Wisconsin Poet Laureate: Amanda Gorman inspires culture, country with inauguration poem This was for the world, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Hamilton said of Gorman s powerful poem. Share Updated: 11:15 PM CST Jan 20, 2021 This was for the world, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Hamilton said of Gorman s powerful poem. Share Updated: 11:15 PM CST Jan 20, 2021
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Show Transcript SHARES WITH ANOTHER POET AND THE BOND RUNS DEEP. THE NORMS AND NOTIONS OF WHAT JUST IS ISN’T ALWAYS JUSTICE. AMANDA GORMAN IS WRITING HISTORY WITH HER STORY. AND A TIME WHERE A SKINNY BLACK GIRL DESCENDED FROM SLAVES AND RAISED BY A SINGLE MOTHER CAN DREAM OF BECOMING PRESIDENT, ONLY TO FIND HERSELF RECITING FOR ONE. DERRICK: ON A DAY TO MEANT TO HONOR THE NATION’S HIGHEST OFFICE, IT WAS GORMAN WHOSE MOMENT WAS MAGNIFIED BY HER POISE AND PASSION RECITING THE HILL WE CLIMB. IF WE MERGE MERCY WITH MIGHT AND MIGHT WITH RIGHT, THEN LOVE BECOMES OUR L
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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.
ONLINE: Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems
Dec 17, 2020 7:00 PM
Angela Trudell Vasquez, Madison poet laureate, 2020-22.
The poetry of Wisconsin is undeniable. Just saying the names of the lakes makes a poem! Current Madison poet laureate Angela Trudell Vasquez (
pictured) will join outgoing Wisconsin poet laureate Margaret Rozga and poets Ronnie Hess, Nathan J. Reid and Jodi Vander Molen to read works from the new anthology
Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems. The collection features poems from Indigenous, Black, Latinx and other voices that build community in Wisconsin. There will be a Q&A following the reading. Register here.Â
media release: Join Madison Poet Laureate Angela Trudell Vasquez, Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Margaret Rozga, and invited poets - Ronnie Hess, Nathan J. Reid, and Jodi Vander Molen - as they read from their newly released poetry anthology, Through This Door: Wisconsin in Poems.Â
The Beauty: Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt (HarperCollins, 2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her ninth collection,
Ledger, is forthcoming from Knopf in March 2020. She has edited and cotranslated books with Mariko Aratani and Robert Bly. Hirshfield’s honors include the Poetry Center Book Award, the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Literature, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, and the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been selected for seven editions of