Writing
Publications
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The Camera and Other Stories by Amy Hoskins reveals the hidden truths in everyday life with delicate yet deliberate prose. Hoskins’ writing is both sharp and tender, leaving a lasting impression with every word.
In the title story, The Camera, Hoskins captures the quiet moments where deep revelations hide, weaving in the echoes of the Vietnam War and its enduring impact on relationships and identity. The other stories follow suit, finding beauty in brokenness and exploring lives interrupted, ambitions altered, and bonds shaped by unseen forces.
The Camera and Other Stories is a quiet yet powerful exploration of the impact behind love's lingering shadow after loss.
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The Semblance of Equal Grace, my new poetry chapbook is now available. Check out the link below to buy the paperback.
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Rebekah's Closet is a Survivor's Tale, has several magical endings, and is based on a true story (the author's). The main character, Rebekah, finds herself in extremely difficult circumstances, but transforms her life no matter what, into a series of incredible journeys. Her ultimate goal is not only to heal herself, but to heal the troubled world through which she travels.
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For my 55th birthday at the October, 2019, Gestalt Poetry Open Mic, I released my first ever poetry collection, self-published in two volumes on Amazon.
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In All Things Planetary, poet and editor Amy Jackson has gathered together an exceptional group of outstanding Feature Poets for 2018, at the Nashville, TN-based Flatrock Poetry Open Mic, which has been in session monthly since July, 2017, at the community coffeehouse Flatrock Coffee, Tea and More.
Monthly Poetry Open Mic :: 2017-2024
Click the link above to see YouTube videos from most of my monthly poetry open mics from 2017-2024.
Thank you so much, Phynnecabulary and Karen Pierce Gonzalez, for publishing a poem of mine from the 1990s, December, Dialectics, and Physics. I'm honored, and blessed.
I had the honor of featuring in May, 2024 at Writer’s Wart in Nashville, TN.
If you click on the image to the left, it will show you a snippet of the poem, Progress for Some.
You can see the full set here.
If you’d like to see the poem, you can find it below. Thanks for listening!
POETRY
Progress for Some
Published by SALT Weekly, 2022
Pearl sticker on Spring Street and
Dickerson Pike.
A man hunched over his car
Needing a new tire. Maybe
That tire wipes him out
Financially.
Maybe he feels that ache in the
Heart, weary of history repeating
Shot after shot. Knee on his neck
Not literally, but he screams
Inside. Can’t breathe in this
So called society.
Even on gray days, flags wave like tin
soldiers for the USA and Tennessee at
car lots along Dickerson Pike. Driving along,
It feels and breathes as though I’m living in a
small town, with all the elements.
Multiple trailer parks. Land suddenly for sale.
Remnants of an old restaurant, produce stands, and
Picket’s Fireworks stand behind the big house,
Now covered in graffiti, now demolished.
The road is pockmarked.
Waits for a new job corps,
Infrastructure plan.
Everyone and everything seems to be waiting for
something else. For the bus. The change that is
bound to come, we hope, progress.
Where will the tornados take us waiting in the
trailer parks?
Wild roses and delightful names for
streets, misnomers pointing to ancient ideology.
The home. We are home, waiting for that squeaky
wheel to kick in. Meanwhile, look out for people
walking alongside the road without sidewalks.
Ambulances and fire trucks mean you stop and
let them squeal past.
All the elements are here, the
makings and magic of progress. Otherwise the
Wild West will envelop Dickerson Pike.
One day it
might look like progress for some.
If not for the
people here now,
where do they go?
All along the road,
so many stories untold.