Bio for 2021
Pauletta Hansel’s eighth poetry collection is Friend, epistolary poems written in the early days of the pandemic; her writing has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, Appalachian Journal, Still: The Journal and One (Jacar Press), among others. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate (2016-2018), and is past managing editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the journal of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.
Reason for signing up:
LexPoMo has been an important part of my writing life since its very first year. I am so grateful for the community, and the impetus to write. I am really looking forward to the deep dive into everyone's poetry this year as I have the honor of editing the next anthology!
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 01, 2021 After the Plague
- June 03, 2021 After the Plague (2)
- June 04, 2021 An American Sentence
- June 08, 2021 Praise Poem While Weeding
- June 09, 2021 Love Poem for My Parents
- June 10, 2021 After She Left Them in the Woods
- June 14, 2021 On the island where I’m from
- June 23, 2021 After the Locusts
- June 30, 2021 And So We Return As Surely As I Do Depart
Badges
Participated in the 2013 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2014 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2015 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2016 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2017 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2018 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2019 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2020 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
Participated in the 2021 Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge
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