Paul Hostovsky is the author of twelve books of poetry and five poetry chapbooks. His poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award from The Comstock Review, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter. Other poems by Paul Hostovsky in Verse Daily:
June 19, 2021:   "Dracula's Rat" "In the school play..."
October 19, 2017:   "Only Child" "In my one and only childhood..."
August 20, 2015:   "In the Home for Elderly Vehicular Manslaughterers by the Sea" "The guilt, like the sand, is in everything..."
September 18, 2014:   "That Light" "Everything is interesting..."
September 13, 2012:   "The Violence of Violins" "It was in them, they would say...."
October 13, 2011:   "Waiting Room" "The woman with the portable oxygen tank..."
March 2, 2007:   "Dusk Outside the Braille Press" "The lights go on in all the windows but one...."
February 14, 2007:   "Love Poem" "I love this poem...."
July 15, 2006:   "Picture of a House" " There are several V's in my daughter's drawing...."

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Other poems on the web by Paul Hostovsky:
Two poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Love Letter to Carl Sandburg"
Five poems
Three poems
"Deaf Bachelor Party"
"Boxy Poem for Mr. Beck"
Seven poems
Three poems
Two poems
Two poems
"Opera"
Two poems
"One-and-Twenty"
"Go Children Slow"
"Throwing Snowballs at Cars"
Nine poems
"Sestina"
Four poems
"The Soul?s Insistence"
Two poems
Three poems
"Italian Cuisine"
Two poems
"Peacock Patio"
Three poems
"God, Dan"
Five poems
"Poem for Michael Jackson"
"Work"
Two poems
"Caterpillar"

Paul Hostovsky's Website.