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Death is Nothing, Life is Everything... And Poetry is...? Maja Trochimczyk, California

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Friday, October 12, 2018

"Grateful Conversations" - A Poetry Anthology with Self-Portraits by Friends

Maja Trochimczyk with Dana Gioia and Grateful Conversations. Photo by Dawn Jenkins "Grateful Conversations" - the newest a...

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Planetary Church of Plants? How to Create a New Religion

I'm so glad and so grateful to be alive here and now, on this planet where crickets sing all around me, on my patio at sunset, in my ...

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Independence or Interdependence? Reflections on Freedom

In America we swear allegiance to the flag. Not to the Queen, as in Canada, where my "citizenship oath" in 1994 started wit...

Monday, June 25, 2018

Hymn to Light, Skylarks, and the Sun of Ancient Egypt

I have not written any poems since the middle of May, when suddenly a long poem came to me, to celebrate the Summer Solstice, the longe...

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About Me

Maja Trochimczyk: As an author of seven scholarly books and hundreds of articles and book chapters, I'm well established in the music history world, with two main specializations: Polish music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and 20th-century contemporary music. A former Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga and current member of Village Poets and the Westside Women Writers, I have published over 300 poems in various journals and anthologies. I also wrote five volumes of poems and edited three poetry anthologies. I'm the Acting President of California State Poetry Society, President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club, President of Moonrise Press, and Board Secretary and Communications Director of the Polish American Historical Association. I also belong to the American Musicological Society, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences. The Moonrise Press published 17 books of poetry and music history. I received fellowships and awards from the Canadian & Polish governments, USC, PAHA, City/County of Los Angeles, and American Council of Learned Societies. In 2016, I received PAHA's Creative Arts Prize for two books of poems inspired by WWII experiences of Polish civilians and children.

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