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

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Sunday, September 13, 2020

Be Kind, Be Gentle, Just Be - Share Water with All, Light with All

August 15 is the Feast of Matki Boskiej Zielnej in Poland - Mother of God of the Herbs, celebrating Mary as the Queen of all the Harvest Fe...

Sunday, August 16, 2020

On August Cosmic Rays and Ocean Waves

Swimming in the ocean, in Pacific Ocean, crisp and refreshing like champagne, inspires reflections of a cosmic kind, of the One Energy, One ...

Thursday, August 6, 2020

How High the Moon? Sandcastles on the Beach

It is vacation time - to be outdoors, in the mountains, in the garden, on the beach... Here are some romantic beach poems about the simp...

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Streams and Birds, or the Simple Joys of the Summer

I discovered that I can wade in "my" stream. I share it with the whole community, of course. Someone built low rocky dams acro...

Monday, June 1, 2020

June in Blue and Gold - With a Taste of Loquat Fruit

June in Gold and Blue “It was June and the world smelled like roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the ...

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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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