Marcielle Brandler

BIO
Marcielle Brandler is a former AWG Board Member, and she appears in 2005-7 Who's Who in the World, and 2003-04 Who's Who of American Women. She obtained her Master's Degree in Professional Writing and Poetry in 1994. Her poems have been translated into Czech, French, Arabic, and Spanish, and published internationally. While in Buenos Aires, she finished her book of poems, The Breathing House and read her work there.

Her poem, "Eden," won First Place in Mt. San Antonio College's 1997 Writers Day Festival. Her poem, "The Civilian, The Siege," was praised by the LA Weekly's Evelyn McDonnell, as one of the best in the CD anthology called Disclosure. She organized poetry readings for her group Urban Mobile Poets and the Literacy Campaign in the 1980's. As a former singer/songwriter, her poetry is lyrical and sensual.

She has been Entertainment Writer for Sierra Madre Vista and the Creative Line Magazine, and was a writer for Religion & Ethics Digest. She was a featured poet at Universita Karlova and Radost in Prague, Czech Republic. She has shared the stage with Dwight Yoakum, David Lee Roth, James Ragan, Wanda Coleman, and many others. In 1994 and 1995, she helped organize and host International PEN's Celebration of Banned Books. Many film and literary celebrities read from their favorite banned books in a two-day event on Santa Monica's Promenade.

Marcielle was associate producer on the film The Last Weekend with the American Film Institute, which aired on Lifetime Television. She was a judge in the Poetry Competition in 2001 at Los Angeles City College. She teaches college English. Her artwork of social commentary appears in the September 11th Photo Project, which is on tour around the country. She has been organizing poetry events and workshops since the early eighties to benefit various organizations. A variety show, Lives in the Balance (2002), Marcielle organized and hosted, made $800 for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness. She has raised money and consciousness for Doctors Without Borders, In the Arms of Words: Poetry for Victims of the Tsunami, and many other organizations.

She has directed poetry workshops with California Poets in the Schools for 18 years. Through Performing Tree's teaching program, she mentored a younger poet to direct poetry workshops with 4th-grade children at Los Robles Academy with a grant from the California Arts Council. She was one of the organizers, emcees, and featured artists at the Artists Helping Artists Expo at Cal State Northridge 2003, and she also organized a reading called Peace Lover Poets with UNESCO.

She is a member of the Pasadena Opera Guild, Alameda Writers Group (former Board Member), Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles County Museum, KPFK Radio, and other organizations that help artists and the needy. Marcielle's poem, "Lark in the High Desert" appeared in Eclipse: A Literary Journal in 2003. Her CD of poems called The Breathing House is available at Mperia.com and AudioLunchBox.com. Marcielle's sound engineer, Harlan Collins did sound for Barbara Streisand and other celebs.)

She hosted a monthly poetry reading series called Ambassadors of Delight, and her Time Warner Public Access TV show is called, Marcielle Presents! She has been a Judge in the Poetry Competition at Los Angeles City College. Her book of poems, The Breathing House is available at Amazon.com and Borders Books. Her CD of poems is available at CD Baby. Marcielle appears in Bob Bryan's GV6: The Odyssey, a documentary on California poets. Visit his website.

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