Mastodawn

Andrew Shields May 3, 2024

it’s not a toy

Frieda
Paul Hostovsky

#Poetry #BODY #Literature #PaulHostovsky

https://www.bodyliterature.com/2024/05/02/paul-hostovsky-3/

B O D Y | A new poem by Paul Hostovsky

Paul Hostovsky’s most recent book of poetry, his thirteenth, is Pitching for the Apostates (Kelsay Books, 2024)

B O D Y

Andrew Shields Jul 18, 2023

We were parked in Bess with the lights off

Bess
Paul Hostovsky

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https://thebigwindowsreview.com/2023/07/18/paul-hostovsky-bess/

Paul Hostovsky: “Bess”

Bess She was wearing a white button-down shirt with snap buttons, waiting for me to unsnap them. But I was shy and she was in the driver’s seat. So she started unsnapping them herself. She was 18 …

THE BIG WINDOWS REVIEW

Gerald So Jul 3, 2023

July 3-9 at my #Crime #Poetry site #TheFiveTwo, "Osip" by #PaulHostovsky: https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2023/07/paul-hostovsky.html

Paul Hostovsky

OSIP Osip Mandelstam wrote a poem making fun of Stalin. It got Osip in a lot of trouble. He recited it at a salon where it got some lau...

Gerald So Jun 5, 2023

June 5-11 at my #Crime #Poetry site #TheFiveTwo, "#Smile" by #PaulHostovsky: https://poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2023/06/paul-hostovsky.html

Paul Hostovsky

SMILE I don’t speak your language and you don’t speak mine– but there is this smile, the one that means I wish I knew your language , ...