Poetry Laurels: About Maja

Maja Trochimczyk

"Selfie" in Paris, May 2014

Recent Interviews:

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

Maja Trochimczyk, Ph.D., is a Polish-Canadian-American poet, music historian, photographer, and non-profit director born in Poland and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published six collections of poems: Rose Always and Miriam’s Iris (Moonrise Press, 2008), Slicing the Bread (Finishing Line Press, 2014), The Rainy Bread, Into Light (Moonrise Press, 2016), and Bright Skies (Moonrise Press 2022). The revised and expanded version of The Rainy Bread. More Poems from Exile came out in 2021. She also edited five anthologies of poetry. Chopin with Cherries (2010) and Meditations on Divine Names (2012) offer “rich poetic material selected and collected with great sensitivity” (Prof. Grażyna Kozaczka, Polish Review, 2014). In 2018 Dr. Trochimczyk co-edited with Kathi Stafford an anthology of Westside Women Writers, Grateful Conversations, with work by nine female California poets, members of her writing group. In 2020, Dr. Trochimczyk co-edited with Marlene Hitt the tenth anniversary anthology for Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga, celebrating the featured poets and organizers of their monthly readings series: We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology. In 2022, she edited an anthology of "positive poetry' with work by 12 poets, Crystal Fire. Poems of Joy and Wisdom.

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.

As a music historian, Trochimczyk published eight books on music and Polish Culture: After Chopin: Essays on Music (2000), The Music of Louis Andriessen (2002), Polish Dance in Southern California (2007); A Romantic Century in Polish Music (2009); Frederic Chopin: A Research and Information Guide (co-authored with William Smialek, Routledge, 2015), Lutoslawski: Music and Legacy (co-authored with Stanislaw Latek, 2014); Gorecki in Context: Essays on Music (2017); and Album 50-lecia Klubu Kultury im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej (2021). She authored 27 book chapters for edited volumes on such topics as: Chopin (Indiana UP), Lutoslawski (Oxford UP), women composers, Polish music after 1945, emigres, ecomusicology, and more. She published English translation of two essays by Andrzej Wendland on Penderecki and Gorecki in 2020. For the 50th anniversary of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club in 2021, she co-edited a 380+ page Album 50-lecia Klubu Kultury im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej, with Elzbieta Kanski and Elzbieta Trybus. Dr. Trochimczyk also wrote 28 peer-reviewed articles in English and Polish for professional journals: Musical Quarterly, Computer Music Journal, Leonardo, Studia Chopinowskie, American Music, the Polish Review, and Muzyka. She presented papers at over 90 national and international conferences in Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, U.K., Canada, the U.S. and Australia.

The Sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, she currently serves as President of the California State Poetry Society, President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, and President of Moonrise Press. She taught music history at McGill University and at USC. Dr. Trochimczyk received awards and fellowships from ACLS, SSHRCC, USC, McGill University, MPE Fraternity, Polish American Historical Association (Swastek Prize, 2007, Distinguished Service Award, 2014 and Creative Arts Prize, 2016), City and County of Los Angeles, and Poland’s Ministry of Culture (Medal for the Promotion of Polish Culture, 2012). She was a member of various poetry groups, such as Westside Women Writers, Poets on Site, and Village Poets. In 1998-2009 she served as Scholarship Chair for Polish University Club of Los Angeles and in 2009-2020 as Secretary and Communications Director of the Polish American Historical Association.

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).

HONORS AND AWARDS

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.

PUBLICATIONS — BOOKS OF POETRY

Crystal Fire. Poems of Joy and Wisdom, edited by Maja Trochimczyk, and illustrated with paintings by Ambika Talwar (Moonrise Press, October 2022). The Crystal Fire anthology gathers poems of joy and wisdom by 12 poets, 8 women and 4 men: Elżbieta Czajkowska, Joe DeCenzo, Mary Elliott, Jeff Graham, Marlene Hitt, Frederick Livingston, Alice Pero, Allegra Silberstein, Jane Stuart, Ambika Talwar, Bory Thach, and Maja Trochimczyk. The poets span all ages and diverse life experiences. They include émigrés from Poland, Cambodia, and India, and those born in the U.S. College professors join community poets. Native speakers appear alongside those for whom English is the second, or even the third language. The ”joy and wisdom” they write about are also different, as each poet follows their own path and gathers unique reflections to share with their readers. ISBN 978-1-945938-58-0 (color paperback), 188 pages. ISBN 978-1-945938-59-7 (eBook), instant download. With 144 poems and 12 paintings.

http://www.moonrisepress.com/crystal-fire-anthology.html

Bright Skies. Selected Poems, 85 poems, 162 photographs, 184 pages. Dedicated to the poet's children and grand-children, asking them to read and enjoy her verse “when they grow up.” The volume features 85 poems written in 2009-2022 and organized into five sections – Spring, Summer, Babie Lato, Autumn and Winter. The seasons of poetry include reflections on nature, beauty, love, life, and spirituality. The focus is on positive emotions, learning to be calm and content, full of compassion and wisdom. It is a life-long quest, and these poems are an invitation. The poems are illustrated with 160 photographs taken in the poet’s neighborhood – Big Tujunga Wash, Angeles National Forest, Descanso Gardens, and Oxnard Beach. The surprising “Coda” brings a set of recipes for old-fashioned Polish dishes mentioned in poems.

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

Maja Trochimczyk Reads "From Minium Chronicles", "Ocean of Jade" and "On Landscapes: A Guidebook" from the book on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m0i17jPRPLs

Maja Trochimczyk reads more poems from "Bright Skies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30QrXhNFO7Q

We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, co-edited with Marlene Hitt, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Village Poets Readings at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga, with work by 80 poets, 290 pages (Moonrise Press, September 2020). Includes sections on Featured and Guest Poets, and on Poets Laureate of Sunland -Tujunga. Moonrise Press, September 2020. The volume includes work by: 15 poets laureate from California; 20 Pushcart Prize nominees – Accardi, Askew, Byrne, Canyon, Collins, Dobreer, Dove, Ford, Fancher, Luza, Leland-St. John , O’Brien, Jones, Pero, Reyna, Rinne, Rogers, Rummel, Skiles, and Terzi; 12 current and former college professors – Campbell, Kirby, Dove, Lipkin, Lummis, Peterson, Rummel, Rizk, Talwar, Trochimczyk, Saine, and Zaro; and eight poets with doctoral degrees – Dove, Lipkin, Mataric, Meyer (honorary), Peterson, Reyna, Saine, and Trochimczyk. Poets from the states of California, Illinois, New York, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington are represented along with those who have roots in 18 different countries: Argentina, Armenia, Cuba, China, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, the U.K., the U.S. and Vietnam.

ISBN 978-1-945938-39-9 (paperback);

ISBN 978-1-945938-40-5 (eBook, ePub) More information:

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.

Into Light: Poems and Incantations, ISBN 978-0-996398-19-0 (eBook), and ISBN 978-0-996398-18-3 (Paperback, Moonrise Press, 2016). This collection includes 30 poems and 12 "incantations" that focus on the intertwined spiritual concepts of Light and Love. The poems, initially written within the Catholic mystical tradition of contemplation and adoration of the Divine presence, gradually evolved to encompass a broader scope of spiritual insights, without losing the main focus: reaching out in Love to the One Light, the Source of All. The simple and repetitive meditations and incantations are meant to inspire, uplift, and fill the heart with Light and Love.

http://www.moonrisepress.com/into-light-by-maja-trochimczyk.html

The Rainy Bread. Poems from Exile, ISBN 9781945938009 (paperback, Moonrise Press, 2016), ISBN 9781945938016 (eBook, 2nd expanded edition, Moonrise Press, 2021) includes 30 or 60 (eBook) poems about forgotten stories of Poles living in the Eastern Borderlands of Kresy, who were killed, deported, imprisoned, or oppressed after the invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union on September 17, 1939. These fact-based poems depict the survival of Poles deported to Siberia, the Arctic Circle, or Kazakhstan. Some of them left the Soviet Union with the Polish Army's Second Corps under the command of General Wladyslaw Anders; were transported to refugee camps in India or Africa; and ended up in Argentina, Canada, Australia or the U.S.
http://www.moonrisepress.com/the-rainy-bread-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


Reading from Meditations on Divine Names, Bolton Hall, July 2014

PUBLICATIONS — BOOKS ON MUSIC AND CULTURE

ISBN 978-1-945938-55-9, paperback; ISBN 978-1-945938-56-6, hardcover
ISBN 978010945938-57-3, e-book in e-Pub format

Celebrating Modjeska in California: History of Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club is a case study of one Polonian organization, active since 1971, that reveals the interests, activities, successes and challenges of successive waves of Polish immigrants to America, especially the generation of the Displaced Persons (survivors and veterans of World War II, mostly inter-war Polish intelligentsia), and of the Solidarity-era (activists of anti-communist movement, "tourists" who came to work and overstayed their visas, and creative/enterprising individuals seeking to further their careers). The book is dedicated to "all Polish émigrés and exiles dispersed throughout the world who remained faithful to the Polish language and culture, especially to all the volunteers of the Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club in Los Angeles, promoting Polish culture in California." It consists of ten chapters starting from a biography of the Club's patron, actress Helena Modjeska (1840-1909); a survey of Polish Americans and their organizations in California; and a biography of the Club's founder, actor Leonidas Dudarew-Ossetynski (1910-1989). Six chapters are dedicated to "eras" in the Club's history, from the Kingdom of Leonidas (1971-1978), through the times of Solidarity immigrants (1978-1989), the birth of the Third Republic of Poland (1989-1998), the period of stabilization and status quo (1998-2010), the arrival of new people and ideas (2010-2018), to surviving challenges (2018-2023). The tenth chapter is a summary with conclusions and recommendations. The book includes index and many illustrations from the archives of: Helena Modjeska Art & Culture Club, Polish Museum of America in Chicago, Valerie Dudarew-Ossetynska Hunken - the founder's daughter, American Council of Polish Culture (formerly "of Polish Cultural Clubs"), Institute of National Remembrance, Maja Trochimczyk, and other private and public archives. All net revenue is donated to the Modjeska Club.

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 wyraża jedynie poglądy autora i nie może być utożsamiana z oficjalnym stanowiskiem Kancelarii Prezesa Rady Ministrów. Praca jest częścią 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).

Krakow, June 2012.

MUSIC HISTORY — BOOK CHAPTERS

"Romantic, Sublime, Suffering, Heroic – Poets About Paderewski and Poland" a chapter commissioned by and 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.

"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.

With Wojciech Kocyan, Bowers Museum, June 2013

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).

"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.

"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.

Official portrait as Poet Laureate by Rona Leon, 2010.

POETRY IN JOURNALS, ANTHOLOGIES AND BLOGS
To 2014 - 160 publications, 2015 - 67; 2016 - 15; 2017 - 19; 2018 - 25; 2019 - 14; 2020 - 19; 2021 - 16, total 343 publications, 1 to 10 poems each.
Edited Poetry Journals: California Quarterly 44:1 (2018), 45:3 (2019), 46:4 (2020), 47:2 (2021), 48:1 (2022), 49:2 (2023), 49:4 (2023); CSPS Poetry Letter starting from No. 1 of 2021; Managing Editor of the California Quarterly.
2022-2024

"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

"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.
"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.

The Foothills Poetry Festival, January 10, 2015 at Sunland-Tujunga Library

BOOK REVIEWS

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) forthcoming in the Polish Review, 2023.
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-siÃ¨cle 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.

Poets - Artists Exhibit, Scenic Drive Gallery, Monrovia 2011.
Photo by Kathabela Wilson.

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.

Rose Always Reading. Photo by Jola Rybczynska, 2011

TRANSLATIONS

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.

PHOTOGRAPHY

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.

ART AND POETRY EVENTS AND LECTURES

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.

Monthly Zoom events of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, September 2020-, host and organizer.

Monthly Village Poets Readings on Zoom, July 2020-January 2023, host and organizer.

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.

MEMBERSHIP IN SOCIETIES - CURRENT

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.

REVIEWS OF MAJA'S WORK

William Scott Galasso, review of Bright Skies. Selected Poems 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
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), in the 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), in the 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.

ARTICLES ABOUT MAJA

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).

Poets Cafe interview, with Lois P. Jones, host, March 2012

INTERVIEWS WITH MAJA

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

Village Poets Monthly Reading, 2013, on Poetry.LA YouTube channel.

Poetry Laurels

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About Maja

"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

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