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Steven Ostrowski

STEVEN OSTROWSKI is a poet, fiction writer, painter and teacher. His work appears widely in literary journals, magazines and anthologies. He is the recent winner of the 2021 Wolfson Chapbook Prize for his poetry manuscript, Persons of Interest. He's also the author of five previously published chapbooks--four of poems and one of stories. He and his son Ben are authors of a full-length collaboration called Penultimate Human Constellation, published in 2018 by Tolsun Books. His first novel, The Highway of Spirit and Bone, is forthcoming from Lefora Books. He is a Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University.

Aging, and Outside Again, and For Quite a While Laughing
by Steven Ostrowski

August 11, 2022 Contributed By: Mark Rosalbo, Steven Ostrowski

"Fibonacci" by Mark Rosalbo

This morning he’d breathed
the death before death
that wakes us

Filed Under: Featured Poetry, Poetry Posted On: August 11, 2022

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