Sharon Skinner
Sharon Skinner is an award-winning poet who received her B.A. in English from Ottawa University and her M.A. in Creative Writing from Prescott College.
From 1996 to 2004 she served as the Executive Editor of Anthology magazine, a small press literary magazine published in Mesa, Arizona. Her work has appeared in a number of periodicals including Green's Magazine, New Moon Rising, Sage Woman, El Sol, The Mesa Legend, Mosaic Minds and The Barnes and Noble Metaverse Poetry Anthology.
In addition to writing poetry, Sharon has been a featured reader at many events throughout the state, including the opening of the M.A.D. Linguist in Prescott, AZ and the 2002 Slab City Slam at Arcosanti. She has been the Master of Ceremonies (in 2001) and a judge (2001 through 2004) for the Mesa Public Library's annual Battle of the Bards poetry contest and is the founder and host of Radiant Readings, an internet radio show that features the work of classic and contemporary authors and information about their lives.
Sharon moved to Arizona in 1981 after a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy where she learned electronics and traveled halfway around the world on the U.S.S. Jason, a repair ship and the first Naval vessel to take a contingency of women on a full six-month WestPac cruise. During her tour, she was the first enlisted female to stand shore patrol in the Philippines and, as the Saturday morning FM Rock Jock, served as the first female DJ to be heard on the Armed Forces Radio Station airwaves issuing from the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean.
About living in Arizona she says, “When I first came to the desert, I thought I had come to the ends of the earth. But after a short time, I realized just how much life teems and thrives in this harsh environment, and that is something I can certainly relate to.”
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The Vultures Are Circling, And I'm Not Finished, Yet Compact Disc
Sharon Skinner's second album,
Summer Comes,
Inhaling,
Veiled Moon,
Something More,
My Mother Cyberdates, Regrets,
Endless Ocean,
Headline: Artist Pays Tax Debt With Sketches,
It's Been A Long Day,
Cotton Candy,
Seattle 2001,
The Vultures are Circling . . .,
People Watching,
On A Good Day,
Another Grandmother Poem,
Your Passing,
Even In Death,
Ferocious Love,
Time Curves
Dragon's Breath,
Summer's End
Dragon's Breath* (Michael O'Mara)
* Performed by The Mulberry Street Band
Recorded and Mixed by Michael O'Mara at Mulberry Street Studios, Phoenix, AZ
Sifted Gems, Polished Dreams Compact Disc
Sharon's debut recording . . .
Includes:
Drums: Intro, The Circle, Goddess manifest, Awash, As We Are, Herne, In The Fire, Lovestorm, Shopping Cart, Canyon, It's True, Moon Poem on a Napkin, Raven, Just Talk, My Reply, Lace Curtains, Love's Flame, Ferocious Love, I Dance Tonite, Spirit's Dance, The Dancer, City Street, Resentments, Acceptance, Cold Night, Undrawn Shade, Moving, Zen of Bread, Poet's Hauntings, Bedtime Story, Spirit's Dance*
* Performed by The Mulberry Street Band
Transformations . . . Change is Good
Status: Published, 1995
16 Pages
Synopsis: Sharon's first book of Poetry. Includes: A Wolf at My Door, Blood Letter, Resentments, The Dream, When I was a Child, Luna, I Emerge, Just Talk, My Reply, Spirit's Dance, I am Energized, Lace Curtains, The Dancer, Marie, I Dance Tonight in Different Light, Buddah
Illustrated by Sharon Skinner.
Songs From The Abyss
Status: Published, 1996
28 Pages
Synopsis: Her 1996 follow up collection. Includes: Vacuum, City Street, Moon Poem on a Napkin, Statuesque, Acceptance, Circle of Song, No Joke, Isolation, Against Myself, Intersect, Undrawn Shade, Final Release, Cold Night, Hand Me Downs, Jerome, Ebb and Flow, Infernal Gift, Golden Garden, Ferocious Love, Song From the Abyss, Perchance, Angels, A Hero's Dream, Wait . . . , The Circle (Pantoum), Dance On
Illustrated by Sharon Skinner.
The Vultures are Circling . . . But I'm not Finished Yet.
Status: Published, 2002
24 Pages
Synopsis: Her most recent collection.
Includes: Summer Comes, Inhaling, Veiled Moon, Something More, My Mother CyberDates, Regrets, Endless Ocean, HEADLINE: Artist Pays Tax Debts With Sketches, Memory, It's Been a Long Day, Cotton Candy, Floating Leaves, Cinquain, Seattle 2001, The Vultures are Circling . . ., People Watching, On a Good Day, Another Grandmother Poem, Your Passing, Even in Death, Time Curves, Survivors, Summer's End
Illustrated by Sharon Skinner.