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Kelly DuMar
@kellydumar.bsky.social
Poet. Playwright. Workshop facilitator. Photographer. I live on the Charles River. http://www.kellydumar.com
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
August 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
June 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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
April 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
March 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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...
February 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Merry Christmas from the #charlesriver #writinglife
December 25, 2024 at 4:29 PM
@coolbeanslit.bsky.social OH- you have the loveliest issues! I am grateful to have my #Yutori themed #art included again in Winter 2024 issue. Great design! Wonderful to read & look at! Especially see poem "Cue the Barbizon" by John Muro www.coolbeanslit.com/volume2-issue1 #literaryjournal
December 18, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Would love to see you at my #monologueshowcase Wed. Dec. 11, 2024 7 p.m. ET - FREE & Open to all, featuring actors performing the #newmonologues for the stage written in my Play Lab Showcase #newplays #monologues #stageplays Reg. here:
www.tlanetwork.org/event-5964284
December 10, 2024 at 7:47 PM
It's my son's birthday, so I'm sharing this poem about #hummingbirdblood, published awhile ago in Thimble Lit Journal #sons #weeds #poetry #poem #literaryjournal www.thimblelitmag.com/2023/08/16/c...
December 2, 2024 at 2:33 PM
I’m still unpacking so much #insight #inspiration & #poetry & #presence #wholeness from this interview in Rattle of poet Li-Young Lee by Alan Fox -

“Presence is the grail”
December 1, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Yay! My first #pushcartnomination Feels like a #baptism. I'm grateful to Poetose & editor Meia Geddes #poetry www.poetose.com/pub/child-as...
November 30, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Are you in a poetry field of mind? #li-youngllee #poetry #poetrypractice #poetryfieldofmind This morning, I am grateful for my poetry field of mind
November 29, 2024 at 1:46 PM
November 28, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Good morning. It's the day before the day of the #feast of whatever you are #feasting on. I want to eat poems. #gratitude #poetryfeast #li-younglee #meal #familydinner
November 27, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Here's one! #courage #poetry
November 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Just read this excerpt from a first Sylvia Plath poem thanks to blog shared by
@themarginalian.org.web.brid.gy Today, trying to let mine sing.

#humanheart

#poetry #sylviaplath
November 26, 2024 at 9:40 PM
Friends, I'm so happy to be on Bluesky & to intro myself esp to poets/writers/creatives/naturephotographers. I'm from the Boston area just returning from a trip to Arizona/for refreshment, perspective & a deep dive into #spaciousness #li-younglee
November 25, 2024 at 7:02 PM
November 24, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Grateful to be on the scenic #arizona highway having a #spiritualawakening about #poetry and #spaciousness
November 21, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I'm grateful to Anna Brunner, Assoc. Ed of Dulcet Lit Mag for this interview about my image on the cover of Issue 1 & to ed @KristinHelms www.dulcetlitmag.com/kelly-dumar #literarymagazine #art #digitalphotography
November 20, 2024 at 1:30 AM
www.dulcetlitmag.com/issues ‪Kelly DuMar‬ ‪@kellydumar.bsky.social‬

I am so pleased to have my image "River of Stars" featured on the cover of this delicious issue one og Dulcet #literaryjournal www.dulcetlitmag.com/issues
November 17, 2024 at 3:29 PM