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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · 2d

A tricky but cool one today.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · 13d

www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

Jack DeJohnette, dynamic and instantly recognizable jazz drummer, dies at 83

Jack DeJohnette, of the most daring and singular jazz drummers of the last 60 years, died on Sunday.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · 13d

A hugely influential musician..

#jackdejohnette #improviser
#jazz #music #obituary

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Jack DeJohnette, versatile jazz drummer known for Miles Davis fusion recordings, dies aged 83

Drummer played on Bitches Brew and other landmark recordings, as well as making numerous albums as a bandleader

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · 28d

"Perfection is less interesting."
-- Anne Carson

#booksky #interview
#poetry #annecarson

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5...

Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88

“I write to find out what I think about something.”

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Aug 16

“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”
— E. B. White

#booksky #ebwhite #interview

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E. B. White, The Art of the Essay No. 1

“People are like animals and the city is full of people in strange plumage.”

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Aug 1

Utterly unacceptable!

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Jul 14

“Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.”
—Italo Calvino

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#booksky #italocalvino #interview
#novelists #parisreview 1983

Italo Calvino, The Art of Fiction No. 130

“Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.”

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Jun 28

“I don’t think that poetry leads to self-destructiveness. It’s life that gets people there.”

—Edward Hirsch

#booksky #poetry #interview
#parisreview #edwardhirsch

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

Edward Hirsch, The Art of Poetry No. 110

“It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.”

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · May 16

Currently reading..

#booksky #marilynnonken
#spectral #piano #classical
#contemporary #avantgarde

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Mar 23

I enjoy reading well-conducted interviews of talented poets, regardless of whether their style is similar to my own attempts..

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#booksky #robertfrost #poetry

Robert Frost, The Art of Poetry No. 2

“… Why don't critics talk about those things—what a feat it was to turn that that way, and what a feat it was to remember that, to be reminded of that by this?”

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Mar 7

“There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.”

The Art of Poetry interview of Allen Ginsberg by Tom Clark, from the Spring 1966 issue of The Paris Review..

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#booksky #poetry #allenginsberg

Allen Ginsberg, The Art of Poetry No. 8

“What happens if you make a distinction between what you tell your friends and what you tell your Muse?”

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Mar 2

Enchanting!

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 28

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Sun Ra’s Chicago

Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian gar...

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 28

Currently reading..

#booksky #sunra #afrofuturism
#chicago #avantgarde #jazz

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 23

I made it into my middle age without ever using pejorative nicknames, but now..

My own terminology for the current american emperor and his puppet:

Caligula Musk and his pet imbecilic demon.

#usa #resist #musk #trump

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 20

Heavenly.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 18

WOW.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 15

Currently reading..

A long-awaited biography of the enigmatic musical great.

#booksky #freejazz #music
#biography #kennywheeler

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 14

Exactly this, today.
Hang in there, Steve.

Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 13

Currently reading..

Braxton has long been one of my musical inspirations.

#anthonybraxton #booksky

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 10

A distressing degree of censorship and suppression. And the repercussions will long outlast this oligarchy.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 8

An artist doesn't have to boast and pretend to be "groundbreaking" to soar into our imaginations.

#music #authenticity
#art #improvisation

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 8

Yes! This is easy to do, and extremely important. It also means that people wanting to share posts are empowered to do so without drowning their followers in yet more photos of these perpetrators.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 6

Insanity.

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Cevie @cevie.bsky.social · Feb 5

I'm worried for all those already struggling with mental illness or extremely difficult life situations, who might be pushed over the edge by the actions of this brutal oligarchy.

#dictatorship #musk #trump

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