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SingingMoon "Sees The World"
Welcome to Sharon SingingMoon's World
Sharon SingingMoon is an award-winning poet & visual artist residing on the unceded ancestral lands of the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Ioway, Otoe, Delaware, & Osage in what is now mid-Missouri. Her work is a fusion of observations of the natural world & the human spirit, touching on topics ranging from ecology to spirituality & social justice. Her work has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize, once for Best of the Net, has received additional acknowledgements & been published widely in the US, Europe & the UK. Sharon has published two poetry collections, co-edited three anthologies & most recently is the founding editor of the Watermelon Seeds Anthology Project that she edited & contributed to - Soul of Our Soul, Palestine in Poetry & Prose.
In addition to writing, Sharon is on the board of the Columbia Writers Guild, the Chair of the coordinating committee for the Osher Friday Morning Book Talk Series, a member of the Columbia Art League where she is a member of the art hanging team, & a member of the State Historical Society. She has a Master's in Public Administration & spearheaded passage of several progressive policies in Missouri.
for poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry - Mary Oliver
Recent Events
Launch of Soul of Our Soul, Palestine in Poetry & Prose, 2025 at Cafe Berlin on September 19, 2025 was a huge success with over 120 people attending & over $3,000 raised for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund (PCRF). If you missed the launch, books available at independent bookshops including Skylark, Yellow Dog & Peace Nook in Columbia Mo, as well as in Signal Hill Jewelry & Novelties, Signal Hill, CA & on Amazon.
Sharon SingingMoon's featured reading at Your Brother's Book Store, Evansville Indiana, November 22, was fun & an opportunity to meet poets & fans of poetry, sell books, & place books in the local bookshops.
The local authors' book sale at the wonderful Columbia Public Library on November 15 was, as always, a great way to connect-reconnect with friends who write & friends who read. Had a great time chatting about writing!
March 7, 2025 - my presentation, The Alchemy of Poetry: Form & Formula,
at the Osher Friday Morning Book Talk was well received with lots of questions & book sales.
October 23 at Cafe Berlin, SPOKEN final reading for 2025 featured Aliki Barnstone, Past Missouri Poet Laureate & Agnes Vojta, Poet & Physicist, Professor at University of Missouri in Rolla.
October 21, 2025 - Spoke to the Retired Teachers Association about writing & publishing
November 9, 2025 attended the swearing-in of friend, Justin Hamm, as Missouri's 8th Poet Laureate & his reading at Orr Street Studios, Hearing Voices/Seeing Visions, on November 18.
Our 2026 SPOKEN at Cafe Berlin Reading Series to open on January 22.
Books
Percy Shelly wrote that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Sharon SingingMoon in her new book Random Seed refuses to accept that declaration except in its most positive sense. Her poems declare themselves to be protectress and speaker for all flora, fauna, and the planet on which we all depend....Sharon has given us a blueprint...to heal us all...Walter Bargen, Missouri's First Poet Laureate & author of 30 volumes of poetry
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Anthologies
Sharon SingingMoon's Books can be found at these fine, Independent Bookshops
Skylark Bookshop, Ninth Street, Columbia Mo
Yellow Dog Bookshop, Ninth Street, Columbia Mo
Peace Nook, Broadway, Columbia Mo
Signal Hill Jewelry & Novelties, Signal Hill Ca
Dunaway Books, S. Grand Blvd, St. Louis Mo
Your Brother's Book Store, Main Street, Evansville, Ind
Regular Readings Around Missouri
SPOKEN at Cafe Berlin, monthly, 4th Thursdays, 6 - 8 pm, January - October
Gumbo Bottoms Ale House - 221 Madison St, Jefferson City -usually the first Monday of each month
Orr Street Studios, Hearing Voices/Seeing Visions, 106 Orr Street, Columbia - most 3rd Tuesdays, 7pm
Poetry at the Pub Reading & Open Mic - Hosted by Agnes Vojta - 3rd Tuesdays, 6 pm, Public House Brewing Co. 600 N. Rolla St.
Osher First Friday Morning Book Talk Series - 9 am, 1905 Hillcrest Drive, Columbia, Mo $3.
Poetry at Osage Arts Community (OAC) Gallery - Occasional Readings - Belle Mo.
The Writer's Place Reading Series, 31 W 31st St, Kansas City
The Speakeasy Poetry & Spoken Word at Swordfish Tom's - First Sunday, 7pm -210 West 19 Terrace, Kansas City
High Noon Series presented by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, High Noon Listening Room, every Thursday noon - 1 pm, 3301 Washington Ave, St. Louis
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