Paul Hostovsky
Paul Hostovsky is the author of four books of poetry, Bending the Notes (2008, Main Street Rag), Dear Truth (2009, Main Street Rag), A Little in Love a Lot (2011, Main Street Rag) and Hurt Into Beauty (2012, FutureCycle Press). His poems have won a Pushcart Prize and two Best of the Net Awards. He has also been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and Garrison Keillor has read his poems on the Writer's Almanac eight times. Paul makes his living in Boston as an Interpreter for the Deaf.
To read more of his work, visit him at www.paulhostovsky.com
► Paul's Origami micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.
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Bridge and Main
I am in love with
the man who let me in in traffic this morning with a silent arpeggio above his steering wheel
signaling me
to enter where he waited and all that huddled humanity balked and steamed in a long line behind him, snaking
all the way back to where
I imagine he came from -- Bellingham or Mendon or Providence. I am
in love with the eternal
feminine in the man who lets me
in the ways
of the world. •
Paul Hostovsky © 2012
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Fold This Poem In Half
Fold this poem in half,
now fold it in half again, and again. Notice how, if you did it right, it fits on an eighth of the page, the way the moon fits in the backseat window of the car traveling through the night, the road unfolding like a story from childhood, the white space surrounding the poem collapsing like time, into this one moment reflected in a little corner of the sky. •
Paul Hostovsky © 2010
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Um
Thoughtful
younger brother of Om. Handsomer. Secular. Deferrer. Bowing deeply, prosody's plié, making ready to leap. •
Paul Hostovsky © 2011
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