Grateful Conversations - Trochimczyk, Maja

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Résumé :
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 plus self-portraits in poetry of the nine writers. The editors are members of the group, Maja Trochimczyk and Kathi Stafford.

Biographie:
Maja Trochimczyk is a poet, music historian, photographer and non-profit director born in Poland, educated in Canada (Ph.D., McGill University), and living in California (www.trochimczyk.net). She published seven books of music studies (After Chopin: Essays in Polish Music (2000)...

Sommaire:
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...