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Dasha Kelly Hamilton is 1st Black woman to be WI s poet laureate
Dasha Kelly Hamilton is 1st Black woman to be WI’s poet laureate
In early 2021, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission named Dasha Kelly Hamilton Wisconsin s new poet laureate.
MILWAUKEE - Dasha Kelly Hamilton has a way with words.
In early 2021, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission named Dasha Kelly Hamilton Wisconsin s new poet laureate. I describe it to my munchkins and my uncles that I am the ambassador for poetry, Kelly Hamilton said. I’m going to continue using poetry, as I have for the last 20 years, as a tool to get people around the table together.
Wisconsin poet laureate looks to use her skills for healing Follow Us
Question of the Day By BARRY ADAMS - Associated Press - Monday, February 1, 2021
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The art that is poetry for Dasha Kelly Hamilton has been challenged over the past four years by rhetoric, lies, racism, cruelty and violence.
She has found it difficult to find varying themes for her work under the constant din of divisiveness and likens the country’s mood to that of a fluorescent overhead light that hums continually while it tries to go about and cope amid a pandemic, economic strife and political upheaval.
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Milwaukee s Dasha Kelly Hamilton is Wisconsin s new poet laureate. Photo Courtesy of Dasha Kelly/Website
For her works in the creative industry, the education and training of young poets and writers, and her many other contributions towards improving the industry in Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission, which operates under the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters, has named Dasha Kelly Hamilton as the 2021-2022 Wisconsin Poet Laureate.
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The Madison essayist will read from her 2019 collection
The Painted Forest, a series of mostly Wisconsin-centric musings that often focus on Eastman s original home in the Driftless Area. The title essay centers on the folk art site of the same name in Valton, Wisconsin, but throughout the book, Eastman will have you reconsidering and reimagining this place we call home. The collection was named one of the best literary nonfiction debuts of 2019 by
Poets & Writers magazine and won the Council for Wisconsin Writersâ Nonfiction Book Award and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. This reading from Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point is, like the rest of its 2020-21 readings and discussions, offered virtually via Zoom. Register here.