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Kelly DuMar is a poet, playwright, photographer and workshop facilitator. She’s author of four poetry collections. Her poems are published in Bellevue Literary Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Thrush and more. Her images have been featured on the cover of Josephine Quarterly, About Place, Synkroniciti, Feral, Cool Beans Lit, Young Ravens Literary Review, Etymology, Confetti and Atlantic Northeast. Kelly…

Three Questions: Kelly DuMar

We featured an excerpt from Kelly Dumar’s All These Cures (winner of the Lit House Presspoetry contest) last fall. She is a poet, playwright, and writing workshop facilitator who believes storytelling, in all its forms, changes lives and often saves them. She has presented workshops at a number of festivals and conferences, and is the founder and producer of the Our Voices Festival of Women…

New Titles from Lit House Press Available Now!

Lit House Press is pleased to announce the release of two new titles: —Responsibility by Kelsie Hahn  and All These Cures by Kelly DuMar.

                        Responsibility is Kelsie Hahn’s first published collection. Her fiction has appeared in Barrelhouse, The Southeast Review, Caketrain, NANO Fiction, Matchbook, Everyday Genius, NonBinary Review, and others. She holds an MFA in Fiction…

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From All These Cures

How You Know a Poem is Finished

No one knows what it is you’re seeking. You bargain and begin. Soon enough, fail. So many more beginnings than you bargained for. If you find a draft you love a little, hate a lot, sleep. Wake and revise to the point of ruin. Keep dreaming and beginning. Write as badly as you must. When you find a draft you like a little, hate less, read every…

FINALLY! Our 2014 Chapbook Contest Winners!

After much deliberation, we are pleased to announce the winners of second annual Eastern Point Press chapbook contest!

Prose Winner

Responsibility, Kelsie Hahn

Poetry Winner

All These Cures, Kelly DuMar

Because the entries this year were amazing, we also chose four finalists in each category:

Prose

Pictures from the Center of the Universe, Allie Marini Batts Some of These Birds Were Shot,…

Love and comfort from butter and baking in this delicious poem by Kelly DuMar.

All These Cures

One day you imagine the grandmother you need and find her living in a Swedish bakery serving tea to customers in wooden booths on wooden floors in her sweet and steamy shop where she feeds your hunger for cinnamon and vanilla, your dream of comfort from butter and baking, the yeasty promise of pastry curling and browning. You ring the bell and a door swings open on a ritual you…