Marne Bruckner at Crosshatxh

Marne Bruckner is a 19 year old poet and spoken word artist, who grew up in Washington Heights, New York City. She writes the stories of her neighborhood as an inner-city child, her journey and the intriguing journeys of others. She has been writing poetry since the age of eight, and began her spoken word career at the age of 15 when she made the 2007 Urban Word slam team. Her slam team competed at Brave New Voices, teen poetry nationals in California, placing 3rd on final stage out of 40 teams. Since 2007, Marne has placed 3rd in the Knicks Poetry Slam winning scholarship money and prizes. At 17 she wrote her one woman show entitled "The Insides Ain't Pink Enough" and performed it in collaboration with Dance Theatre Workshop, in NYC. She is the proud recipient of a First Wave scholarship to the Univeristy of Wisconsin for her poetry, and was a part of the 2010 UW-Madison CUPSI team, which took the 1st place championship in Boston. Marne has performed in and around all of the greater New York City area with features and gigs at the The Nuyorican Poets Café, The Bowery, Winter Gardens with Cocoa Rosie, Queen Godis' Video Release, BAM, The Point, Hammerstein Ballroom, The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty D Shabazz Memorial Educational Center , Contacting the World theatre in Manchester England and much more. Her work is published in Connect. Politic. Ditto Urban Word NYC Publications and she hopes to continue to publish and put her work out in the air for the entire world to inhale.

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YEAAA mARNE YE TU SABE !

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