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Kelly DuMar

@kellydumar.bsky.social

Poet. Playwright. Workshop facilitator. Photographer. I live on the Charles River. http://www.kellydumar.com

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Call for submissions! No deadline on this baby

25.08.2025 01:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poetry 1-3 poems
Prose single work up to 7500 words- fiction, cnf, or something in-between
Visual art- 3-5 images as .jpgd at least 300 dpi

Poetry 1-3 poems Prose single work up to 7500 words- fiction, cnf, or something in-between Visual art- 3-5 images as .jpgd at least 300 dpi

Subs are open for Issue 4! Send us your best prose, visual art, and poems. We can't wait to read!
asteralesjournal.com/submissions

01.08.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm thrilled to have a poem in the What the House Knows anthology, edited by Diane Lockward - you can read the recent review of the anthology here, in Quill & Parchmenthttps://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2025/book3.html @dianelockward.bsky.social #poetryanthology #poetryreview

01.08.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Come & listen to new poetry & prose generated in my recent "Putting our Grandmothers on the Page" 4-week webinar. Readers will share beautifully crafted writing about grandmother ancestry - free on Zoom, July 2, 2025, 3-4 p.m. ET #https://mailchi.mp/004834e9640f/8w1z1wxqvz

27.06.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What the House knows - find out May 8 when a line-up of poets read their poems included in the new @TerrapinBooks anthology edited by @DianeLockward Live on Zoom Register free for the zoom link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/featured-e... @TerrapinBooks @DianeLockward

15.04.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Freud & the Mental Health Trades – Passager Books

I'm thrilled to have my poem, "Dear Lyudmila Navalnaya, Please" featured on the Passager Books podcast, Burning Bright - I love Jon Shorr's voice- podcast host. www.passagerbooks.com/freud-the-me...

08.05.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What the House knows - find out May 8 when a line-up of poets read their poems included in the new @TerrapinBooks anthology edited by @DianeLockward Live on Zoom Register free for the zoom link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/featured-e... @TerrapinBooks @DianeLockward

15.04.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar These cloudy days of April. Beaver, yes. Heron, yes. Mallards, yes. Quiet, yes. Flow of the brook, fast and fresh. A lovely morning walk. Buds coming out on the forsythia and the maple trees. I swam a...

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09.04.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Need an intimate & support creative writing webinar? Bring your personal photos to write from-any genre you choose! Register for my six-week webinar starts Tues April 8 2025 6:45-8:45 p.m. ET www.kellydumar.com/store/aim-fo... #creativewriting #poetry #prose #photo-inspired #writinglife

05.04.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar It’s lovely to wake to blue sky, and to see that sky as light in the bubbling brook. After a good night’s sleep. After morning wrestling with Wave. Our latest game: The Kingsbury Crunch. Started in th...

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03.04.2025 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar Home, easily, home. Long day of travel, but all ease and work. I work so wonderfully on planes! I should travel more, perhaps. Ran into a few other AWP writers I knew at the airport, final conversatio...

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31.03.2025 01:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar I miss grass and dirt, river and woods, my brook running. Sidewalk walks here. Still, I’m grateful. There was sun and some warmth today outdoors. Up early into a busy day. Went to panels, good ones. E...

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29.03.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar Hotel wake up, big city view out my window. It’s time for AWP! Jenny and I breakfast at the hotel and happily run into two poetry pals we’ve been connected to for years, Bob Carr & Eileen Cleary, ...

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28.03.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar Left in the dark, the house asleep, but Brewster, my friend’s dog said a lovely goodbye to me. Off to airport, a quarter moon in a deep blue morning sky. Easy flight to LAX. Easy meeting my friend Jen...

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27.03.2025 04:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar β€œThe way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.” ― W.H. Auden

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26.03.2025 03:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar 3:15 a.m. wake up. 4:00 a.m. departure in Uber. 4:35 arrival at airport. Easy flight. Arrived late morning in San Francisco. And worked a lot on the plane. I work well on planes. At least in the dayti...

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23.03.2025 03:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar Wave woke me with spiders. Transformer spiders. He and his mother awake before me. I saw him wheel my empty suitcase, the one I’d left out to pack, out of the room. Later his mother told me he wheeled...

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22.03.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar I search for my faith, wonder where I lost it, find it in deep cinnamon mud smushing up between my toes. ~ Excerpt from β€œNear Spring Equinox,” by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

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21.03.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar I love the energy and vibrancy of this morning’s brook abstract. Almost spring. The tender peace of the blue; the vibrant energy of the rust and white, moving, moving. Spring energy. Seasonal change. ...

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20.03.2025 01:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please consider proposing a workshop or performance at the 2025 Power of Words Conference Oct. 3-5 in Kansas City -- this is an oasis for writers, storytellers, activists, change-makers, musicians, and others. Deadline for proposals - 4/1. See all the details here: tlanetwork.org/POW-25-Propo...

10.03.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Marc Chagall

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19.03.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream β€” Kelly DuMar In the morning brook, in the rain, on St. Patrick’s Day, mister mallard is wearing bright green. missus Mallard paddles nearby, harder to see. Because the ice as gone and spring warmth is trickling in...

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18.03.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky β€œreeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes.

β€œThe Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” theatln.tc/5tozgdyn

28.02.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2695    πŸ” 736    πŸ’¬ 196    πŸ“Œ 85
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01.03.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Journal of Expressive Writing Featured Author series I host will have a challenging & moving presentation Thurs 7 p.m. ET featuring Louis Bourgeois Exec Dir of the Mississippi Prison Writes Initiative to discuss writings from Unit 29, Parchman Prison. Reg free www.eventbrite.com/e/featured-a...

25.02.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.

NEW: If people like Alexei Navalny "are willing to risk imprisonment, torture, and death to resist an evil empire, there is no excuse for us to back down from standing up for truth and principle" in the United States.
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13.01.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4685    πŸ” 954    πŸ’¬ 88    πŸ“Œ 50
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Trash Witch by Martha McCollough - Lily Poetry Review Praise for Trash Witch Reading Martha McCollough’s poems is akin to peering into a set of Joseph Cornell boxes: one finds lush dreamscapes full of surprising enchantments, prismatic symbols, and wry m...


My new book Trash Witch is available for presale!

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13.01.2025 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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[Photography] Interview with Kelly DuMar [KELP JOURNAL]Β Let’s dive right in! I chose the following photographs from the many you submitted due to their sense of place. Was that an intentional theme you were trying to capture?Β Β [KELLY DUMAR]Β Thank you for including my photos of various beaches. Yes, a sense of place is actually always my theme. When I am on a trip to an unfamiliar place, I don’t feel as if I arrive until I have taken some images of the natural beauty of the particular weather, the particular plants, the particular sky,

So grateful for this feature of beach photos & interview about my #images & #poetry in @kelpbooks The Wave today www.kelpjournal.com/post/photogr... #miamibeach #lucyvincentbeach #longboatkey

13.01.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Even in Death, Navalny Still Threatens the Putin Regime The opposition leader’s posthumous memoir is a chronicle of a death foretold.

"'Patriot' sometimes reads like a thriller in which the narrative opens with 'If you’re reading this, I’m already dead.'" And so he is, but he speaks from beyond the grave, and we should listen.

@cathyyoung63.bsky.social on Navalny's posthumous memoir:

13.01.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 9177    πŸ” 2203    πŸ’¬ 180    πŸ“Œ 86
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Merry Christmas from the #charlesriver #writinglife

25.12.2024 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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