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Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I 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

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This New Zealand by Pat Foran

I didn’t see the loneliest tree in the world reaching out to me that morning, remember the conceptual popsicle stand the color of then that afternoon or hear the lo-fi moon static-crackling on my radi...

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 11h

Earning 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.

painting of longhorn skull overtop of a crimson background, referencing the Red River Rivalry college football game between Texas and Oklahoma.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 11h

Saul Steinberg, Self Portrait, 1949

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 13h

the emotional complexity of this reality (which i fully get) reminds me of my fav collage-collab between Sarah Sloat & Dina Relles

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 08/10/2026

I’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!

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 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

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Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today 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.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This 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.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Throwback 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)

Painting/mixed media composition based on the Phil Andelman photo of Ad-Rock, MCA and Mike D (L-R, Beastie Boys) with tape transfer of architectural forms for their head and various wires/cords that connect to the heads and other device for power/data extraction. The concept is a interpretation of ill communication (1994) and paranoid android (1997) nearly three decades later.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

// OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY IS SCANT, EVEN FOR A PLACE WE WON'T SOON FORGET// . Acrylic on canvas panel

An open field with hints of rural or fringe suburban life in the distance near the golden hour with fading horizon line and final bursts of orange reflected in the spotty clouds

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

// 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

Image of the Greek god Apollo with various mixed media components as part of an overlay representing Athenian belief (buy-in) that he was an "averter of evil" (Alexikakos) responsible for warding off elements of a plague around/during the Peloponnesian War.

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Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tuck 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 www.south85journal.com/dream-home/

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Dream Home | South 85 Journal

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're so kind, Donna. Thank you!

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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My 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.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Out here filling time & space with paintings until my book arrives... // MOOD LIGHTING // acrylic + ink on cradled wood panel

A utility pole with cylinder transformer box atop it and streetlight perched at its midpoint. Another utility pole is in the lower right distance as utility lines streak across a dark, gloomy blue sky with streetlight burning in aapeach-orange color.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think i've been an unwanted extra in that drama

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

// OUR COLLECTIVE MEMORY IS SCANT, EVEN FOR A PLACE WE WON'T SOON FORGET// . Acrylic on canvas panel

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

// South of the Tracks // acrylic on panel (2022)

vertical landscape painting of a wet marsh and unkempt brush missing its foliage; three quarters of upper paitings is of light bluish-green sky with hints of light low-distant clouds; lower fourth is of the brush, marsh reflecting the sky, and muddy groundcover; railroad timbers are barely visible in the center of the frame.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

// South of the Tracks // acrylic on panel (2022)

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Uncle Time makin' the time! Love it.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

sharing = acknowledging I even write at all

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I stopped sharing my work with my parents, especially my dad. He never got it and then, somehow, made it all about him and his accomplishments

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meat-Flavored Water might not sound like a winner, but I'm beyond grateful that @trampset.bsky.social believed in it and is giving it a puncher's chance. Just wow. Congrats Emily, Pravin and Sarp! Love your work. Best of luck to all BSF nominees!

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tell 'em to buy a copy or 10 and you'll refresh the numbers and give them a proper update.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I taught many a man to horse, yet they remained thirsty. New pins arrived telling me I taught them to jackass, to pony, never to horse. Horse, they said, make him drinks water, always.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Beautiful, and surreal, and anxious, and gentle, and... in a word, arresting. Love this piece.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gave a talk on creating this weekend. It was NOT a TED-like talk. I wrote & read a story instead the kind we loved in pre-K, at bedtime. It was in memory of my mother. I wore blue suede shoes (she loved Elvis). Not sure if the clapping was real or polite. But it felt good to go against the grain.

A black and white photo of a woman at home in a hospital bed with a nurse sitting bedside. Both have colored bubbles engulfing their heads, one signaling life, the other death. The nurse is wearing purple shoes (the dying woman's favorite color), a nod to Dorothy in Wizard of Oz who clicks her own ruby slippers, reciting "there's no place like home." The collage artwork is inspired from a line in the song What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie -- “love is watching someone die."

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At first it seems @pdforan.bsky.social is out to break your heart... then you realize he's working to heal it, with chisel & hammer, knocking off calcified pieces around your heart so you can feel more fully. Love this story. His book offers more. literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/...

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This New Zealand by Pat Foran

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Said goodbye to some art pieces that found a permanent this weekend

Painting of a slowly decaying bunch of flowers, white on black background; visually has the implied feel of a photographer's negative from a contact sheet

"Field within a Field" painting depicting the convergence of an athletic field with a nature preserve, where lights have become nesting areas for bird species and overgrown brush questions what type of field might have previously existed. A golden hour sky shows blues higher in the frame with yellows and oranges emerging lower in the skyline.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A bookend to #smallpoemsunday by Ted Kooser, from Splitting an Order (2014, Copper Canyon Press) cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Newborns Suckling at the Teat of Their Chatbots" -- a home movie -- a dystopian novel -- creative nonfiction -- a villanelle -- an exhibition -- a peice of self-censored art -- a piece of legislation -- a sign of the times -- a coda, a curtain call

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don't talk much about my writer-artist-painter journey. This Saturday will be an exception. Humbled & a bit out of my element to speak at Created Conference with heavy hitters in the creative space. Reminding myself it's just storytelling -- and that's something I've been doing for a lifetime.

Clockwise from upper left: statica head sketch of man with scattered lines for a head on a blue acrylic wash; painting of autumn tree changing with power lines and pole at dusk; cloudy Turner-esque painting of a small waterfall over a tree and shale embankment; sketch/painting of architectural/geometric shapes, lines with text descriptions revealing a boy in running motion. Text overlay of THE STORY You Were Made For, Created Conference, Columbus, Ohio 9.19.2026

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

From Noah Falck's "Exclusions" (Tupelo Press, 2020) for #smallpoemsunday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

Poem Excluding City, a poem by Noah Falck:

The sky was a concussion of clouds
and notorious for dropping everything
at a moment’s notice. And the fog,
how it removed everything and then it didn’t.
People gathered in the distance and made history
until it hurt. They devoured field after field
with bad ideas and took pride in the
groomed ruins. It was never a photo
opportunity. The mood when the forest
met the asphalt: Too little, too late.

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

beer o'clock on a friday -- cheers! // Near Perfect Pour // acrylic on reclaimed wood

a pint of Guiness sits on a wooden bartop with late afternoon sunlight coming in from the right side casting shadows

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

ai apocalypse has entered the chat... a sitting prez promises payola for votes... embracing gas stations as tourist destinations... wake me when we get to the good part.

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The wonderful @eveninghouse.bsky.social recently had a store break-in & could use your help! Consider grabbing a book, Piżama or otherwise eveninghousebooks.com