Perfect Disappearances

Paul Hostovsky’s poems appear and disappear simultaneously (ta-da!) and have recently been sighted in places where they pay you for your trouble with your own trouble doubled, and other people’s troubles thrown in, which never seem to him as great as his troubles, though he tries not to compare. He has no life and spends it with his poems, trying to perfect their perfect disappearances, which is the title of his newest collection, which it appears you are holding in your hands. His disappearing poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award, and five chapbook contests from Grayson Books, Riverstone Press, Frank Cat Press, Split Oak Press, and Sport Literate. He has been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, Your Daily Poem, The Writer’s Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter and braille instructor. Perfect Disappearances is his fourteenth ful