Michael L Sevy
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The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy (@mlsevy.bsky.social)
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The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy
on East Fourth Street near Phebe’s I took a class in 16mm filmmaking, down in a cluttered basement, disorganized, mismatched tables and chairs, smells of darkroom chemicals, machine oil and the sum…
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Much Gratitude to @yanina.bsky.social and the staff at @minorliteratures.bsky.social
Many thanks to the staff at RIC Journal for publishing my attempt at 'nature' writing in their latest issue. ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/p...
Paper Birch / Michael L Sevy
looking out from my bedroom at the lone white birch in the front field, I notice a few suckers coming up, sprouting impetuously from the rootstock that I’ll need to cut back, the paper birch, paper…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Many thanks to the staff at RIC Journal for publishing my attempt at 'nature' writing in their latest issue. ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/p...
we can speak of past time, and in a vaguer, but familiar sense, of future time, but we simply cannot expect a second nothing, a second void, a second blank. Oblivion is a one-night performance; we have been to it once, there will be no repeat.
-Vladimir Nabokov “Ada, or Ardor”
-Vladimir Nabokov “Ada, or Ardor”
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
we can speak of past time, and in a vaguer, but familiar sense, of future time, but we simply cannot expect a second nothing, a second void, a second blank. Oblivion is a one-night performance; we have been to it once, there will be no repeat.
-Vladimir Nabokov “Ada, or Ardor”
-Vladimir Nabokov “Ada, or Ardor”
Started up my weekly zoom lit group last Tuesday (we’re doing Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor) I looked beyond the monitor at my newly brushhogged field to catch a deer taking a crap.
September 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Started up my weekly zoom lit group last Tuesday (we’re doing Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor) I looked beyond the monitor at my newly brushhogged field to catch a deer taking a crap.
Many thanks to @wordkunst.bsky.social and the staff at @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my piece “Fingerprint”. burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...
Fingerprint by Michael L Sevy
we had a dinette, the house was too small for a proper dining room, there was a painting on the wall, notable because artwork was minimal in the house, I was fascinated by this painting, it looked …
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September 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Many thanks to @wordkunst.bsky.social and the staff at @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my piece “Fingerprint”. burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...
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FINGERPRINT by Michael L Sevy @mlsevy.bsky.social
New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
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New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
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Fingerprint by Michael L Sevy
we had a dinette, the house was too small for a proper dining room, there was a painting on the wall, notable because artwork was minimal in the house, I was fascinated by this painting, it looked …
burninghousepress.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
FINGERPRINT by Michael L Sevy @mlsevy.bsky.social
New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...
New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...
Composed and recorded yesterday. A 3 chord theme, some musings, theme restated and out. youtu.be/ZGUldX46rI8?...
Searching My Brain, No, There's Nothing by Michael L Sevy
YouTube video by Michael L Sevy
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July 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Composed and recorded yesterday. A 3 chord theme, some musings, theme restated and out. youtu.be/ZGUldX46rI8?...
From the latest NYRB sale. Most looking forward to Cesare Pavese. I know his prose but not his poetry.
June 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
From the latest NYRB sale. Most looking forward to Cesare Pavese. I know his prose but not his poetry.
Hard to keep it to just 10 films but for the moment these are my choices.
June 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Hard to keep it to just 10 films but for the moment these are my choices.
Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.
-Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) tr. Richard Zenith
-Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) tr. Richard Zenith
June 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.
-Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) tr. Richard Zenith
-Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) tr. Richard Zenith
Fave film each decade
10s The Cook
20s Greed
30s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
40s Detour
50s Ordet
60s Viridiana
70s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
80s Grave of the Fireflies
90s Eternity and a Day
00s Werckmeister Harmonies
10s An Elephant Sitting Still
20s Godzilla Minus One
10s The Cook
20s Greed
30s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
40s Detour
50s Ordet
60s Viridiana
70s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
80s Grave of the Fireflies
90s Eternity and a Day
00s Werckmeister Harmonies
10s An Elephant Sitting Still
20s Godzilla Minus One
June 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Fave film each decade
10s The Cook
20s Greed
30s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
40s Detour
50s Ordet
60s Viridiana
70s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
80s Grave of the Fireflies
90s Eternity and a Day
00s Werckmeister Harmonies
10s An Elephant Sitting Still
20s Godzilla Minus One
10s The Cook
20s Greed
30s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
40s Detour
50s Ordet
60s Viridiana
70s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
80s Grave of the Fireflies
90s Eternity and a Day
00s Werckmeister Harmonies
10s An Elephant Sitting Still
20s Godzilla Minus One
Doubt belongs to the present tense and the present tense only; it blossoms upon it like a poisonous lily on the clouded top of a pond. At this point the narrator would do anything he can to extricate himself from the dark well of the present tense.
-Magdalena Tulli (Moving Parts) tr Bill Johnston
-Magdalena Tulli (Moving Parts) tr Bill Johnston
June 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Doubt belongs to the present tense and the present tense only; it blossoms upon it like a poisonous lily on the clouded top of a pond. At this point the narrator would do anything he can to extricate himself from the dark well of the present tense.
-Magdalena Tulli (Moving Parts) tr Bill Johnston
-Magdalena Tulli (Moving Parts) tr Bill Johnston
Mathias Énard wrote this over 17 years ago when almost 1/2 of the current population of Gaza were not yet born.
- “Zone” translated Charlotte Mandell
- “Zone” translated Charlotte Mandell
May 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Mathias Énard wrote this over 17 years ago when almost 1/2 of the current population of Gaza were not yet born.
- “Zone” translated Charlotte Mandell
- “Zone” translated Charlotte Mandell
I could cry with all my body, all my life, that this was a fortunate thing for me and I knew it. That for me, writing was like crying. That no book could be joyful without indecency.
-Marguerite Duras (Yann Andréa Steiner) tr. Mark Polizzotti
-Marguerite Duras (Yann Andréa Steiner) tr. Mark Polizzotti
May 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I could cry with all my body, all my life, that this was a fortunate thing for me and I knew it. That for me, writing was like crying. That no book could be joyful without indecency.
-Marguerite Duras (Yann Andréa Steiner) tr. Mark Polizzotti
-Marguerite Duras (Yann Andréa Steiner) tr. Mark Polizzotti
“Wouldn't it be amusing to see how they would look if one were to be so extremely foolish as to show them the beneficial effects that are sometimes produced here by those people who give them a feeling of such great, such mortal boredom.”
-Nathalie Sarraute (Here) trans. Barbara Wright
-Nathalie Sarraute (Here) trans. Barbara Wright
May 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“Wouldn't it be amusing to see how they would look if one were to be so extremely foolish as to show them the beneficial effects that are sometimes produced here by those people who give them a feeling of such great, such mortal boredom.”
-Nathalie Sarraute (Here) trans. Barbara Wright
-Nathalie Sarraute (Here) trans. Barbara Wright
Giaco with a strong recommendation. I concur.
April 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Giaco with a strong recommendation. I concur.
You came here to gather up a life. But you know what you’re gathering? Words. No - more like air, my friend - words are sounds composed of air. Air. You’re gathering air.
-Antonio Tabucchi (Tristano Dies: A Life) trans. Elizabeth Harris
-Antonio Tabucchi (Tristano Dies: A Life) trans. Elizabeth Harris
April 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
You came here to gather up a life. But you know what you’re gathering? Words. No - more like air, my friend - words are sounds composed of air. Air. You’re gathering air.
-Antonio Tabucchi (Tristano Dies: A Life) trans. Elizabeth Harris
-Antonio Tabucchi (Tristano Dies: A Life) trans. Elizabeth Harris
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Despite huge advances in science and technology, it will seem a barbarous time.
April 21, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Despite huge advances in science and technology, it will seem a barbarous time.
Archipelago Book sale haul.
April 11, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Archipelago Book sale haul.
Yesterday I took a break from writing words and wrote music instead. youtu.be/K_vuU07XP_4
Decorative or Functional: A False Argument by Michael L Sevy
YouTube video by Michael L Sevy
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April 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Yesterday I took a break from writing words and wrote music instead. youtu.be/K_vuU07XP_4
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Monthly Dispatch #21 — February 2025
ft. @mlsevy.bsky.social @sarahkdawson.bsky.social James Rodker, @tyholter.bsky.social Joel Gordon, Golan Haji, Tyler Cain Lacy, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social & more ...
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ft. @mlsevy.bsky.social @sarahkdawson.bsky.social James Rodker, @tyholter.bsky.social Joel Gordon, Golan Haji, Tyler Cain Lacy, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social & more ...
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Monthly Dispatch #21 — February 2025
A letter from the editor[s]
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February 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Monthly Dispatch #21 — February 2025
ft. @mlsevy.bsky.social @sarahkdawson.bsky.social James Rodker, @tyholter.bsky.social Joel Gordon, Golan Haji, Tyler Cain Lacy, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social & more ...
minorlits.substack.com/p/monthly-di...
ft. @mlsevy.bsky.social @sarahkdawson.bsky.social James Rodker, @tyholter.bsky.social Joel Gordon, Golan Haji, Tyler Cain Lacy, @perfidiousscript.bsky.social & more ...
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My lit group has 11 nominees for our schedule. Now we vote.
1. Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"
Martin Amis "Money"
2. Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
3. Haruki Murakami "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
4. Franz Kafka "The Trial"
5. Helen DeWitt "The Last Samurai"
6. Mircea Cărtărescu "Solenoid"
cont.
1. Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"
Martin Amis "Money"
2. Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
3. Haruki Murakami "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
4. Franz Kafka "The Trial"
5. Helen DeWitt "The Last Samurai"
6. Mircea Cărtărescu "Solenoid"
cont.
February 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
My lit group has 11 nominees for our schedule. Now we vote.
1. Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"
Martin Amis "Money"
2. Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
3. Haruki Murakami "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
4. Franz Kafka "The Trial"
5. Helen DeWitt "The Last Samurai"
6. Mircea Cărtărescu "Solenoid"
cont.
1. Kingsley Amis "Lucky Jim"
Martin Amis "Money"
2. Gustave Flaubert "Madame Bovary"
3. Haruki Murakami "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
4. Franz Kafka "The Trial"
5. Helen DeWitt "The Last Samurai"
6. Mircea Cărtărescu "Solenoid"
cont.
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Wrote a thing for A Row of Trees, The Journal of The Sonic Art Research Unit.
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Volume 5, Issue 1
Visit the post for more.
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February 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wrote a thing for A Row of Trees, The Journal of The Sonic Art Research Unit.
arowoftrees.co.uk/volumes/volu...
arowoftrees.co.uk/volumes/volu...
Much Gratitude to @yanina.bsky.social and the staff at @minorliteratures.bsky.social
The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy (@mlsevy.bsky.social)
minorliteratures.com/2025/02/04/t...
minorliteratures.com/2025/02/04/t...
The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy
on East Fourth Street near Phebe’s I took a class in 16mm filmmaking, down in a cluttered basement, disorganized, mismatched tables and chairs, smells of darkroom chemicals, machine oil and the sum…
minorliteratures.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Much Gratitude to @yanina.bsky.social and the staff at @minorliteratures.bsky.social
Reposted by Michael L Sevy
The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy (@mlsevy.bsky.social)
minorliteratures.com/2025/02/04/t...
minorliteratures.com/2025/02/04/t...
The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy
on East Fourth Street near Phebe’s I took a class in 16mm filmmaking, down in a cluttered basement, disorganized, mismatched tables and chairs, smells of darkroom chemicals, machine oil and the sum…
minorliteratures.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The Barco, The American Pneumatic, The Chicago Pneumatic — Michael L Sevy (@mlsevy.bsky.social)
minorliteratures.com/2025/02/04/t...
minorliteratures.com/2025/02/04/t...
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AND (finally) here's what's coming up this week ...
— experimental writings from Michael L. Sevy
— an extract from Tyler Cain Lacey's book on James Wright, now out from Long Day Press
— experimental writings from Michael L. Sevy
— an extract from Tyler Cain Lacey's book on James Wright, now out from Long Day Press
February 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
AND (finally) here's what's coming up this week ...
— experimental writings from Michael L. Sevy
— an extract from Tyler Cain Lacey's book on James Wright, now out from Long Day Press
— experimental writings from Michael L. Sevy
— an extract from Tyler Cain Lacey's book on James Wright, now out from Long Day Press