Pauletta Hansel, Author at

Pauletta Hansel
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, 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.

So Maybe It’s True (and other poems)

But, oh, to live awhile as marrow
in someone else’s bones,
to breathe her breath upon the mirror held up to your life,

Poetry