Bio for 2024
Pauletta Hansel’s ten poetry collections include Will There Also Be Singing? (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2024) poems of witness about Hansel’s native Appalachia and this nation, and Heartbreak Tree (Madville Publications, 2022), which won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2023 North American Book Award, exploring gender and place in Appalachia. Her writing has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Daily, among others.
Reason for signing up:
Because it is June. Even when I fail at daily poems, I always write something I would not have. And to quote Sharon Olds, "I think, to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds."
Poems Submitted This Year:
- June 13, 2024 All I've Got
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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