@thaddevassie.bsky.social
writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialConstantly liking posts from days ago. If some great happened today, congrats, but I'll see it and like it next Thursday.
@thaddevassie.bsky.social// DISAPPEARING ACT // vintage family photo + mixed media
@emergejournal.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialSuburban life turns surreal in Domesticated Creatures by Thad DeVassie: more than sixty interconnected short pieces featuring a man, his donkey and a reaper.
Preorder from ELJ Editions: elj-editions.com/domesticated...
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialA squat-chubby bag of sweetness // BROWN SUGAR // acrylic on canvas panel
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialA squat-chubby bag of sweetness // BROWN SUGAR // acrylic on canvas panel
@pdforan.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialI lost my Dad this summer and wrote something the day after his funeral mass. Thank you dearest @m-ixedbag.bsky.social and @lit-namjooning.bsky.social team for including it and another piece in your beautiful Issue 3. ❤️https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/this-new-zealand-by-pat-foran
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialEarning skulls from @havehashad.com is really hard.
Painting longhorn skulls is a different kind of hard.
Plus, I hear there's a rivalry game this weekend, which will land hard on one team (no real rooting interest here)
Hook 'em Sooner Boomer Horns... or something like that.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialSaul Steinberg, Self Portrait, 1949
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialthe emotional complexity of this reality (which i fully get) reminds me of my fav collage-collab between Sarah Sloat & Dina Relles
@johnchrostek.comReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialI’m out of town this week visiting my mom as she recovers from a stroke and Amanda is holding down the fort solo. We’d both love to get you books to read, so if you’ve been meaning to hunt down something new, we hope you find something in our shop! Want some recommendations? Lemme know!
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialThe backlog on writing submissions is real. The wait also is real. So I paint slow clouds in the waiting. // SOME ETHER // acrylic on reclaimed wood
@djvorreyer.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialToday is Unrivered's first birthday! Thank you to all of you who have read or shared or allowed me to read its poems at you. I appreciate you all. You can still find it through your favorite local bookstore or on the @sundresspub.bsky.socia website.
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialThis is great Shome. The malls of that era were magnetic for our generation, and the nostalgia runs deep, like a choose/remember your own adventure with each shop and outcrop in the food court you mention. Thanks for revisiting, for all of us.
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialThrowback to this Beastie Boys / Radiohead mash-up of a famous BB portrait, weaving together concepts of ill communication + paranoid android into a visual // THEY SEE US AS DATA // . mixed media on wood panel (2021)
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.social// OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY IS SCANT, EVEN FOR A PLACE WE WON'T SOON FORGET// . Acrylic on canvas panel
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialCongrats Donna!
@thaddevassie.bsky.social// APOLLO "ALEXIKAKOS" -- Plague Averted // Mixed media ingredients: ink, pen, chalks, colored pencil, packing tape, electrical tape, bar codes, and letraset transfer on textured cotton paper
@aarikdanielsen.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialTuck into the Nebraska hills with me.
Pull the pines up and over our bodies like a blanket.
Grateful to have this one I wrote for Holly find its true home @south85journal.bsky.social
@thaddevassie.bsky.socialYou're so kind, Donna. Thank you!
@stanchion.bsky.socialReposted by @thaddevassie.bsky.socialMy lord I love it when people take advantage of the buy 2 get 1 free deal to pick up 3 completely different books. So freaking rad.
