Captive by Antonio Gray

 

Antonio Gray was born on February 2, 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the first of three children. Antonio has been writing poems, short stories and hip hop rhymes for about 11 years. Drawing on his experiences of his upbringing in Philadelphia, Antonio writes about the daily activities of urban life as well as love. Antonio’s primary topic is the endless topic of love. Antonio’s style allows him to explore love without crossing over, like most poets today, into a world of erotic poetry. Antonio has had to cope with tragedy early in life. At the age of 8, Antonio lost his father, but he turned to writing as a coping mechanism.

 

 

His literary style includes diverse influences like e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, and Shakespeare. Drawing from these influences and his own personal experiences, Antonio continued writing and won the Joesph Rizzello Award for excellence in poetry for his poems “Daily Task” and “Gia and the Ghost”. Following his ambition to be a writer, Antonio decided to self publish his first book Orange Days and Blue Nights from Philadelphia in 2009. Though this is his first book Antonio has plans to continue his ambitions as a writer with a follow up release with his chapbook, Captive. Captive is a chapbook about embracing love at its fullest potential. Antonio has plans to expand his writing into novels, his own publishing company and, he even wants to make greeting cards. With a book already published and another in the works, Antonio is in a unique position to realize his dreams.

 

 

Read poems from Captive!

 

 

Poems included in

Captive

 

Light Skin Lady With Dreads

Old Rugged Quarter

Touch

Bananas Over You

At Least We're Poets

 

You Came Out of the Cupboard

I'll Be Your Painter

Captive

I...

She Is

 

I'm Not Telling, Summer Love

Angela, Are You For Me?

Sunrise, Sunset

The Clocks That Turn You Orange

Desirable You

 

The Lover's Stand

Love's Better With Pills

Goodnight, But Not Goodbye

Passion - at Autumn's Awake

Stairways To Love

Am I A Brother Doomed?

No Escaping

 

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Read our interview with Antonio Gray

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Find Antonio online:

www.orangedaysbluenights.com