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

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

Thoughtful piece by our poet laureate, who is pretty damn good at prose too.

Congratulations on receiving the @artswisconsin Creative Community Awards @dashakelly and thank you for reading your amazing poem at #LeagueWI2021

Colonies: On Wasps and Kyle Rittenhouse - DKH for @milwaukeemag Read the full story at

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 https://t.co/iEpKdgue2t https://t.co/iEpKdgue2t

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

“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

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: https://t.co/oRedja5mKB #WIPoetLaureate

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

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:

#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

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: https://t.co/Q3N0LXJ7QE

Full house at @MilwRep’s Stiemke Studio to see Wisconsin Poet Laureate @dashakelly perform “Makin’ Cake.”

Update!!! The event has moved to virtual and will NOT be taking place in Eau Claire

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

I will be hosting "A Line Ment" Poems and Stories at the @FCBookFestival on Oct. 13 @ 7PM! Register for the virtual event at

🆁🅴🅼🅸🅽🅳🅴🆁 that I'll be joining @T1Wisconsin to speak at their conference, Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers! 🗓️: October 12-13, 2021 📍: Eau Claire, Wi Register:

The @T1Wisconsin conference is held Oct. 12-13, with the theme Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges. I will be there presenting my “Truth Evolution” workshop! https://t.co/oz5kGST7Q1