marvin Gaye Louis Armstrong Sally Shapiro Aimee Mann The Gathering Dazz Band Air Traffic Ella Fitzgerald Edwin Birdsong Porcupine Tree Chromakey MGMT Barber's Adagio For Strings D'Angelo Nine Inch Nails Sade Debussy's "Reverie For Piano" Holtz's "The Planets - Mars" Interpol Berlioz's "March To The Scaffold" Dvorak's "New World Theme" Paige France Prince Stars Daft Punk's "Only Human" The Gypsy Kings The Rolling Stones David Bowie Sarah Mclachlan The Gap Band Curtis Mayfield The Ohio Players Parliament Sarah Brightman Beck The Cure Damien Rice Erykah Badu School Of Seven Bells Gnarls Barkley The Police The Knife Amelie Soundtrack Rachmaninoff Prokofiev Chopin Ravel Rimsky-Korsakov Satie Carl Orff Beethoven's 6th 'Pastoral |
| Favorite Books | Last Exit To Brooklyn In Cold Blood The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time The God Of Small Things Requiem For A Dream ANYTHING JOHN ASHBERY ANYTHING RICHARD E. WRIGHT W.H. Auden Essential Anais Nin Ariel - Sylvia Plath Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert Sophie's World THe complete works of Mark Doty Running With Scissors Dry The Island Of Dr. Moreau 1984 The Complete Collected Poems Of Maya Angelou The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton Collected Poems 1947-1997 by Alan Ginsberg Howl And Other Poems by Alan Ginsberg The Collected Poems Of Howard Nemerov The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickinson The complete poems of W.D. Snodgrass The completed poems of Walt Whitman The Bell Jar Atlas Shrugged And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street You're Only Old Once!: A Book for Obsolete Children Design For Death The Stand The Exorcist The Power Of Impossible Thinking Lord Of The Flies Early Poems Of Ezra Pound A Light In The Attic - Shel Siverstein Proust's A Remembrance Of Things Past Some Trees Deviant Propulsion - CA Conrad |
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