Responding to Poetry: Giving and Receiving Helpful Feedback
May 13 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm EDT
Giving and receiving feedback with poet Pauletta Hansel.
This workshop will introduce Pauletta’s method of giving and receiving feedback developed over nearly two decades of teaching poetry. The process is designed to help listeners approach each poem on its own terms, describing for the poet the ways in which the poem communicates, rather than prescribing the ways in which the poem should be “fixed.” In this way, the poet has the rare opportunity to see his or her poem as something outside herself, as a reader does. Have available for screenshare one poem for intensive feedback.
About Pauletta Hansel
Pauletta Hansel’s ten poetry collections include Will There Also Be Singing? (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2024); Heartbreak Tree (Madville Publications, 2022), which won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2023 North American Book Award; and Palindrome (Dos Madres Press, 2017) winner of Berea College’s Weatherford Award in Poetry. Her writing has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, Appalachian Journal, Still: The Journal, Verse Daily and Poetry Daily, among others. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first poet laureate, and the 2022 Writer in Residence for the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library.
