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:
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...."

Books by Paul Hostovsky:

Other poems on the web by Paul Hostovsky:
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.

About Deaf & Blind:

"This book is a wonder closet packed with heritage, anthropology, schoolhouse rhymes and sly jokes. I can think of no other work, and no other writer, that examines so personally the splendid, sometimes spooky art of sign language, particularly within the traffic of interpretation. Paul Hostovsky's paradoxically courageous and vulnerable voice narrates a journey of self discovery housed in the form of a love letter to the cultures of the Deaf and the DeafBlind. These poems and stories brim with humor and sadness, wisdom and wisecracks, taking shortcuts into brilliance, left turns into something luminous."
—Frank Gallimore

"Catholically good, witty writing that is deceptively simple... like diving into a clear pool to touch bottom only to realize it's deeper than it looks. And if you know ASL, it's a bonus because you'll enjoy finding Hostovsky's little half-hidden language Easter eggs: the finger-flicked how-awfuls, the hey-waves and dinosaur-nods, the bent-V jaw-dropping astonishments."
—Willy Conley

"To read Paul Hostovsky... is to stumble upon something rare and wonderful. Hearing poets have been patronizing Deaf people and romanticizing silence since before the Elizabethan Age. In fact, [they] have indulged in sentimentality so often... that the English language itself poses an almost physical barrier against anyone attempting to write honestly about Deaf people and sign language. Hostovsky's work is a study in shifting approaches; poems that are entertaining lessons ('Deaf Culture 101'), philosophical ('Poem in Sign Language'), personal ('Deaf Ex') and portraits that are also parables ('Dracula's Rat'). There is a wonderful honesty and freshness to his work."
—John Lee Clark