PAUL HOSTOVSKY
Paul Hostovsky's poems have won a Pushcart Prize, two Best of the Net Awards, the FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the Muriel Craft Bailey Award, and have been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, The Writer's Almanac, and the Best American Poetry blog. His thirteenth book of poems, Pitching for the Apostates, is just out from Kelsay Books. He makes his living in Boston as a sign language interpreter.
I love the / pause between word and sign, /
the space between signifier and signifier and / signifed. I want to slip /
inside that space and sit / across from you…
I write the kinds of poems I would like to read. Poems that invite me in, poems that make me laugh and make me cry in the same poem, poems whose voice makes me feel like I know that voice, I recognize that voice, I would like to keep listening to that voice for the rest of the poem, no, for the rest of my life!
February 4, 2024