Maja Trochimczyk, the Sixth Poet-Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, 2010-2012, with a laureal heart, wreath, and the plaque of laureates.
McGroarty Arts Center in Tujunga
Passing of the laurels ceremony, with Joe DeCenzo, the fourth Poet-Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, April 26, 2010
With Marlene Hitt, the first Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at McGroarty Arts Center, April 26, 2010
View of the San Gabriel Mountains from McGroarty Arts Center in Tujunga
The shadows slice through the air, converge in the heart ... (Yucca in Tujunga Wash)
The Spiritual Quartet: Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Susan Rogers, Lois P. Jones, and Maja Trochimczyk, May 1, 2010.
With Susan Rogers at the Spiritual Quartet reading, May 1, 2010
At The Church at Ocean Park, Venice, Spritual Quarter Reading, May 1, 2010
Let's walk into the spring: mountains greening, desert in bloom... Don't look back... (Tujunga Wash and San Gabriel Mountains, with Mojave Desert yucca blossoms).
Flowering at four o'clock, waiting for sunset... (Yucca flower in June)
Volunteer Community Service Award Ceremony of City Councilman Paul Krekorian, reading an occasional poem, "Mountain Watch" June, 2010.
Reading "Mountain Watch" written for volunteers in flood evacuations, during Paul Krekorian's Award Ceremony for Volunteers, June 2010.
A shortcut to eternity, up the river, up the mountain, up the sky... (Big Tujunga Wash in San Gabriel Mountains)
See the veins on the petals of the rose before they shrivel in desert heat (Just Joey Rose - believe it or not)
Chopin with Cherries Reading at the Ruskin Art Club, May 8, 2010
Chopin with Cherries Reading at the Ruskin, L to R: Marion Kaplun Shapiro, Gloria Jones-Davis, Maja Trochimczyk, Taoli-Ambika Talwar, Susan Rogers, and Millicent Borges Accardi
Chopin with Cherries Reading at the Ruskin, with pianist Wojciech Kocyan and choreographer Edward Hoffmann.
It is all about paying attention to the slightest detail... ("Just Joey" - who'd call a rose that?)
With fiber art by Cindy Rinne at the Flintridge Bookstore reading of Cindy Rinne, July 2010.
Reading "Light Centuries" at Cindy Rinne's event, the Flintridge Bookstore, La Canada Flintridge, July 2010
Palm fronds and shadows dance on a sidewalk, off Oro Vista.
The First American Paderewski Competition, May 2010, Maja Trochimczyk, with Jane Kaczmarek and pianist Wojciech Kocyan, Artistic Director of the Competition.
With actress Jane Kaczmarek at the Paderewski Competition, May 2010 (Jane read poems from "Chopin with Cherries" at a Chopin birthday celebration at Colburn School of Music in February 2010)
The sweetest confection, luscious and fragile on a cloudy morning ("Chicago Peace" Rose)
Posterboards for the "Maja and Friends" Poetry Booth at the Seventh Annual Puppetry Festival at McGroarty Arts Center, June 6, 2010
Little poetry-and-tiger lovers at Maja and Friends - Poetry Booth
Reciting children's verse in Polish at the Puppetry Festival in Tujunga
Reciting Polish and English tongue-twisters at the Puppetry Festival in Tujunga
Finger pointing - it was the sky who did it, not us, not us... (A view from Wentworth Street in Sunland).
Fourth of July Parade, Sunland Tujunga
Fourth of July Parade, with Anna Harley-Trochimczyk and Elizabeth Kanski
The Poet Laureate all new convertible decorated for the parade, with Susan Rogers and Elizabeth Kanski.
Fourth of July Parade at Sunland Park
Maja Trochimczyk and Anna Harley-Trochimczyk
Look into timelessness, measured by raindrops (The Rose from Rose Window - " I place you at the heart of my rose...")
At Lloyd Hitt's Retirement Ceremony from the Presidency of Little Landers Historical Society, with a bouquet of poems for him, Bolton Hall, Tujunga, August 2010
With Lloyd Hitt, City Councilman Paul Krekorian, and gifts to Lloyd, poetry and proclamations.
All contours are sharper at nine and the droplets of water are almost gone.
Kathabela Wilson, Maja Trochimczyk and Taoli-Ambika Talwar at Taoli's exhibition, August 2010.
A piece of art in search of a poem, not written yet.
Morning Glory
A piece of art that found its poem, "Illuminata" - at Pacific Asia Museum, during the celebration of the Poetry Audio Tour.
Buddhist crown celebrated in the poem "Illuminata" with a refrain, "I want that crown..." August 2010, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena
Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena
With Susan Rogers, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena
Susan Rogers, Erika Wilk, Maja Trochimczyk, Pauli Dutton, and Mira Mataric at Pacific Asia Museum.
This Chicago Peace rose looks like it is made of sugar and covered in icing... so sweet...
Reading at the Flintridge Bookstore, Mira Mataric's Reading, July 18, 2010. Photo by Gene Schultz, Jr.
Celebrating future collaboration with Kathabela Wilson, as co-editors of a book accompanying a music and poetry project with Ensemble GREEN, Pasadena.
Electron Eternal Energy
McGroarty Arts Center, where summer Creative Writing Class for kids was scheduled.
McGroarty's library
McGroarty's desk.
A board of cinquains by children and a funny hat for the Mad Hatter Tea Party.
McGroarty's poem "California" as a craft project? It is crocheted and framed on the wall.
Fragment of the poem "California" by former Poet Laureate John Steven McGroarty.
Even the butterflies have to drink.
On location of John Peterson's film, working as an unpaid extra, with John and the main character Chicken Boy, July 2010.
With Dr. Krystyna Kaszubowska at Disney Hall, concert of Young Artists International, a fantastic orchestra!
Hosting the Village Poets Reading at Bolton Hall, featuring Joe DeCenzo, August 22, 2010
If you plant your seeds among the rocks...
It was only eight, not midnight, and there were no spotlights, just sunrays, yet, this rose is the queen of its own stage.
Erika Wilk, Maja Trochimczyk and Kathabela Wilson at Arlington Garden, Pasadena, Poets on Site Garden Reading, August 28, 2010.
With Kathabela Wilson telling a story of her hat.
A study in motion - who's the fastest? Grass, rocks or sunrays? (Arlington Garden, Pasadena)
With "Laureate by the Sea" by Kathabela Wilson, at the "Figures of Humor and Strange Beauty" exhibition, Monrovia, September 5, 2010
Field with rock sculpture in Sunland, Oro Vista St.
Before the grass was moved it glowed...
Chopin with Cherries Reading at Beyond Baroque, September 12, 2010, with Rick Wilson improvising on 19th-century ivory flute from his collection.
And the words were light and the light shone in darkness
At Chopin with Cherries Reading, Beyond Baroque, September 12, 2010
Chopin with Cherries Reading at Beyond Baroque, September 12, 2010, L to R: Maja Trochimczyk, Mira Mataric, Georgia Jones-Davis, R. Romea Luminarias, Rick Lupert, Marilyn Robertson, Rick Wilson, Radomir Wojtech Luza, Ruth Nolan, Russell Salamon, Kathabela Wilson, Erika Wilk, Susan Rogers, Lois P. Jones.
Chopin with Cherries poster and music boxes.
September 16, 2010, "Voices of Recovery Reading" at Santa Ana, National Recovery Month, accompanied by Kenton.
With Susan Rogers at "Voices of Recovery" reading at Phoenix House in Santa Ana, CA.
White shade wet - rose illustration for "Rose Always" reprinted in The Huston Literary Review, June 2009.
At APC Gallery in Torrance, September 18, 2010, Reading from Manzanar Workshop Chapbook, Poets on Site event (Mountain Talk written after Janet Wright's Rock Song, above left)
Reading A Proposal to painting by Minoru Ikeda
Poets on Site at APC Gallery, Torrance, L to R: Rick and Kathabela Wilson, Ron and Rachel Liebbrecht, Mira Mataric, Sharon Hawley, Khalidja Anderson, Joan Stern, Maja Trochimczyk, Denise Dumars, two painters.
The symmetry of petals opens a window into eternity, or so it says in one of my poems. True?
At an Art Show and Sale, McGroarty Art Center, Tujunga, September 19, 2010, after reading "Dreaming of Elsewhere" written especially for this occasion.
The occasional poem, "Dreaming of Elsewhere" was based on topics from a major collection donated to the sale - art prints on British country life, hunting, manors, maps, and sailboats, September 19, 2010
Featured poets at Voices of Recovery reading at Phoenix House, Susan Rogers, Jon Epstein and Maja Trochimczyk, September 21, 2010.
Reading "Ready to Wear" at Phoenix House, Venice, September 21, 2010
Variations upon variations, patterns on patterns, all moving very slowly, unfolding and crumbling into dust.
Reading "The Great God Experiment" at Cypress College, September 23, 2010
Maja Trochimczyk, Taoli-Ambika Talwar and Susan Rogers at the Garden of the Spirit reading at Cypress College, September 23, 2010
Demons flee with shadows ... from the merciless blade of sunrays.
Display of Chopin books and posters at Polish Festival LA, September 25, 2010.
Maja Trochimczyk and Mira Mataric at the Polish Festival LA, September 25, 2010. Photo by Emil Schultz.
Maja Trochimczyk at the Polish Festival LA, September 25, 2010
Reading from Chopin with Cherries at the Polish Festival LA, September 25, 2010
Chopin Celebration: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music, Polish Festival LA, September 25, 2010. L to R: Karolina Naziemiec, Maja Trochimczyk, Hsiao-Hsien Shen, Angela Cholakyan, Mira Mataric, Susan Rogers, Lois P. Jones
Chopin Celebration: An Afternoon of Poetry and Music, Polish Fest LA, September 25, 2010. L to R: Maja Trochimczyk, Mira Mataric, Susan Rogers and Lois P. Jones
I live in a house that Magritte painted, my life - an artwork.
With Lois P. Jones, a host of the Poets Cafe on KPFK, on October 2, 2010, North Hollywood.
The first blush, petals dance at sunrise.
I grow my own roses and made my own rainbow. Spring delight in October.
