Thad DeVassie
@thaddevassie.bsky.social
writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | THIS SIDE OF UTOPIA out now | 2020 James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
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Short week. Short prose.
Grateful to have 3 new pieces up at Switch Microfiction
www.switchonline.org/about-1
Grateful to have 3 new pieces up at Switch Microfiction
www.switchonline.org/about-1
Microfiction 2025 | Switch
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November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Short week. Short prose.
Grateful to have 3 new pieces up at Switch Microfiction
www.switchonline.org/about-1
Grateful to have 3 new pieces up at Switch Microfiction
www.switchonline.org/about-1
SOLMAZ SHARIF
This poem appears in her exceptional debut LOOK (2016) from @graywolfpress.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
This poem appears in her exceptional debut LOOK (2016) from @graywolfpress.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
SOLMAZ SHARIF
This poem appears in her exceptional debut LOOK (2016) from @graywolfpress.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
This poem appears in her exceptional debut LOOK (2016) from @graywolfpress.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Reposted by Thad DeVassie
🚨 I have a new chapbook out in the world! 🚨
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🚨 I have a new chapbook out in the world! 🚨
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
The Man is a sequence of 24 micro poems, all beginning with ‘The Man’. I also provided the doodles for the cover. I have 50 copies & they’re all pay-what-you-want (+ $4 for shipping) so DM me if you want a copy! 📚❤️
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anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
anyway. go read a short story or a chunk of a novel today. enjoy a piece of art. maybe even buy a drawing or painting! reach out and tell an artist how much something they made meant to you.
Note to self
(and an excuse to love on M. Sasek's illustrated travel books)
(and an excuse to love on M. Sasek's illustrated travel books)
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Note to self
(and an excuse to love on M. Sasek's illustrated travel books)
(and an excuse to love on M. Sasek's illustrated travel books)
Here's a litte thing about art, words, fall, nostalgia, baseball, lost innocence, and data centers -- all with a soundtrack included. Grateful to @stephenvoss.bsky.social and his photograph for taking me down this path.
I hope you'll read -- and listen.
open.substack.com/pub/thaddeva...
I hope you'll read -- and listen.
open.substack.com/pub/thaddeva...
The Fall of...
Autumn always does this to me — twists my emotions, creates a sort of longing for bygone days, some unwanted acknowledgement of my mortality.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Here's a litte thing about art, words, fall, nostalgia, baseball, lost innocence, and data centers -- all with a soundtrack included. Grateful to @stephenvoss.bsky.social and his photograph for taking me down this path.
I hope you'll read -- and listen.
open.substack.com/pub/thaddeva...
I hope you'll read -- and listen.
open.substack.com/pub/thaddeva...
Love this piece w/ all the southerners in my life, but also feel compelled to call out that spot-on bio!
really can't recommend strongly enough that y'all treat yourselves today to a wonderful M.M. Kaufman treat of a poem
"There are many ways
To divide Southerners.
I do it by those who hate
Loud bugs and frogs..."
https://www.havehashad.com/eikr1
"There are many ways
To divide Southerners.
I do it by those who hate
Loud bugs and frogs..."
https://www.havehashad.com/eikr1
Southern Divide by M.M. Kaufman
There are many ways To divide Southerners. I do it by those who hate Loud bugs and frogs, the Ones that leap and fly In the dark, and those, Like me, who enjoy them For the inability to get too…
www.havehashad.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Love this piece w/ all the southerners in my life, but also feel compelled to call out that spot-on bio!
Sometimes even the light can be too much, a bit of a beautiful showoff
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Sometimes even the light can be too much, a bit of a beautiful showoff
November 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Put on headphones. Spin some tunes. Start doing anything. Find yourself in another world. Remind yourself this and other things are still possible.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Put on headphones. Spin some tunes. Start doing anything. Find yourself in another world. Remind yourself this and other things are still possible.
This or dark-alley whispers.
I chose this.
// RURAL NOCTURNE //
I chose this.
// RURAL NOCTURNE //
November 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This or dark-alley whispers.
I chose this.
// RURAL NOCTURNE //
I chose this.
// RURAL NOCTURNE //
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My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try!
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
First Aid for Choking Victims, Stories by Matthew Zanoni Müller — Malarkey
This book publishes in November 2024. Preorders will be signed by the author. First Aid for Choking Victims is a collection of mostly longer short stories set in rural areas around Western Massachu...
malarkeybooks.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
My book came out a year ago today. I tried as best as I could to create a level of depth in the reader’s access to each character’s interior world. If you like that kind of narrative intimacy, give my book a try!
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
@malarkeybooks.bsky.social
malarkeybooks.com/store/firstaid
Reposted by Thad DeVassie
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Please join Meg Pokrass and me for the PROSE GARDEN, Sat. November 15, 2 PM EST.
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Mario Aliberto III, Dawn Tasaka Steffler, Sumitra Singam, Coleman Bigelow, Keith J. Powell, Jeff Friedman, Christine H. Chen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Please register here for zoom link:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Not like you need another reason to love @smokelong.bsky.social -- but this is added incentive.
It's FlashGiving! Follow @smokelong.bsky.social if you don't already, then like and share this post to get your name in the hat to win $200 holiday money. Deadline is midnight ET, November 26th! Winner chosen randomly on Nov 27th. Please tag @smokelong.bsky.social so that we know you've posted!
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Not like you need another reason to love @smokelong.bsky.social -- but this is added incentive.
how to feel lonely in a room full of people
November 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
how to feel lonely in a room full of people
Reposted by Thad DeVassie
// NEW LISTING //
photo/collage
photo/collage
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
// NEW LISTING //
photo/collage
photo/collage
// NEW LISTING //
photo/collage
photo/collage
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
// NEW LISTING //
photo/collage
photo/collage
November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Thad DeVassie
don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
they've got something to say
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
they've got something to say
don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
they've got something to say
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
don't go chasing waterfalls unless
they've got something to say
they've got something to say
I owe a lot to my friend Tim Suermondt for keeping me going in the dark, lonely years of writing. This is from "Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets"
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I owe a lot to my friend Tim Suermondt for keeping me going in the dark, lonely years of writing. This is from "Poetry After 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets"
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Thank you, Francine!
October 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thank you, Francine!
Grateful to have FIVE flash pieces up at Flash Boulevard. Huge thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/t...
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/t...
THAD DEVASSIE: Field work for the coming apocalypse
Flash Fiction by Thad DeVassie Several Water Cannons Several water cannons point at the girls who recently graduated from girlhood to something more mysterious, who maneuver like tender filets acro…
flashboulevard.wordpress.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Grateful to have FIVE flash pieces up at Flash Boulevard. Huge thanks to @francinewitte.bsky.social
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/t...
flashboulevard.wordpress.com/2025/10/25/t...
some recent small-scale landscapes on paper.
what's your favorite?
what's your favorite?
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
some recent small-scale landscapes on paper.
what's your favorite?
what's your favorite?