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Thad DeVassie

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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

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · Aug 21

Is this what we're doing?

Ball of twine with a match in its mouth about to be torched by a match already on fire

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Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social · 17h

"...but her husband seemed so in love with her, always bringing her marigold and holly, and she was afraid to touch that. Afraid it would melt the winter in which they lived."

from "Another Winter" by Francine Witt
@francinewitte.bsky.social
leonliteraryreview.com/issue-32-fra...

Issue 32 | Francine Witte – LEON Literary Review

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 1d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 19h

Some days "progress" is a just base coat or one good line of text.

It's prep for what's to come, when it comes.

Go easy on yourself.

A wood panel painted solid orange on a desk.

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 1d

That orange checkmark.
That bold Sucess! exclamation.
Beneath that legenday pile of skulls.

This, sickos, is a t-shirt.

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 1d

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
acrylic on paper

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Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social · 1d

"I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss."

It is such a thrill that we get to feature stories like "Truth of Consequences" in @hexliterary.bsky.social. This new @whitneycollins.bsky.social is so exciting and strange and perfect. Don't miss this incredible story.

Truth or Consequences by Whitney Collins

I was once on a plane that suffered a monumental loss. High above a green and turgid swath of Florida, one of the aircraft’s giant white engines began smoldering like a marshmallow. This mechanical de...

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 2d

BEFORE SUNRISE, LOCARNO BEACH
acrylic on canvas

landscape painting of locarno beach before sunrise with Vancouver's city lights in the background and reflection on water

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 2d

Feels I've read these implied words a hundred times over in images of roadside diners and empty gas stations, soft light on the darkness. To finally read your actual words again is a gift.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 2d

Two new micros up at @talking-time.bsky.social

See them both at talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/thad...

Gelatin Duck 👇

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Elena “Eraserhead baby” Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote some Chicago-inspired city poems

HAD @havehashad.com · 6d

really really nice, careful trio today from Elena Zhang, love the way they weave together! here's the first
https://www.havehashad.com/i28zv

A screenshot of a Twitter feed displaying a post with a vibrant blue background, featuring a bold white text overlay that reads, "Join us for our upcoming webinar!" The tweet includes an image of a laptop and a notepad, symbolizing digital learning.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 5d

Grateful to have two absurd little micros in @talking-time.bsky.social

talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com/2025/10/thad...

Thad DeVassie

Once Inside We read the code, broke down the labyrinth of binaries, the mounds of ones and zeroes living deep within the grayscales and ...

talkingaboutstrawberries.blogspot.com

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 6d

// Rural Geometry //

acrylic on paper

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 7d

"i'm getting killed by a pretty good life"

is the lyric of 2025 I didn't see coming
on the record i didn't anticipate loving

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 10d

Yay, Congrats Vic!

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 10d

Caroline Bird

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 13d

// A Nostalgia We Have Never Known //
acrylic on paper

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 15d

color me rapt on your take

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Mary Ardery @mardery.bsky.social · 15d

My first book LEVEL WATCH is officially out today!! <3

June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social · 15d

It’s pub day for Level Watch! If you appreciate narrative poetry with a strong sense of place that deeply engages with the wilderness, this book will move you, whether you’re familiar with the Blue Ridge backdrop or want to let these pages transport you there. More at juneroadpress.com/level-watch!✨

Level Watch — June Road Press

A poetry collection by Mary Ardery

juneroadpress.com

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 15d

Ben out there pajamaing the only way he knows how: dropping bangers

HAD @havehashad.com · 15d

🚨 new Benjamin Niespodziany day! two amazing new shorties!! 🚨

"The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot.

The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture.

The executioner refuses to remove his mask..."

https://www.havehashad.com/vr767

Two Poems by Benjamin Niespodziany

The Five Rings The magician looks the other way when he removes his first foot. The butcher cooks the bear meat he captured in his pasture. The executioner refuses to remove his mask. The blacksmith…

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 16d

repurposing artwork to album / EP / or single covers

radiohead - how to disappear completely; based on original artwork "Escape Hatches" with two sky hatches atop a tree-lined neigborhood and grassy expanse

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 17d

Sarah J. Sloat

from Hotel Almighty

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Blackout poem & collage by Sarah J. Sloat from her book Hotel Almighty, using Stephen King's Misery as the source text: a long moment / could / weigh as much as fifty pounds / no alloys, no plastics... / no / trouble / once you got the hang of it /

Includes to comedy hands and circular dot atop a blue-green blackout of text except foe the aforementioned words circled and connected by black lines

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 18d

fire maps, photos, poetry, paint + ink

"And All Along the Way There Have Been Flowers" (2022)

collage of western state fire maps, photography of well-dressed gentleman, written text containing the title of the work "And All Along the Way There Have Been Flowers" hand-tinted and painted.

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 20d

// Box of Sticky Rice //

acrylic + ink on paper

painting of a carryout white box of sticky rice with metal handle, red temple insignia on box, and spilled rice on a brown table

Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 20d

Give me a "dumb" appliance over the new breed of "smart" ones any day. My parents had the same ass-kicking toaster for 40 years with one knob with the sole purpose of... toasting. Our recent one lasted less than a year.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 22d

As a late teen, I worked in a recording studio (very loosely defined), vanity precursor to modern-day karaoke. As customers waited to sing, the owner decided to sell photo buttons, the oversized ones mom's wear at their kid's sporting events. The insanity was how well these things sold.

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