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Marcielle Brandler

Award winning poet, essayist, television producer/host, and filmmaker, Marcielle Brandler appears in 2005-2012 Who’s Who in the World, and 2003-09 Who's Who of American Women. Her short story, “Chuz Off!” will appear in the 2016 Los Angeles Short Fiction Anthology, Red Hen Press. Marcielle’s public access tv show, Marcielle Presents!, aired for eight years at Adelphia and then Pasadena Media.

Born 1950, Riverside, CA. 1994 Master of Professional Writing MPW/MFA. University of Southern California, Los

Angeles, CA. 1981 Bachelor of Arts, English. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. Marcielle is currently in production with her documentary film, Answers. Its website is: https://marciellepresents09.wordpress.com/answers/

She acted as a judge for the 2007- 2008 31st District PTSA Reflections Writing Competition for High School and Junior High School student stories and poems. . In Dec 09, poem published in America Anthology and the January 2010 issue of Science of Mind, article, "Garden of Life." She created a new Fun with Grammar website in order to be of service to students, educators, and scholars in Grammar, Literature, Writing, and anything to do with the English language at www.yvonne333.wordpress.com. Her book, Fun with Grammar is sold at iUnverse.com and Amazon.com.

An article about her appears on the cover of the San Gabriel Valley Weekly, Apr. 11, 2008 following her book signing at Sierra Madre Books. She spoke at the Whittier Literacy Council on tutoring and they published her article in their newsletter. 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 organizes and hosts the yearly Valentine's Peace Project( an international organization) Open Mic. She is a member of the Pasadena Opera Guild, Alameda Writers Group (Board Member), 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 & 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  Marcielle appears in Bob Bryan’s GV6: The Odyssey, a documentary on California poets. Visit his website at: http://www.graffitiverite.com/GV6FILMREVIEWS.html

. Marcielle can be reached at: marcielleb@hotmail.com You can see Marcielle on Laff it Off with Grace Fraga onhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8130130549306438467. She performs her poem, “Heart on Fire.” on http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2790730 Fun with Grammar site: http://yvonne333.wordpress.com/ Marcielle Presents! at the Eagle Rock Adelphia Station with Grace Fraga. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5165052751021537630# http://www.google.com/profiles/marciellebrandler.

Events

Publications:Fun with Grammar: A Workbook for All of Us. and The Breathing House: Imagist Poems, available on iUniverse.com and Amazon.com, 2012. America Anthology, poem, "Bury Me in Mojave." Dec 2009. Science of Mind Magazine, article, "Garden of Life." Jan 2010 page 106. Meditations on Divine Names: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. poem, “At the Monastery.” Moonrise Press, 2008. Numerous others.

Guest Appearances: Church of Truth as emcee and host of several events. Coffee Gallery in Pasadena, CA, featured poet, Dec 09 Sierra Madre Bookstore, April 2008 Mount San Antonio College Sept 2007 Sierra Madre Books Arpil 2008 Pasadena City College, June 2009 Sierra Madre's Rhythm & Rhyme Jazz & Poetry Festival April 2008 Valentine's Peace Project Open Mic & Networking February 2009, and numerous others.

Was host and producer of Urban Mobile Poets Poetry Reading Series, Pasadena, CA 1982-1984.

Media: Radio: Motown Maruice’s show. Click here to listen: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/motownmaurice/2011/12/26/marcielle-presents-television-show

Rick Mizuno’s radio show, Indies in Motion on May 30, 2011. http://www.indiesinmotion.com/Guest-Music-Links.html

Marcielle Presents! Television show: http://marciellepresents09.wordpress.com/tv-show/

San Gabriel Valley Weekly front page, "Sierra Madre Books Featured Local Author," by Jo Anne Disney, April 11, 2008 Vol 11, No. 52

Spending a Little Time with Poetry, TV show, produced and hosted by Bozana Belokosa

Bibliography

“LA Fiction Anthology Interviews: Marcielle Brandler.” Redhen.org, Red Hen Press, 6 Aug. 2016, redhen.org/?s=brandler.

“Lifetime & Movies, Full Episodes, Games &; Sweepstakes.” TV &; Movies, Full Episodes, Games &; Sweepstakes, Lifetime Television, www.mylifetime.com/.

"Marcielle Brandler." “Marquis Who's Who Publications.” Marquis Who's Who Ventures LLC, Marquis Who's Who Ventures LLC, www.marquiswhoswho.com/collections/whos-who-publications/publication-year_2016.

"Marcielle Presents!'' Producer/Host of Marcielle's interview and arts public access television show at Pasadena Community Network, Pasadena, CA. Visit PCN at www.pasadenacommunitynetwork.com

Opening credits to Marcielle Presents! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_sswrZnNHk

To watch Don Collins, owner of Family Affair Music, talk about the show, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2t7d3aqYxs

Brandler, Marcielle. The Last Weekend “Full Cast & Crew.” IMDb, IMDb.com, (1998). www.imdb.com/title/tt0195014/fullcredits.