@dashakelly

Dasha Kelly is a force of nature: author. speaker. performer. facilitator. educator. curator. recruiter. dreamer 💫

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I'm hosting A Line Ment at the @PabloCenterEC for the @cvbookfestival on 10/27 at 4PM Registration is required for both in-person and virtual attendance! Register at bit.ly/2Z3pncS
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WRCCS@WRCCSworks6 Dec 2021
Good afternoon to our charter community!! Today we wanted to jazz things up and have our #MentionMonday be a creative poem by @dashakelly - Wisconsin's Poet Laureate. We love libraries! Comment with some of your favorite books. 📚 💙 💚 #WRCCSWorks
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Thoughtful piece by our poet laureate, who is pretty damn good at prose too. – at Miami Beach, FL
Dasha Kelly@dashakelly2 Dec 2021
Colonies: On Wasps and Kyle Rittenhouse - DKH for @milwaukeemag Read the full story at bit.ly/3D0SOKo

Colonies: On Wasps and Kyle Rittenhouse

Just as so many of us reflexively recoil at a buzzing wasp, this boy and his sympathizers have been conditioned to prefer and preserve the America that protects her white boys foremost and at any...

milwaukeemag.com
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Congratulations on receiving the @artswisconsin Creative Community Awards @dashakelly and thank you for reading your amazing poem at #LeagueWI2021
Dasha Kelly@dashakelly30 Nov 2021
You can now watch the full video of the @artswisconsin Creative Community Champion Awards on YouTube! The award was in partnership with the @LeagueWIMunis. Watch at bit.ly/3lj7oXT
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Colonies: On Wasps and Kyle Rittenhouse - DKH for @milwaukeemag Read the full story at bit.ly/3D0SOKo

Colonies: On Wasps and Kyle Rittenhouse

Just as so many of us reflexively recoil at a buzzing wasp, this boy and his sympathizers have been conditioned to prefer and preserve the America that protects her white boys foremost and at any...

milwaukeemag.com
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We're now in the second month of Dasha's statewide poetry exchange, A Line Meant 📚Topic: Stories 🌞Prompt: We tell measured stories morning to afternoon Submit your poem at alinemeant.org/ alinemeant.org/
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You can now watch the full video of the @artswisconsin Creative Community Champion Awards on YouTube! The award was in partnership with the @LeagueWIMunis. Watch at bit.ly/3lj7oXT
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“We embed this foundation with small details, intricate patterns that will unveil themselves into a majestic lifescape. We choose sound & sturdy pillars to steady this legacy, this labor, this love, this blessing, this life that we build.”- @DashaKelly’s ‘Working Hands’ #FVAW2021
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WI Poet Laureate @dashakelly recently unveiled "A Line Meant," a statewide poetry exchange launched for her Laureateship project. See prompts and submit poems to the project at the webpage here: alinemeant.org/ #WIPoetLaureate
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Dasha will be giving a few words at the 2021 #GameChanger Awards w/@FmlyValuesWork. She's joining @RepJayapal and the Keynote Speaker Sonya Renee Taylor! Get your FREE tickets at bit.ly/3HsPsDF
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Let's kick off the week w/a poem by Dasha! 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓲𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓻𝔂 (@POETSorg) Bend pages at the corner Folding into the stories We tell about ourselves About each other About days dissolved and seasons yet to come... Read the rest at: bit.ly/3DdWQQH

The Library

Bend pages at the corner

poets.org
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#WayBackWednesday to when Dasha was named Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2019-2021 by the Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission (@MilwaukeePubLib). She joins Marilyn L. Taylor as the only poet to have held both positions. 📸 @andrewfeller
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This year’s Book Festival events are FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. (Pre-registration required.) 📚 OCT. 25 Lila Quintero Weaver OCT. 26 Kao Kalia Yang OCT. 27 Dasha Kelly Hamilton OCT. 27 Brian Freeman OCT. 28 Kate Moore OCT. 29 Madeline Miller 📚 More: cvbookfest.org
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Full house at @MilwRep’s Stiemke Studio to see Wisconsin Poet Laureate @dashakelly perform “Makin’ Cake.”
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Update!!! The event has moved to virtual and will NOT be taking place in Eau Claire
Dasha Kelly@dashakelly11 Oct 2021
🆁🅴🅼🅸🅽🅳🅴🆁 that I'll be joining @T1Wisconsin to speak at their conference, Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers! 🗓️: October 12-13, 2021 📍: Eau Claire, Wi Register: bit.ly/3vcURHZ
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Thank you to everyone who attended and to all who spoke at our conference today on #literaryactivism #Inspire Reggie Jackson Steve Salmon Anne Katz @dashakelly @HylerPR @mvroz
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I will be hosting "A Line Ment" Poems and Stories at the @FCBookFestival on Oct. 13 @ 7PM! Register for the virtual event at bit.ly/3B50bAh
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🆁🅴🅼🅸🅽🅳🅴🆁 that I'll be joining @T1Wisconsin to speak at their conference, Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers! 🗓️: October 12-13, 2021 📍: Eau Claire, Wi Register: bit.ly/3vcURHZ
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The @T1Wisconsin conference is held Oct. 12-13, with the theme Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges. I will be there presenting my “Truth Evolution” workshop! bit.ly/3l42qP5
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