ALL ABOUT APRIL
April Hoskins was born in Three Rivers, MI. November 21, 1978, spending her childhood as a military brat living in such far flung locales as Kentucky and Hawaii.
April spent her late teenage years in Scotts and Sturgis Michigan, where she met the poet James Schwartz.
They embarked on a clubbing lifestyle, performing at the Kalamazoo MI. caberets and living with the famed drag performer Chelsea Del Ray.
They moved to to Sarasota, FL. before going their seperate ways: she to Jacksonville, FL. and he to Tallahassee, FL. and Michigan.
April's poetry has been featured online @ various websites, "Die Blatt" and "The Zoo Review" which she co-edited with Schwartz.
In 2004 Hoskins made a 2 poem cameo appearance in "A James Schwartz Reader" by James Schwartz. An e-book of Hoskin's earlier poetry, titled "Hushed Words & Poisoned Pens:A Body of Work by P.W. Cherish", can be found on her NEW! official House of Hoskins website @ http://houseofhoskins.tripod.com
Hoskins marks her official literary debut with "True Spoken Lies" (official title: "Everything Redone / True Spoken Lies" by James Schwartz and April Hoskins) to be published late 2006.
For the latest James Schwartz and April Hoskins gossip visit: http://jsgossip.blogspot.com
Visit the official James Schwartz website @ http://ajscyberreader.tripod.com
I Saw Through: A Poem
There have been so many times
that I thought I was in love.
But I wasn't.
I saw through the sex and lust:
and realized it for what it was.
Most of my men have been mere toys.
Something to do when there was nothing good
on public access, and the clubs were dead |
