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Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

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Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Apr 9

#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...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Apr 5

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

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Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Apr 3

#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...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 31

#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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Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 29

#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...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 28

#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, ...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 27

#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...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 26

#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream — Kelly DuMar

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.” ― W.H. Auden

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 23

#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...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 22

#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...

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 21

#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

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 20

#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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Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg @carynmg.bsky.social · Mar 10

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...

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Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 19

#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

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 18

#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 Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Feb 28

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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Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Mar 1

Kelly DuMar @kellydumar.bsky.social · Feb 25

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...