Into Light - Trochimczyk, Maja

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Résumé :
This collection includes 36 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 within, 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. The book could be used in private meditation sessions, group settings, and positive-focused creative writing workshops....

Biographie:
Maja Trochimczyk, the sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga (2010-2012) and the publisher of Moonrise Press, is a poet, music historian, photographer, and non-profit director born in Poland and living in California. She published seven books on music, six volumes of poetry (Miriam's Iris, Rose Always, Slicing the Bread, The Rainy Bread, Into Light, and Bright Skies), and four anthologies: Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names, Grateful Conversations (co-edited with Kathi Stafford) and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, co-edited with Marlene Hitt). Her poems appeared in: Altadena Poetry Review, Loch Raven Review, Epiphany Magazine, Lily Review, Ekphrasis Journal, Quill and Parchment, Magnapoets, The Cosmopolitan Review, The Scream Online, The Original Van Gogh's Ear Anthology, Lummox Journal, Phantom Seed, Spectrum, Poezja Dzisiaj, OccuPoetry, Pisarze.pl, as well as anthologies by Poets on Site, Southern California Haiku Study Group, and others. As a music historian, Trochimczyk presented papers at over 90 national and international conferences in Poland, France, Germany, Hungary, U.K., Canada, and the U.S. She received awards and fellowships from ACLS, SSHRCC, USC, McGill University, MPE Fraternity, Polish American Historical Association, City and County of Los Angeles, and Poland's Ministry of Culture. The Senior Director of Planning and Development at Phoenix Houses of California, she also serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society and the President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club. Moonrisepress.com...

Sommaire:
Dr. MAJA TROCHIMCZYK is a Polish-born California poet, music historian, and photographer. She published seven books on music and five collections of poetry (Rose Always, Miriam's Iris, Slicing the Bread, Into Light, & The Rainy Bread). She edited four poetry anthologies, Chopin with Cherries, Meditations on Divine Names, Grateful Conversations and We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology. She also wrote hundreds of book chapters, peer-reviewed articles on music history and poems published in English, Polish and many translations. The founder of Moonrise Press and a member of poetry groups Westside Women Writers and Village Poets, she serves as the President of the California State Poetry Society, and the President of Helena Modjeska Art and Culture Club. MARLENE HITT is a poet, writer and retired educator with local history as an avocation. She served for many years as Archivist, Museum Director and Historian at the Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga. She is a native Californian and a graduate of Occidental College. As a member of the Chupa Rosa Writers of Sunland for nearly 30 years, she has worked with this small group of poets from whom has sprung readings at the local library, the Poet Laureate Program of Sunland-Tujunga, and the Village Poets. Ms. Hitt served a Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga in 1999-2001. She has published a book on local history, Sunland-Tujunga From Village to City (Arcadia, 2000, 2005) based on columns written for Glendale News Press and other local papers since 1998. Her poems appeared in Psychopoetica (UK), Chupa Rosa Diaries (2001-2003), Glendale College's Eclipse anthologies, Chopin With Cherries (2010), Meditations on Divine Names (2012), Sometimes in the Open, a collection of verse by California Poets Laureate, and The Coiled Serpent (2016). She published chapbooks Sad with Cinnamon, Mint Leaves, and Bent Grass (all in 2001), as well as Riddle in the Rain with Dorothy Skiles, a stack of poetry booklets for friends and family, and most recently a critically acclaimed poetry volume, Clocks and Water Drops (Moonrise Press, 2015)....