Sharmagne Leland-St. John

History

Sharmagne Leland-St. John is a 21st-century poet. Leland-St. John is best known for the poem "I Said Coffee," for which she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2007. With its "deadpan puncturing of the male ego and its assumption of sexual implication where there is none," this piece has become one of her most frequently published and requested poems. She has received a total of 7 Pushcart Prize nominations and won the 2013 International Book Award honoring Excellence in Mainstream and Independent Publishing for best Poetry Anthology. (Wikipedia)

Movies

Tricks
Production Design
Laurel, Jane and Candy. We meet them as children, we know them as prostitutes and we come to understand them as women. The town is Chicago and the girls are from all walks of life. This is love at a price.
Lessons in Love
Production Design
A photograph from Carol's recent shoot reveals a threatening man harassing a woman in his car. Suspicious, Carol enlarges the photo and brings it to her friend, a novice police officer, who in turn passes it to her boss. The police captain realizes the man is a detective on the force named Childs and warns him of his behavior. But Childs is out for revenge, putting Gina, Carol and others into harm's way.
Wild Spirit
Production Design
The ghost of his teenage love returns to sensuously haunt a repressed sex-therapist on the even of his wedding to a calculating ice-queen.
Sapphire Girls
Production Design
Once, Ruby, Crystal and Jade were on top of the world. Now they're desperate for a comeback. When a mysterious millionaire offers them a world tour, they jump at the chance. But there are a few strings attached, and soon these sexy sirens are in hot water. With the help of an undercover agent, they're about to prove that you don't toy with the Sapphire Girls.
Sexual Curiosity 2: Secret Sins
Production Design
Jackie is a socialite who believes her husband Paul is cheating on her. To find the truth she recruits Gigi, a very attractive private investigator. At the same time, elsewhere, auto-mechanic Cliff suspects his wife, Taryn is cheating on him. He hires Franky, another private eye. Are the two married partners having an affair together - or could it be there are others involved?
Visions of Passion
Production Design
Jeanie is filming her neighbors through her window for her film project. One night she film a senator and a callgirl which gets her into trouble. However, Alice the callgirl is very sexy and cute and they end up sleeping together.
Model Lust
Production Design
Aspiring model Ariel moves to Hollywood on a contract with one of the most prestigious modeling agencies in LA. Her glamorous life turns into a wild, dangerous adventure when she is hired to follow one of the agency's photographers.
Diamond Dolls
Production Design
College girl Janie inherits a rundown strip club from her uncle. She tries to learn the business and turn it into a money maker.
Mulholland Falls
Woman in Night Club (uncredited)
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Carlito's Way
Woman at Grand Central
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.
Mobsters
Wedding Guest
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Woman in Restaurant (uncredited)
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.
Dick Tracy
Club Ritz Patron
The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
Tequila Sunrise
Woman in Phone Booth (uncredited)
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
Tequila Sunrise
Researcher
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon Nick's loyalties are put to the test when he begins an affair with restaurateur Jo Ann -- a love interest of Mac's -- unwittingly leading his friend into a police-orchestrated trap.
Under the Cherry Moon
Party People (uncredited)
Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but in getting to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells about the plan.
Frances
Mental Patient
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Hair
Party Guest / Lady in White (uncredited)
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Drum
Demimonde
A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Little Fauss and Big Halsy
Marcy (uncredited)
A banned motorcycle racer becomes mechanic for a selfish braggart who races under his name.
You Are What You Eat
Super Nun Sister Immaculata Baby!
A montage of the weird, a freak-out film that appeared when the expression was in fashion and in flower, along with the flower people. The film was one of the first exponents of the mobile camera-rock track-optical effect school of filmmaking, and it is much a document as it is a documentary. A repellent and fascinating depiction of the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, along with Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco and the East Village in New York. Tiny Tim amounts to something resembling a recurring motif and narrator.
Angels from Hell
Big George's Girlfriend (uncredited)
Mike, a biker, returns to California after serving in Vietnam. He uses his war-hero experience to organize a new, united super outlaw gang. When one member is shot by police because he killed a girl at a pot orgy, an all-out cop vs. biker war results.