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WHAT:
- Melania-Luisa Marte Feature, Open Mic & Open Slam
- Price: FREE!!!
- GREAT Open Mic & Slam follows feature
- hosted by National Slam Poet Eric ZORK Alan
WHEN:
WED 2019-02-06 @ 7pm SHARP
[6:30pm sign up for Open Mic]
WHERE:
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 422-1486
Melania-Luisa Marte:
Melania-Luisa Marte is a first generation American. She was born in the Bronx and raised in the Lower East Side of New York City. Her multi-cultured upbringing inspires her to write about navigating the world as a native Spanish speaker of Afro-Dominican descent. She is also a member of the 2017 and 2018 Dallas Poetry Slam Team currently ranking 5th in the nation. She has performed, featured, and competed in cities across the country. Marte was a finalist at the 2017 Texas Grand Slam Poetry Competition and ranked 5th in the 2018 Women of The World Poetry Slam Competition and was just recently a finalist at the 2018 Individual World Poetry Slam Competition in San Diego, California. She is the founder of "Melanin Goddess" a Dallas based feminist healing collective for WOC. Her debut collection of poetry, MELA, was released November of 2018. You can get in touch with her at www.melanialuisa.com
Websites:
www.melanialuisa.com
- Melania-Luisa Marte Feature, Open Mic & Open Slam
- Price: FREE!!!
- GREAT Open Mic & Slam follows feature
- hosted by National Slam Poet Eric ZORK Alan
WHEN:
WED 2019-02-06 @ 7pm SHARP
[6:30pm sign up for Open Mic]
WHERE:
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Ave.
White Plains, NY 10601
(914) 422-1486
Melania-Luisa Marte:
Melania-Luisa Marte is a first generation American. She was born in the Bronx and raised in the Lower East Side of New York City. Her multi-cultured upbringing inspires her to write about navigating the world as a native Spanish speaker of Afro-Dominican descent. She is also a member of the 2017 and 2018 Dallas Poetry Slam Team currently ranking 5th in the nation. She has performed, featured, and competed in cities across the country. Marte was a finalist at the 2017 Texas Grand Slam Poetry Competition and ranked 5th in the 2018 Women of The World Poetry Slam Competition and was just recently a finalist at the 2018 Individual World Poetry Slam Competition in San Diego, California. She is the founder of "Melanin Goddess" a Dallas based feminist healing collective for WOC. Her debut collection of poetry, MELA, was released November of 2018. You can get in touch with her at www.melanialuisa.com
Websites:
www.melanialuisa.com