Mark  Saba

Writer and painter

Mark Saba has been writing for over 30 years in the genres of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. His work has appeared widely in literary magazines and anthologies around the United States and elsewhere. He is the author of a poetry collection, Painting a Disappearing Canvas (Grayson Books) as well as a novel, The Landscapes of Pater (The Vineyard Press) which explores his Sardinian roots, and Thaddeus Olsen (Apis Books), a novella of identity crisis concerning a character whose ancestry is both Polish and American Indian.

Mark also studied art from the time he was ten years old in a scholarship program at Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, where he was raised. He has been drawing and painting ever since, though in the last ten years he as produced more artwork than ever before.

Pittsburgh Spring 1950 / Oil on canvas / 16 inches x 12 inches

Death II / Oil on canvas / 30 inches x 24 inches

In all his creative endeavors, Mark sees poetry. He considers his paintings visual poems, and his novels long poems as well. In every thing he produces, he seeks to unearth its essence, to let it find its own form and be true to itself. Sometimes he combines art forms, as he did when producing and directing a poetry video entitled He Was a Poet and When He Died, which has been shown at various venues, including a couple in India. Recently he read from his poetry collection against a backdrop of video he created and music composed by his friend Alphonse Izzo, a noteworthy American composer. This endeavor, called simply Ten Poems, will soon be available on YouTube.

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