This month’s feature performer is Cincinnati’s Pauletta Hansel.

Pauletta Hansel is a writer, teacher and 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.) Her fifth collection, Tangle, will be out soon from Wind Publications.

Her poetry has been featured in journals including Appalachian Journal, Atlanta Review, Postcards Poems and Prose, Appalachian Heritage and Still: The Journal, and anthologized in Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia and Motif 2, 3 and 4, and is forthcoming on Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry on The Poetry Foundation website.

She is co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, the literary publication of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative.

Pauletta leads community poetry workshops and retreats in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond, and is Writer-in Residence at WordPlay and Thomas More College.

Word of Mouth Cincinnati (WoMC) runs the third Tuesday of each month and is co-hosted by fellow writers Jim Palmarini and Mark Flanigan. It was founded in memory of the late Aralee Strange who, after many years living, writing and producing work in the Cincinnati area, moved to Athens, Georgia where she co-founded Athens Word of Mouth, a popular reading series there.

WoMC, according to its website, is “an intentional arc of both past and future utterance, inspired by our most revered voice, with a nod to her Athens, GA compatriots. Word of Mouth asks poets to Show Up, Mouth Off and Pay Attention.” 

Admission to Word of Mouth Cincinnati is free. MOTR Pub 1345 Main Street Cincinnati, OH 45202.