Pauletta Hansel’s answer to Katerina Stoykova-Klemer’s question: “What is the most important thing you teach your students?” Clip from Accents radio show on 14-Dec-2012. Complete show can be heard here.

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Poet, Memoirist, Teacher and Editor Pauletta Hansel is author of four poetry collections, most recently The Lives We Live in Houses  (Wind Publications, 2011) and What I Did There (Dos Madres Press, 2011). Pauletta’s poetry has been featured recently in journals including Atlanta Review, ABZ Journal, Postcard Poems and Prose, Still: The Journal, The Mom Egg, Penwood Review and Appalachian Journal and anthologized in A Gathering at the Forks; Old Wounds, New Words; A Kentucky Christmas; Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia; Motif: Come What May; Motif: All the Livelong Day and Boomtown: the Queens MFA Tenth Anniversary Celebratory Anthology.  Work is forthcoming in Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine, Her Limestone Bones: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2013, Kudzu Literary Journal, For A Better World: Poems and Drawings on Peace and Justice andAmerican Life in Poetry.

Pauletta currently serves as Thomas More College’s Writer in Residence as part of its Creative Writing Vision Program,  offering both on- and off-campus writing experiences for TMC students and the community-at-large. She leads community writing programs including the Practice of Poetry workshops, facilitating writing as a spiritual practice.  She’s led writing groups throughout greater Cincinnati, often working with communities whose voices are least likely to be to be listened to, and most need to be heard. She is a current editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. Pauletta received her MFA from Queens University of Charlotte.  Originally from southeastern Kentucky, Pauletta lives in Cincinnati with her husband, Owen Cramer.