- https://canvasrebel.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk/ (October
2023)
- https://shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-music-historian/ (June
2022)
- http://voyagela.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-maja-trochimczyk-of-moonrise-press/ (October
2021)
BIOGRAPHY
Hundreds of Trochimczyk’s articles and poems appeared in English, Polish, as
well as in German, French, Chinese, Spanish and Serbian translations. The
venues for her poetry have included: The Loch Raven Review, Epiphany
Magazine, Lily Review, Ekphrasis Journal, Quill and Parchment, Magnapoets,
SGVGPQ, Pirene's Fountain, Cosmopolitan Review, The Scream Online, The Original
Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, Clockwise Cat, Lummox Journal, Phantom Seed, Colorado
Boulevard, Spectrum, Poezja Dzisiaj, OccuPoetry, as well as many
anthologies issued by Poets on Site, Silver Birch Press, Pisarze.pl, Bezkres
and others.
Lecture "100 Years of Poland in Music" Beverly
Hills, October 2018
EDUCATION
- 1988—1994.
McGill University, Faculty of Music, Ph.D., Musicology. Dissertation
(Maria Anna Harley): Space and Spatialization in Contemporary
Music: History and Analysis, Ideas and Implementations. Supervisors:
Prof. Bo Alphonce and Prof. Susan McClary. Degree awarded on 12 October
1994. More information: Dissertation.
- 1979—1987.
F. Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland, Faculty of Sound Engineering,
M.A., Sound Engineering. Thesis (Maria Harley): On the Naturalness
of Artificial Reverberation Adviser: Prof. Krzysztof Szlifirski.
- 1976—1986.
University of Warsaw (Poland), Faculty of History, Institute of
Musicology, M.A., Musicology. Thesis (Maria Trochimczyk): On
Aesthetic Problems of Music for Tape Advisor: Prof. Dr. Zofia
Helman.
- 1987.
Centre Acanthes Summer Course in Contemporary Music (with Olivier
Messiaen)
- 1983—1986.
Summer Courses for Young Composers organized by ISCM (Polish Section);
(with Xenakis, Lutoslawski, Andriessen, Mâche, etc.)
- 1974—1979.
J. Elsner State High School of Music, Warsaw.
- Diploma
(viola; ensembles, music theory and history)
- 1972—1976.
M. Kopernik State High School No. 33, Warsaw. Diploma (general studies;
valedictorian).
- 2023 —
Grant from the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland, administered
by Stowarzyszenie "Wspolnota Polska" in the amount of $38,500
zlotych for the publication and distribution of the book "Celebrating
Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture
Club" (Moonrise Press, December 2023).
- 2022 — Pushcart
Prize Nominations for the Best of Small Presses for "Matka Boska
Zielna," from Bright Skies. Selected Poems.
- 2021
— Scrolls with Congratulations from the City Council of Los Angeles,
County of Los Angeles (Supervisor Kathryn Barger), County of Orange
(Supervisor Donald Wagner), and the State Senate of California (Sen.
Anthony Portantino) for volunteering in the Polish American community, on
the occasion of 50th Anniversary of the Helena Modjeska Art and Culture
Club
- 2016 —
Creative Arts Award from the Polish American Historical Association, for
two poetry books, Slicing the Bread (2014) and The
Rainy Bread (2016) about war-time experiences of Poles from
Eastern borderlands deported to Soviet Union and scattered around the
world.
- 2015— Nominations
for 2015 Women in Business Awards (nonprofit executive) by the San
Fernando Valley Business Journal and for 2015 Women Making a
Difference Award (volunteer) by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
- 2014—
Distinguished Service Award from the Polish American Historical
Association
- 2012—
Medal for the promotion of Polish culture "Zasluzony dla Kultury
Polskiej" from the Minister of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of
Poland
- 2011—
Congratulatory Resolution (large scroll) from the City Council, City
Attorney, City Clerk and Controller of the City of Los Angeles, and a
five-signature scroll from the Los Angeles County Supervisors for 15 years
of volunteering for the Polish American community in Los Angeles.
- 2010—
Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, for the years 2010-2012, recognized by
County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, State Senators and Assembly members.
- 2007—
Polish American Historical Association's Swastek Award for the best
article on Polish-American topic by an American scholar, published in
2007, for the article published in the Polish American Journal.
- 2001—2002
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies,
East European Committee, for a study of Sound Constructions:
Image, Number, and Space in 20th-Century Polish Music.
- 1999—
Junior Faculty Award from the Southern California Studies Center
(University of Southern California) for Polish Dance in Southern
California.
- 1998—
Grants for International Conference, "Polish/Jewish/Music!" held
at USC in November, from Jewish Community Foundation, Ars Musica Poloniae
Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Arts of the Republic of Poland,
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles, Polish
American Congress. (Served as conference chair and organizer).
- 1997—1998
J.H.Zumberge Fund Research Grant (University of Southern California)
for Virtual Encyclopaedia of Polish Music (Pilot Project).
- 1995—
Eighth Annual Wilk Prize For Research in Polish Music-- Award for the best
essay: "At home with phenomenology: Ingarden's work of music revisited."
- 1994—1996
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral
Fellowship (held at McGill University in association with the University
of Warsaw).
- 1990—1992
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Doctoral Fellowship.
- 1991—
McGill University, Faculty of Music, Graduate Students' Essay
Competition—First Prize for best essay: "The Song of the Nightingale
in Music."
- 1988—1990
Sarah Berlind Memorial Scholarship, Faculty of Music, McGill University.
- 1976—1979
Rector's Awards for Outstanding Students, Warsaw University.
- 1976—
M. Kopernik State High School No. 33, Warsaw. Gold Medal for the Best
Graduate.
https://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2022/05/maja-trochimczyks-new-volume-of.html ISBN
978-1-945938-49-8, color paperback; ISBN 978-1-945938-52-8, eBook in ePub
format
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ISBN 978-1-945938-39-9 (paperback);
https://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2020/06/where-here-village-poets-anthology.html
Grateful Conversations: A Poetry
Anthology, ISBN 978-1-945938-22-1 (BW
paperback, 280 pages, Moonrise Press, September 2018), ISBN
978-1-945938-24-5 (color paperback), ISBN ISBN 978-1-945938-23-(eBook
in EPub format). Co-edited with Kathi Stafford. Moonrise Press 2018. Grateful
Conversations is a portrait of a group of female poets from
California, who come together each month to hone their craft and share their
verse. Known as Westside Women Writers and active as a group since 2008,
they include Millicent Borges Accardi, Madeleine S. Butcher, Georgia Jones
Davis, Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, Kathi Stafford, Sonya Sabanac, Ambika
Talwar and Maja Trochimczyk. In the words of the WWW founder, Millicent Borges
Accardi, this is “a community of women writers working together to support each
other with strong attention to craft, to grow as writers and as people in
community.” The volume includes poems written for seven workshops and
self-portraits in poetry of the nine writers. http://www.moonrisepress.com/grateful-conversations-anthology.html.
http://www.moonrisepress.com/into-light-by-maja-trochimczyk.html
- Slicing
the Bread, Children's Survival Manual in 25 Poems . Georgetown,
KY: Finishing Line December 2014. This unique poetry collection
revisits the dark days of World War II and the post-war occupation of
Poland by the Soviet Union that “liberated” the country from one foreign
oppression to replace it with another. The point of view is that of
children, raised by the war's traumatized survivors, scarred by war, and
wary of politics.
www.finishinglinepress.com.
More information: https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2014/07/finishing-line-press-to-publish-slicing.html
- Meditations
on Divine Names. An anthology of contemporary English poetry
by 62 poets from different spiritual traditions and religious
denominations, celebrating the act of naming, the multitude of names, and
the presence/revelation of the divine through the elements, earth,
water, air, fire, as well as being and loving. March 2012, Moonrise Press. ISBN
978-0-9819693-8-1. Find more details on
the book site.
More information: http://www.moonrisepress.com/meditations-on-divine-names-anthology-by-maja-trochimczyk.html
- Chopin
with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse. An anthology of 123
contemporary English poems by 92 poets with roots in Poland, France,
England, India, Australia, Serbia, and the U.S., celebrating Chopin's
200th anniversary of birth. Includes new translation of Norwid's
"Chopin's Piano" by Leonard Kress, reprints of poems by T.S.
Eliot and Emma Lazarus. February 2010, Moonrise Press. ISBN
978-0-9819693-0-5. Find the list of poems, events, and reviews here.
More information: http://www.moonrisepress.com/chopin-with-cherries-anthology-by-maja-trochimczyk.html
- Miriam's
Iris, or Angels in the Garden. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008.
A poetry collection organized around appearances of six angels: Amor, the
angel of romance; Eros, the angel of desire; Eloe, the angel of sorrow;
Thanatos, the angel of death; Ellenai, the angel of consolation; and Sophia,
the angel of wisdom. Read a sample here. Paperback
without Photos: ISBN
978-0-578-00166-1; Hardcover with Color Photos: ISBN
978-0-9819693-2-9
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The project is financed by the
Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland as part of the
Competition “Polonia and Poles Abroad 2023.” The publication expresses only the
views of the author and cannot be identified with an official position of the
Chancellery of the Prime Minister. The work is part of the project
entitled "I will show you Poland —stimulating the Polish community and
Poles abroad to act in the Polish national interest."
Projekt
finansowany ze środków Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów Rzeczpospolitej
Polskiej w ramach konkursu „Polonia i Polacy za Granicą 2023”. Publikacja
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projektu pt. „Pokażę Ci Polskę – stymulowanie środowisk Polonii i Polaków poza
granicami kraju do działania w polskim interesie narodowym”.
Album 50-lecia Klubu Kultury im Heleny Modrzejewskiej, co-edited with Elzbieta Kanski and Elzbieta Trybus, Moonrise Press, 2021, 380 pages, PDF and paperback editions, 8.5-by-11-in. pages. In Polish. Richly illustrated history celebrating the 50th anniversary of the leading Polish American organization in California, with biographic notes of the patron, eminent actress that immigrated from Poland to California, Helena Modjeska (Modrzejewska, 1840-1909), the Club's founder actor-director-journalist Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetynski (1910-1989), as well as lists of events, reports, lectures, reviews and interviews. Texts by: Anna Maria Anders, Tadeusz Bociański, Krysta Close, Dorota Czajka-Olszewska, Zofia Czajkowska, Witold Czajkowski, Zofia Cybulska-Adamowicz, Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetyński, Jadwiga Inglis, Michal Jasień, Tomasz Kachelski, Elżbieta Kański, Krystyna Kuszta, Jarosław Łasiński, Andrzej Maleski, Dr. Mira N. Mataric, Marta Ojrzyńska, Maria Pilatowicz, Edward Piłatowicz, Dr. Kleofas Rundzio, Andrzej Seweryn, Katarzyna Śmiechowicz, Jan Świder, Dr. Maja Trochimczyk, Dr. Elżbieta Trybuś and Jolanta Zych. The publication of this volume was made possible by a grant from the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Los Angeles, and the generous support of Moonrise Press (Free PDF). http://moonrisepress.com/album-50-lecia-klubu.html
- Gorecki
in Context: Essays on Music. Editor and author. Essays by Maja
Trochimczyk, Teresa Malecka, Kinga Kiwala and Andrzej Wendland, and seven
interviews with Poland's great composer (including texts never published
in English), with a list of works, photos, and bibliography. Moonrise Press.
December 2017. 420 pages paperback.
http://www.moonrisepress.com/gorecki-in-context-by-maja-trochimczyk.html.
- Frederic
Chopin - A Research and Information Guide. Second edition,
co-authored with William Smialek. Expanded and revised guide for students
of Chopin's life and work, including a new review of types of research,
sources and so forth. Routledge, New York, June 2015. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415998840/
Find the book on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-Chopin-Information-Routledge-Bibliographies/dp/0415998840/
- Perspectives
on Witold Lutoslawski. Conference Proceedings. Co-edited with
Stanislaw Latek. Montreal: Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of
Canada, December 2014. More information: http://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.be/2017/01/lutoslawski-music-and-legacy-by.html
- A
Romantic Century in Polish Music. Collection of essays by Magdalena
Dziadek, Martina Homma, Krzysztof Rottermund, Krzysztof Szatrawski, Maria
Zduniak, and the editor. Essays about Lipinski in Wroclaw, Lipinski's
violins, Wieniawski's virtuosity, the reception of Wagner, Paderewski's mystique,
women composers, and other issues. Moonrise Press, December 2009. ISBN
978-0-9819693-3-6. Details.
- Polish
Dance in Southern California. East European Monographs Series,
Columbia University Press, 2007. A study of folk dance groups created by
émigré amateurs and the influence of folk-song-and-dance ensembles from
Poland on the Polish dance movement in America. Based on a 1999 research project
of the Southern California Studies Center at USC.
- Find
the book on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Polish-Southern-California-European-Monographs/dp/0880335939
- The
Music of Louis Andriessen. Studies and interviews with the composer by
Trochimczyk, additional texts by Dutch contributors: Elmer Schoenberger,
Frits van der Waa, and Reinbert de Leeuw. New York: Routledge, 2002, 317
pp. With music examples, diagrams, illustrations, list of works,
discography, bibliography, index. [See: Routledge
(Taylor & Francis), Amazon.com.]
- After
Chopin: Studies in Polish Music. Collection of essays about
Szymanowski, Lutoslawski, Ingarden; and source readings by Polish
composers discussing Chopin. Editor, translator, and author of 3 entries
(introduction, essays on Ingarden, and national anthems, listed below
separately). Los Angeles: Polish Music Center at USC, 2000, 333 pp. Polish
Music History Series, vol. 6.
- Polish
Music Journal. Online, peer-reviewed journal for research in
Polish music (since 1998). Founder and Editor. URL:
http://www.usc.edu/go/polish_music/PMJ. Vol. 1, no. 1 (1998, "Wilk
Prizes"); vol. 1, no. 2 (1998, "Early music"); vol. 2, nos.
1-2 (1999, "The Chopin Year - I"); vol. 3, no. 1 (2000,
"The Chopin Year - II); vol. 3, no. 2 (2000, "Chopin and
Lutoslawski"); vol. 4, no. 1 (2001, "Paderewski and Polish
Emigres in America"), vol. 4, no. 2 (2001, "The Unknown
Paderewski"); vol. 5, no. 1 (2002, "Bacewicz and Wilk Prizes
2001"); vol. 5, no. 2 (2002, "Zygmunt Stojowski and His
Times"); vol. 6., no. 1 (2003, "Polish-Jewish Music: Sources and
Studies"); vol. 6, no. 2 (2003, "Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki").
- Swiat
Xenakisa [Xenakis's World]. Special issue of the Polish
Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka 43, no. 4 (1998), 166 pp.
Editor (Maria Anna Harley). Articles by Peter Hoffmann, James Harley,
Maria Anna Harley, Mihu Iliescu, Benoit Gibson. Guest editor and author of
4 entries (as M.A. Harley; texts listed below separately).
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Krakow, June 2012.
- "My
Way to Polonia - A Memoir," for an anthology of memoirs by Polish
American scholars, edited by James Pula, forthcoming.
- "Romantic,
Sublime, Heroic, Immortal – Paderewski in American and English
Poetry" a chapter forthcoming in Stephen Downes, ed. Modern
Constructions of "Polish" Music outside of Poland, 2025.
- "Jewish
Composers of Polish Music after 1939: A Story in Lists and Numbers"
a chapter in Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry vol. 32, 2020; Jews and Music-making in the Polish Lands, edited by Antony Polonsky, .François Guesnet, Benjamin Matis. - "Kim sa muzyczni
emigranci?" [Who are the musical emigres?] chapter in Sto lat
muzycznej emigracji, ed. Marlena Wieczorek, Beata
Boleslawska-Lewandowska and team. Gliwice: Fundacja MEA
kultura, 2018, p. 35-38.
- "Marzenia transatlantyckie.
Kompozytorzy w Ameryce" [Transatlantic dreams. Composers in
America] in Sto lat muzycznej emigracji p. 68-77.
- "A
w sercu Polska... czyli jak byc Polakiem w muzyce XIX wieku" [and
Poland in the heart... or how to be a Pole in 19th century music], chapter
in Sto lat muzycznej emigracji p. 112-116.
- "Amerykanskie lata Aleksandra
Tansmana (1941-1946)" chapter in W Holdzie Aleksandrowi
Tansmanowi, 1897-1986, ed. Anna Granat-Janki, Wydawnictwo
Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, 2019: 135-162.
- "The
American Years of Alexandre Tansman (1941–1946)", chapter in A
Tribute to Alexandre Tansman (1897-1986), ed. Anna Granat-Janki,
University of Wroclaw Press, 2019.
- "Górecki's
Life and Music: A Bird's Eye View," Chapter 8 in Górecki in
Context: Essays on Music, Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2017, p. 101.
- "Mothers
and Motherhood in Górecki's Third Symphony and Other Works", Chapter
10 in Górecki in Context: Essays on Music, Los Angeles:
Moonrise Press, 2017.
- "Górecki
in Los Angeles, 1997," Chapter 13 in Górecki in Context:
Essays on Music, Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2017.
- "Witold
Lutoslawski and musique concrete: The Technique of Sound Planes and its
Sources," in Lutoslawski: Music and Legacy, Edited by
Stanislaw Latek and Maja Trochimczyk. Montreal: Polish Institute of Arts
and Sciences in Canada; Cracow: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014.
- "Exiles
or Emigrants? Polish Composers in America", Chapter 7 in Anna
Mazurkiewicz, ed., East
Central Europe in Exile, Volume 1: Transatlantic Migrations, Cambridge:
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013: 93-125.
- "1968
- Operation Danube, ISCM and Polish Music" in Eva Matzouriani,
ed., Polish Music since 1945, Krakow: Musica Iagellonica,
2013: 81-92.
- "From
Mrs. Szymanowska to Mr. Poldowski: Careers of Polish Women
Composers," in A Romantic Century in Polish Music, Maja
Trochimczyk, ed., Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2009, 1-46.
- "Searching
for Poland's Soul: Paderewski and Szymanowski in the Tatras,"
in A Romantic Century in Polish Music, Maja Trochimczyk, ed.,
Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2009, 179-219.
- "Maria
Szymanowska's Vocal Music." In Slawomir Dobrzanski, Maria
Szymanowska: Pianist and Composer. Los Angeles: USC Thorngton School
of Music and Figueroa Press, 2006.
- "Chopin
and the 'Polish Race': On National Ideologies and the Chopin
Reception," chapter in Halina Goldberg, ed., The Age of
Chopin: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2004, 278-313.
- "From
Art to Kitsch and Back Again? Chopin's Reception by Women Composers."
In Irena Poniatowska, ed., Chopin and His Work in the Context of
Culture [Proceedings of the Second International Chopin Congress, October
1999]. Krakow: Musica Iagellonica, 2003, vol. 2, 336-353.
- "The
Question of Identity: Polish-Jewish Composers in California." Polin:
Studies in Polish Jewry vol. 19 (2007), "Polish-Jewish
Relations in North America," Anthony Polonsky, ed.
- "Dans
la Nuit: The Themes of Night and Death in Lutoslawski's
Oeuvre," in Lutoslawski Studies, Zbigniew Skowron, ed.
London: Oxford University Press, 2001, 96-124.
- "Dans
la nuit" - motywy smierci i nocy w tworczosci Lutoslawskiego"
["Dans la nuit:" The motives of night and death in the music of
Lutoslawski," in Zbigniew Skowron, ed., Estetyka i styl
tworczosci Lutoslawskiego" [Aesthetics and Style in the
Music of Lutoslawski]. Krakow: Musica Iagellonica, 2000, 117-150. Polish
translation by Zbigniew Skowron.
- "Bogurodzica Reborn:
A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music." (MAH). Chapter in Mittelalter-Sehnsucht? Dorothea
Redepenning and Annette Kreutziger-Herr, eds. Kiel, Germany:
Wissenschaftsverlag VAuk Kiel KG, 2000, 131-152.
- "Composing
in Color: Marta Ptaszynska's Liquid Light" in Martina
Homma, ed., Frau Musica (nova). Komponieren heute/ Composing today.
German transl. by Martina Homma. Sinzig: Studio Verlag, 2000, 307-330
[MAH].
- "Sacred/Secular
Constructs of National Identity: A Convoluted History of Polish
Anthems." (MT). In After Chopin: Studies in Polish
Music. Los Angeles: Polish Music Center, 2000, 246-268.
- "Penderecki's Ubu
Rex and Surrealism in Polish Music Theatre," in Regina
Chlopicka, ed.,Krzysztof Penderecki's Music in the Context of
20th-Century Theatre. Krakow: Academy of Music, 2000, 227-237.
- "Canadian
Identity, Deep Ecology and R. Murray Schafer's The Princess of the
Stars." (MAH). Chapter of Soundscape Yearbook vol
1. Helmi Jarviluoma and R. Murray Schafer, eds. Tampere, Finland:
University of Tampere, 1998, 119-142.
- "The
Polish School of Sonorism and its European Context," in Crosscurrents
and Counterpoints: Offerings in Honor of Bengt Hambraeus at 70, ed.
Per Broman, Nora A. Engebretsen, and Bo Alphonce. Gothenburg: University
of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1998: 62-77. Reprinted in Polish as "Polski
sonoryzm i jego europejski kontekst" [Polish sonorism and its
European context], in Dysonanse - Pismo muzyki wspolczesnej,
no. 0 (Fall 1997).
- "Music
as Text, Musical Movement and Spatio-Temporal Features of the Musical
Work," in Musik als Text, vol. 2. Proceedings of the Internationaler Kongress
der Gesellschaft fur Musikforschung "Musik als Text," (Freiburg
im Breisgau, Germany, September 1993), ed. Hermann Danuser, Berlin:
Barenreiter, 1998.
- "Maria
Szymanowska's Vocal Music (article and an edition of Six
Romances)."Chapter of Women Composers: Music Through the Ages,
vol. 4, Composers Born 1700-1799, Vocal Music. Sylvia
Glickman and Martha Furman Schleifer, eds. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1998,
396-600.
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MUSIC HISTORY — PEER REVIEWED
JOURNAL ARTICLES
- "Patriotyzm w salonie:
tradycje śpiewu domowego w rodzinie Marii Szymanowskiej"
[Patriotism in the salon: traditions of home singing in the family of
Maria Szymanowska] Studia Chopinowskie, 1-2, 2022,
pp. 4-40.
- "History
in Song: Maria Szymanowska and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's Śpiewy
historyczne" in Annales de Centre Scientifique de'l Academie
Polonaise des Sciences a Paris, vol. 16 (2014): Warsaw-Paris. http://www.academie-polonaise.org/pl/images/stories/pliki/PDF/Roczniki/R16/Maja%20Trochimczyk.pdf
- "On
Genius and Virtue in the Professional Image of Maria Szymanowska"
in Annales de Centre Scientifique de'l Academie Polonaise des
Sciences a Paris, vol. 14 (2012): 256-278. Warsaw-Paris.
- "Chopin
in Polish-American Poetry: Lost Country, Found Beauty." Polish
American Studies, 67, no. 2 (Autumn 2011).
- "An
Archangel at the Piano: Paderewski's Image and his Female
Audience." Polish American Studies 67, no. 1 (Spring
2010): 5-44.
- "Chopin
i 'polska rasa': O nacjonalizmie i recepcji Chopina," revised chapter
from The Age of Chopin, Polish trans. Magdalena Dziadek, Opcje 4
(2006).
- "The
Impact of State Ensembles Mazowsze and Slask On Polish Folk Dance Movement
in California," Polish American Studies 63, no. 1
(Spring 2006): 5-39.
- "Ultra?
Alter? Kontra? minimalizm Louisa Andriessena," in Polish trans.
in Glissando 7 (2005).
- "Mater
Dolorosa and Maternal Love in Gorecki's Music." Polish
Music Journal 6, no. 2 (2003).
- "W
strone muzykologii narodowej: muzykolodzy wobec muzyki polskiej"
[Towards a National Musicology: Scholars and Polish Music,] the Polish
Musicological Quarterly, Muzyka 47, nos. 3-4, special
double issue dedicated to Prof. Michal Bristiger, on his 80th anniversary
(2002): 129-143.
- "Passion,
Mourning and Black Angels: Ewa Demarczyk as the Voice of the Nation."
In conference proceedings of Poland: Music, Lyric, Nation,
conference held at the University of Chicago in April 2001. East
European Meetings in Ethnomusicology vol. 9 (2002): 236-260.
- "Paderewski
in Poetry: Master of Harmonies or Poland's Savior?" in
"Paderewski and Polish Emigres in America;" special issue of
the Polish
Music Journal 4, no. 1 (Summer 2001).
- "From
Circles to Nets: on the Signification of Spatial Sound Imagery in New
Music." Computer Music Journal 25, no. 4 (2001):
37-54. Special issue on sound in space.
- "Chopin
and Women Composers: Collaborations, Imitations, Inspirations."
(MAH). The Polish Review 45, no. 1 (2000): 29-52.
- "Spatiality
of Sound and Stream Segregation in 20th-Century Instrumental Music."
(MAH). Organized Sound 3, no. 2 (1998): 147-166.
Special issue on sound and space.
- "Gorecki
and the Paradigm of the 'Maternal.'" (MAH). The Musical
Quarterly 82, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 82-130.
- "A
Mystic in the Cathedral: Music, Image and Symbol in Andriessen's Hadewijch."
(MAH). The American Journal of Semiotics 13, no. 1-4,
(Fall 1996 [1998]): 249-275. Special issue, "Signs in Musical
Hermeneutics," ed. Siglind Bruhn.
- "The
Music of Sound and Light: Xenakis's Polytopes."
(MAH). Leonardo 31,
no. 1 (1998): 55-65.
- "Bacewicz,
Picasso and the Making of Desire." (MAH). Journal
of Musicological Research 16, no. 4 (1997): 243-282.
- "At
Home with Phenomenology: Roman Ingarden's Work of Music Revisited."
(MAH).International Journal of Musicology vol. 6 (1997): 9-24.
Reprinted in After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (MT),
Los Angeles: Polish Music Center, 2000, 91-110.
- "An
American in Space: Henry Brant's 'Spatial Music'." American
Music, 15, no. 1 (Spring 1997): 70-92.
- "Natura
naturans, natura naturata and Bartok's nature music idiom." Studia
Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 36, no. 3 (1995):
329-350. Reprinted in Polish as "Natura naturans, natura naturata a
idiom muzyki natury Bartoka," Polish Musicological Quarterly,
Muzyka, 42, no. 1 (1997).
- "To
be God with God: Catholic Composers and the Mystical
Experience." Contemporary Music Review, vol. 12,
part 2; "Contemporary Music and Religion," ed. Ivan Moody,
(1995): 125-145.
- "Spatial
Sound Movement in the Instrumental Music of Iannis Xenakis." Interface.
Journal of New Music Research 23, no. 3 (August 1994): 291-314.
Reprinted in Polish as "Technika ruchu dzwieku w muzyce
instrumentalnej Xenakisa" [Spatial Sound Movement in the Instrumental
Music of Xenakis]. Polish translation by Dorota Maculewicz, Muzyka 43,
no. 4 (1998): 109-132.
- "From
Point to Sphere: Spatial Organization of Sound in Contemporary Music
(after 1950)."Canadian University Music Review 13 (1993):
123-144.
- "The
Nightingale and the Mysteries of the Night: on Realism and Symbolism of
the Song of the Nightingale in Music." Polish Musicological
Quarterly. Muzyka 37, no. 3 (1992): 13-36.
- "Technique
of Comedy in Verdi's Falstaff." Polish
Musicological Quarterly. Muzyka no. 3 (1991): 3-25, in Polish.
- "Birds
in Concert: North-American Birdsong in Bartok's Piano Concerto No.
3." Tempo. A Quarterly Review of Modern Music, no. 189
(June 1994): 8-16.
Official portrait as Poet Laureate by Rona Leon, 2010.
- "Retirement,"
(for M. Hitt), in California Quarterly, Vo. 50, No. 4, Winter 2024, edited
by Marlene Hitt and konrad Wilk.
- "Dragon
Fruit Awareness," "On the Baking of Rye Bread," and
"The Rainy Bread," on Poetry laurels Bog, 24 February
2025, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2025/02/poems-about-dragon-fruit-daily-bread.html
- Four
haiku in 2024 Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, kelp
Forest, Pasadena.
- "Seeing
Madonnas in the National Museum..." "Timelessness,"
"The Cornerstone of the Soul," "On Squaring the
Circle," on Poetry laurels Blog, 1 January 2025, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-holy-happiness-mothers-and-good.html
- "Not
a Halloween Poem," on Poetry laurels Blog, 1 Nov.2024, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2024/11/not-halloween-poem-emigrants-regret.html
- "What
to carry," "Starlight," "Under African Sky" and
"The Rainy Bread," reprinted on the Poetry laurels Bog,
Sept. 27, 2024, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2024/09/poems-from-rainy-bread-in-bialystok-at.html
- "O
sztuce widzenia" in a set of poems by emigre poets edited by Anna
Maria Mickiewicz, portal Pisarze.pl. 18 wrzesnia 2024.
- "The
Stillness of Trees," "Alchemy in the Hills," "The
Ocean of Jade," "A Whale of a Song," "To Mock a Bird
in Ten Stanzas," and "An Ode to My Heart, or The Ultimate
Tribute to Myself," Poetry Laurels blog, 18 July 2024, illustrated
with nature videos and photos, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2024/07/whats-better-stream-or-ocean.html
- "What Good is a Fist?" /
"Na co ci ta piesc?" (translation in Polish) and
"Dragon Fruit Awareness," in Califorrnia Quarterly, Vol.
50 No. 2, edited by Nicholas Skaldetvind.
- "A
Visit to Jelonki, May 2024," on Chopin with Cherries blog, 14 June
2024, https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2024/06/on-loss-and-homecoming-facsimile-of.html
- "On
Healing Homesickness" and "A Spring Bouquet," on Poetry
Laurels blog, 29 April 2024, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2024/04/healing-displacement-in-april-garden.html
- "Definicja
literatury," on Pisarze.pl, in a set of poems by emigre poets
compiled by Anna Maria Mickiewicz, April 2024, https://pisarze.pl/2024/04/16/prezentacje-poetyckie-portalu-literackiego-fale-literackie-literary-waves-anny-marii-mickiewicz/
- "Everything
is Perfect" for John Ruskin's 205th birthday, and "In Morning
Light" on Poetry Laurels blog, 14 February 2024, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2024/02/205th-birthday-party-of-john-ruskin-at.html
- Three
haiga for the Year of the Dragon, "On Landscapes; A Guidebook,"
and dreams, with the Forest Game, on Poetry Laurels blog, 6 January
2024, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2024/01/dreams-and-imagination-in-year-of-wood.html
- "The
Snow Lotus" published in California Quarterly vol.
49, no. 4 (Winter 2023), reprinted on Poetry Laurels blog: https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2023/11/to-be-editor-or-author-that-is-question.html
- "A
Starchild's Lesson" and "Like Grapes on a Vine" from Crystal
Fire; "Shambala" and "Of Trains and Tea,"
from The Rainy Bread, reprinted on the Chopin with
Cherries Blog, "Polish refugees surviving global politics," 11
November 2023, https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2023/11/polish-refugees-surviving-global.html
- Five
haiku in The Taste of Sunlight anthology of Southern
California Haiku Study Group, edited by Kathabela Wilson, November 2023.
- Three
haiku, "shadow and light" & "don't look don't
tell" & "blooming magnolia ” forthcoming in the San
Diego Poetry Annual 2023-24, spring 2024.
- "What
do I know about a crow?" and "Crows are the Messengers" -
two poems about crows reprinted from Zwierzenia Zwierza (2020)
on Poetry Laurel's Blog, "What's so Rewarding about Being
Creative?" October 28, 2023; https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2023/10/whats-so-rewarding-about-being-creative.html
- "A
Chromosome Ballad" (published in Bright Skies, 2022
and Academic Questions, Spring 2023), "I Fell in Love
with Luo Jin" (first published in California Quarterly,
49:2), and "The Prophet" posted on Poetry Laurel's Blog on 20
August 2023; https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2023/08/when-it-rains-and-emperor-wears-no.html
- "On
Friday after a Dream of Cleaning Vases," "On Sunday, after a
Dream of Jewel Lights," on Poetry Laurels blog about roses, gardens,
karma and spring, May 2023, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2023/05/not-all-about-roses-dreams-and-gardens.html
- "After
a Visit to an Art Gallery", "The Breath of Life,"
"On the Art of Buying Art," on Poetry Laurels blog about Rafik
Amadol's digital living paintings, April 2023, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2023/05/rafik-amadols-living-paintings.html
- "I
Fell in Love with Luo Jin" in the California Quarterly 2023,
vol. 49 no. 2.
- "Moving
to California" haibun, "Gifts" and "Alchemy in
the Hills" reprinted in the Poetry Laurels blog, Feb. 2023, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2023/02/so-nice-to-be-thanked-csps-village.html
- "A
Chromosome Ballad," Academic Questions of the
National Association of Scholars, Spring 2023. First published in Bright
Skies (Moonrise Press, 2022).
- "A
Study with Cherries," "Harvesting Chopin," and How to Make
a Mazurka," from Chopin with Cherries, reprinted on
Chopin With Cherries Blog, December 6, 2022: https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2022/12/chopin-with-cherries-poems-at-chopin.html
- "A
Wish Upon the Moon," "DTLA," "The Sofa Dilemma,"
and "I Fell in Love with Luo Jin," in Poetry Laurels Blog,
September 2022, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2022/09/where-does-poetry-come-from-freeways.html
- "Outside
my Window," "Matka Boska Zielna," "Diamonds"
"The Aril," and "Arbor Cosmica" from Bright
Skies reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, August 18, 2022: http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2022/08/maja-trochimczyks-new-book-bright-skies.html
- "Like
Grapes on a Vine," from Crystal Fire anthology
reprinted in Moonrise Pres Blog, September 20, 2022: https://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2022/09/moonrise-press-and-scenic-drive-gallery.html
- "The
Year of Crystal Fire" from "Crystal Fire" reprinted in
Moonrise Press Blog, September 1, 2022: https://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2022/09/moonrise-press-publishes-crystal-fire.html
- "A
Song for a Key," "The Way to School," "Pani
Basia" From The Rainy Bread on Chopin with Cherries
Blog, September 6, 2022: https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2022/09/remembering-polish-war-anniversaries.html
- "Midnight
Fire" on Chopin with Cherries Blog, August 2022: https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2022/08/dancing-chopins-polonaises-vol-13-no-3.html
- "Only
in California" - in announcement of Bright Skies book
by Quill and Parchment, vol. 254, August 2022; http://quillandparchment.com/archives/August2022/new4.html
- "Moving
to California" haibun and four haiku in the Red Paper
Parasols. 2022 Anthology by Southern California Haiku Study
Group, edited by Kathabela Wilson, Marcyn Clemens, and Lorraine
Padden.
- "The
Golden Time of Honey" in Quill and Parchment, vol.
253, July 2022. http://quillandparchment.com/archives/July2022/vol253.html
- "Time
Immortal" (about a painting by Vermeer) in California
Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 2, Summer 2022.
- Video
recording of my reading of "In Morning Light" from Grateful
Conversations (2018) during the Gathering of California Poets Laureate
in 2019, at McGroarty Arts Center.https://engagingthesensesfoundation.com/poet/maja-trochimczyk/
- "Astry"
(Polish translation of "Asters" from The Rainy Bread)
in a survey of Polish Emigre Poets ed. Anna Maria Mickiewicz, "Prezentacja twórczości poetyckiej
autorów emigracyjnych 2022" on Pisarze.pl. 18 May 2022, https://pisarze.pl/2022/05/17/prezentacja-tworczosci-poetyckiej-autorow-emigracyjnych-2022/.
- "Peeling
the Potatoes" from The Rainy Bread with illustration
selected by editor, Mary Evans Picture Gallery, UK, March 2022. https://www.maryevans.com/poetry.php?post_id=12667&view=poem&prv=poem
- "De
Capo Al Fine" in Quill and Parchment, online, March
2022. http://quillandparchment.com/archives/March2022/capo.html
- "Matka
Boska Zielna" Quill and Parchment, online in May 2022,
vol. 251; http://quillandparchment.com/archives/May2022/vol251.html
- "An
Artichoke of a Poem," "Spring Cleaning" and "The Year
of Crystal Fire" on Poetry Laurels Blog, April 2022, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2022/04/spring-cleaning-in-year-of-crystal-fire.html
- "From
Minium Chronicles" and "Practical Advice for a Frazzled Passer-
by" in California Quarterly, vol. 48, n. 1, Spring
2022. Repritned on Poetry Laurels Blog, March 2022. http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-tall-glass-of-water-and-three-blood.html
- "The
Aril," "Water Tiger Year" and two other haiku, on Poetry
Laurels Blog, January 2022, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2022/01/happy-new-year-2022-water-tiger-year.html
2021
- Three
Haiku in "The Gentle Sway of Bamboo," the 2021 Anthology of the
Southern California Haiku Study Group, November 2021.
- A
Chopin haiku on Chopin with Cherries blog, October 2021. http://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2021/10/chopins-haiku-for-anniversary-of-his.html
- Kites...",
"Tatarak," "Soap bubbles" from The Rainy
Bread: More Poems for Exile 2021, "The Song of the Summer",
"June in Gold and Blue", "A Mystery Solved,"
from Zwierzenia Zwierza; "Sapphire" from Rose
Always (re. 2020), and "The Aril," "Mason
Bees", and "Carving Sand" forthcoming with illustrations on
Mary Evans Picture Library, U.K.
- "Smiling"
and "Euridice, Lost to Dance" in Core: Dance Poems Vol.
III, edited by Johnny M. Tucker Jr., 2021.
- "The
Song of a Key", "Soap Bubbles" and "The 23rd of
July," nominated for Pushcart Prize 2022, on Moonrise Press blog,
December 2021,https://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-pushcart-prize-nominations-from.html
- "Once
Upon a Time in Baranowicze," "Language," and "The
Antidote" from new version of The Rainy Bread, 2021 on the
Poetry Laurels Blog, October 2021, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/10/trochimczyks-rainy-bread-more-poems.html
- "Fall
Yucca" and "Double Delight" on the Poetry Laurel Blog,
December1 2021, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/12/on-autumn-delights-california-in.html
- "Mason
Bees", "On Thursday Afternoon," "The Glow of
Forgiveness," and "Aquamarine" posted on Poetry Laurel
Blog, "August Tales from the Garden and the Sea" August
2021, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/08/august-tales-from-garden-and-sea.html
- "The
23rd of July" on Chopin with Cherries Blog about Chopin's Nocturnes,
July 2021, https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2021/07/chopins-nocturnes-in-poetry-stillness.html
- "Here,
here, here," "Our Halina," "On Reading Gail Wronsky in
this Universe," and "This Afternoon" on Poetry Laurels
Blog, June 2021, "Greening the green, or Summer in the
Garden" http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/06/greening-green-or-on-summer-in-garden.html
- "Pani
Basia," "Thirty Six," "The Greatest Song,"
"A Pilot in Pakistan," from The Rainy Bread, revised expanded
edition, reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog announcing the publication of
ebook, April 2021, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/04/new-e-book-edition-of-rainy-bread-poems.html
- Three
memorial poems in Polish translation, Góry smutku - Dla Henryka
Mikołaja Góreckiego (1933-2010), "Pod afrykańskim niebem - dla
Juliana Stańczaka (1928-2017), niezwykłego malarza,
and Wniebowstąpienie - Wiersz Wspomnienie - Dla Basi Kozieł Gawroński
in memoriam (1947-2009) in the anthology Do zobaczenia
2, edited by Danuta Błaszak and Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Dreammee
Little City, Orlando and Literary Waves, London 2021.
- "Flying
Kites" reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, March 2021; http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/03/flying-kites-is-pure-joy.html Recording
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb2GXIKpwuM
- Poems
from "The Rainy Bread" ("Once upon a time in
Baranowicze," "Asters," "Starlight,"
"Peeling the Potatoes," "Slicing the Bread,"
"No Chicken," and "Language" reprinted on
"Chopin with Cherries" blog, January 2021: Portraits of
Survivors: Babcia, Prababcia, Grandma, Great Grandma (vol. 12
no.1)" https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2021/01/portraits-of-survivors-babcia-prababcia.html
- 14
haiku about flying kites, in Poetry Laurels Blog, January 2021, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2021/01/lets-go-fly-kite-up-in-bluest-clearest.html
- Three
poems, "Aquamarine," "A Champaigne Sunday" and a
"sapphire ring" haiku, in The Blue and Blues Anthology,
edited by Carole Boyce, 2021.
2020
- Three
holiday poems in "Poetry Laurels" Blog, December 2020: "The
Star of Christmas. The Way of Light," "A Music Box
Christmas," and "A Diamond Miracle" in http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/12/christmas-and-new-year-after-winter.html
- Ten
poems about animals and birds in Polish and English (total of 20 poems)
in Zwierzenia Zwierza anthology in Poland (Bezkres,
2020): "What Do I Know about a Crow, Crows are the Messengers, Why do
Lizard do Pushups? A Whale of a Song, See the Sea, A Mystery Solved, On
Being a Birds, A Drink of Water, June in Gold and Blue, Song of the Summer"
plus Polish translations.
- "Aquamarine,"
in California Quarterly Vol. 46, No. 4, Winter 2020.
- "Of
Trains and Tea" haibun sequence, and three haiku (a pear tree, 30
seconds left, and sunlight at noon) in The Sonic Boom of Stars:
The 2020 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology, edited by
Susan Rogers and Becki Reese, September 2020, pages 64 and 112.
- "A
Drink of Water," "On Being a Bird," "A Ballad from the
Field of Glory," on Poetry Laurels Blog, September 13, 2020. http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/09/be-kind-be-gentle-just-be-share-water.html
- "On
Cosmic Breath, " "A Cosmic Rainbow" and "After a
Meditation" on Poetry Laurels Blog, August 16, 2020, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/08/on-august-cosmic-rays-and-ocean-waves.html
- "A
Day Trip to Venice," and "Carving Sand," on Poetry Laurels
Blog, August 6, 2020. https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/08/how-high-moon-sandcastles-on-beach.html
- "Crystal
Light of Crystal Mornings," in When The Virus Came Calling:
COVID19 Strikes America anthology edited by Thelma T. Reyna,
September 2020, 149-150.
- "A
Breakup Story" in Spectrum No. 24 (Doors issue),
edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, September 2020.
- Two
poems in Polish - "Jak oswoic kota" and "Slodkie
pozegnania" - in anthology Atlantyckie Strofy, edited
by Danuta Blaszak and Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Literary Waves, 2020. Also
posted on the portal Pisarze.pl https://pisarze.pl/2020/08/04/wspolczesna-tworczosc-poetycka-z-usa-i-wielkiej-brytanii-2020-w-opracowaniu-anny-marii-mickiewicz-i-danuty-blaszak/,
July 2020.
- Seven
poems in We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, edited by
Maja Trochimczyk and Marlene Hitt, 2020: "What I Love in
Sunland", "Dragonfly Days", "Sapphire",
"Arbor Cosmica","June in Gold and Blue"; and
"Imagine – A Poem of Light."
- "The
Song of the Summer" and "A Mystery Solved" on Poetry
Laurels blog, June 14, 2020: https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-simple-joys-of-summer.html
- "June
in Gold and Blue" posted on Poetry Laurels blog, June 1, 2020. https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/06/june-in-blue-and-gold-with-taste-of.html
- "Last
Pomegranate" in the California Quarterly 46: 1, p.
55, edited by Margaret Saine (Spring 2020).
- "An
Invitation to the Dance" and "See, How We Dance?" in Allegro
& Adagio: Dance Poems Vol. II, edited by Johnny M. Tucker
Jr., 2018 https://www.johnnytuckerjr.com/allegroadagio
- "Here,
here, here" on Poetry Laurels Blog, May 12, 2020: https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/05/in-garden-with-roses-and-birdsong.html
- "Crystal
Light of Crystal Mornings" and "Be a Summit" on Poetry
Laurels Blog, March 29, 2020. https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/03/reflections-about-our-lady-queen-of.html
- A
set of love poems - "Up, up, up" "Amber"
"Afterglow" "Heart" "Twin Flame Promise"
"I did not Dare to Hope" "In the Valley of Yes"
"Sapphire" and "Sweet Nothings" on Poetry Laurels
Blog, February 14, 2020. https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/02/poems-for-valentines-day-will-you-walk.html
- Selections
from Rose Always - A Love Story ("Rainbows,"
Sapphire" "Amber" "This Afternoon,"
"Gifts" "Imagine- A Poem of Light") and a set of
haiku on Poetry Laurels blog, January 2020, How
I Love My Sapphire, Azure, Periwinkle California Skies https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-i-love-my-sapphire-azure-periwinkle.html
2019
- "Good
News," "A Music Box Christmas," "Rules for Happy Holy
Days," on Poetry Laurels Blog, December
2019 https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2019/12/wishes-for-christmas-and-new-year-2020.html
- "After
the Crossing" posted by Poetry Pacific e-zine, November 2019, http://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/2019/11/1-poem-by-maja-trochimczyk.html
- "Moon
(Un)Reality" on the Full Moon Blog, https://www.fullmoon.info/en/fullmoon-poems/trochimczyk.html
- "In
Morning Light," "High Noon," and "This Evening,"
on Poetry Laurels blog, November 2019, "Morning, Noon and Evening
in California." https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2019/10/morning-noon-evening-in-california.html
- "This
Evening" in Quill
and Parchment, vol. 221, November 2019, online journal.
- "A
Song of a Key" in A Decade of Sundays, anthology
edited by Alex Frankel, Los Angeles: November 2019 (paperback).
- "Skylark's
Lesson" in Lummox Poetry Journal vol. 8, 2019,
edited by R.D. Armstrong, Los Angeles, September 2019 (paperback).
- "W
sercu..." on website about Polish writers, Pisarze.pl, in the second
part of a post by Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Polish American poets, in Polish,
October 2019. https://pisarze.pl/2019/10/15/poeci-amerykanscy-polskiego-pochodzenia-cz-ii-prezentuja-anna-maria-mickiewicz-i-danuta-blaszak/
- "Spacer
w kanionie" "Ciocia Tonia" "Jak przejsc przez Wielka
Biel" on website about Polish writers, Pisarze.pl, in the first part
of a post by Anna Maria Mickiewicz, anthology of Polish American poets, in
Polish, September 2019. https://pisarze.pl/2019/10/01/anna-maria-mickiewicz-i-danuta-blaszak-prezentuja-amerykanskich-poetow-polskiego-pochodzenia/
- "Today"
"Of the Mountains" "Tiger Nights," "Of Days and
Sky,"Oblivion," "On the shore of jade ocean" and
haiku on clouds, on Poetry Laurels blog, August 2019, http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2019/08/today-im-perfect-poetry-of-blue-skies.html
- "Imagine
a Star, "Meditation on Light" "The Seven Suns" and
"Today" on Poetry Laurels Blog, June 2019. http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2019/06/live-in-balance-in-harmony-in-sunlight.html
- "The
Day of a Plum Tree," "Landscapes: A Guidebook," and
"The Ballad of Angels, on Poetry Laurels blog, June 2019 http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2019/04/spring-is-in-air-with-mockingbirds-and.html
- "On
Being Green in Vincent's Garden" reprinted in Spectrum 18,
Spring 2019.
- "My
Mother's Key" first published in Quill and Parchment, May
2019.
2018
- Oh,
the Art of Looking," in the California Quarterly 44:4
(Winter 2018), edited by Margaret Saine.
- "On
the Day of Love and Death," "Oh, the Art of Looking,"
"Outside My Window," on Poetry
Laurels blog, "On the Joys of Spring, Azure Skies and Light
in the Heart," March 30, 2019.
- "A
Ballad of New Star", "A Ballad of New Heart," and "A
Ballad of Golden Scroll," on Poetry
Laurels blog, February 23, 2019.
- "Sunfire
Foxes," "Things not to say on a lazy afternoon in the
garden," and "A Ballad of New Sun," on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Love in the Year of the Boar..." February 11,
2019.
- "On
Being Green in a Poet's Garden," after Van Gogh, "A Treasure
Hunt," and "As Above So Below," - poetry inspired by the
Art Institute of Chicago and other Chicago landmarks, on Poetry
Laurels Blog, January 16, 2019.
- "Winter
Solstice," reprinted from Rose Always (2018)
in Spectrum, vol. 17 "On Dreams," edited by Don
Kingfisher Campbell, December 2018.
- "Imagine:
A Poem of Light," holiday haiku, and "Christmas is Love" on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Holiday Survival Guide," December
19, 2018.
- "Standing
Guard" reprinted from The Rainy Bread in Pirene's
Fountain anthology Collateral Damage about
children affected by war, edited by Amy Kaye, Glass Lyre Press, 2018.
- "On
Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport," and essay about poetry writing,
"Why? Write" reprinted from Grateful Conversations on Poetry
Laurels Blog, October 12, 2018.
- "Blue
Sierra," "A Tree Epiphany" and poetic prose, "How to
Create a New Religion," on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Planetary Church of Plants," August 21,
2018.
- "Independence
Day" and "My Declaration," on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Independence or interdependence" July 3,
2018.
- "Skylark's
Lesson," and "Hymn of Light" on Poetry
Laurels Blog "Hymn to Light, Skylark..." June 25, 2018.
- "The
Lake of Claret," "The Infinity Room," and "In Morning
Light" in Grateful Conversations, posted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Grateful Conversations," May 31, 2018.
- "An
Ode of the Lost, " "How to Make a Mazurka" reprinted
from Grateful Conversations anthology on Chopin
with Cherries blog, May 4, 2018.
- "An
Elegy For a Man Who Did Not Fly" in Polish translation by Henryk
Cierniak (Elegia na smierc mezczyzny ktory nie umial latac"),
in Wytrych Quarterly of Wolna Inicjatywa Artystyczna,
Poland, May 2018, p. 11.
- "Spring
is..."published on the Chopin
with Cherries blog, "Sharing the Delight in Chopin's
Music," April 2018.
- A
series of haiku about spring, on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "The Spirituality of Spring Cleaning" in April
23, 3018.
- "On
Squaring the Circle" reprinted from Into Light (2016),
in Altadena Poetry Review, April 2018.
- "No
more," "A Walk in the Canyon," and "A Perfect
Universe," from Into Light and "Cioia
Tonia" from The Rainy Bread reprinted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Black History Month," February 2018.
- "Dog
Story" and "A Desert Walk" from Rose Always,
and a series of dog-themed haiku on the Poetry
Laurels blog "2018-The Year of Earth Dog," January 31,
2018.
- "Azure,"
"The Mulberry Song," and "Vincent's Mulberry Tree"
haibun, reprinted from Van Gogh anthology and the Eclipse
moon anthology, on Chopin
with Cheries, blog, March 2018.
- "Dog
Story" and "A Desert Walk" from Rose Always, "Light
Centuries," "Hazelnut," and haiku about the Dog Year, on
the Poetry Laurels Blog, January 31, 2018.
- "Arbor
Cosmica" and two haiku, in the California Quarterly vol.
44, no. 1, Spring 2018, also Editor of the volume. "Arbor
Cosmica" reprinted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "California Poetry," April 2018.
- Two
haibun, "What Was Then, What Is Now" and "Vincent's
Mulberry Tree" and five haiku in Eclipse Moon, Anthology of
Southern California Haiku Study Group, edied by William Scott Galasso
and Deborah P Kolodji, Pasadena, November 2018.
- "Paderewski
in Gold" published on the Poetry Laurels Blog, January 9,
2018.
2017
- Holiday
haiku and Christmas wishes on the Poetry Laurels Blog,
December 22, 2017.
- "Autumn
Wings," "Just One Secret," and haiku about leaves and
autumn published on the Poetry Laurels Blog, November 9, 2017.
- "Lady
with an Ermine," on the Chopin with Cherries Blog, vol.
8, no. 8, August 17, 2017.
- "Mountain
Watch," "Elijah's End," and "Easter Apocalypsis"
reprinted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, October 2, 2017.
- "The
Wings of Chopin," published on Chopin with Cherries Blog,
Vol. 8, No. 9, December 22, 2017.
- "On
Transmuting Colors," published on the Poetry Laurels Blog, September
5, 2017.
- "In
Your Heart," "Imagine a Star," "A Rainbow
Vision," and "The Seven Suns" from "Into Light"
reprinted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, August 5, 2017.
- "My
Declaration" and a series of haiku for Independence Day, on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, July 10, 2017.
- "The
Mulberry Song," "Today," "Under African Sky," and
"What I love in Sunland" reprinted from various sources on
the Poetry Laurels Blog, May 2, 2017
- "The
Mulberry Song," "Under African Sky," "Today," and
"What I love in Sunland," published on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, May 2, 2017, "Celebrating Poetry in the Poetry
Month."
- Three
poems inspired by paintings of Vincent van Gogh, "Azure,"
"The Mulberry Song," and "Into Color, Into Light,"
in The Resurrection of a Sunflower, Van Gogh
Anthology, edited by Catfish McDaris, Pski's Porch, 2017.
- "My
love is like a sparrow," "My love is made of gratitude,"
"I sleep better," on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Rose of Roses, One More Time, March 26,
2017" on March 13, 2017.
- "It
all started with love..," "Not Aspartame," "Winter
Solstice," "A Revelation after Il Paradiso," and "I
found myself..." posted on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Love Poems among the Roses," February 18,
2017.
- "Rose
Garland, "For you, I'm a pear..." and "Rose Window,"
posted on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, "Rose of Roses Photo Exhibition,"
February 5, 2017
- ...
untitled... in Pisane Sercem - an anthology of poetry
dedicated to Pope John Paul II. Rome: Fundacja Jana Pawla II, 2016.
- "My
Mother's Beirut," in Pirene's
Fountain, vol. 9, no. 17, special edition on Silk
and Spice, Glass Lyre Press, 2016.
- "Kazakhstan,
1936," and "Under African Sky," in The Altadena
Poetry Review, edited by Elline Lipkin, 2017.
- "The
Vanishing Point," from Into Light, reprinted in
the California Quarterly, 43:1, edited by Margaret
Saine, (2017): p. 55.
- "Imagine
a Star," "A Rainbow Vision," "A Declaration,"
"Breathing Light," "The Stream," "The Shield of
Light," from Into Light posted on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, January 2, 2017, "A New Year of Joy, Loving
Kindness, and Fun."
2016
- "Of
Bliss," The Gift of Patience," and "A Hymn" from Into
Light posted on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, December 6, 2016.
- "
"The Bluest," "Breathing Light," "The
Stream," and "Playful (Via negativa)" from Into
Light posted on the Poetry
Laurels Blog, October 25, 2016."
- "An
Invitation to the Dance" and "See, How We Dance?"
forthcoming in anthology Allegro & Adagio: Dance Poems II, edited
by Johnny M. Tucker, Jr., 2017.
- "Euridice,
Lost to Dance" and "What Once Was--a Haibun" forthcoming
in Dance Poems III, edited by Johnny M. Tucker, Jr. 2019.
- "I
Give You the World - A Poem for Adam," fragments on Poetry
Laurels Blog, September 25, 2016.
- "A
Whale of a Song" from Into Light and travel
haikuposted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, "My Declaration, Purpose and Intention - Found on
the Road, With Pears and Whales" August, 2016.
- "Kolyma"
and "Under African Sky" from The Rainy Bread posted
on Poetry
Laurels Blog, August 25, 2016.
- "A
Cricket Sings" and "Crown Jewels" from Into Light,
posted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, July 27, 2016.
- "The
Lady with an Ermine" (After Leonardo), in Spectrum 5: Every
Poem is an Idea, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, Summer
2016.
- "August
5th at the Hollywood Bowl" and "A Revelation After Il
Paradiso" in Angel City Review, No. 3, summer 2016.
- "An
Invitation to the Dance" in Altadena Poetry Review, April
2016, edited by Thelma T. Reyna.
- A
Haiku posted on the daily haiku site, HaikUniverse by
Rick Lupert, September 6, 2016.
- "Meditation
on Light," "A Pear in the Tree," "A Box of
Peaches," "The Sycamores," "A Romance, Pure and
Simple," "A Universal Lesson," on Poetry Laurels Blog,
" Meditations
in Light, For Peace, Under the Trees," April 30, 2016
- "Many
Happy Returns" in Spectrum 3: LoveLoveLove, edited
by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Pasadena, February 2016.
- "...
Around the Roses," "On Melrose," and "Moonlight
Competition" on the Dead
Snakes Blog, January 2016.
2015
- "On
Friday in August, at Three O'clock," in California Quarterly, vol.
41, no. 4, 2015, Journal of the California State Poetry Society.
- "My
Mother's Beirut", in "Silk and Spice" - special issue
of Pirene's Fountain, fall 2016.
- "Standing
Guard" in "Collateral Damage" - special issue of Pirene's
Fountain, forthcoming in 2016, dedicated to children as victims of
wars.
- "A
Tree Epiphany" and a series of nature-inspired haiku from the
Huntington Gardens, on Poetry Laurels Blog, "The
Year of Fire Monkey, the Year of Burning Bright", January 5,
2016.
- "Repeat
after me (Final Version)" on Poetry Laurels Blog, Easter
in a Rose Garden, with Poets, Mazurkas and Mimosas, March 30, 2016.
- "The
Man I did Not Know (Endre Dobay in memoriam)" oN Poetry Laurels
Blog, Poetic
and Musical Farewell to Endre Dobay, March 14, 2016.
- "No
More," "Repeat After Me," (first version) on Poetry Laurels
Blog, Black
History Month at Phoenix House, March 2, 2016.
- "On
Divine Commedy and Ice Cream," on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Love
the Sweetest, Angel Love..."", February 12, 2016.
- "On
Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" reprinted in Spectrum 2:
The Gift, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, December 2015.
- "A
Study with Cherries" in English and Polish, "The Lady with an
Ermine" (reprint), and new poems, "An Invitation to the
Dance" and "A Music Box Christmas" on Poetry Laurels
Blog, "On
Polish Christmas in the Notre Dame Cathedral", December 17, 2015.
- "After
Dali" and a haiku tour of Paris's Dali Museum on Poetry Laurels
Blog, "On
Dali's Silver Towers of Eyes". December 7, 2015.
- "The
Cathedral," "A Revelation after Il Paradiso" and a haiku
tour of Leonardo's paintings at the Louvre, on Poetry Laurels Blog,"Thanksgiving
in Paris with Leonardo, Swans, Music and Rain", November 26, 2015
- "Oblivion"
(haibun on chemtrails) in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly,
Winter 2015.
- "Oblivion"
and "The Great God Experiment" (reprinted from Meditations
on Divine Names, on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Rain
and No Rain...", October 29, 2015.
- "The
Lady with an Ermine" (rev.), and "Repeat after me" on
Poetry Laurels Blog, "Give
it all away..." September 25, 2015.
- "Whispers"
in Spectrum, an anthology of Los Angeles Poets edited by Don
Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, September 2015. First published in Rose
Always (rev. 2011).
- "My
Full Moon in September" in Hometown
Pasadena, September 29, 2015.
- "Absence"
coupled with a poem by Don Kingfisher Campbell in heARTbreak:
reimagined anthology edited by Karineh Mahdessian, Los Angeles,
September 2015.
- "The
Waiting," "The Veil, the Weave," and "An Invitation to
the Dance" reprinted in the Poetry Laurels Blog for September 1,
2015, "On
Gardeners, Murderers, and the Virtue of Patience."
- "The
Finish Line" (haibun) and three haiku in Drawn to the Light,2015
Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, Pasadena.
- "Lament
for Rita Joe," "Canadian Afterwards," and "Of Days and
Sky," on the Poetry Laurels Blog for July 8, 2015, on "The
Visionary Matilda Gage and the Quest for Liberty."
- "Sleep,"
"Endless," "From the Mountains," "Rose: A
no-name-yes," "Of Bliss," reprinted in Poetry Laurels Blog
for June 13, 2015,"Daffodils
and Rose Gardens"
- "A
Letter to My Son" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Summer
2015.
- "Moon
(Un)Reality" reprinted in Chopin
with Cherries Blog, vol. 6, no. 6, June 5, 2015; and published in the
Interview with Kathabela Wilson for "Colorado Boulevard" in
Pasadena, Mapping
the Artist: Maja Trochimczyk." The poem is also reprinted
on FullMoon.infowebsite,
in the Full
Moon Poems section.
- "The
Waiting," "On Grief and Loss: A Trilogy" and "The
Shooting Star" in Femmwise
Cat a special issue of the Clockwise Cat celebrating
women, March 2015, Part II: 92-96.
- The
Lady with an Ermine" (After Leonardo), in Spectrum 5: Every
Poem is an Idea, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, Summer
2016.
- "August
5th at the Hollywood Bowl" and
"A Revelation After Il Paradiso" in Angel
City Review, No. 3, summer 2016.
- "An
invitation to the dance" in Altadena Poetry Review, April
2016, edited by Thelma T. Reyna.
- A
Haiku posted on the daily haiku site, HaikUniverse by
Rick Lupert, September 6, 2015.
- "Meditation
on Light," "A Pear in the Tree," "A Box of
Peaches," "The Sycamores," "A Romance, Pure and
Simple," "A Universal Lesson," on Poetry Laurels Blog,
" Meditations
in Light, For Peace, Under the Trees," April 30, 2016
- "Many
Happy Returns" in Spectrum 3: LoveLoveLove, edited
by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Pasadena, February 2016.
- "...
Around the Roses," "On Melrose," and "Moonlight
Competition" on the Dead
Snakes Blog, January 2016.
- "On
Friday in August, at Three O'clock," California Quarterly, vol.
41, no. 4, 2015, Journal of the California State Poetry Society.
- "My
Mother's Beirut", in "Silk and Spice" - special issue
of Pirene's Fountain, forthcoming in 2016.
- "Standing
Guard" in "Collateral Damage" - special issue of Pirene's
Fountain, forthcoming in 2016, dedicated to children as victims of
wars.
- "A
Tree Epiphany" and a series of nature-inspired haiku from the
Huntington Gardens, on Poetry Laurels Blog, "The
Year of Fire Monkey, the Year of Burning Bright", January 5,
2016.
- "Repeat
after me (Final Version)" on Poetry Laurels Blog, Easter
in a Rose Garden, with Poets, Mazurkas and Mimosas, March 30, 2016.
- "The
Man I did Not Know (Endre Dobay in memoriam)" oN Poetry Laurels
Blog, Poetic
and Musical Farewell to Endre Dobay, March 14, 2016.
- "No
More," "Repeat After Me," (first version) on Poetry Laurels
Blog, Black
History Month at Phoenix House, March 2, 2016.
- "On
Divine Commedy and Ice Cream," on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Love
the Sweetest, Angel Love..."", February 12, 2016.
- "On
Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" reprinted in Spectrum 2:
The Gift, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, December 2015.
- "A
Study with Cherries" in English and Polish, "The Lady with an
Ermine" (reprint), and new poems, "An Invitation to the
Dance" and "A Music Box Christmas" on Poetry Laurels
Blog, "On
Polish Christmas in the Notre Dame Cathedral", December 17, 2015.
- "After
Dali" and a haiku tour of Paris's Dali Museum on Poetry Laurels
Blog, "On
Dali's Silver Towers of Eyes". December 7, 2015.
- "The
Cathedral," "A Revelation after Il Paradiso" and a haiku
tour of Leonardo's paintings at the Louvre, on Poetry Laurels Blog,"Thanksgiving
in Paris with Leonardo, Swans, Music and Rain", November 26, 2015
- "Oblivion"
(haibun on chemtrails) in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly,
Winter 2015.
- "Oblivion"
and "The Great God Experiment" (reprinted from Meditations
on Divine Names, on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Rain
and No Rain...", October 29, 2015.
- "The
Lady with an Ermine" (rev.), and "Repeat after me" on
Poetry Laurels Blog, "Give
it all away..." September 25, 2015.
- "Whispers"
in Spectrum, an anthology of Los Angeles Poets edited by Don
Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, September 2015. First published in Rose
Always (rev. 2011).
- "My
Full Moon in September" in Hometown
Pasadena, September 29, 2015.
- "The
Night of Day," "Once Upon a Love," "Absence" and
"Nameless" coupled with poems by Don Kingfisher Campbell
in heARTbreak: reimagined anthology edited by Karineh
Mahdessian, Los Angeles, September 2015.
- "The
Waiting," "The Veil, the Weave," and "An Invitation to
the Dance" reprinted in the Poetry Laurels Blog for September 1,
2015, "On
Gardeners, Murderers, and the Virtue of Patience."
- "The
Finish Line" (haibun) and three haiku in Drawn to the Light,2015
Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, Pasadena.
- "Lament
for Rita Joe," "Canadian Afterwards," and "Of Days and
Sky," published in the Poetry Laurels Blog for July 8, 2015, on "The
Visionary Matilda Gage and the Quest for Liberty."
- "Sleep,"
"Endless," "From the Mountains," "Rose: A
no-name-yes," "Of Bliss," reprinted in Poetry Laurels Blog
for June 13, 2015, "Daffodils
and Rose Gardens"
- "A
Letter to My Son" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Summer
2015.
- "Moon
(Un)Reality" reprinted in Chopin
with Cherries Blog, vol. 6, no. 6, June 5, 2015; and published in the
Interview with Kathabela Wilson for "Colorado Boulevard" in
Pasadena,Mapping
the Artist: Maja Trochimczyk." The poem is also reprinted
on FullMoon.info website,
in the Full
Moon Poems section.
- "The
Waiting," "On Grief and Loss: A Trilogy" and "The
Shooting Star" in Femmwise
Cat a special issue of the Clockwise Cat celebrating
women, March 2015, Part II: 92-96.
- "An
Intermission" - a new Holocaust poem, on Poetry
Laurels Blog, April 15, 2015.
- "Bees
and the Breeze" from Slicing the Bread reprinted by
Poetry Super Highway, in 17th Annual Yom Ha Shoah issue; http://poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/2015/04/annual-yom-ha-shoah-issue-2015/
- "A
Study with Cherries," "What Once Was" and "A Summer of
Love" in Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2015, edited
by Thelma T. Reyna. Pasadena, April 2015.
- "The
Way to School" from Slicing the Bread reprinted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, March 5, 2015.
- "What
to Carry" from Slicing the Bread reprinted on Poetry
Laurels blog, February 8, 2015.
- "Adorable"
- a fragment posted in Kathabela Wilson's Poetry Corner "Reflections
on Relationships" on ColoradoBoulevard.net,
and the whole poem on Poetry
Laurels Blog, January 20, 2015.
- "A
Trilogy of Grief and Loss," "The Waiting" and "The
Shooting Star," in The Clockwise Cat, women's
issue Femmewise Cat, March 2015.
http://issuu.com/clockwisecat/docs/femmewise_cat_part_ii?e=13963388%2F11675756
- "On
Bliss" "Definition: Writing", "Memento Vitae" and
"A Study with Cherries" with Polish Translations reprinted in
the blog Poetry
Laurels, January 11, 2015.
- "Ascension:
A Memorial Poem" with Polish Translation "Wniebowstapienie"
in the blog Poetry
Laurels, January 2015.
- "Wish
Upon A Star" in the 2015 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Calendar edited
by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
TO 2014
- Two
haiku in the Apology of Wildflowers, Gregory Longnecker, ed.
2014 Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group. November 2014.
- "A
Mirage" in OccuPoetry, Vol.
4 (summer 2014): 15, with a video of the reading.
- "Slicing
the Bread," the title poem from a chapbook of the same title,
in Quill
and Parchment, Vol. 160, Fall 2014; New Book Releases Poetry
Laurels blog, July 2014.
- "Slicing
the Bread," "What to Carry," "Starlight," and
"The Spoon," in PoetryMagazine.com, Vol.
13 no. 3 (Fall 2014). Features selected by Andrena Zawinski.
- "The
Alchemist Tree in Winter" in Edgar
Allan Poet Journal, Vol. 2 (2014): 80-81. Edited by Apryl
Skies.
- "Peeling
the Potatoes" in Gutters
& Alleyways: Perspectives on Poverty and Struggle anthology
edited by Nancy Lynée Woo and Sarah Thursday. Lucid Moose Lit, September
2014, ISBN 9780692284568.
- "The
Way to School" in San
Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Vol. 63 (Summer 2014).
- Slicing
the Bread. Children's Surviva Manual in 25 Poems, chapbook of 25 poems
based on war memories from Poland. Finishing Line Press, October 2014.
- "Afterimage"
in the 16th
Annual Yom Hashoah issue for the Holocaust Remembrance Day,
Poetry SuperHighway, edited by Rick Lupert, April 2014.
- "Not
Aspartame," in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly vol.
62 (Spring 2014).
- "Memory
Mirrors" and "The Veil, the Weave" reprinted in a blog
"Women's Poems of Struggle and Hope" in Poetry
Laurels, February 2014. "Memory Mirrors" was originally
published in Poets on Site's anthology for Susan Dobay's "Impressions
of China" (2012) and "The Veil" in The Voice of the
Village, April 2012.
- "Lady
with an Ermine," in a blog "Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, The
Royal Castle and the Monuments Men," Poetry
Laurels, February 2014.
- "Zaduszki,"
and "Standing Guard" in a blog "Day of Remembrance at the
United Nations and in family History," Poetry Laures, January
2014.
- "A
Dream of Orpheus" in anthology of poetry inspired by Stephen
Linsteadt's paintings, Woman in Metaphor, ed. Maria Elena B.
Mahler (2013).
- "How
to Make a Mazurka" reprinted on the blog on Prusinowski Trio, Chopin
with Cherries, November 2013.
- "Skydance"
and "At Last" on the website Fieralingue, Italy, 2013.
- "A
Call to Prayer" and "The Cathedral" in the "Read,
Dream, Pray" blog on Poetry
Laurels, January 2014
- "Wishing
You a Mery Christmas" in the holiday blog at Poetry
Laurels, December 2013.
- "Thanksgiving
Tanka" and "The Day of Peaches" in the Thanksgiving
blog Poetry
Laurels, November 2013.
- "The
Hour of Darkness," "Love Horror," "Last Wish,"
and "The Polish Easter" in a blog "On Halloween, All Souls
and All Saints," Poetry
Laurels Blog, October 2013.
- "The
Cornerstone" reprinted in "The Phoenix Flame" vol. 1 no. 3,
September 2013.
- "Rosa
Incognita," "Amor 6," Ellenai 6," and "Desert
Rose" reprinted in Poetry
Laurels Blog about the "Shadows, Leaves, Roses"
exhibition, September 2013.
- "The
Spinning Wheel" ("Breathe a song of new life...") in
the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Vol. 59, Summer 2013.
- "Midnight
Fire" haibun and three haiku in Dandelion Breeze," the
Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, November 2013.
- "Coming
Home from the Funeral of my Father" in Quill and Parchment vol.
105, July 2013.
- "Vision,
Unveiled," inspired by Susan Dobay's artwork "Bride on the
Rocks" in San
Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, vol. 58, Spring 2013.
- "The
Music Stand" dedicated to Henry Brant, for his centennial, and
"The Flavor of Summer" posted on Poetry
Laurels Blog, June 2013.
- "Definicja
Literatury" or "Definition: Writing" in Polish translation
in a feature on emigre poets edited by Anna Maria Mickiewicz, in Poezja
Dzisiaj, No. 99, 2013.
- "A
Portrait in Brackets" and "A Lesson for my Daughter" in
Poetry Column "On Irony and Love Songs" in The Voice of
the Village vol. 4, no. 6, June 2013.
- "Definition:
Writing" reprinted in the Poetry
Laurels Blog for the National Poetry Month, April 2013.
- "Flower
Falls" and "Death Valley Sunset" in the Poetry Column
"Finding Poetry in the Colors of Death Valley" in The
Voice of the Village, vol. 4, no. 4, April 2013.
- "Incandescent"
and "The Taste of the Sky" reprinted in the Poetry
Laurels Blog, March 26, 2013.
- "A
Visit to Gdansk Oliwa, August 1969," and "Most
Wanted" in Loch
Raven Review, Vol. 8, No. 4, Winter 2012.
- "On
Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" and "The Poet of Lost
Cats" (in memory of Karen Klingman), in the Poetry and
Cookies Anthology, Altadena Public Library, 2013.
- "On
Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" in the blog "Did Chopin like
Donuts?" in Chopin
with Cherries Blog, Vol. 4 No. 1, January 2013.
- "Flower
Falls" and "Asleep" inspired by the artwork of Debby
Prohias and Galen Young, in Poetry
Laurels Blog, March 6, 2013
- "Rose
Garland" from Rose Always and "A Summer Rose
Dream" in a blog on Chopin's Roses, Chopin
with Cherries Blog, vol. 4 no. 2, February 2013
- "A
Song of a Rose" (Version of "When you smile..."),
"Rosier d'Amour" and "Rose Garland" from Rose
Always reprinted in Poetry
Laurels Blog, February 2013
- "Asters"
in the Poetry Corner on great women in The Voice of the Village,
vol. 4 no. 3, March 2013
- "A
Skipping Lesson" inspired by a digital collage of Susan
Dobay, from her "Impressions of China" series, in Quill
and Parchment, vol. 141, March 2013.
- "Perdita
and the Oldtimer" and "Since You Asked" in the Poetry
Corner "History of Roses" in The Voice of the Village,
vol. 4 no. 2, February 2013.
- "A
Mirage," in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, vol.
56, Winter 2012.
- "Now,
about that Novelist" and "A Place of Stones" in the Poetry
Corner: "Year of Faith, Year of the Snake" in The
Voice of the Village, vol. 4 no. 1, p. 28, January 2013.
- "The
Unseen" in The
Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology, October 13, 201
- "The
Music Box" reprinted in a column on the Exhibition "Immigrants
in Our Community" at Bolton Hall in the Poetry
Laurels blog, November 2012
- "Rules
for Happy Holy Days" and "In the Mountains" reprinted in
the poetry column "Poetry Corner: Make Your Own Holidays,"
in The Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 12, December 2012.
- "Among
the Lilies (Water Lilies 1 and 2)" in the Lummox Journal, www.lummoxpress.com,
October 2012.
- "The
Cornerstone," "Song of Gratitude," and a reprint of
"The Box of Peaches" in the Poetry
Laurels Blog, October 2012.
- "The
Mirage" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly,, No.
56, Winter 2012.
- "A
Subliminal Song" in the poetry column "Poetry Corner: October is
a Funny Month of Time and Timelessness", in The Voice of the
Village, vol. 3 no. 10, October 2012.
- "The
Rite of Passage" in the Epiphany Magazine, October
2012 (with three photographs).
- "The
Art of the Fugue" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No.
55, Fall 2012.
- "Memento
Vitae" and "A Lesson for my Daughter" in the poetry column
"Poetry Corner: Back to School Everyone" in The Voice of
the Village monthly, vol. 3, no. 9, September 2012. Also posted
in the Poetry
Laurels blog, August, 14, 2012.
- "A
Pear in a Tree" and "A Study with Cherries" in the poetry
column "Harvesting Pears and Poems" in The Voice of the
Village monthly, vol. 3 no. 8, August 2012. "A Pear in a
Tree" was also posted on Poetry
Laurels blog, July 2012.
- "Three
Postcards from Paris" - three poems inspired by watercolors of Ron
Liebbrecht and a 2011 visit to Paris, in Quill and Parchment,
vol. 100, July 2012.
- "In
Krakow's Main Square at 7 a.m." and "Huntington Garden
Haiku" in the poetry column "On Medieval Melody and California
Gardens" in The Voice of the Village monthly, vol. 3
no. 7, July 2012.
- "Memento
Vitae" in Serbian translation by Dr. Mirjana N. Radovanov-Mataric,
in Vecernje novosti (daily newspaper in Belgrade), 21
July 2012
- "Tulip
Dust" in Serbian translation as "Prah lala," and four other
poems ("Sierra," "Ganesha," "Memento Vitae"
and "What I love in Poland") translated by Mirjana N. Mataric.
SVESKE, God. 22, Knj. 104, June 2012. p. 29.
- "Jardin
de Bagatelles" and "Rose Always" in a poetry column,
"Poetry in a Rose Garden" in the Voice of the Village monthly,
vol. 3 no. 6, June 2012.
- "Buddha
with Swans," "Convergence," "Dead Sea Alive,"
"Incandescent (Via Positiva)," "Snow Alight,"
"Omniscient," "On Seeing Oak Leaves in Sunlight,"
"Playful (Via Negativa)," "The Great God Experiment,"
and "The Hands of Mercy" in Meditations
on Divine Names, Moonrise Press, 2012. "Convergence" was
reprinted in Poetry
Laurels blog, July 19, 2012.
- "Definition:
Writing" reprinted in the NoHo Art District Journal,
in an article by Apryl Skiles, April 2012; also archived
on the website EdgarAllanPoet.Com.
- "The
Cornerstone" and "Afternoon Tea" in a monthly column,
"On Virtues and Art in Jail," in the Voice of the
Village", vol. 3 no. 5, May 2012.
- "The
Waiting," "The Road Home," "Midnight Fire" and
"The Jewel Box Sunrise" in the Poetry and Cookies 2012 Anthology
edited by Pauli Dutton, Altadena Public Library, April 2012.
- "An
Elegy for a Man Who Did Not Fly" in the Polish-American
Anthology, edited by John Z. Guzlowski and John Minczeski, University
of Akron Press, forthcoming in 2012.
- "The
Veil, the Weave," and "Lichen" in a monthly column,
"The Survival of Art, the Art of Survival," in the Voice
of the Village", vol. 3 no. 4, April 2012.
- "Dead
Sea Alive" and "Manna" in The Voice of the Village,
vol. 3 no. 3, in a monthly column "On Manna, the Dead Sea, and the
Divine," March 2012.
- "My
Sky" and "See, How We Dance?" in The
Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 2, in the column Poetry Corner,
"Poetry - in Pursuit of Happiness," February 2012.
- "Easter
Apocalypsis" in The Scream Online, the
special issue on "Heaven
and Hell" - a collection of 48 poems by 37 poets edited by
John Z. Guzlowski, with photographs by Richard Beban, 2011.
- "A
Jewel Box Sunrise" in an anthology of love poems From Benicia
with Love, ed. Don Peery. Benicia, 2013."A Jewel Box
Sunrise" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly 52
(winter 2011).
- "A
Jewel Box Sunrise" and "Rosa Mystica" in The Voice
of the Village, vol. 3 no. 1, January 2012.
- "The
Sea of Birds" and "Making Honey" in The
Voice of the Village, vol. 2, no. 12, December 2011.
- "Awakening,"
"The Sea of Birds," "Making Honey," and "See, how
we dance?" in On Awakening, poetry inspired by the art of
Susan Dobay, edited by Kathabela Wilson, Poets on Site, 2011.
- "A
Box of Peaches,"An Embroidery Lesson" and "Buddha" in
"Poetry Audio Tour 2011" chapbook celebrating the 40th
Anniversary of the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena: Poets on Site, 2011.
Includes audio and
- "Unknowing"
and "Guideposts of Eternity" in Chapbook "Art and
Alchemy" on the painting by Stephen Linsteadt, ed. Kathabela Wilson,
Pasadena: Poets on Site, 2011.
- "My
Sky" with its photograph, in the 2011 Calendar edited
by Don Kingfisher Campbell for Emerging Urban Poets, Pasadena.
- "The
Color Guard" in the Poetry Laurels Blog, July 1, 2011.
- "For
Sale," "A Box of Peaches," in The Voice of the
Village, November 2011, in a column "From Grief to
Thanksgiving" in The Voice of the Village, November 2012.
- "A
Dark Promise," "Home Sweet Home," "The Waiting,"
"The Road Home," "Through the Fire" and haiku for
Owens Lake. Painted my Way anthology edited by Kathabela
Wilson. Poets on Site, Pasadena, 2011.
- "Song
of Orpheus" inspired by painting "Dancer Upstairs" and
forthcoming in Stephen Lindsteadt's book of poetry about his art, 2011.
- "When,
oh When" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, vol. 51,
Summer 2011.
- "Harvesting
Chopin" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 2, no. 9,
September 2011.
- "The
Cat and the Crescent" and "Sunlight" in The Voice
of the Village, August 2011.
- "A
Desert Tale" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly vol.
50, Spring 2011 (also known as "The Cat and the Crescent").
- "On
the Beach" and "Shelled Sunset" (after Susan Dobay's
"Sunset"), two poems for Father's Day, in The Voice of
the Village, June 2011.
- "An
Elegy for a Man Who Did Not Fly" (first version), in Angie's
Diary,angiesdiary.com/poetry-and-lyrics/elegy-man-fly/,
January 25, 2011
- "Rosa
Mystica" a poem and a collage inspired by Dante's Beatrice, in online
Chapbook forGalerie De Difformite edited by Kathi Stafford,Beatrice
Emerges, with Millicent Borges Accardi, Susan Rogers, and Jennifer
Smith, 2011. difformitechapbooks.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/beatrice-emerges/
- "Circles
in Crimson" in Lily
Literary Review, May 2011.
- "The
Lake of Claret" and "What I like in Poland" in Poetry
and Cookies 2011, anthology edited by Pauli Dutton, published by
the Altadena Public Library.
- "Only
in California," "Time Lapse Garden," and "Cosmos"
in the Voice
of the Village, 2, no. 7, p. 31, May 2011 (pdf download in a
column "The Desert, Garden, and the Stars: Only in California").
- "The
Cornerstone of the Soul," "The Wind," and "The Great
God Experiment," in the Voice
of the Village, 2 no. 6, p. 22, April 2011 (pdf download in a
column "Spring Cleaning and a New Life").
- "Entropy"
dedicated to Henry Fukuhara in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry
Quarterly," Winter 2011.
- "On
Seeing Madonnas at the National Museum, Warsaw," "Canyon Growing
Pains" and "Bird's News" in the Voice
of the Village 2 no. 5, p. 27, March 2011 (In a column
"Seeing and Hearing in the Spring").
- "Ready
to Wear" in the Voice
of the Village, 2 no. 4, p. 25, February 1, 2011 (pdf download in a
column "A Different Valentine").
- "Tiger
Nights" in the Epiphany
Magazine, February 2011.
- "Married
Christmas" in the Voice
of the Village, 2 no. 1, January 2011, p. 27.
- "Mountains
of Grief" in memory of Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki in the Voice
of the Village 1, no. 11, December 2010, p. 27.
- "From
the Ashes" in the San
Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No. 48 (Fall 2010).
- "Thanksgiving
for Basia" in the Voice
of the Village 1, No. 11, November 2010, p. 27.
- "Crossing
the Lethe," "A Romance, Pure and Simple," and
"Penelope's Dream" in Kathabela Wilson, ed., The Art of
Toti O'Brien (Pasadena: Poets on Site, October 2010). First
published as a chapbook in March 2010.
- "Pining
for a Portrait," "The Blue Rooster," "On Seeing
Camellia and Iris," "Carpe Diem" and "The Mug"
in Indigo: Japanese Pottery in Blue and White, Chapbook by
Poets on Site, edited by Kathabela Wilson, Pasadena, December 2010.
- "Mountain
Talk," "Against All Odds," "Wait, there's more,"
"A Proposal," and "Skydance" in Poets on Site chapbook
for the Annual Plein Air Workshop at Manzanar and Alabama Hills, September
2010.
- "With
Open Arms" and "The Golden Hour" in Chapbook by Poets on
Site at the Arlington Gardens, Pasadena, August 2010.
- "AWild
One" and "Time Lapse Garden" in Chapbook by Poets on Site
for the garden of Jean Sudbury and Vance Fox, Pasadena, July 2010.
- "Rose
Window" in the Voice
of the Village 1, no. 10, August 2010, p. 27 (pdf download).
- "Fearful
Symmetry in Blue" online by Don Kingfisher Campbell in his
blog, My
Poem Rocks, July 3, 2010.
- "Thistles
and Waltzes Forever" and "Wild Strawberries" in Pauline
Dutton, ed., Poetry and Cookies Anthology 2010 (Altadena
Public Library, May 2010).
- "Dragonfly
Days," "Rivers," and "An Ode of the Lost" in Lost
and Found - Immigrant Experience in Poetry, in the Cosmopolitan
Review 2 no. 2 (Spring 2010), with an introduction and work
by three other poets, Linda Nemec Foster, Oriana, and Lillian Vallee.
- An
Ode of the Lost, dedicated to Adam Mickiewicz and all Polish exiles.
The first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall
Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/LWSOufEAk30
- "Mountain
Watch" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No. 46
(Summer 2010).
- "Mountain
Watch" and "Interlude - Of Bliss" reprinted in the Voice
of The Village 1, no. 8, June 1, 2010, p. 27 (pdf download).
- Mountain
Watch, at the first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga,
introduced by Joe DeCenzo, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May
23, 2010: http://www.youtu.be/MxlahG639pY
- "Mama
and me" in the Voice
of the Village 1, no. 7, p. 4 (May 2010, pdf download),
Mother's Day Issue, with a photo of the collage by Susan Dobay that
inspired this poem.
- "Look
at me..." in the Loch
Raven Review 6, no. 1, Spring 2010. ISSN 1557-7627.
- 'Look
at me...' , inspired by Ella Fitzgerald's "Misty" and a
Sunday drive to a Buddhist orchard. The first reading as Poet Laureate of
Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23,
2010: http://youtu.be/TJzzOId3KCY
- "A
Study with Cherries" in the Cosmopolitan
Review 2 no. 1 (Spring 2010), celebrating the publication
of Chopin with Cherries.
- "In
a Winter Garden" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No.
45 (Spring 2010).
- "My
Hat Collection" with photos in hats, a Picasa web album On
Fashion in Verse, May 20, 2010.
- "An
Ode of the Lost" in Tour of the World chapbook by
Poets on Site, Pasadena, April 2010.
- An
Ode of the Lost, dedicated to Adam Mickiewicz and all Polish exiles.
The first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall
Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/LWSOufEAk30
- "Condemned,"
"Fearful Symmetry in Blue," and "A Foreign Tale,"
in Indian Miniatures at Pacific Asia Museum, chapbook of Poets
on Site, Pasadena, April 2010.
- "Look
at me..." online, Featured Poet for the week January 11-18,
2010, at Poetry Super Highway, edited by Rick Lupert.
- "A
Portrait in Brackets (Eidetic Reduction)" in 2010 Calendar of
Emerging Urban Poets, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena,
December 2009.
- A
Portrait in Brackets (Eidetic Reduction) at the first reading as
Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga,
California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/eFhVhOAxbxM
- "Shelled
Sunset," "Mama's Music," and "Red and Purple" in
Poets on Site Chapbook for the art of Susan Dobay, Pasadena, edited by
Kath Abela Wilson, November 2009.
- "Thanksgiving
for Basia" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No.
44 (winter 2009) and on website "Tales from Poetic Oceans," for
January 2010.
- "Dead
Sea Alive" in Quill and Parchment, vol. 101, online
journal, December 2009.
- "A
Widow's Portrait" and "Snowfall" in the 2009
Emerging Urban Poets Anthology edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Pasadena: Emerging Urban Poets, November 2009. The Arms of Mercy,
Poetry Audio Tour of the Pacific Asia Museum, August 22, 2009. http://www.youtu.be/52p-lWq2zxU
- Illuminata,
Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, with Rick Wilson, flute, recorded at
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, August 22, 2009, also posted on the
museum's website and published in the "Poetry Audio Tour"
chapbook, Poets on Site, Pasadena, 2009: http://youtu.be/mbiIMszaLwY Illuminata, written
for Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, version read at the Passing of the
Laurels Ceremony, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, California, April 25,
2010: http://youtu.be/Bst2kYh8ciM
- A
Magnolia Courtryard for Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, with Rick
Wilson, flute, recorded at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, August 22,
2009: http://youtu.be/1kOTn11xa1I
- "On
Fear of Contentment," "The Soil of Faith" and "On
Wisdom" in Discovering Ganesha: The Remover of Obstacles,
Chapbook by Poets on Site, Pasadena, July 2009.
- "The
Camellia" in Don Kingfisher Campbell's Tails from Poetic
Oceans, April 5, 2009, http://kingfisher1031.blogspot.com/
- "The
Monument of Time" and "Memento Vitae" in the Clockwise
Cat online journal, Vol.
15, October 2009.
- "Harvesting
Chopin", "How
to Make a Mazurka," and "Recurrence," Featured
Poet in Quill and Parchment, no. 100, online journal, October
2009.
- See Maja's
reading of "How to Make a Mazurka" on YouTube, at Don
Kingfisher Campbell's class "Upward Bound" at Occidental
College, June 30, 2010.
- "On
Fear of Contentment," Sage Trail, October-November 2009.
- Eight
poems, "Eloe 1, Amor 1, In Passing 6, Ellenai 1, The Jungle, Green
Sea at Albian, Black Cats, and On Bliss" (from Miriam's Iris and
Poets on Site chapbooks) in bilingual chapbook, Sunlight
Confessions, KRAK group of artists and poets, Los Angeles, October
2009.
- "The
Jungle," (after Milford Zornes's painting "Burma Jungle at
Shadowsuet"), Ekphrasis Journal, September 2009.
- "The
Monument of Time," Phantom Seed, No. 3, Fall 2009.
- "The
Sycamores," San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No. 43,
Fall 2009.
- "The
Taste of the Sky" and "Tulip Dust" in Poetry and
Cookies, Chapbook of Altadena Public Library, edited by Pauline
Dutton, April 2009, p. 112-113.
- "Blades
and Bliss - 1. Rage, mirrored, 2. Love,
unveiled" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No.
41, Spring 2009. Read the poem here.
- "At
Dawn (In Passing 3)" and "Interlude - Of the Mountains"
from Miriam's Iris in Magnapoets, January
2009.
- Seven
poems, "A White Letter," "Gold Leaf, Ultramarine,"
"Entrapment," "Mountain Waltz," "Always,"
"Marking Time," and "Meadow Dreams" in Poets on Site
chapbook for the 12th Annual Fukuhara Workshop at Manzanar and Alabama
Hills, Observations and Interpretations, September 2009.
- "Sophia
2" and "Sophia 4" from Miriam's Iris, in Mystic
Saint Blog Spot,
http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/2008/10/sophianic-love-and-blessing.html.
- Eleven
poems, "Magnolia Courtyard," "Horse of the Earth,"
"Phoenix Dance," "The Cricket Sings," "The Mask
of Chung," "Tibetan Prayer Horn," "The Deer
Flight," "Buddha with Swans," "Arms of Mercy,"
"Illuminata," and "Exit Tanka" for Permanent
Collection Tour Chapbook at the Pacific Asia Museum, Poets on Site, August
2009.
- "Water
of the Fountain" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No.
40, Fall 2008.
- Claremont
Concert" and Rivers" in PoeticDiversity online,
August 2008. More information is here.
- Claremont
Concert, read at the Passing of the Laurels Ceremony, McGroarty Arts
Center, Tujunga, California, April 25, 2010, published in
poeticdiversity.org vol. 8 no. 2 (August 2008):http://youtu.be/ceX1_IWZW4Q
- "The
Universe" in Southland Poets of the Fantastic Chapbook,
Pasadena, March 2008.
- "On
Seeing Forest Dance," "The Sierra," and "The Monument
of Time" in Milford Zornes Chapbook no. 2, Pasadena:
Poets on Site, May 2008.
- "Wild
Boars," "The Jungle" and "The Source of the Nile"
in Zornes in Asia (India, China, Burma) Chapbook, Pasadena:
Poets on Site, August 2008.
- Eight
poems in 11th Annual Henry Fukuhara Workshop Exhibition Chapbook,
Pasadena: Poets on Site, September 2008: "A Passage," "View
from Long Pine," "Blue," "Timelessness,"
"Afternoon Tea," "A Crust of Lichen," "Manzanar
Internment Camp," and "Colors"
- Seven
poems in Three Generations Chapbook (Zornes, Anderson,
Liebrecht), July 2008, two for Anderson ("Venice" and
"Rancho Cucamonga") and five for Zornes ("Point San
Vincente," "California Coast", "Sunset Beach",
"Alabama Hills," and "Green See at Albian"), Pasadena:
Poets on Site, August 2008.
- Rose
Always - A Court Love Story. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008, rev.
edition, 2011. Surprisingly sweet and gentle, this love story of a crime
victim and a sex offender consists of 77 brief, lyrical poems and 23
narrative fragments. Inspired by the Songs of Songs and centuries of love
poems, from Sappho to Milosz. Read a sample here: 12
Poems from Rose Always . Hardcover without Photos (136
pp.): ISBN
978-0-615-26362-5. Preview on Google Books: Rose
Always Preview. 2nd Edition, Hardcover with Color Photos (184
pp.): ISBN
978-0-9819693-1-2. Preview on Google Books: Rose
Always Illustrated Preview. 3rd Paperback Edition (136 pp.): ISBN
978-0-9819693-4-3 Video recording of a reading of selected love
poems from Rose Always - A Court Love Story (poems no.
12, 13, 20, 52) at the first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga,
at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/k5W-X6mEygM
- Miriam's
Iris, or Angels in the Garden. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008. A
poetry collection organized around appearances of six angels: Amor, the
angel of romance; Eros, the angel of desire; Eloe, the angel of sorrow;
Thanatos, the angel of death; Ellenai, the angel of consolation; and Sophia,
the angel of wisdom. Read a sample of poems here.
Paperback without Photos: ISBN
978-0-578-00166-1 Hardcover with Color Photos: ISBN
978-0-9819693-2-9
- Passing
of the Laurels Ceremony for the Sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga,
with Joe DeCenzo, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, California, April 25,
2010. Includes reading of two short poems from "Miriam's Iris"
("Of the Mountains" and "Of Bliss"): http://youtu.be/xLMhXh01bl8 The
first reading of Of the Mountains, a poem inspired by a
painting by Bill Anderson, "Foothill Rancho Cucamonga, Cliff
Road" and read at "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC
Gallery Torrance, California, July 26, 2008:http://youtu.be/TL3oXxJC-Bg
- Green
Sea at Albian, (Cathedral), inspired by a painting by Milford Zornes
of the same title, read at "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC
Gallery Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://www.youtu.be/sCO7aSYXfgc
- Into
the Sunset, inspired by Milford Zornes's painting, "Sunset
Beach" and read at the "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC
Gallery, Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://youtu.be/jDuuBhg0fuw
- Point
San Vincente, inspired by Milford Zornes's painting of the same
title. "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery, Torrance,
California, July 26, 2008: http://www.youtu.be/jLai-H7wf5A
- Stravinsky's
Venice, inspired by Bill Anderson"s painting Venice, Italy.
"Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery, Torrance,
California, July 26, 2008: http://youtu.be/hh6SWgsX09c
- "Watercolors,"
in Milford Zornes Chapbook no. 1, Pasadena: Poets on
Site, March 2008.
- "My
love is like the weather" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry
Quarterly, No. 37, Winter 2007, the weather issue.
Portrait by Susan Rogers, 2012.
MUSIC AND CULTURE - ARTICLES
- "Nagrody im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej w Kalifornii" - Article in Polish on e-teatr.pl portal, published 12 May 2025, https://e-teatr.pl/nagrody-im-heleny-modrzejewskiej-w-kalifornii-58192
- "Czym
jest muzyka?" (What is music?), an essay commissioned for anthology
of poems and essays about music by Międzynarodowa Grupa
Literacko-Artystyczna Kwadrat, Metafora Współczesności. Muzyczne
Treści Brzmienia Wariacje Konteksty. Antologia 2024, pp.
363-375.
- "Józef
Wybicki, Dąbrowski Mazurka and Poland's National Anthems" (Vol. 13,
No. 1) Chopin with Cherries blog http://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2022/03/jozef-wybicki-dabrowski-mazurka-and.html
- "More
Music for Poland's 100th Anniversary of Regained Independence (Vol. 9, No.
12)" on Chopin with Cherries Blog, December 19, 2018:https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/12/more-music-to-celebrate-polands-100th.html
- "Los
Angeles Celebrates 100 Years of Poland's Regained Independence with Music
(Vol. 9, No. 11)"on Chopin with Cherries Blog, November 12, 2018:https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/11/los-angeles-celebrates-100-years-of.html
- "100
Years of Poland in Music - Lecture from Modjeska Club Concert (Vol. 9, No.
8)" on Chopin with Cherries Blog, November 2018: https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/10/100-years-of-poland-in-music-lecture.html
- "From
13 Polish Psalms by Alexander Janta Poczynski (vol. 9 no. 6)" on
Chopin with Cherries Blog, August 2018; https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/08/from-13-polish-psalms-by-alexander.html
- "Celebrating
Van Gogh's Mulberry Tree and Endless Summers (Vol. 9, No. 2)" on
CHopin with Cherries Blog, March 1, 2018: https://chopinwithcherries.blogspot.com/2018/03/celebrating-van-goghs-mulberry-tree-and.html
- "Paderewski
and Poland's Independence," on Chopin with Cherries Blog, vol. 9, No.
1, January 7, 2018.
- "Celebrating
Tansman's Music and Legacy at 120," on Chopin with Cherries Blog,
Vol. 8, No. 5, March 26, 2017.
- "Kornel
Ujejski's Dramatic Poems about Chopin in English Translation," on ,
Vol. 7, No. 3, February 19, 2016.
- "Marta
Ptaszynska" - profile of the composer in Ruch Muzyczny, July 2015.
- "On
Virtues of Musicians and Romances of Aristocrats, or Szymanowska in
Paris," in MEA Kultura, April 28, 2014.
- "O cnocie muzykow i romansach
arystokracji, czyli Szymanowska w Paryzu" in Ruch Muzyczny, May 2014.
- "Kanon XIX/XX: Szymanowska"
in Ruch Muzyczny, March 2015 (in Polish).
- "Created
by Stalin, Embraced by Emigrants? Mazowsze, Slask and the Polish Folk
Dance Movement in America" in Cosmopolitan Review vol.
4, no. 1-2, Winter-Spring 2013, March 2013.
- "On
Letter-writing and the Intimate Chopin," in MEA
Kultura, August 2012.
- "On
Szymanowska and Chopin in Paris," in MEA Kultura, July
2012
- "Gorecki,
Chopin and the Mountains," in MEA Kultura,
April, 2012
- "Henryk
Mikolaj Gorecki - In Memoriam" in The Polish Review, vol.
59, no. 3, Fall 2012.
- "Compassion,
Construction and Color: The Music of Marta Ptaszynska," in the IAWM
Journal, Fall 2011. Reprinted in MEA
Kultura online, June 2013.
- "Monthly
Poetry Column" in the Voice of the Village community
paper of the Foothills, October 2010 to June 2013.
- "Tansman's
Symphonic Music, vol. 4" - Liner notes for Chandos House Records CD
of Alexandre Tansman's symphonic music (Sinfoniettas, Sinfornia Piccola),
2009.
- "Tansman's
Symphonic Music, vol. 3" - Liner notes for Chandos House Records CD
of Alexandre Tansman Symphonic Music, vol. 3, 2008.
- "Tansman's
Piano Music" - Liner notes for Chandos House Records CD of Alexandre
Tansman Piano Music, 2009.
- "Tragic
Irony of Chance: Andriessen's 'Writing to Vermeer'." Liner notes for
Nonesuch CD of Writing to Vermeer, 2006.
- "Manru Paderewskiego"
[Paderewski's Manru]. Przeglad Polski [Nowy Dziennik],
26 June 2005, pp. 1-2.
- "Poland
and Holland: Inter/nationalism in New Music." CD-ROM, Conference
Proceedings (Holland-USA, MIT Press), 1998.
- "Feminism
and what it Means to Me," Polish News Online, 2001;
http://www.polishnews.com/fulltext/fem/2001/feminism10.shtml
- "Dein
Schmerz war Dein Gluck," [Your pain was your happiness], an eulogy
for Iannis Xenakis, in German trans. by Gisele Gronemeyer, Musiktexte,
no. 89 (Spring 2001): 54-58; special issue dedicated to Xenakis.
- "Percussion,
Poetry and Color: The Music of Marta Ptaszynska." (MAH). Musicworks,
no. 74 (Summer 1999).
- "Triumphs
of Modernity: Xenakis's Kraanerg at the National Arts
Centre" Musicworks ,
no. 68 (Winter 1997): 24-31, (paper co-authored with James Harley).
- "Ritual und Klangschaft. Zur
Musik von R. Murray Schafer." [Ritual and soundscape in the
music of R. Murray Schafer] in German translation by Martina Homma, MusikTexte, 67/68
(January 1997): 23-34.
- "Notes
on Polish Women Composers." Bulletin of the Polish Institute
of Arts and Sciences in Canada and the Polish Library vol. 13
(1996): 36-40. Also published in the IAWM Journal 2, no.
2 (June 1996): 13-15. Reprinted on PMC Web Site.
- "Notes
on Music Ecology as a New Research Paradigm." Journal of
Acoustic Ecology, at the Web Site of the World Forum for Acoustic
Ecology, 1995 .http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/FC/WFAEResearch/notesonmusic
- "Polski rok bez Beli
Bartoka." [Polish year without Bela Bartok]. Ruch
Muzyczny 40, no. 1 (January 1996).
- "Dzwiek i zycie: Narodziny
ekologii dzwiekowej." [Sound and life: The birth of acoustic
ecology]. Ruch Muzyczny 39, no. 6 (19 March 1995): 6-7.
In Polish.
The Foothills Poetry Festival, January 10, 2015 at
Sunland-Tujunga Library
- Review
of William Scott Galasso, Saffron Skies (2022), in
the Poetry Letter, no. 1 of 2023.
- Review
of The Sound of Hope: Music as Solace, Resistance and Salvation
during the Holocaust and World War II by Kellie D. Brown
(McFarland and Company, Inc. 2020) the Polish Review, 2024.
- Review
of Maria Wilczek-Krupa, Gorecki: Geniusz i Upor (Krakow:
ZNAK, 2018), in The Polish Review vol. 65, no. 3, 2020:
111-113.
- Review
of Jan Wiktor Sienkiewicz, Artysci Andersa [Anders's
Artists], 3rd edition, 2015. Polish American Studies, vol. 75,
no. 2 (Autumn 2018): 112-117.
- "Music
in Troubled Times: On Andrzej Panufnik" [Review Essay on Beata
Boleslawska, Andrzej Panufnik, 2015]. Polish Review vol.
68, no. 1 (2018): 69-74.
- Review
of John Z. Guzlowski, Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory
Unfolded (Los Angeles: Aquila Polonica Press, 2015), ISBN
978-1-60772-021-8, in Cosmopolitan Review, No. 1, 2016,
online.
- Review
of Twentieth-Century Music and Politics. Essays in Memory of Neil
Edmunds, edited by Pauline Fairclough (Ashgate Publishing Company,
Farnham, England and Burlington, VT, 2013). In the Polish Review vol.
60, 2016.
- Review
of Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War
Poland and East Germany by David G. Tompkins, Polish
Review vol. 59 no. 2 (2014): 106-112. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/polishreview.59.2.0106
- Review
of Charles S. Kraszewski, Irresolute Heresiach: Catholicism,
Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz (Newcastle
Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), in The
Sarmatian Review, vol. 33 no. 2, April 2013
- Review
of four books on Polish music in the Slavic and East European
Journal, vol. 57 no. 1, Spring 2013. Books: a) Making Music in
the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and Mountain Musicians by
Timothy J. Cooley (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
2005), b) The Polish Singers Alliance of America, 1888-1998:
Choral Patriotism by Stanislaus A. Blejwas (Rochester: University
of Rochester Press, 2005); c) Polish Music since Szymanowski by
Adrian Thomas (Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press, 2005);
and d) European Fin-de-siècle and Polish Modernism: the Music of
Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, edited by Luca Sala (Bologna: Ut Orpheus
Edizioni, 2010).
- Review
of Making Music in the Polish Tatras: Tourists, Ethnographers, and
Mountain Musicians by Timothy J. Cooley (Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005) in the Ecomusicology
Newsletter, vol. 2 no. 1, March 2013.
- Review
of Luca Sala, ed., European Fin-de-siecle and Polish Modernism:
the Music of Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, Bologna: Ut Orpheus Edizioni, 2010,
in Fontes Artis Musicae, 2013.
- Review
of Beth Holmgren, Starring Madame Modjeska (Indiana
University Press, 2012), in Polish American Studies, 2013.
- Review of Leon Markiewicz, ed., Grzegorz
Fitelberg - Korespondencja (Katowice: Fundacja Konkursow
Dyrygentow im. G. Fitelberga, 2003), in The Polish Review 50,
no. 2 (2005): 232-237.
- Review of Magdalena Dziadek, Polska
Krytyka Muzyczna 1880-1910 (Cieszyn: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu
Slaskiego, 2002), in The Polish Review 50, no. 2 (2005):
208-212.
- Review
of Jadwiga Paja-Stach, ed., Andrzej Panufnik and His Music (Krakow:
Musica Iagellonica, 2003), Notes (Music Library
Association Quarterly) 61, no. 2 (December 2004): 441-443.
- Review
of Karol Berger, A Theory of Art [Oxford University
Press, 2001], in Polish, Muzyka 48, no.1 (2003): 128-135.
- "Towards
an Entelechy of Analysis: Entaxy, Entropy, and Music" [Book
Review], Music Analysis 17, no. 3 (1998).
- "Xenakis by
Nouritza Matossian" [Book Review], Muzyka 43, no. 4
(1998).
- "An
outsider's view." Review of Musicology Australia vol.
18 (1995), in Musicology Australia vol. 19 (1996).
- Review
of Music Analysis 1982, nos. 1-3; 1983, nos. 1-3. Muzyka 31,
no. 4 (1986), in Polish
- "Recent
books about Bartok." Tempo no. 197 (September
1996).
EDITORIALS, DICTIONARY ENTRIES, ETC.
- CSPS
Poetry Letter - editor of quarterly poetry bulletin, with book
reviews and reprints of poems published earlier, since 2021.
- CSPS
Newsbriefs - quarterly news of the California State
Poetry Society, included in each issue of the California
Quarterly since Summer 2019.
- PAHA
Newsletter of the Polish
American Historical Association. Editor since the Spring of 2010
to June 2020, publishing two issues per year.
- Entries
on Jozef Hoffman, Artur Rubinstein, Roman Totenberg, Roman Ryterband,
Henry Stojowski, Henry Vars, Liberace, krakowiak, and oberek for James
Pula, ed. the Polish American Encyclopedia,
McFarland and Polish American Historical Association, 2011.
- Entry
on Krzysztof Penderecki, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.,
2007.
- Entries
on Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki and Ignacy Jan Paderewski for Biographical
Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Twentieth Century, ed.
John Powell (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press), 2004.
- Entry
on Birdsong (MAH) in The New Grove Dictionary of
Music and Musicians II. London: McMillan, 2000.
- Entries
on Marta Ptaszynska, Urszula Dudziak, and Marcelina Sembrich-Kochanska
in Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Kristine
H. Burns, Editor-in- Chief, The Oryx Press, 2002.
- "Henryk
Mikolaj Gorecki - Bibliography," written with James Harley. Polish
Music Journal 6, no. 2 (2003).
- "Stojowski
- Selected Writings (1907-1943)" [editor]. Polish Music
Journal 5, no. 2 (Winter 2002), "Zygmunt Stojowski and His
Times."
- "Selected
Reviews of Stojowski's Music (1907-1943)" [editor]. Polish
Music Journal 5, no. 2 (Winter 2002), "Zygmunt Stojowski and
His Times."
- "Program
Notes for Stojowski's Works (1913-1916)" [editor]. Polish
Music Journal 5, no. 2 (Winter 2002), "Zygmunt Stojowski and
His Times."
- "American
Reception of Polish Music (1902-1944)" [editor]. Polish Music
Journal 5, no. 2 (Winter 2002), "Zygmunt Stojowski and His
Times."
- "Witold
Lutoslawski - Bibliography" [with James Harley and Martina
Homma]. Polish Music Journal 5, no. 1 (Summer 2002).
- "Andrzej
Panufnik - Bibliography." Polish Music Journal 5,
no. 1 (Summer 2002).
- "Grazyna
Bacewicz - Bibliography" [with James Harley]. Polish Music
Journal 5, no. 1 (Summer 2002).
- "Selected
Bibliography of Paderewski" [with Malgorzata Perkowska]. Polish
Music Journal 4, no. 2 (winter 2001).
- "List
of Writings and Lectures by I. J. Paderewski" [with Malgorzata
Perkowska]. Polish Music Journal 4, no. 2 (winter 2001).
- "Selected
Writings and Speeches by Paderewski" [editor]. Polish Music
Journal 4, no. 2 (winter 2001).
- "Selected
Articles about Paderewski" [editor]. Polish Music Journal 4,
no. 2 (winter 2001).
- "Henryk
Mikolaj Gorecki at 70," editorial article for the Polish
Music Journal 6, no. 2 (2003), special issue on Gorecki.
- "Separation
and Belonging: Polish Jews, Jewish Poles and their Music," editorial
article for Polish
Music Journal 6, no. 1 (2003), special issue "Polish
Jewish Music: Sources and Studies."
- "Stojowski,
Paderewski, and Polish Music in America," editorial article for
the Polish
Music Journal 5, no. 2 (Winter 2002).
- "Bacewicz,
Wilk Prizes, and Polish Music Secrets," editorial article for
the Polish
Music Journal 5, no. 1 (Summer 2002).
- "Paderewski
and Polish Emigre Composers," editorial article for the Polish
Music Journal 4, no. 1 (Summer 2000).
- "Chopin
and Lutoslawski," editorial article for the Polish
Music Journal 3, no. 2 (Winter 2000).
- "Chopin
Studies in Poland," preface to the Polish
Music Journal 3, no. 1 (Summer 2000).
- "Celebrating
the Chopin Year," editorial article for the Polish
Music Journal 2, nos. 1-2 (Summer/Winter 1999).
- "Old
and New in Polish Music," editorial article for the Polish
Music Journal 1, no. 2 (Winter 1998).
- "Wilk
Prizes and the New Journal," editorial article for the Polish
Music Journal 1, no. 1 (Summer 1998).
- "Music
for the Nation or the Nation for Music?" Introduction to After
Chopin: Studies in Polish Music. (MT). Los Angeles: Polish Music
Center at USC, 2000, 1-14.
- "Podstawowa bibliografia
Xenakisowska" [co-authored with James Harley], Muzyka 43
no. 4, 1998.
- "Dlaczego
Xenakis?" ["Why Xenakis?" Editorial Article], Muzyka 43,
no. 4 (1998): 3-15.
INTERVIEWS WITH MAJA
- "Meet
Maja Trochimczyk" - Text interview by Canvas Rebel, a division of
Shoutout LA, with photos, 19 October 2023: https://canvasrebel.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk/
- Podcast
interview by Andy Golebiowski about pianist-composer-statesman Ignacy Jan
Paderewski, his musical talent, charisma, reception by poets, friendship
with Modjeska, and California years. Broadcast by Polish American Radio
Program on 11.25.2023, available on Sound Cloud: https://soundcloud.com/webrradio/112523-beautiful-polish-music-and-paderewski-pt-3?in=webrradio/sets/the-polish-american-program
- Podcast
interview by Jakub Polaczyk for Polskie Radio Chicago, broadcast in
Chicago and New York on May 22, 2022, link on their website: one of four
Californians, with Prof. Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, dean and professor of
composition at Stanford University, Marek Zebrowski, director of Polish
Music Center, and conductor Jakub Romczyk. With my poem about Henryk
Mikolaj Gorecki (first 10 minutes, poem at 16:50), all in Polish. https://polskieradio.com/dzwieki/2022/05/22/postbachowskie-kawki-5-23-jakub-polaczyk/
- 'Meet
Maja Trochimczyk ,Poet and Music Historian," - text interview by the
Shoutout LA Website, https://shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-music-historian/ (20
June 2022)
- "Inspiring
Conversations with Maja Trochimczyk of Moonrise Press" - text
interview by Voyage LA website, illustrated with many photograps, 15
October 2021: http://voyagela.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-maja-trochimczyk-of-moonrise-press/
- Interview
by Shoutout LA website, 1 March 2021: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-photographer-and-music-historian/
- Interview
with Ilona Europa on her Radio show Accent On! LA Talk Radio. 29 April
2019. https://www.latalkradio.com/content/accent-042919%20?fbclid=IwAR0BNbhh4-aAWKsdnlF2u9-Dsgl7dSWalhD62tlXVjMi-ibHYv8B0SIZKyY#audio_play
- Interview
with Witold Janczys, "U nas w Amerike" - in Russian, March 2018;
Delphi, https://www.delfi.lt/multimedija/u-nas-i-amerikie/u-nas-v-amerike-ceny-tozhe-rastut-no-i-zarplaty-uvelichivayutsya.d?id=77319547
- "Zycie
Pomiedzy Polska a USA" - A series of Broadcast Radio Interviews with
Ewa Szczecinska, Polish Radio 2 (a week-long series of 15-minute
interviews about family history, emigration, and life), broadcast in March
2018. https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/380/Artykul/2082339,Maja-Trochimczyk-Zycie-pomiedzy-Polska-a-USA
- "Od
Xenakisa do Szymanowskiej" Interview with Ewa Szczecinska, Polish
Radio 2 (one hour conversation in Polish) http://www.polskieradio.pl/8/2565/Artykul/1354983/
- Interview
about poetry with Kathabela Wilson, "Mapping the Artist: Maja
Trochimczyk," ColoradoBoulevard.net,
November 2014
- Interview
with Lois P. Jones on Poets Cafe, KPFK 90.7FM, March 30, 2011, recording
archived on her website.
- Andrew
Angus. "Interview
with Maja Trochimczyk, Poet from Poland", Muses Review,
text online, No. 43, 2010
- Inglis, Jadwiga. "Piec tysiecy
stron o muzyce. Rozmowa z Maja Trochimczyk," [Five thousand
pages about music. An interview with Maja Trochimczyk]. Interview in
Polish, in News of Polonia (March 2004), The
Summit Times (February 2004), and Glos/Voice (April
2004), reprinted in Bialy Orzel/White Eagle (May 2007).
With Dana Gioia at Gathering of California Poets Laureate 2018, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga CA.
INTERVIEWS BY MAJA
- "The
Music of Writing to Vermeer. Louis Andriessen in Conversation
with Maja Trochimczyk. Nonesuch CD of Writing to Vermeer,
2006.
- "O Chopinie i nie tylko: Z
Wojciechem Kocyanem rozmawia Maja Trochimczyk" Przeglad
Polski [Nowy Dziennik], March 11, 2005.
- "About
Life and Music: A Semi-serious Conversation. (with Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki)."
(MAH). The Musical Quarterly 82, no. 1 (Spring
1998): 68-81.
- "Musique,
espace, et spatialisation: Entretien de Iannis Xenakis avec Maria
Harley"Circuit. Revue Nord-Americaine de Musique du XXe
Siecle 5, no. 2, Espace Xenakis (1994): 9-20. Transl. Marc
Hyland.
- "Paul
Sacher Visits McGill. An Interview with Dr. Sacher." Music
McGill, 26 (1995): 4-5.
- Unpublished
interviews with Pierre Boulez, R. Murray Schafer, Henry Brant, Krystyna
Moszumanska-Nazar, Bernadetta Matuszczak, Henryk Gorecki, Wlodzimierz
Kotonski, Zygmunt Krauze, and other contemporary composers, 1992- present.
At "California Blooming" Exhibition at the
Hellada Gallery, May 2018. With her roses.
MUSIC CRITICISM AND POPULAR ARTICLES
- "Chopin
Monuments around the World IV - Asia", reprinted in MEA Kultura,
February 17, 2016
- :Chopin
Monuments Around the World III - From America to Asteroids," on
Chopin with Cherries Blog, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2016.
- "Chopin
Monuments Around the World II - Poland, Ukraine, France and England"
in MEAKultura,
No. 202, October 2015.
- "Chopin
Monuments Around the World I - Warsaw, Poland" in MEA
Kultura, No. 188, September 2015.
- "Marta
Ptaszynska" - profile of the composer in Ruch Muzyczny, July
2015 (in Polish).
- "Kanon XIX/XX: Szymanowska"
in Ruch Muzyczny, March 2015 (in Polish).
- "On
Virtues of Musicians and Romances of Aristocrats, or Szymanowska in
Paris," in MEA
Kultura, April 28, 2014.
- "O cnocie muzykow i romansach
arystokracji, czyli Szymanowska w Paryzu" in Ruch Muzyczny,
May 2014 (in Polish).
- "Muzyczne swiaty Zydow polskich
1920-1960: Miedzynarodowa konferencja w Arizonie", in MEA Kultura,
December 15, 2013.
- "Long
Live the Mazurka! Dancing with the Prusinowski Trio," in MEA
Kultura, December 2013.
- "On
the Hypnotic Modernism of Maciej Grzybowski" in the Polish
Music Newsletter, vol. 18, no. 6, June 2012.
- "About
Maria Szymanowska in Paris," conference report, News of
Polonia, November 2011.
- "Muzyka
filmowa Jana Kaczmarka w Los Angeles," [Jan Kaczmarek's Film Music in
Los Angeles], review of January 20, 2006 concert in Przeglad
Polski (Nowy Dziennik), 27 January 2006.
- "Dwa
Muzyczne Kregi," [Two Musical Circles], review of concerts featuring
the music of Marta Ptaszynska (October 14, 2005, Paderewski Lecture), and
Henryk Vars (November 11, 2005), in Przeglad Polski (Nowy
Dziennik), 5 December 2005.
- "Kocyan i Omski kroluja nad
Pacyfikiem," review of January 14, 2005 concert in Przeglad
Polski (Nowy Dziennik), 30 January 2005.
- "Kocyan
and Omsky's Musical Triumph in Los Angeles" - expanded English
version of the review, in Polish News, online, 3 February
2005.
- "Stanislaw Drzewiecki i mlodzi
laureaci w Disney Hall," Przeglad Polski (Nowy
Dziennik), 13 August 2004, p. 4.
- "O Lutoslawskim i Chopinie w
Australii i Kalifornii" (Report from IMS Symposium, Melbourne,
Australia, July 2004), Ruch Muzyczny August 2004.
- "Modernistyczno-pierwotny Don
Giovanni w Los Angeles." Przeglad Polski [cultural
supplement to Nowy Dziennik], 12 June 2003. Online version:
http://www.dziennik.com/www/dziennik/kult/dzisiaj.html [June 13, 2003].
- "20 lat Zielonej
Parasolki." Ruch Muzyczny 47, no. 5 (March 2002).
- "Strauss's
Opera in New York." Polonia Kalifornijska. February 2002.
- "Andriessen
in Tanglewood." Ruch Muzyczny 45, no. 17 (2
September 2001): 21-23.
- "Big
Crowds for New Music: Polish Music at the Warsaw Autumn
Festival," Musicworks, no. 80 (Summer 2001): 53-54.
- "Filmic
Opera Out of Focus." Review of the premiere of Writing to
Vermeer. Musicworks, no. 77 (Summer 2000): 47-48.
- "Andriessen+Greenaway=Vermeer?"
Review of the premiere of Writing to Vermeer.Ruch Muzyczny 44
no. 15 (July 2000): 33-35.
- "Amsterdam:
Andriessen's Writing to Vermeer" - Review of the
premiere. Tempo, no. 212 (March/April 2000).
- "Music
News." Monthly column in News of Polonia with
reports of current events, mini-essays and interviews, 1997-2001;
"Interview with Janina Fialkowska" in vol. 4, no. 11 (April
1999), "The Holocaust and Polish Music" in vol. 4, no. 12 (May
1999).
- "Swieto
muzyki polskiej w Evanston" [A celebration of Polish music in
Evanston]. Ruch Muzyczny 43, no. 6 (March 1999): 14-15.
- "Po
polsku i po babsku" [In Polish and in "womanish"]. Ruch
Muzyczny 41, no. 16 (September 1997).
- "Pol roku z muzyka w Los
Angeles." [Half a year with music in L.A.]. Ruch
Muzyczny 41, no. 11 (June 1997): 19-21.
- "Muzyka polska w
Montrealu." [Polish Music in Montreal]. Ruch
Muzyczny 39, no. 18 (3 September 1995): 26-27. In Polish.
- Andrzej
Wendland, Gorecki, Penderecki: Diptych, for Moonrise Press
bilingual paperback published in Poland and online ebook published in the
U.S., 2018.
- Articles
about and interviews with Gorecki, for Gorecki in Context: Essays
on Music, Moonrise Press, 2017.
- Articles
and source readings on Paderewski and other Polish composers. Polish
Music Journal, online, 1998-2003 (six volumes).
- Articles
for the journal of the Chopin Institute, Chopin Studies,
1986-88.
INTERNET SITES
- Blog of
California State Poetry Society, 2020-, CaliforniaStatePoetrySociety.com
- Website
and Blogs of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, 2018-present.
modrzejewska.org (website in Polish), modjeska.org (website in English)
and two blogs modjeskaclub.blogspot.com (since
2011 in English) and klubmodrzejewskiej.blogspot.com (since
2018 in Polish).
- Website
and Blog of Polish American Historical Association, 2010-2020 www.polishamericanstudies.org and PAHANews.blogspot.com
- Blog
- chopinwithcherries.blogsot.com dedicated
to music and poetry with a focus on Chopin, and Polish culture, since
2010.
- Blog
- poetrylaurels.blogspot.com blog
of the Sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga, dedicated to poetry in the
community, since September 201.0
- Village
Poets Website and Blog of
Village Poets of Sunland Tujunga, with its monthly poetry readings.
- Moonrise
Press Website and Blog of
a small publisher of poetry, art, and music books, founded in 2008, Los
Angeles.
- Trochimczyk.net Personal
website with editions of Glorias and Assorted Praises, Poems for
my Friend, Rose Always, and photo albums. See the Poetry
Site.
- PMC
Newsletter. Co-editor, with Wanda Wilk. Monthly; at News.
Including Director's Reports, "Composer of the Month" Column and
Mini-Essays. January 1997 - May 2002.
- Polish
Dance site at the Polish Music Center; partly sponsored by the
Southern California Studies Center, 2000. See Dance
- Web
sites for composers Grazyna Bacewicz, Maria Szymanowska, Hanna Kulenty,
Michal Kleofas Oginski, Henryk Gorecki, Aleksander Tansman, Zygmunt
Stojowski, Wladyslaw Zelenski. Polish Music Center, 1997-2002. See Composers.
- Polish
National Anthems site at the Polish Music Center. See Anthems.
- "The
Briefest History of Polish Music." Introductory essay in the Program
Book of the Polish Music Festival/Festival de Musique Polonaise, Montreal,
June 1995; reprinted on PMC Web Site, see Essays.
- Photographs
of California sites in Ewa Barczyk, Footprints of Polonia (Hippocrene
Press, 2022).
- Sky
Garden exhibition of photographs with Ambika Talwar's paintings,
Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, 16 October - 20 November 2022.
- 160+
photos of nature, landscapes, flowers, leaves, trees in Bright
Skies. Collected Poems (Moonrise Press, 2022).
- Covers
of Bright Skies, The Rainy Bread, Slicing the Bread, Into Light,
Rose Always and Meditations on Divine Names published by Moonrise
Press.
- Cover
of bilingual edition of Andrzej Wendland's Gorecki, Penderecki:
Diptych, Moonrise Press, 2018.
- 12
Photos of Roses at the Hellada Gallery, "California Blooming"
exhibition, May 2018.
- Solo
Exhibition Rose of Roses of 34 photos at the Back Door
Bakery and Cafe, February-March 2017.
- Three
photos in Femmewise Cat, a special women's art issue of
the Clockwise Cat, March 2015.
- Two
photos in "Reflections in Relationships" - Poetry Corner by
Kathabela Wilson, ColoradoBoulevard.net, January 2015.
- "Paws
for Reading" - Group Photo Exhibition at La Crescenta Public Library
in association with a poetry reading by Village Poets, July 2014. Five
Photographs.
- "Shadows
- Leaves - Roses," Solo Photography Exhbition, Scenic Drive Gallery,
Monrovia, September 1-22,2013. Photos from the opening reception and
poetry reading on Picasa
Web Album. A report with selected poems and images on Poetry
Laurels, September 3, 2013.
- Three
Photographs - A Rose, Mountain Clouds, and A Man on the Pier -
in the Epiphany
Magazine, No. 16, October 2012.
- Artist
in Residence, nine nature photographs from California summer ("Maple
Mini Me, Peeling Years Off, Rose Shadow, Sago Sun, Shades of Palmistry,
Dawn Sky, Blacck Orchid, Grass Blades in Gold, Heart Shadow,"
at poeticdiversity.com,
August 2009.
- "white
shade wet" - photograph of a rose at dawn,The Houston Literary
Review, June 2009, visual
arts issue.
- Roses
from the garden and the Rose Parade, 50 photos for the poetry book, Rose
Always, Moonrise Press, 2008. See www.trochimczyk.net and Moonrise
Press. Preview on Google Books: Rose
Always Illustrated Preview. See a sample here.
- Photographs
of mountains, flowers, rocks, and gardens for the poetry book, Miriam's
Iris, Moonrise Press, 2008. See www.trochimczyk.net and Moonrise
Press.
- Nature
photography for online chapbooks, Poems
and Stories, Glorias
and Assorted Praises, and Poems
for my Friend.
- Multimedia
photography to accompany James Harley's electroacoustic composition, Night
Flowering. . . not even sand II. Vox Machina CD
issued by G.E.M.S., Group of the Electronic Music Studio, McGill
University. ISBN 7717-0537-9. (Images of the desert in United Arab
Emirates).
- News
photography of musical and charity events, published in Ruch
Muzyczny, Polonia Kalifornijska, PMC Newsletter,
Polish Music Center's Web Site, The Sage - Quarterly
Newsletter of Catholic Charities, and other publications, 1997-present.
Reading for a Poets on Site event at the Pacific Asia
Museum, 2011.
- Monthly
Zoom events of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, since September 2020
to 2021, host and organizer. Recording on YouTube Modjeska club playlist.
and on modrzejewska.org website.
- Monthly
Village Poets Readings on Zoom, since July 2020 to 2022, host and
organizer. Recordings on YouTube Moonrise Press channel.
- "Maja
i Hania" - Poetry from California by Dr Maja Trochimczyk, and Music
from Holland by Prof. dr hab. Hanna Kulenty, Klub Ksiegarza, The Old Town
Square, Warsaw, Poland, 16 September 2024.Poems from Into light,
Bright Skies, and the Rainy Bread in
Polish.
- Poetry
reading from The Rainy Bread at the
international conference "Generations Remember" held
at Muzeum Pamieci Sybiru (Sybir Memorial Museum) in Bialystok,
Poland, 19 September 2024.
- One
of Featured poets at ZPPNO Meeting at Booksellers Club (Klub
Ksiegarza) in Warsaw, Poland, following the ZPPNO presentation at
the International Book Fair in Warsaw, Poland, May 26, 2024.
- Krak
Poetry Group reading at the Dom Literatury in Lodz, Poland, organized by
Andrew Kolo, 16 March 2024. Reading of Poems in Polish.
- Featured
poet for Village Poets Monthly Reading on June 26, 2022, presenting new
book, "Bright Skies" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30QrXhNFO7Q
- February
15, 2019, at 8pm. "Grateful Conversations" Group Reading at
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice. $10 admission.
- November
25, 2018. "Krak Art Group" Celebration of the 100th Anniversary
of Poland's Regained Independence and "Grateful Conversations"
Anthology Reading at Monthly Village Poets reading at Bolton Hall Museum,
Tujunga.
- November
October 7, 2018. "Grateful Conversations" Anthology reading at
the Flintridge Bookstore, La Canada. Group reading.
- October
6, 2018. "A Gathering of California Poets Laureate," chaired by
Dana Gioia at McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga. Reading "In Morning
Light" from the "Grateful Conversations" anthology.
- April
28, 2018. "Altadena Poetry Review" Group Reading from the
anthology, Altadena Public Library.
- April
29, 2017. "Poetry and Cookies" event - reading "Under
African Sky" from the Altadena Poetry Review. Anthology
2017 at the Altadena Library.
- April
23, 2017. "Passing of the Laurels 2017" - Event co-host and
reading "Today (We are)" at the Poets Laureate of Sunland
Tujunga event, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga.
- February
25, 2017 - "Shandy and Eva among the Roses," reading of
love poems from Rose Always and other poems, at the "Rose
of Roses" Photo Exhibition, Back Door Bakery and Cafe, Sunland,
CA
- February
14, 2017 - "An Evening of Poetry and Roses" with Poets on Site,
at the "Rose of Roses" Photo Exhibition, Back Door Bakery and
Cafe, Sunland, CA
- September
19, 2016 - First Reading from The Rainy Bread, at the
Generations Remember 2016 Conference in Warsaw, Poland, organized by the
Kresy Syberia Foundation. The reading on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4T_9QDRAxjc
- February
24, 2016 - "Black History Month" reading with Beverly Collins,
at Phoenix House Venice.
- January
8, 2016 - "Family Stories," "The Odds" and
"Incense," from Slicing the Bread read at the 73rd Meeting of
the Polish American Historical Association in Altanta, GA
- November
30, 2015 - "A Study with Cherries", "The Lady with an
Ermine, and "An Invitation to the Dance" with Edoardo
Torbianelli, antique pianoforte, International Szymanowska Symposium,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Paris, France.
- Tuesday,
September 15, 2015 at 6 p.m. "Give it all away..." A Poetry
Workshop at Phoenix House Venice, with Jessica Wilson and Juan Cardenas
Wilson.
- Saturday,
August 29, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. "Poetry Palooza at McGroarty Arts
Center" - one of the features Village Poets, McGroarty Arts Center,
Tujunga.
- Sunday,
August 23, 2015 at 4:30 p.m. "Westside Women Writers go
Eastside" Featured reading at Village Poets Monthly Reading,
McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, CA. With Lois P. Jones, Kathi Stafford,
Susan Rogers, and Sonya Sabanac.
- Saturday,
August 15, 2015, at 6 p.m. "Poetry Palooza on Franklin" - one of
the features of event hosted by Seven Dhar, Scientology Center,
Hollywood.
- "Slicing
the Bread" Book Readings in Los Angeles Area: February 20, 2015 at
the Rapp Saloon in Santa Monica, February 26, at the Foster Library in
Ventura, February 27 at the Tia Chucha Cultural Center in Sylmar, March 15
at the Louis Jane Studio in Pasadena, April 19 at the Flintridge Bookstore
in La Canada-Flintridge, May 16 at Beyond Baroque, June 6 at Unbuckled
Poetry in North Hollywood.
- "Paws
for Reading" - Animal Poetry by Village Poets and Friends. La
Crescenta Public Library, 19 July 2014.
- Shadows
- Leaves - Roses, a Solo Photography Exhibit at the Scenic Drive Gallery,
Monrovia, September 1 to 23, 2013. Opening Reception: September 1 at 4
p.m.
- Poetry
Readings at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, introducing featured poets, last
Sunday of each monthvillagepoets.blogspot.com
- September
1, 2013 - Reading at the Opening of the Exhibition "Shadows - Leaves
- Roses" at the Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia
- July
4, 2013 - Sunland-Tujunga Fourth of July Parade, Poets Convertible with
Dorothy Skiles, Marlene Hitt and Joe DeCenzo
- April
29, 2013 - Co-Inspirators: Poets, Artists, Musicians - group reading at
the Pasadena Public Library, Wright Auditorium, with Rey R. Luminarias,
Susan Dobay, Kathabela Wilson, and others
- April
20, 2013 - Village Poets at La Crescenta Public Library, group reading
with Joe DeCenzo, Marlene Hitt, and Dorothy Skiles
- April
17, 2013 - Westside Women Writers at Topanga Public Library, group reading
with Millicent Borges Accardi, Kathi Stafford, Susan Rogers, Sonya Sabanac
and Lois P. Jones
- March
2, 2013 - "Colonnade Gallery Exhibition Opening" Group Reading
of Poets on Site at the Opening of the "Inspired by Nature"
exhibition at the Colonnade Gallery, Pasadena.
- February
21, 2013 - "Poets Cafe Listening Party" Reading of Poets
featured on Poets' Cafe KPFK, the Wilson's Salon
- February
9, 2013 - "Impressions of China," Group Reading of Poets on Site
at the opening of Susan Dobay's Exhibition at Altadena Public Library.
- Monthly
events of Helena Modjeska Arts and Culture Club, 2010-2012, organizer and
manager of 36 events; for details visit the Modjeska
Club Website
- December
15, 2012 - "The Place of Stones" inspired by Richard Stewart's
sculptures in Il Bandito Park, forthcoming in a book of poetry and
photographs The Rocks of Rancho Tujunga, recorded for a
documentary film on Stewart.
- December
14, 2012 - "Poets on Site" group reading at Beyond Baroque
Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA.
- July
22, 2012 - "Meditations on Divine Names" group reading from the
new anthology by Moonrise Press at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, CA.
- June
30, 2012 - Featured Poet at the Catalina Branch of Pasadena Public
Library, Pasadena, CA.
- May
30, 2012 - "Aliens in California" - Poetry inspired by the art
of immigrants, featured solo reading illustrated by artwork and
photographs by Susan Dobay, Henry Fukuhara, and others, solo reading at
the American Corner, Gdansk, Poland.
- April
15, 2012 - "Passing of the Laurels" Ceremony to end the two-year
term as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga,
CA. Other poets: Dorothy Skiles (new Poet Laureate), Kathabela Wilson,
Just Kibbe, Joe DeCenzo and Marlene Hitt.
- February
18, 2012 - "On Awakening" - Group reading from an anthology of
poetry inspired by a series of Susan Dobay's paintings, Poets on Site
event at the Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, reading four poems.
- December
30, 2011 - "Paris, Szymanowska and Water Lilies" at Kathabela
and Rick Wilson's Salon, Pasadena; the first reading of poetry inspired by
Ron Libbrecht's Paris and Monet's Water Lilies
- October
1, 2011 - Maria Szymanowska Salon, Paris, Polish Academy of Sciences, part
of International Conference, The Woman of Europe: Maria Szymanowska,
reading "The Shooting Star," "An Ode of the Lost," and
"How to Make a Mazurka""
- September
24, 2011 - "One Hundred Thousand Poets for Change" reading by
Westside Women Writers in Tarzana, California, a part of an international
project of poetry for peace.
- September
2011 - Three poems in the 40th Anniversary Audio Tour of the Pacific Asia
Museum, to listen call the Museum's number and enter the number of the
stop: "A Box of Peaches" written on the Gau Prayer Box, poem
accompanied by Rick Wilson on Nepalese flute! 626-628-9690, 455#; "An
Embroidery Lesson" written on the Chinese courtier's robe with
dragons, accompanied by Rick Wilson on Chinese flute, and followed by a
reading by Mari Werner, call 626-628-9690, 464#; and "Smiling Buddha"
- call 626-628-9690, 445#.
- September
2009 - "Illuminata" ("I want that crown") accompanied
by Rick Wilson, posted on the website of the Pacific Asia Museum's
award-winning Audio Tour of the Permanent Collection, Himalayan
Art (Yab Yum and Crown).
- August
19, 2011 - Featured Poet at the Rapp Saloon, Santa Monica, with host Elena
Secota
- August
13, 2011 - Poetry Corner at an Annual Watermelon Festival, Sunland Park,
poetry for children, organized with Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga
- August
8, 2011 - Featured Poet at Moonday West Poetry Readings, with Lucia
Galloway, Pacific Palisades
- August
6, 2011 - Poets' Picnic in Benicia, California - Poets Laureate Reunion
- July
11, 2011 - Guest Poet in Upward Bound Poetry Class by Don Kingfisher
Campbell, Occidental College
- May
28, 2011 - "The Spiritual Quartet" in Ventura, group reading
with Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers, and Taoli-Ambika Talwar.
- May
31, 2011 - The Spiritual Quartet group reading in
Ventura, CA, with Lois P. Jones, Susan Rogers and Taoli-Ambika Talwar.
- March
31, 2011 - "Ascension" dedicated to Barbara Koziel Gawronski,
part of A World Tour of Women at Caltech Diversity
Center, Pasadena, reading from Caltech Poetry Journal vol.
2
- Ascension
(A Memorial Poem) dedicated to Barbara Koziel-Gawronski
(1946-2009), read at the Passing of the Laurels Ceremony, McGroarty Arts
Center, Tujunga, California, April 25, 2010: http://youtu.be/9gB9Yj9acaM
- March
30, 2011 - Maja Trochimczyk on the Poet's
Cafe, interview with host Lois P. Jones, broadcast on KPFK, 90.7 FM.
- March
27, 2011 - The Spiritual Quartet with Lois P. Jones and Susan Rogers,
accompanied by William Lenaburg "Dr. Blues" at Village Poets
Monthly Reading, Bolton Hall Museum,
- February
9, 2011 - "Imagine Poetry" reading of poetry inspired by art,
with guitar accompaniment by Dr. Blues, Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood
Council Meeting, Tujunga
- January
8, 2011 - "Growing up Polish, Becoming American" selected poems
at a special session at the Polish American Hstorical Association Annual
Meeting, Boston, Mass.
- December
11, 2010 - "Christmas Poem," at Little Landers Society's Annual
Christmas Party, Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga.
- December
4, 2010 - "Indigo: Poetry and Japanese Pottery in Blue and
White" gropu reading at a Pacific Asia Museum Exhibition,
presentation of a chapbook edited by Kathabela Wilson\
- November
13, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries IV" group reading at the Chopin
and Paderewski Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, Ill.
- October
17, 2010 - "Healing from the Ashes" Poetry Reading at the
Special Exhibition, a benefit for the victims of Station Fire, with
artwork based on artifacts found in the fire, Village Poets, 3:00 p.m.
- September
26, 2010 - "Haiku Anthology" reading, Bolton Hall, Tujunga,
Village Poets Monthly Series, 4:30 p.m.
- September
12, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries III" group reading at Beyond
Baroque, with 11 other poets, 3 p.m.
- August
15, 2010 - Summer Poetry at the Lions' Club Watermelon Festival, Sunland.
- June
5, 2010 - "Poetry Booth: Maja and Friends" at Puppetry Festival,
McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga.
- May
23, 2010 - "Village Poets Open Reading" at Bolton Hall, Tujunga,
4:30 p.m., presentation as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga
- May
8, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries II" Music and Poetry at a book
publication party, group reading with Chopin's music played by pianist
Wojciech Kocyan, Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, CA.
- May
8, 2010 - "Awards Ceremony for Local Volunteers," Los Angeles
Councilman Paul Krekorian, Field Office, Sunland-Tujunga. Reading of an
occasional poem written especially for this event, "Mountain
Watch."
- May
1, 2010 - "Spiritual Quartet" - Group reading with Lois P.
Jones, Susan Rogers, and Taoli-Ambika Talwar, The Church in Ocean Park,
Santa Monica.
- April
25, 2010 - "Passing of the Laurels" Ceremony, as newly elected
Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga for 2010-2012, McGroarty Art Center,
Tujunga. Read Maja's occasional poem, "What
I Love in Sunland" (Word download). See the first reading
of What I love in Sunland at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga,
California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/I1DFKCDZ83s
- April
23, 2010 - "Tour of the World" Reading for Earth Day
celebration, Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena, event of Poets on Site.
Reading of: "An Ode of the Lost" and "What I like in
Poland."
- April
18, 2010 - "Indian Miniatures" Exhibition at Pacific Asia
Museum, Pasadena, Poets on Site Project. Reading of three poems:
"Fearful Symmetry in Blue," Condemned" and "A Foreign
Tale."
- April
11, 2010 - "Chopin with Cherries I" Music and Poetry at a book
publication party, group reading with pianist Neal Galanter, at South
Pasadena Public Library, CA. See the Chopin
I Photo Album (Picasa web album site).
- February
16, 2010 - Chopin in Music and Poetry at Azusa Pacific University,
featured poet, reading from Chopin with Cherries, with poets
Susan Rogers, Mira Mataric, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, and Erika Wilk
- February
13, 2010 - Poets on Site group reading at two exhibitions at Pacific Asia
Museum, Pasadena
- February
4, 2010 - Featured Poet at Beyond Baroque, Venice, California.
- January
9, 2010 - "Immigrant Experience in Poetry" special session at
the Annual Meeting of the Polish-American Historical Association, San
Diego; with Oriana Ivy, Lillian Vallee, and Linda Nemec Foster.
- September
26, 2009 - APT Gallery, Torrance, Poems for the 12th Annual Henry Fukuhara
Annual Watercolor Workshop at Manzanar Internment Camp" Poets on Site
chapbook event.
- August
22, 2009 - Permanent Collection Tour, Pacific Asia Museum,
Pasadena, Poets on Site Chapbook Publication Event.
- August
2, 2009 - Kath Abela's Poetry Salon, Pasadena - Chopin in Poetry Book
Project Presentation
- July
22, 2009 - Upward Bound, Occidental College, guest poet for a high school
class of Don Kingfisher Campbell
- July
12, 2009 - Ganesha: The Remover of Obstacles, Pacific
Asia Museum, Pasadena, 2 p.m. Poets on Site Chapbook Publication Event,
with South Indian dance and music.
- June
6, 2009 - Featured Poet at Emerging Urban Poets, Pasadena Public Library,
Santa Catalina Branch, 999 E. Washington Blvd., 2 p.m.
- May
30, 2009 - Group Reading for "Bodies Mapping Time: New Portraits of
Women" by J. Michael Walker, at Avenue 50 Studio, 131 N. Avenue 50,
Highland Park, CA 90042, 7:00 p.m., including a new poem "For
Lois"
- May
23, 2009 - Memorial Day Weekend Small Press Festival, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30
p.m., The Church in Ocean Park, 235 Hill St. Santa Monica, CA 90405.
Reading and Moonrise Press presentation
- April
4, 2009 - Altadena Public Library, Poetry and Cookies Publication
Party
- April
2, 2009 - Napa Elementary School, Northridge, 5th Grade - Poets in the
Classroom, site visit and teaching session, reading 4 poems (The Crown, In
Passing 6, haiku, The Arrow)
- March
7, 2009 - Pasadena Public Library, Catalina Branch, San Gabriel Valley
Poetry Quarterly no. 41, Publication Party,
- October
26, 2008 - Pasadena Central Library, guest host, reading "Colors of
the Fall" collection and guests.
- September
5, 2008 - APC Fine Arts Gallery Torrance, reading for Henry Fukuhara
Workshop chapbook
- September
12, 2008 - Featured Poet, Allendale Branch, Pasadena Library, reading from
Rose Always.
- August
5, 2008 - Featured Poet, National Night Out, Allendale Branch, Pasadena
Public Library, semi-staged reading from Rose Always, with Engleman
- August
16, 2008 - Torrance Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery, Exhibition from the
11th Annual Henry Fukuhara Workshop: Expressions and Interpretations of
Alabama Hills, Manzanar, and Keeler
- August
23, 2008 - Chaffey Museum, Rancho Cucamonga, California, Milton Zornes in
Asia Exhibition - India, China, Burma (the War Years)
- July
26, 2008 - Fine Arts and Graphics Gallery, Torrance, Three Generations
Exhibition, Poets on SiteChapbook reading
- May
5, 2008 - Pacific Asia Museum, Rengetsu Exhibition, Poets on Site Chapbook
reading
- April
2008 - San Marino Gallery, Milton Zornes Exhibition, Poets on Site
Chapbook reading
- March
2008 - Pasadena Museum of California Art, Milton Zornes Exhibition, Poets
on SiteChapbook reading
- January
28, 2008 - Featured Poet, Monday Night Poetry, Santa Catalina Branch,
Pasadena Public Library, Pasadena
FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITIONS
- October
- November 2022. "Sky Garden" exhibition of nature photographs
along with paintings by Ambika Talwar, Scenic Drive Gallery in Monrovia,
CA; curated by Susan Dobay, with two readings from "Crystal
Fire" and "Bright Skies" books. Exhibition intro: https://youtu.be/8WBYQ69OL2Y
- February-
March 2017, "Rose of Roses" solo photography exhibition at Back
Door Bakery, Sunland, CA
- September-October,
2016, Group Exhbition by "River Rocks Arts Colony" at Back Door
Bakery in Sunland, CA, two nature photographs
- September
1-23, 2013 - "Shadows, Leaves, Roses" Photography and Poetry
Solo Exhibition at the Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia, CA
- May
21-26, 2013 - "Sound of Music" Group Photo Exhibition at
Paderewski Piano Competition, Colburn School of Music, Los Angeles, with
the KRAK Art Group
- 2000-2003.
Initiator and organizer of a Manuscript Donation Campaign for
the Polish Manuscript Collection at USC. Solicited, received and
publicized donations from over 40 composers and their families in Poland,
France, and the U.S., the collection increased to over 300 documents.
- 2002-2003.
Curator of a one-year exhibition, Paderewski: A Portrait of a
Musician, organized to increase the status of Polish music at USC and
promote the Center internationally. Also writer and editor of the
Exhibition Program and PR materials.
- October
2000. Curator of a Polish Manuscript Exhibition at USC,
highlighting recent donations to the Manuscript Collection. Wrote and
edited the Exhibition Catalogue.
- November
1998. Organizer and Manager of International Conference:
Polish-Jewish Music! Bringing together 20 scholars from five
countries to discuss the topic for the first time, the conference included
public panel discussion and 2 concerts. Proceedings published online in
the Polish Music Journal.
- October
1997. Organizer and Program Director of Gorecki Autumn: A
Residency including three concerts, public lectures and seminars.
The event was described as No. 1 in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles
Times in December 1997.
- May
1995. Organizer and Program Co-Chair, Festival of Polish Music at
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, with five concerts as part of a joint
scholarly conference of the Canadian University Music Society and other
organizations.
With Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki in his studio, Katowice, 1998.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- June
9, 2024. "Polish Emigres in California: Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetynski,
the Modjeska Players and the Modjeska Club" - at the 9th World
Congress of Polish Studies, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in
America, Warsaw, Poland.
- January
4, 2020. "Helena Modjeska’s Bilingual Morality Tale of 1896" at
the 77th Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, New
York.
- March
28, 2019. "Who was Helena Modjeska?" Laguna Art Museum, to
accompany exhibition of Modjeska's tale written/illustrated by the
actress. Laguna Beach, California.
- January
5, 2019. "Defining Poland through Music: American Musical
Celebrations of the Centennial of Poland’s Regained Independence"
Paper at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical
Association, Chicago, Il.
- September
8, 2018. "PAHA’s communication media, challenges and opportunities of
the digital age," Presentation with Stephen Leahy at the 75th
Anniversary Conference of PAHA at Loyola University Chicago.
- January
6, 2018. "Poland 1918-2018: Remembering Ignacy Jan Paderewski."
Keynote Presentation at the Awards Ceremony of the Polish American
Historical Association, Washington D. C.
- January
6, 2018. "The Myth of the Third: Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki in
California" at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Polish American
Historical Association, Washington, D.C.
- October
20, 2017. "Obecnosc Polonii amerykanskiej w sieci internetowej: formy
i funkcje" The Presence of American Polonia in the Internet: Forms
and Functions. Presented at the Fifth Congress of Polish Scientific and
Scholarly Associations in the World, Krakow, Poland, Polska Akademia
Umiejetnosci. http://kptnws.krakow.pl/index.php/dla-mediow/ludzie-kongresu
- June
2017. "Górecki Conducts Górecki: The Third Symphony in Los
Angeles" session "On Symphonies of Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
(1933-2010)" at the Fifth International Congress of Polish
Studies. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America and Polska
Akademia Umiejetnosci. Krakow, Poland.
- June
2017. "Tansman in Tempo Americano (1941-1946)" at the
session"Tansman at 120: The Music and Legacy of an Émigré Composer
(1897-1986)." Fifth International Congress of Polish Studies. Polish
Institute of Arts and Sciences in America and Polska Akademia
Umiejetnosci. Krakow, Poland.
- March
14, 2017. "The American Years of Alexandre Tansman (1941-1946)"
at the International Conference Homage to Aleksander Tansman, Academy
of Music, Wroclaw, Poland.
- January
6, 2017. "Following Paderewski: An Album of Autographs and Clippings
from Brighton, England, 1890-1911" at the 74th Annual Meeting of the
Polish American Historical Association, Denver, Colorado.
- September
19, 2016. "The Rainy Bread" - Poetry Reading at the Generations
Remember 2016 Conference of Kresy Siberia Foundation, Warsaw University,
Poland.
- January
7, 2016. "Slicing the Bread" - Featured Poetry Presentation at
the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association,
Atlanta, Georgia.
- January
3, 2015. "The Impact of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz's American Years on
'Spiewy Historyczne'" at the Annual Meeting of the Polish American
Historical Association, New York.
- November
16, 2014. "New York/Raleigh: Paderewski's Triumphs in the
English-Speaking World" at the Paderewski Festival in Raleigh, NC,
North Carolina Museum of Art.
- June
22, 2014. "On Fashion, Portraits, and the Professional Image of Maria
Szymanowska (1789-1831)," Joint Meeting of Polish American Historical
Association and Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Warsaw,
Poland.
- April
29, 2014. "'Les Chants historiques' de Niemcewicz, et tout
particulièrement - ceux de Maria Szymanowska" at the 2nd Internaional
Conference about Maria Szymanowska, 2e Colloque international sur
Maria Szymanowska et son temps Paris, Polish Academy of Sciences.
- January
3, 2014. "Jewish Composers of Polish Music in 1943" - Paper read
at the 71st Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association,
Washington, D.C.
- November
17-18, 2013. "Jewish Composers of Polish Music in 1943," invited
paper for "The Musical Worlds of Polish Jews, 1920-1960: Identity,
Politics and Culture," Arizona State University, November 17-18,
2013.
- June
30, 2013 - "Maria Szymanowska: The Court Pianist of the
Tsarinas" Lecture with pianist Wojciech Kocyan, Bowers Museum, Santa
Ana, CA
- "On
the State of Polish Music in 1942" - paper read at the 70th Annual
Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Boston,
MA, September 6-8, 2012.
- "A
Century of Musical Exiles and Emigrants: From Jan Pychowski to Marta
Ptaszynska" at the International Conference "East Central Europe
in Exile: Patterns of Transatlantic Migrations" - Gdansk, Poland,
University of Gdansk, June 3, 2012.
- "Created
by Stalin, Embraced by Emigrants: Mazowsze and Slask and Polish Folk Dance
in California" at the Fifth Workshop "American Ethnicity:
Rethinking Old Issues, Asking New Questions," Krakow, Poland,
Jagiellonian University, May 29, 2012.
- "Defining
Polish Culture in California: The Fortieth Anniversary of the Modjeska
Club" at the Annual Meeting of the Polish American Historical
Association Chicago, Il., January 6, 2012.
- "Genius
and the Virtues of 'Sense and Sensibility' in the Image of Maria
Szymanowska" paper read at the First International Symposium on Maria
Szymanowska, "Maria Szymanowska Colloque," Paris, Academy of
Sciences, October 1, 2011. The conference
report in Polish Music Newsletter December 2012.
- "A
Polish-American Composer: Who is Marta Ptaszynska?" at the 69th
Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America,
Arlington, June 11, 2011.
- "Defining
Polish Culture in California: The 40th Anniversary of the Modjeska
Club" at the 69th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and
Sciences in America, Arlington, June 11, 2011.
- "The
Image of Chopin's Death in Art and Poetry" - paper read at the Annual
Meeting of the Polish American Historical Association, Boston, Mass.,
January 8, 2011.
- "The
Image of Paderewski: An Archangel, Idol, Statesman." Paper read at
the Chopin & Paderewski 2010 International Conference, Loyola
University, Chicago, November 12, 2010
- "Chopin
in Polish-American Poetry: Lost Country, Found Beauty."
- Paper
read at the semi-annual conference of the Polish American Historical
Association, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, June 26, 2010.
- "From
'Eternal Eloquence' to 'What Does He Know?' - Images of Chopin in
English-language Poetry." Paper and presentation of anthology Chopin
with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse at the 3rd International Chopin
Congress, February 25-March 1, 2010, Warsaw, Poland.
- "An
Archangel at the Piano: Paderewski's Image and his American
Audience." Paper read at the 124th annual meeting of the Polish
American Historical Association, San Diego, January 8, 2010.
- "Celebrity
in Decline: Paderewski's Musical and Political Reception in America
1919-1939" ("Rozne wymiary wielkosci: Muzyczna i polityczna
recepcja Paderewskiego w Ameryce 1919-1939,") paper read at the Third
Conference "Topos narodowy w muzyce polskiej, 1919-1939", Chopin
Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland, November 16-17, 2009.
- "From
'Eternal Eloquence' to 'What Does He Know?' - Images of Chopin in
English-language Poetry." 67th Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute
of Arts and Sciences of America, Jersey City, New Jersey, June 2009.
- "1968
- Operation Danube, ISCM, and Polish Music." International Conference
"Polish Music After 1945" Christ Church University, Canterbury,
U.K., May 2, 2009.
- "Marta
Ptaszynska's Music for Percussion." 63rd Annual Meeting of the Polish
Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, New York, 3-4 June 2006.
- "The
Impact of Polish State Ensembles, Mazowsze and Slask,
On Folk Dance Movement in the U.S." Session on "Polish Dance in
the U.S." at the 62nd Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and
Sciences of America, Pittsburgh, 3-4 June 2005.
- "Paderewski
and Nossig, Szymanowski and Fitelberg: Polish - Jewish Collaborations in
Music." Session on "Jewish Presence in Polish Music" at the
62nd Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America,
Pittsburgh, 3-4 June 2005.
- "Chopin,
Paderewski and Southern California," presentation at "The Image
of Poland" seminar, University of La Verne, May 14, 2005.
- "Lutoslawski's
Manuscripts in Los Angeles: Compositional Revisions to Novelette and Paroles
tissées," Symposium of International Musicological Society,
Melbourne, Australia, 14 July 2004.
- "Towards
Poland's National Style: Paderewski or Szymanowski?" presented at a
session on "Karol Szymanowski," Third International Conference
on 20th Century Music, Nottingham, U.K., June 26-29, 2003.
- "Poland's
National Composer: Szymanowski or Paderewski?" presented at a session
on "Polish National Composers" at the 61 Annual Meeting of the
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada, June 6, 2003.
- "How
Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of
America's Gilded Age." Society for American Music, Tempe, Arizona, 27
February 2003.
- "From
Mrs. Szymanowska to Mr. Poldowski: Career Choices of Nineteenth-Century
Polish Women Composers." Session "Seen and Heard? Women
Painters, Performers, and Composers in Poland," American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Meeting. 21-24 November 2002,
Pittsburgh.
- "How
Paderewski Plays: Chant d'amour and the Aestheticism of
America's Gilded Age." American Musicological Society. Columbus,
Ohio, 31 October- 3 November 2002.
- "Paderewski
in Poetry: From Master of Harmonies to Poland's Savior." Session on
"Paderewski and Sembrich." Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences
of America, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
- "Paderewski
and Stojowski: A Musical Friendship," Session on "Elsner and
Stojowski." Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America,
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 2002.
- "Towards
A National Musicology - Scholars and Polish Music" invited paper for
a commemorative conference "History in Musicology - Musicology in
History" dedicated to Prof. Michal Bristiger, Institute of Arts,
Polish Academy of Sciences; 10-12 December 2001, Warsaw, Poland.
- "Musical
Poetry of Cracow: Ewa Demarczyk and 'Piwnica pod Baranami.'"
Interdisciplinary panel, "Socialist or Magic Realism? Artist and
State in Post-war Krakow," during the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies" in Arlington
Virginia, 17-20 November 2001.
- "Folk
Song and the Polish Nation: A 20th-Century History." Symposium during
Polish Music Festival "In Solidarity", University of California,
Santa Barbara, 29 April 2001.
- "Passion,
Mourning, and the Black Angels: Ewa Demarczyk as the Voice of the
Nation," at Symposium on Polish (post)modern music during a festival
"Poland: Music, Lyric, Nation," University of Chicago, Franke
Institute for the Humanities, 21 April 2001.
- "Political,
Aesthetic, and Ethical Aspects of Henryk Gorecki's "Catholic"
Music. Session "Catholic Music in Slavic Europe," National
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
9-12 November 2000, Denver, Colorado (Also a respondent at another session
at the same conference).
- "Bogurodzica'
Reborn: A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music."
Intercongressional Symposium, International Musicological Society,
Budapest, August 2000 (paper presented in absentia).
- "Constructing
the Immigrant Self: Polish Jewish Composers in the U.S." Session on
Jewish and emigre composers at the 58th Meeting of the Polish Institute of
Arts and Sciences of America. 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian
University, Krakow, 16-18 June 2000.
- "Plato,
Stalin and Friends: Censorship in Music." Panel on Censorship and
Propaganda in the Arts, USC Arts Festival, "The Indelicate
Line," USC, Los Angeles, 29 March 2000.
- "From
Circles to Nets: on the Signification of Spatial Sound Imagery in New
Music" International Symposium "Sound in Space" - CREATE,
Computer Music Center, University of California at Santa Barbara, 18-19
March 2000.
- "Postcommunist
and Postmodern: New Music from Poland" Special Session at the 1999
Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies,
St. Louis, November 1999.
- "Defining
a Nation: Polish Communities and Symbols in Music" Panel Session at
the 1999 Meeting of the AMS, 4 November 1999 (Session Chair and
Organizer).
- "From
Art to Kitsch: Reflections on the Imitations of Chopin's Style"
presented at the 2nd International Chopin Congress, organized
by Polish Chopin Academy and F. Chopin Society in Warsaw, October 1999.
- "Chopin
and the Polish Race: Political Dimensions of Chopin Reception"
presented at session on "Chopin Appropriated" at The Age of
Chopin: The Chopin Sesquicentennial Symposium Indiana University,
Bloomington, September 1999.
- "Chopin
and Women Composers." Special Session "Context and Reception of
Chopin's Music" at the Annual Meeting of the Polish Institute of Arts
and Sciences in America, New York, June 1999.
- "Parallels
and Intersections: Constructing New Forms in Polish Art and Music."
Colloquium of Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLa and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (in preparation of the 2002 exhibit), Los
Angeles, June 1999.
- "Poles
without the Polka: Cultural Identity of Polish Composers Immigrating to
the U.S. during and After World War II." Paper read at the 1999
Meeting of the Sonneck Society for American Music. Forth Worth, Texas, 13
March 1999.
- "Penderecki's Ubu
Rex and Surrealism in Polish Music Theater." International
Conference on Penderecki's Musical Theatre, Cracow, Poland, September
1998.
- "Composing
in Color: Marta Ptaszynska's Liquid Light." Invited paper
for the 1998 "Frau Musica Nova" Conference about "Women
Composers of Our Time", Cologne, Germany, October 1998. Conference
web site: http://members.aol.com/FrauMusica.
Paper also read at the Annual Joint Meeting of the Northern/Central and
Pacific/Southwest Chapters of the AMS, USC, 24 April 1999.
- "The
Identity Question: Polish Jewish Composers in California."
International Conference "Polish/ Jewish/Music!" November 1998,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Also Conference Organizer
and Chair of the Program Committee.
- Bogurodzica Reborn:
A Medieval Anthem in Contemporary Polish Music. Paper read at an
Interdisciplinary Conference The Yearning for the Middle Ages. Org. by
Dorothea Redepenning and Annette Kreutziger-Herr, University of
Heildelberg, Germany, April 1998.
- Neoclassicism
and Avant-garde?: The Aesthetics of Grazyna Bacewicz" Presented
at Women in Music: Music History Symposium during A
Day with Women's Music, organized by the Polish Music Center, USC
School of Music, Los Angeles, April 1998.
- "Henryk
Gorecki's Multi-Ethnic Concept of Polish Musical
Identity" Special Session:"The Appropriation of Folk Music by
Eastern European Composers" Invited paper. University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, January 1998.
- "Gorecki
and the Paradigm of the Maternal. Presented at the Gorecki
Phenomenon: A Music History Symposium, Gorecki Autumn at USC, 1-5 October
1997, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; also the whole
festival's program chair and organizer. Also presented at the Joint
Meeting of Southern and Northern Pacific Chapters of the AMS, University
of California, Santa Cruz, April 1998.
- "New
Insights into Lutoslawski's Concept of the Sound Plane"
1997 Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for
Music Theory, Phoenix, Arizona (31 October, 9:00-12:00; AMS/SMT Session
"Lutoslawski and Schnebel"). Conference
Program
- "Spatiality
of Sound and Stream Segregation in Contemporary Music." Paper
presented at the 16th
International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Study
Session: "Auditory Scene Analysis: Future Directions for
Musicological Research" London, Royal College of Music, 14-20 August
1997.
- "Dans
la Nuit: The Themes of Night and Death in Lutoslawski's
Oeuvre." Invited paper for the 1997 International Lutoslawski
Conference, University of Warsaw, Poland, 27-28 June 1997.
- "Inter/national
Features of the Polish School of Sonorism in the 1960s." Presented at
the Session "National Style and International Attitude to
Music," the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the
Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and critique: European
identity at the millenium, 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
- "A
Mystic in the Cathedral: Musical Memory in Andriessen's Hadewijch."
Presented at the Session: "The 20th century and the Middle Ages:
Cases of musical memory," the Fifth Conference of the International
Society for the Study of European Ideas, Memory, history and
critique: European identity at the millennium, 19-24 August 1996,
Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- "Poland
and Holland: Inter-nationalism in New Music" Presented at the Session
"Ethnicity and Internationalism in the Arts," the Fifth
Conference of the International Society for the Study of European
Ideas, Memory, history and critique: European identity at the
millenium , 19-24 August 1996, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- "Birdsong,
Music, Ecology: Reflections on the Aesthetics of a natural art."
Presented at the Haliburton Soundscape Workshop, of the World Forum for
Acoustic Ecology, Haliburton, Ontario, 29-31 July 1996.
- "A
Triumph of Modernity: Xenakis's Kraanerg at the Opening
of the National Arts Centre." (Paper co-authored with James Harley)
Annual Meeting of the Canadian University Music Society, Brock University,
St. Catharines, 2 June 1996
- "The
'Woman Composer' Debate from a Polish Perspective." Annual Meeting of
the Canadian University Music Society, Brock University, May 1996.
- "'The
living universe:' Natura naturans, natura naturata and Bartok's nature
music idiom." British Musicology Conference, King's College, London,
18-21 April 1996.
- "Romancing
Hildegard: Postmodern appropriations of a medieval composer."
(co-authored with Catrena Flint) at an Interdisciplinary Conference, The
Middle Ages in Contemporary Popular Culture, McMaster University,
Hamilton, 29-31 March 1996.
- "Canadian
music in a Canadian space: R. Murray Schafer's The Princess of the
Stars." 22nd Meeting of the Sonneck Society for American Music,
Washington, D.C., 21-24 March 1996.
- "Natura
naturata and Natura naturans: musical representation and structural
symbolism in Bartok's nature music idiom." Invited paper for
the International Bartok Colloquium,Szombathely, Hungary; 3-5
July 1995.
- "From
Postmodernism to Ecomusicology: Towards a New Paradigm in Music
Research." Spring Meeting of the AMS
New York State--St. Lawrence Chapter, University of Ottawa, 8-9 April
1995.
- "Bacewicz,
Picasso and the Legacy of Desire." The First UK Critical
Musicology Conference "Goodbye great music?" Salford, United
Kingdom, 1-2 April 1995.
- "The work
of music revisited: Roman Ingarden's phenomenological
aesthetics." 1994 Annual Conference of the Canadian University Music
Society, Calgary, Alberta, 3-6 June 1994.
- "American
experimental tradition re-examined: Henry Brant's spatial music."
1994 Conference of the Sonneck Society for American Music, Worcester,
Massachusetts, 6-10 April 1994.
- "On
the use(ful/less)ness of analysis for the performance of 20th-century
music (Xenakis, Bartok, Stravinsky)." 1993 Conference of the Canadian
University Music Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, May/June 1993.
- "Technique
of comedy in Verdi's Falstaff." Spring Meeting of the
NYS--SL Chapter of AMS, SUNY-College at Oswego, March 1993.
- "New
music and ideology in Poland--case study: The ISCM World Music Days of
1968." Special Session on "Music, Ideology, and the State in
Socialist Europe, 1945-1991" at the Annual Meeting of the AMS in
Pittsburgh, November 1992.
- "The
technique of spatial sound movement in the instrumental music of Iannis
Xenakis." Fall Meeting of the NYS--SL Chapter of AMS, SUNY at Albany,
October 1992.
- "The
concept of musical space in music theory and aesthetics
(1930s-1980s)." 12th Congress of the International Association for
Empirical Aesthetics, Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, July 1992.
As President of the Modjeska Club with Polish National
Foundation representatives.
California State Poetry Society (2015-), Editorial Board of the California
Quarterly (2018-); President (2019-), Managing Editor of CQ &
Poetry Letter (2020-).
Helena Modjeska Arts and Culture Club in Los Angeles
(1997-), President in 2010-2012 and in 2018-2024
American Musicological Society (1991-), Ecomusicology Study Group and editor of
Ecomusicology Review (2012-2020)
Polish American Historical Association (1999-), Officer/Board Member since
2009, Communications Director and Newsletter Editor 2010-2020, Board Secretary
in 2014-2020.
Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, member (1996-).
Polish American Congress of Southern California (1998-), Vice President for
Public Relations (2022-)
MEMBERSHIP
IN SOCIETIES - PAST
- American
College of Healthcare Executives, member (2013-2015)
- European-American
Sheriff's Advisory Council, representative of Poland (2012-14)
- Polish
American Congress, Southern California Chapter (2007-2017)
- Association
of Fundraising Professionals, Greater Los Angeles Chapter (2004-2016),
Awards Committee (2007, Corporate and Foundation Subcommittees Co-chair,
Event Sponsorship Chair)
- Volt,
Music Theater Company, Long Beach (Advisory and Founding Board Member,
2005-2010)
- Polish
University Club of Los Angeles, Chair of Scholarship Committee
(1998-2008)
- International
Alliance of Women in Music (1997-2004)
With Wojciech Kocyan and Edward Hoffman, Ruskin Art Club,
May 2010.
- William
Scott Galasso, review of Bright Skies. Selected Poems (2022)
in CSPS Poetry Letter No. 3 of 2022: https://www.californiastatepoetrysociety.com/2022/10/csps-poetry-letter-no-3-2022-part-2.html.
- Michael
Escoubas, review of We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology in CSPS
Poetry Letter No. 2 of 2021: https://www.californiastatepoetrysociety.com/2021/09/csps-poetry-letter-no-3-fall-2021.html.
FIrst published in online magazine Quill and Parchment, 2021.
- Michael
Escoubas, review of Grateful Conversations: A Poetry Anthology,
online in Quill and Parchment, April 2019. Reprinted on
Moonrise Press Blog: http://moonrisepress.blogspot.com/2019/04/review-of-grateful-conversations-by.html
- Cindy
Bylander, review of Górecki in Context: Essays on Music (Moonrise
Press, 2015), The Polish Review 65/1 (2020): 110-113.
- Irena
Poniatowska, review of Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information
Guide (Routledge, 2015), Chopin Review, No. 1
(2018). http://chopinreview.com/pages/main/13
- Margaret
Saine. Review of Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden (Moonrise
Press, 2008), California State Poetry Society Poetry Letter No.
3, 2016: https://www.californiastatepoetrysociety.org/images/PoetryLetters/16%203%20Poetry%20Letter.pdf
- Robert
Strybel, review of "Slicing the Bread" Poetry Chapbook
(Finishing Line Press, 2014), Polish American Journal,
January 2015.
- Sally
Boss. Review of Slicing the Bread. A Children's Survival Manual in
25 Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2014) in the Sarmatian
Review vol. 35 no. 2 (April 2015): 1931-1932.
- Zofia
Reklewska-Braun. "Poetycki Podrecznik Przetrwania - Maja Trochimczyk
- Slicing the Bread," Review of Slicing the Bread. A
Children's Survival Manual in 25 Poems (Finishing Line Press,
2014) in Goniec (March 2015). http://www.goniec.net/goniec/inne-dzialy/goniec-poleca/poetycki-podr%C4%99cznik-przetrwania-maja-trochimczyk-%E2%80%93-slicing-the-bread.html
(in Polish)
- Juliane
Brand, review of "The Musical Worlds of Polish Jews, 1920-1960:
Identity, Politics and Culture," Conference at the University of
Arizona, Nov. 2013. The Orel Foundation.
- Grazyna
Kozaczka. Review of Chopin with Cherries and Meditations
on Divine Names anthologies edited by Maja Trochimczyk, in The
Polish Review, vol. 58 no. 4 (Spring 2014):108-110. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/polishreview.58.4.0108
- Christopher
Woods, review of Chopin with Cherries in Contemporary
World Literature 5, February 2011.
- Elizabeth
Kanski, "A Tribute to Chopin in Verse," review of Chopin
with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse in Polish American
Journal, September 2010 p. 21.
- Alison
Ross, review of Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse in The
Clockwise Cat, May, 2010).
- John
Z. Guzlowski, review of Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse in The
Cosmopolitan Review 2 no. 1 (Spring 2010).
- Thomas,
G. Murray, review of the Miriam's Iris poetry
collection. Poetix.net, February
2010.
- Grondelski,
John, M. Review of Polish Dance in Southern California,
in Studia Polonijne (2008: 29, pp. 420-421, in
Polish.
- Bayley,
Amanda. Review of Lutoslawski Studies, edited by Zbigniew
Skowron (with chapter "Dans la nuit: The Themes of Night and Death in
Lutoslawski's Oeuvre"),Musical Times 144, no. 1882
(Spring 2003): 71-72.
- Bellman,
Jonathan. Review The Age of Chopin edited by Halina
Goldberg (with chapter on "Chopin and the 'Polish Race'"). Journal
of Musicological Research 24, no. 1 (Jan-March 2005): 81 - 84.
- Bloch,
Gregory W. "The Problem With Andriessen," Review Essay. Review
of Trochimczyk's The Music of Louis Andriessen and Robert
Adlington's Louis Andriessen: De Staat (London: Ashgate,
2004). Echo 6, no. 2 (Fall 2004). www.echo.ucla.edu/volume6-issue2/reviews/bloch.html.
- Cross,
Ian. Review of Musicology and Sister Disciplines: Past, Present,
Future. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of the
International Musicological Society, edited by David Greer,
London, 1997. In Music and Letters 84, no. 2 (May 2003):
261-265.
- Harsh,
Ed. Review of The Music of Louis Andriessen (2002),
in Notes, Music Library Association Quarterly, 60, no. 1
(September 2003): 160-162.
- Maciejewicz,
Dorota. Review of After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (2000),
in Muzyka 48, no. 3 (2003).
- Makowski,
Jenna. Review of Polish Dance in Southern California. Journal
of Folklore Research, November 2008.
- Milewski,
Barbara. Review of The Age of Chopin edited by Halina
Goldberg (with chapter on "Chopin and the 'Polish Race'"). Notes.
Music Library Association Quarterly 62, no. 1 (September 2005):
121-122.
- Rae,
Caroline. Review of Lutoslawski Studies edited by
Zbigniew Skowron (2003), in Music and Letters 85, no. 1
(February 2004), 127-132.
- Reyland,
Nicholas. "A Protean Diversity: Lutoslawski Studies,"
review of Lutoslawski Studies edited by Zbigniew Skowron
with a chapter by Trochimczyk, Polish Music Journal 5, 2 (2002).
www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/PMJ/archives.html
- Rosenblum,
Sandra P. Review of After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (2000),
in Notes, Music Library Association Quarterly, 58, no. 2 (June
2002).
- Schwarz,
Anne. Review of Maria Szymanowska: Pianist and Composer, by
Slawomir Dobrzanski, with a chapter on Szymanowska's songs. The
Polish Revview 51 no. 1 (2009): 105-107.
- Sharpe,
David Leviston. Review of The Music of Louis Andriessen,
October 2002. NewMusicWorks, London, England,
www.newmusicworks.com/editorial1/andries.htm.
- Samson,
Jim. Review of After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (2000),
in The Slavic Review 61, no. 1 (June 2002).
- Wright,
David. Review of The Music of Louis Andriessen (2002),
in Tempo: A Quarterly Review of Modern Music no. 57/225
(2003).
Featured Poet at the Bolton Hall Museum, September 2013.
- Kresse,
Amour. "Local Woman Receives PAHA's Distinguished Service Award"
in The Voice of the Village, vol. 6 no. 3, March 2015,
p. 1.
- Phoenix
House News. “Dr. Maja Trochimczyk Receives a Medal from the Polish
Ministry of Culture.” April 2013.
- Video:
Norman Davies visits the Modjeska Club, 2012, hosted by Maja
Trochimczyk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z__qa0TiVw
- Video:
40th Anniversary of the Modjeska Club, in Polish, TV Polonia by Lukasz
Sochur and Matylda Liro: 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1er4KANCies
- Video:
The Modjeska Prize for Jan Nowicki, in Polish, 10/2010, TV Polonia
broadcast clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvOOqd7ieM
- Skies,
Apryl. "Local Poets Weigh in on the Power of Language to Celebrate
National Poetry Month" in NoHo
Art District Magazine, April 2012.
- Vogel, Benjamin. "W Salonie
Marii Szymanowskiej." in Polish in Ruch Muzyczny, November
2011.
- "Maja
Trochimczyk" - Biographic Entry in Wikipedia,
online, 2007.
- General
Books, American Music Historians: Alan Lomax, John Lomax, Helen
Hartness Flanders, Nat Hentoff, Maja Trochimczyk, Elijah Wald, John
Mcglinn May 2010.
- Dutka,
Elaine. "How USC Nabbed the Great Gorecki," Los Angeles
Times, 1 October 1997.
- Inglis,
Jadwiga. "Kompozytorka Joanna Bruzdowicz w Los Angeles," The
Summit Times (January 2004), Wirtualna Polonia (January
2004).
- Inglis, Jadwiga. "Piec tysiecy
stron o muzyce. Rozmowa z Maja Trochimczyk," [Five thousand
pages about music. An interview with Maja Trochimczyk]. Interview in
Polish, in News of Polonia (March 2004), The
Summit Times (February 2004), and Glos/Voice (April
2004), reprinted in Bialy Orzel/White Eagle (May 2007).
- Text
Interview by Shoutout LA Website, June 2022: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-music-historian/
- Text
Interview by Voyage LA Website, October 2021: http://voyagela.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-maja-trochimczyk-of-moonrise-press/
- Text
Interview by Shoutout LA website, March 1, 2021: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-maja-trochimczyk-poet-photographer-and-music-historian/
- Recorded
Interview with Ilona Europa on her Radio show Accent On! LA Talk Radio. 29
April 2019. https://www.latalkradio.com/content/accent-042919%20?fbclid=IwAR0BNbhh4-aAWKsdnlF2u9-Dsgl7dSWalhD62tlXVjMi-ibHYv8B0SIZKyY#audio_play
- Text
Interview with Witold Janczys, "U nas w Amerike" - in Russian,
March 2018; Delphi, https://www.delfi.lt/multimedija/u-nas-i-amerikie/u-nas-v-amerike-ceny-tozhe-rastut-no-i-zarplaty-uvelichivayutsya.d?id=77319547
- Recorded
interview "Zycie Pomiedzy Polska a USA" - A series of Broadcast
Radio Interviews with Ewa Szczecinska, Polish Radio 2 (a week-long series
of 15-minute interviews about family history, emigration, and life),
broadcast in March 2018. https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/380/Artykul/2082339,Maja-Trochimczyk-Zycie-pomiedzy-Polska-a-USA
- Recorded
Interview: "Od Xenakisa do Szymanowskiej" Interview with Ewa
Szczecinska, Polish Radio 2 (one hour conversation in Polish) http://www.polskieradio.pl/8/2565/Artykul/1354983/
- Text
Interview about poetry with Kathabela Wilson, "Mapping the Artist:
Maja Trochimczyk," ColoradoBoulevard.net,
November 2014
- Recorded
Interview with Lois P. Jones on Poets Cafe, KPFK 90.7FM, March 30, 2011,
recording archived on her website.
- Text
Interview, Andrew Angus. "Interview
with Maja Trochimczyk, Poet from Poland", Muses Review,
text online, No. 43, 2010
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