Kelly DuMar

Call for submissions! No deadline on this baby

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!
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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

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

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

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...

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

#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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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

#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — Kelly DuMar “The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.” ― W.H. Auden

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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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 “Near Spring Equinox,” by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish

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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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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...

#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — Kelly DuMar If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Marc Chagall

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#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — 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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The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes.

“The 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

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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...

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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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...

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[Photography] Interview with Kelly DuMar [KELP JOURNAL] 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?  [KELLY DUMAR] 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

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:

Merry Christmas from the #charlesriver #writinglife