We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, co-edited with Marlene Hitt, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Village Poets Readings at Bolton Hall Museum in Tujunga, with work by 80 poets, 290 pages. Includes sections on Featured and Guest Poets, and on Poets Laureate of Sunland -Tujunga. Moonrise Press, September 2020. The volume includes work by: 15 poets laureate from California; 20 Pushcart Prize nominees – Accardi, Askew, Byrne, Canyon, Collins, Dobreer, Dove, Ford, Fancher, Luza, Leland-St. John , O’Brien, Jones, Pero, Reyna, Rinne, Rogers, Rummel, Skiles, and Terzi; 12 current and former college professors – Campbell, Kirby, Dove, Lipkin, Lummis, Peterson, Rummel, Rizk, Talwar, Trochimczyk, Saine, and Zaro; and eight poets with doctoral degrees – Dove, Lipkin, Mataric, Meyer (honorary), Peterson, Reyna, Saine, and Trochimczyk. Poets from the states of California, Illinois, New York, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington are represented along with those who have roots in 18 different countries: Argentina, Armenia, Cuba, China, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, the U.K., the U.S. and Vietnam.
ISBN 978-1-945938-39-9 (paperback), $22; ISBN 978-1-945938-40-5 (eBook, ePub), $10. More information: We Are Here
Grateful Conversations: A Poetry Anthology, edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Kathi Stafford (Moonrise Press, June 2018).
ISBN 978-1-945938-22-1 (paperback).
This anthology 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. The volume includes poems written for seven workshops and self-portraits in poetry of the nine writers.
Into Light: Poems and Incantations,
ISBN 9780996398190 (eBook), and
ISBN 9780996398183 (Paperback). This collection includes 30 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, 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 Rainy Bread. Poems from Exile,
ISBN 9781945938009 (paperback) and
ISBN 9781945938016 (eBook). �The Rainy Bread: Poems of Exile� includes 30 poems about forgotten stories of Poles living
in the Eastern Borderlands of Kresy, who were killed, deported, imprisoned, or oppressed after the invasion of Poland by
the Soviet Union on September 17, 1939. These fact-based poems depict the
survival of Poles deported to Siberia, the Arctic Circle, or Kazakhstan. Some of them left the Soviet Union with the Second
Corps of the Polish Army under the command of General Wladyslaw Anders; were transported to refugee camps in India or Africa;
and ended up in Argentina, Canada, Australia or the U.S.
Slicing the Bread. Children's Survival Manual in 25 Poems,
(Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2014). This unique poetry collection, based on family memories, revisits the dark days of World War II and the post-war 45-year occupation of
Poland by the Soviet Union that "liberated" the country from one foreign oppression to replace it with another. The point of view is that of children,
raised by survivors, scarred by war, wary of politics. Children experienced hunger and cold, played with bullets, witnessed the killings, saw the darkening blood spilled
on the snow and hands stretching from locked boxcar windows...
Meditations on Divine Names. An anthology of contemporary English poetry by 62 poets from different spiritual traditions and religious denominations, celebrating
the act of naming, the multitude of names, and the presence/revelation of the Divine through earth, water, air, fire, being and loving. Their poems represent Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Kabbalah, Wicca, Sukyo Mahikari, and ancient Greek, Egyptian, Hawaiian, and Slavic religions.
March 2012, Moonrise Press. ISBN 978-0-9819693-8-1.Details.
Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse. An anthology of contemporary English poetry by 92 poets with roots in Poland,
France, England, India, Australia, Serbia, and the U.S., celebrating Chopin's 200th anniversary of birth.The book is illustrated with vintage Chopin postcards and includes one translation - of "Chopin's Piano" by Norwid.
February 2010, Moonrise Press. ISBN 978-0-9819693-0-5.. Details.
Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008. A poetry collection organized around appearances
of six angels: Amor, the angel of romance; Eros, the angel of desire; Eloe, the angel of sorrow; Thanatos, the angel of death; Ellenai,
the angel of consolation; and Sophia, the angel of wisdom. Read a sample here.
Paperback without Photos: ISBN 978-0-578-00166-1 Hardcover with Color Photos: ISBN 978-0-9819693-2-9
Maja Trochimczyk, "Meditations on Divine Names" Book Tour,
Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, July 22, 2012.
ONLINE AND PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Ten poems about animals and birds in Polish and English (total of 20) forthcoming in Zwierzenia Zwierza anthology in Poland (Bezkres, 2020): "What Do I Know about a Crow, Crows are the Messengers, Why do Lizard do Pushups? A Whale of a Song, See the Sea, A Mystery Solved, On Being a Birds, A Drink of Water, June in Gold and Blue, Song of the Summer" polus Polish translations.
"Aquamarine" and "A Champaigne Sunday" forthcoming in The Blue and Blues Anthology, 2021.
"Of Trains and Tea" haibun sequence, and three haiku (a pear tree, 30 seconds left, and sunlight at noon) in
The Sonic Boom of Stars: The 2020 Southern California Haiku Study Group Anthology, edited by Susan Rogers and Becki Reese, September 2020, pages 64 and 112.
"A Drink of Water," "On Being a Bird," "A Ballad from the Field of Glory," on Poetry Laurels Blog, September 13, 2020. http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/09/be-kind-be-gentle-just-be-share-water.html
"On Cosmic Breath, " "A Cosmic Rainbow" and "After a Meditation" on Poetry Laurels Blog, August 16, 2020, https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/08/on-august-cosmic-rays-and-ocean-waves.html
"A Day Trip to Venice," and "Carving Sand," on Poetry Laurels Blog, August 6, 2020. https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/08/how-high-moon-sandcastles-on-beach.html
"Crystal Light of Crystal Mornings," in When The Virus Came Calling: COVID19 Strikes America anthology edited by Thelma T. Reyna, September 2020, 149-150.
"A Breakup Story" in Spectrum No. 24 (Doors issue), edited by Don Kinfisher Campbell, September 2020.
Two poems in Polish - "Jak oswoic kota" and "Slodkie pozegnania" - in anthology Atlantyckie Strofy, edited by Danuta Blaszak and Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Literary Waves, 2020. Also posted on the portal Pisarze.pl https://pisarze.pl/2020/08/04/wspolczesna-tworczosc-poetycka-z-usa-i-wielkiej-brytanii-2020-w-opracowaniu-anny-marii-mickiewicz-i-danuty-blaszak/, July 2020.
Seven poems in We Are Here: Village Poets Anthology, edited by Maja Trochimczyk and Marlene Hitt, 2020: "What I Love in Sunland", "Dragonfly Days", "Sapphire", "Arbor Cosmica","June in Gold and Blue"; and "Imagine – A Poem of Light."
"The Song of the Summer" and "A Mystery Solved" on Poetry Laurels blog, June 14, 2020: https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/06/on-simple-joys-of-summer.html
"Last Pomegranate" in the California Quarterly 46: 1, p. 55, edited by Margaret Saine (Spring 2020).
"An Invitation to the Dance" and "See, How We Dance?" in Allegro & Adagio: Dance Poems Vol. II, edited by Johnny M. Tucker Jr., 2018 https://www.johnnytuckerjr.com/allegroadagio
"Smiling" and "Euridice, Lost to Dance" in Core: Dance Poems Vol. III, edited by Johnny M. Tucker Jr., forthcoming in 2021.
Selections from Rose Always - A Love Story ("Rainbows," Sapphire" "Amber" "This Afternoon," "Gifts" "Imagine- A Poem of Light") and a set of haiku on Poetry Laurels blog, January 2020, How I Love My Sapphire, Azure, Periwinkle California Skies https://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2020/01/how-i-love-my-sapphire-azure-periwinkle.html
"Imagine a Star, "Meditation on Light" "The Seven Suns" and "Today" on Poetry Laurels Blog, June 2019. http://poetrylaurels.blogspot.com/2019/06/live-in-balance-in-harmony-in-sunlight.html
"On Being Green in Vincent's Garden" reprinted in Spectrum 18, Spring 2019.
"My Mother's Key" first published in Quill and Parchment, May 2019.
"Oh, the Art of Looking," in the California Quarterly 44:4 (Winter 2018), edited by Margaret Saine.
"On the Day of Love and Death," "Oh, the Art of Looking," "Outside My Window," on Poetry Laurels blog, "On the Joys of Spring, Azure Skies and Light in the Heart," March 30, 2019.
"A Balad of New Star", "A Ballad of New Heart," and "A Ballad of Golden Scroll," on Poetry Laurels blog, February 23, 2019.
"Sunfire Foxes," "Things not to say on a lazy afternoon in the garden," "How to Domesticate a Cat" and "A Ballad of New Sun," on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Love in the Year of the Boar..." February 11, 2019.
"On Being Green in a Poet's Garden," after Van Gogh, "A Treasure Hunt," and "As Above So Below," - poetry inspired by the Art Institute of Chicago and other Chicago landmarks, on Poetry Laurels Blog, "New Year, New Gardens, or the Alchemy of Van Gogh," January 16, 2019.
"Winter Solstice," reprinted in Spectrum Vol. 17, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, issue on dreams, Winter 2018.
"After the Crossing," forthcoming in Poetry Pacific, Vancouver, CA, November 2019.
"What Was Then, What Is Now," and "Vincent's Mulberry Tree," two haibun and four haiku in "Eclipse Moon," the 2018 anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, edited by W. S. Gallasso, November 2018, pp. 27, 50, 101.
"Christmas is Love," "Imagine: A Poem of Light," and holiday haiku posted on the Poetry Laurels Blog on "How to Survive the Holidays", December 2018.
"The Lake of Claret," with announcement of publication of the Grateful Conversations anthology, in Quill and Parchment, August 2018.
"On Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport," reprinted from the "Grateful Conversations" anthology on Poetry Laurels Blog, October 2018.
"Blue Sierra" and "A Tree Epiphany" posted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, about "the Planetary Church of Plants," August 2018.
"Parallel Tracks" haibun and a haiku in the Train Anthology edited by Jacquie Pearce, forthcoming in 2019.
"Independence Day" and "My Declaration" posted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, July 3, 2018.
"Hymn to Light" and "Skylark's Lesson" posted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, June 25, 2018.
"Standing Guard" reprinted from The Rainy Bread in Pirene's Fountain anthology Collateral Damage about children affected by war, edited by Amy Kaye, 2018.
"An Elegy For a Man Who Did Not Fly" in Polish translation by Henryk Cierniak (Elegia na smierc mezczyzny ktory nie umial latac"), in Wytrych Quarterly of Wolna Inicjatywa Artystyczna, Poland, May 2018, p. 11.
"The Lake of Claret", "The Infinity Room" and "In Morning Light" from Grateful Conversations (2018), reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, May 31, 2018.
"Azure, "The Mulberry Song," from Resurrection of a Sunflower and "Vincent's Mulberry Tree,"
haibun from Eclipse Moon anthology, 2017, posted on Chopin with Cherries Blog, March 1, 2018.
"On Squaring the Circle" reprinted from Into Light (2016), in Altadena Poetry Review, April 2018, and posted on Moonrise Press Blog, May 8, 2018.
"No More," "A Walk in the Canyon," "Ciocia Tonia," A Perfect Universe," from Into Light and The Rainy Bread,posted on Poetry Laurels blog for Black History Month, February 28, 2018.
"Dog Story" and "A Desert Walk" from Rose Always, "Light Centuries," "Hazelnut," and haiku about the Dog Year, on the
Poetry Laurels Blog,
January 31, 2018.
"Arbor Cosmica" and two haiku, in the California Quarterly vol. 44, no. 1, Spring 2018. Arbor Cosmica reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, April 3, 2018.
Two haibun, "What Was Then, What Is Now" and "Vincent's Mulberry Tree" and five haiku in Eclipse Moon, Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, edied by William Scott Galasso and Deborah P Kolodji, Pasadena, November 2017.
"On Transmuting Colors," published on the Poetry Laurels Blog, September 5, 2017.
"In Your Heart," "Imagine a Star," "A Rainbow Vision," and "The Seven Suns" from "Into Light" reprinted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, August 5, 2017.
"My Declaration" and a series of haiku for Independence Day, on the Poetry Laurels Blog, July 10, 2017.
"The Mullberry Song," "Today," "Under African Sky," and "What I love in Sunland" reprinted from various sources on the Poetry Laurels Blog, May 2, 2017
Three poems inspired by paintings of Vincent van Gogh, "Azure," "The Mulberry Song," and "Into Color, Into Light," in
Resurrection of Sunflower,
a Van Gogh Anthology, edited by Catfish McDaris for Silver Birch Press (2016).
"My love is like a sparrow..." "My love is made of gratitude..." and "I sleep better..." from Rose Always
posted on the
Poetry Laurels Blog about Rose of Roses exhibition, March 13, 2017.
"It all started with love..," "Not Aspartame," "Winter Solstice," "A Revelation after Il Paradiso," and "I found myself..." from Rose Always (rev. 2017)
on the Poetry Laurels Blog, "Love Poems among the Roses," February 18, 2017.
"Rose Garland, "For you, I'm a pear..." and "Rose Window," posted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, "Rose of Roses Photo Exhibition," February 5, 2017
"My Mother's Beirut," in Pirene's Fountain, vol. 9, no. 17, special edition on Silk and Spice, Glass Lyre Press, 2016.
"Kazakhstan, 1936," and "Under African Sky," in The Altadena Poetry Review , edited by Elline Lipkin, 2017.
"The Vanishing Point," from Into Light, reprinted in the California Quarterly, edited by Margaret Saine, 2017.
... untitled... in Pisane Sercem - an anthology of poetry dedicated to Pope John Paul II. Rome: Fundacja Jana Pawla II, 2016.
"Imagine a Star," "A Rainbow Vision," "A Declaration," "Breathing Light," "The Stream," "The Shield of Light," from "Into Light" posted on the
Poetry Laurels blog, January 2 2017, "A New Year of Joy, Loving Kindness, and Fun."
"Of Bliss," The Gift of Patience," "A Hymn" from "Into Light" posted on the Poetry Laurels Blog, December 6, 2016.
"The Vanishing Point," "The Bluest," "Breathing Light," "The Stream," and "Playful (Via negativa)" from "Into Light" posted on the
Poetry Laurels Blog, October 10, 2016."
"An Invitation to the Dance" and "See, How We Dance?" forthcoming in anthology Allegro & Adagio: Dance Poems II, edited by Johnny M. Tucker, Jr., 2017.
"Euridice, Lost to Dance" and "What Once Was--a Haibun" forthcoming in Dance Poems III, edited by Johnny M. Tucker, Jr. 2019.
"I Give You the World - A Poem for Adam," fragments on Poetry Laurels Blog, September 25, 2016.
"A Whale of a Song" from Into Light and travel haiku reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, "My Declaration, Purpose and Intention - Found on the Road, With Pears and Whales" August, 2016.
"Kolyma" and "Under African Sky" from The Rainy Bread reprinted on
Poetry Laurels Blog, August 25, 2016.
"A Cricket Sings" and "Crown Jewels" from Into Light, reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, July 27, 2016.
"The Lady with an Ermine" (After Leonardo), in Spectrum 5: Every Poem is an Idea, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, Summer 2016.
"August 5th at the Hollywood Bowl" and "A Revelation After Il Paradiso" in Angel City Review, No. 3, summer 2016.
"An Invitation to the Dance" in Altadena Poetry Review, April 2016, edited by Thelma T. Reyna.
A Haiku posted on the daily haiku site, HaikUniverse by Rick Lupert, September 6, 2015.
"Meditation on Light," "A Pear in the Tree," "A Box of Peaches," "The Sycamores," "A Romance, Pure and Simple," "A Universal Lesson," on Poetry Laurels Blog, "
Meditations in Light, For Peace, Under the Trees," April 30, 2016
"Many Happy Returns" in Spectrum 3: LoveLoveLove, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Pasadena, February 2016.
"... Around the Roses," "On Melrose," and "Moonlight Competition" on the Dead Snakes Blog, January 2016.
"On Friday in August, at Three O'clock," in California Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2015, Journal of the California State Poetry Society.
"My Mother's Beirut", in "Silk and Spice" - special issue of Pirene's Fountain, fall 2016.
"Standing Guard" in "Collateral Damage" - special issue of Pirene's Fountain, forthcoming in 2016, dedicated to children as victims of wars.
"On Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" reprinted in Spectrum 2: The Gift, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, December 2015.
"A Study with Cherries" in English and Polish, "The Lady with an Ermine" (reprint), and new poems, "An Invitation to the Dance" and "A Music Box Christmas" on Poetry Laurels Blog, "On Polish Christmas in the Notre Dame Cathedral", December 17, 2015.
"Oblivion" (haibun on chemtrails) in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Winter 2015.
"Oblivion" and "The Great God Experiment" (reprinted from Meditations on Divine Names, on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Rain and No Rain...", October 29, 2015.
"The Lady with an Ermine" (rev.), and "Repeat after me" on Poetry Laurels Blog, "Give it all away..." September 25, 2015.
"Whispers" in Spectrum, an anthology of Los Angeles Poets edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, September 2015. First published in Rose Always (rev. 2011).
"Absence" coupled with a poem by Don Kingfisher Campbell in heARTbreak: reimagined anthology edited by Karineh Mahdessian, Los Angeles, September 2015.
"Sleep," "Endless," "From the Mountains," "Rose: A no-name-yes," "Of Bliss," reprinted in Poetry Laurels Blog for June 13, 2015,
"Daffodils and Rose Gardens"
"A Letter to My Son" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Summer 2015.
"The Waiting," "On Grief and Loss: A Trilogy" and "The Shooting Star" in
Femmwise Cat a special issue of the Clockwise Cat
celebrating women, March 2015, Part II: 92-96.
"An Intermission" - a new Holocaust poem, on Poetry Laurels Blog, April 15, 2015.
"A Study with Cherries," "What Once Was" and "A Summer of Love" in Altadena Poetry Review: Anthology 2015, edited by Thelma T. Reyna. Pasadena, April 2015.
"The Way to School" from Slicing the Bread reprinted on Poetry Laurels Blog, March 5, 2015.
"What to Carry" from Slicing the Bread chapbook, reprinted on the Poetry Laurels blog in
"A Calendar of Readings, February 8, 2015.
"On Bliss" "Definition: Writing", "Memento Vitae" and "A Study with Cherries" with Polish Translations
reprinted in the blog Poetry Laurels, January 11, 2015.
"Ascension: A Memorial Poem" with Polish Translation "Wniebowstapienie" in the blog
Poetry Laurels, January 2015.
"Wish Upon A Star" in the 2015 San Gabriel Valley Poetry Calendar edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell.
Two haiku in the Apology of Wildflowers, Gregory Longnecker, ed. 2014 Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group. November 2014.
"A Mirage" in OccuPoetry,Vol. 4 (summer 2014): 15, with a video of the reading.
"Slicing the Bread," the title poem from a chapbook of the same title, in Quill and Parchment, Vol. 160, Fall 2014; New Book Releases Poetry Laurels blog, July 2014.
"Slicing the Bread," "What to Carry," "Starlight," and "The Spoon," in PoetryMagazine.com, Vol. 13 no. 3 (Fall 2014). Features selected by Andrena Zawinski.
"The Alchemist Tree in Winter" in Edgar Allan Poet Journal, Vol. 2 (2014): 80-81. Edited by Apryl Skies.
Slicing the Bread. Children's Surviva Manual in 25 Poems, chapbook of 25 poems based on war memories from Poland. Finishing Line Press, October 2014.
"Afterimage" in the 16th Annual Yom Hashoah issue for the Holocaust Remembrance Day, Poetry SuperHighway, edited by Rick Lupert, April 2014.
"Not Aspartame," in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly vol. 62 (Spring 2014).
"Her Grandma," a version of "Peeling the Potatoes" in the anthology Poetry and Cookies, ed. Pauline Dutton, Altadena: Altadena Public Library, 2014.
"Memory Mirrors" and "The Veil, the Weave" reprinted in a blog "Women's Poems of Struggle and Hope
Poetry Laurels, February 2014. "Memory Mirrors" was published in Poets on Site's anthology for
Susan Dobay's "Impressions of China" (2012) and "The Veil" in The Voice of the Village, April 2012.
"Lady with an Ermine," in a blog "Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, The Royal Castle and the Monuments Men,"
Poetry Laurels, February 2014.
"Zaduszki," and "Standing Guard" in a blog "Day of Remembrance at the United Nations and in family History,"
Poetry Laures, January 2014.
"A Dream of Orpheus" in anthology of poetry inspired by Stephen Linsteadt's paintings,
Woman in Metaphor, ed. Maria Elena B. Mahler (Natural Healing House, 2013).
"How to Make a Mazurka" reprinted on the blog on Prusinowski Trio, Chopin with Cherries, November 2013.
"A Call to Prayer" and "The Cathedral" in the "Read, Dream, Pray" blog on Poetry Laurels, January 2014
"Wishing You a Mery Christmas" in the holiday blog at Poetry Laurels, December 2013.
"Thanksgiving Tanka" and "The Day of Peaches" in the Thanksgiving blog Poetry Laurels, November 2013.
"The Hour of Darkness," "Love Horror," "Last Wish," and "The Polish Easter" in a blog "On Halloween,
All Souls and All Saints," Poetry Laurels Blog,
October 2013.
"The Cornerstone" reprinted in "The Phoenix Flame" vol. 1 no. 3, September 2013.
"Rosa Incognita," "Amor 6," Ellenai 6," and "Desert Rose" reprinted in Poetry Laurels Blog about the "Shadows, Leaves, Roses" exhibition, September 2013.
"The Spinning Wheel" ("Breathe a song of new life...") in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Vol. 59, Summer 2013.
"Midnight Fire" haibun and three haiku in Dandelion Breeze," the Anthology of Southern California Haiku Study Group, November 2013.
"Coming Home from the Funeral of my Father" in Quill and Parchment vol. 105, July 2013.
"The Music Stand" dedicated to Henry Brant, for his centennial, and "The Flavor of Summer" posted on Poetry Laurels Blog, June 2013.
"Definicja Literatury" or "Definition: Writing" in Polish translation in a feature on emigre poets edited by Anna Maria Mickiewicz, in Poezja Dzisiaj, No. 99, 2013.
"A Portrait in Brackets" and "A Lesson for my Daughter" in Poetry Column "On Irony and Love Songs" in The Voice of the Village vol. 4, no. 6, June 2013.
"Definition: Writing" reprinted in the Poetry Laurels Blog for the National Poetry Month, April 2013.
"Flower Falls" and "Death Valley Sunset" in the Poetry Column "Finding Poetry in the Colors of Death Valley" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 4, no. 4, April 2013.
"Incandescent" and "The Taste of the Sky" reprinted in the Poetry Laurels Blog, March 26, 2013.
"On Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" and "The Poet of Lost Cats" (in memory of Karen Klingman), in the Poetry and Cookies Anthology Altadena Public Library, 2013.
"On Eating a Donut at a Krakow Airport" in the blog "Did Chopin like Donuts?" in Chopin with Cherries Blog, Vol. 4 No. 1, January 2013.
"Flower Falls" and "Asleep" inspired by the artwork of Debby Prohias and Galen Young, in Poetry Laurels Blog, March 6, 2013
"Rose Garland" from Rose Always and "A Summer Rose Dream" in a blog on Chopin's Roses, Chopin with Cherries Blog, vol. 4 no. 2, February 2013.
"A Song of a Rose" (Version of "When you smile..."), "Rosier d'Amour" and "Rose Garland" from Rose Always reprinted in Poetry Laurels Blog, February 2013.
"Asters" in the Poetry Corner on great women in The Voice of the Village, vol. 4 no. 3, March 2013.
"Perdita and the Oldtimer" and "Since You Asked" in the Poetry Corner "History of Roses" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 4 no. 2, February 2013.
"A Mirage," in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, vol. 56, Winter 2012.
"Now, about that Novelist" and "A Place of Stones" in the Poetry Corner: "Year of Faith, Year of the Snake" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 4 no. 1, p. 28, January 2013.
"The Music Box" reprinted in a column on the Exhibition "Immigrants in Our Community" at Bolton Hall in the
Poetry Laurels blog, November 2012.
"Rules for Happy Holy Days" and "In the Mountains" reprinted in the poetry column "Poetry Corner: Make Your Own Holidays," in The Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 12, December 2012.
"Among the Lilies (Water Lilies 1 and 2)" in the Lummox Journal,www.lummoxpress.com, October 2012.
"The Cornerstone," "Song of Gratitude," and a reprint of "The Box of Peaches" in the Poetry Laurels Blog, October 2012.
"The Mirage" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly,, No. 56, Winter 2012.
"A Subliminal Song" in the poetry column "Poetry Corner: October is a Funny Month of Time and Timelessness", in The Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 10, October 2012.
"The Rite of Passage" in the Epiphany Magazine, October 2012 (with three photographs).
"The Art of the Fugue" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No. 55, Fall 2012.
"Memento Vitae" and "A Lesson for my Daughter" in the poetry column
"Poetry Corner: Back to School Everyone" in The Voice of the Village monthly, vol. 3,
no. 9, September 2012. Also posted in the Poetry Laurels blog, August, 14, 2012.
"A Pear in a Tree" and "A Study with Cherries" in the poetry column "Harvesting Pears and Poems" in The Voice
of the Village monthly, vol. 3 no. 8, August 2012. "A Pear in a Tree" was also posted on Poetry Laurels blog, July 2012.
"Three Postcards from Paris" - three poems inspired by watercolors of Ron Liebbrecht and a 2011 visit to
Paris, in Quill and Parchment, vol. 100, July 2012.
"In Krakow's Main Square at 7 a.m." and "Huntington Garden Haiku" in the poetry column "On Medieval Melody
and California Gardens" in The Voice of the Village monthly, vol. 3 no. 7, July 2012.
"Memento Vitae" in Serbian translation by Dr. Mirjana N. Radovanov-Mataric, in Vecernje novosti (daily newspaper in Belgrade), 21 July 2012
"Tulip Dust" in Serbian translation as "Prah lala," and four other poems ("Sierra," "Ganesha," "Memento Vitae" and "What I love in Poland") translated by Mirjana N. Mataric. SVESKE, God. 22, Knj. 104, June 2012. p. 29.
"Jardin de Bagatelles" and "Rose Always" in a poetry column, "Poetry in a Rose Garden" in the Voice of the Village monthly, vol. 3 no. 6, June 2012.
"Buddha with Swans," "Convergence," "Dead Sea Alive," "Incandescent (Via Positiva)," "Snow Alight,"
"Omniscient," "On Seeing Oak Leaves in Sunlight," "Playful (Via Negativa)," "The Great God Experiment,"
and "The Hands of Mercy" in Meditations on Divine Names, Moonrise Press, 2012. "Convergence" was reprinted in Poetry Laurels blog, July 19, 2012.
"The Cornerstone" and "Afternoon Tea" in a monthly column, "On Virtues and Art in Jail,"
in the Voice of the Village", vol. 3 no. 5, May 2012.
"The Waiting," "The Road Home," "Midnight Fire" and "The Jewel Box Sunrise" in the Poetry and Cookies 2012 Anthology edited by Pauli Dutton, Altadena Public Library, April 2012.
"An Elegy for a Man Who Did Not Fly" in the Polish-American Anthology, edited by John Z. Guzlowski and John Minczeski, University of Akron Press, forthcoming in 2012.
"The Veil, the Weave," and "Lichen" in a monthly column, "The Survival of Art, the Art of Survival,"
in the Voice of the Village", vol. 3 no. 4, April 2012.
"Dead Sea Alive" and "Manna" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 3, in a monthly column "On Manna, the Dead Sea, and the Divine," March 2012.
"My Sky" and "See, How We Dance?" in
The Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 2, in the column Poetry Corner, "Poetry - in Pursuit of Happiness," February 2012.
"Easter Apocalypsis" in The Scream Online, the special issue on
"Heaven and Hell" - a collection of 48 poems by 37 poets edited
by John Z. Guzlowski, with photographs by Richard Beban, 2011.
"A Jewel Box Sunrise" in an anthology of love poems From Benicia with Love, ed. Don Peery. Benicia, 2013.
"A Jewel Box Sunrise" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly 52 (winter 2011).
"A Jewel Box Sunrise" and "Rosa Mystica" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 3 no. 1, January 2012.
"The Sea of Birds" and "Making Honey" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 2, no. 12, December 2011.
"Awakening," "The Sea of Birds," "Making Honey," and "See, how we dance?" in
On Awakening, poetry inspired by the art of Susan Dobay, edited by Kathabela Wilson, Poets on Site, 2011.
"A Box of Peaches,"An Embroidery Lesson" and "Buddha" in "Poetry Audio Tour 2011"
chapbook celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena: Poets on Site, 2011. Includes
audio and text
"Unknowing" and "Guideposts of Eternity" in Chapbook "Art and Alchemy" on the painting by Stephen Linsteadt, ed. Kathabela Wilson, Pasadena: Poets on Site, 2011.
"My Sky" with its photograph, in the 2011 Calendar edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell for
Emerging Urban Poets, Pasadena.
"The Color Guard" in the Poetry Laurels Blog, July 1, 2011.
"For Sale," "A Box of Peaches," in The Voice of the Village, November 2011, in a column "From Grief to Thanksgiving" in The Voice of the Village, November 2012.
"A Dark Promise," "Home Sweet Home," "The Waiting," "The Road Home," "Through the Fire" and haiku for Owens Lake. Painted my Way anthology edited by Kathabela Wilson. Poets on Site, Pasadena, 2011.
"Song of Orpheus" inspired by painting "Dancer Upstairs" and forthcoming in Stephen Lindsteadt's book of poetry about his art, 2011.
"When, oh When" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, vol. 51, Summer 2011.
"Harvesting Chopin" in The Voice of the Village, vol. 2, no. 9, September 2011.
"The Cat and the Crescent" and "Sunlight" in The Voice of the Village, August 2011.
"A Desert Tale" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly vol. 50, Spring 2011 (also known as "The Cat and the Crescent").
"On the Beach" and "Shelled Sunset" (after Susan Dobay's "Sunset"), two poems for Father's Day, in The Voice of the Village, June 2011.
"The Lake of Claret" and "What I like in Poland" in Poetry and Cookies 2011, anthology edited by Pauli Dutton,
published by the Altadena Public Library.
"Only in California," "Time Lapse Garden," and "Cosmos" in the Voice of the Village, 2, no. 7, p. 31, May 2011 (pdf download in a column "The Desert, Garden, and the Stars: Only in California").
"The Cornerstone of the Soul," "The Wind," and "The Great God Experiment," in the
Voice of the Village, 2 no. 6, p. 22, April 2011 (pdf download in a column "Spring Cleaning and a New Life").
"Entropy" dedicated to Henry Fukuhara in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly," Winter 2011.
"On Seeing Madonnas at the National Museum, Warsaw," "Canyon Growing Pains" and "Bird's News" in the Voice of the Village 2 no. 5, p. 27, March 2011 (In a column "Seeing and Hearing in the Spring").
"Ready to Wear" in the Voice of the Village, 2 no. 4, p. 25, February 1, 2011 (pdf download in a column "A Different Valentine").
"Thanksgiving for Basia" in the Voice of the Village 1, No. 11, November 2010, p. 27.
"Crossing the Lethe," "A Romance, Pure and Simple," and "Penelope's Dream" in Kathabela Wilson, ed., The Art of Toti O'Brien (Pasadena: Poets on Site, October 2010). First published as a chapbook in March 2010.
"Pining for a Portrait," "The Blue Rooster," "On Seeing Camellia and Iris," "Carpe Diem" and "The Mug" in Indigo: Japanese Pottery in Blue and White,
Chapbook by Poets on Site, edited by Kathabela Wilson, Pasadena, December 2010.
"Mountain Talk," "Against All Odds," "Wait, there's more," "A Proposal," and "Skydance" in Poets on Site chapbook for the
Annual Plein Air Workshop at Manzanar and Alabama Hills, September 2010.
"With Open Arms" and "The Golden Hour" in Chapbook by Poets on Site at the Arlington Gardens, Pasadena, August 2010.
"A Wild One" and "Time Lapse Garden" in Chapbook by
Poets on Site for the garden of Jean Sudbury and Vance Fox, Pasadena, July 2010.
"Rose Window" in the Voice of the Village 1, no. 10, August 2010, p. 27 (pdf download).
"Fearful Symmetry in Blue" online by Don Kingfisher Campbell in his blog, My Poem Rocks, July 3, 2010.
"Thistles and Waltzes Forever" and "Wild Strawberries" in Pauline Dutton, ed., Poetry and Cookies Anthology 2010 (Altadena
Public Library, May 2010).
An Ode of the Lost, dedicated to Adam Mickiewicz and all Polish exiles. The first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/LWSOufEAk30
"Mountain Watch" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No. 46 (Summer 2010).
"Mountain Watch" and "Interlude - Of Bliss" reprinted in the
Voice of The Village 1, no. 8, June 1, 2010, p. 27 (pdf download).
Mountain Watch, at the first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, introduced by Joe DeCenzo, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://www.youtu.be/MxlahG639pY
"Mama and me" in the Voice of the Village 1, no. 7, p. 4 (May 2010, pdf download), Mother's Day Issue, with a photo of the collage by Susan Dobay that inspired this poem.
"Look at me..." in the Loch Raven Review 6, no. 1, Spring 2010. ISSN 1557-7627.
"Look at me..." online, Featured Poet for the week January 11-18, 2010, at
Poetry Super Highway, edited by Rick Lupert.
'Look at me...' , inspired by Ella Fitzgerald's "Misty" and a Sunday drive to a Buddhist orchard. The first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/TJzzOId3KCY
"A Study with Cherries" in the Cosmopolitan Review 2 no. 1 (Spring 2010), celebrating
the publication of Chopin with Cherries.
"In a Winter Garden" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No. 45 (Spring 2010).
"My Hat Collection" with photos in hats, a Picasa web album On Fashion in Verse, May 20, 2010.
"An Ode of the Lost" in Tour of the World chapbook by Poets on Site, Pasadena, April 2010.
An Ode of the Lost, dedicated to Adam Mickiewicz and all Polish exiles. The first reading as Poet Laureate of
Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/LWSOufEAk30
"Condemned," "Fearful Symmetry in Blue," and "A Foreign Tale," in Indian Miniatures at Pacific Asia Museum, chapbook of Poets on Site, Pasadena, April 2010.
"A Portrait in Brackets (Eidetic Reduction)" in 2010 Calendar of Emerging Urban Poets, edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell, Pasadena, December 2009.
A Portrait in Brackets (Eidetic Reduction) at the first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California,
May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/eFhVhOAxbxM
"Shelled Sunset," "Mama's Music," and "Red and Purple" in Poets on Site Chapbook for the art of Susan Dobay, Pasadena, edited by Kath Abela Wilson, November 2009.
"Thanksgiving for Basia" in the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No. 44 (winter 2009) and on website "Tales from Poetic Oceans," for January 2010.
"Dead Sea Alive" in Quill and Parchment, vol. 101, online journal, December 2009.
"A Widow's Portrait" and "Snowfall" in the 2009 Emerging Urban Poets Anthology edited by Don Kingfisher Campbell. Pasadena: Emerging Urban Poets, November 2009.
The Arms of Mercy, Poetry Audio Tour of the Pacific Asia Museum, August 22, 2009. http://www.youtu.be/52p-lWq2zxU
Illuminata, Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, with Rick Wilson, flute, recorded at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, August 22, 2009, also posted on the museum's website and published in the "Poetry Audio Tour" chapbook, Poets on Site, Pasadena, 2009: http://youtu.be/mbiIMszaLwYIlluminata, written for Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, version read at the Passing of the Laurels Ceremony, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, California, April 25, 2010: http://youtu.be/Bst2kYh8ciM
A Magnolia Courtryard for Pacific Asia Museum Audio Tour, with Rick Wilson, flute, recorded at Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, August 22, 2009: http://youtu.be/1kOTn11xa1I
"On Fear of Contentment," "The Soil of Faith" and "On Wisdom" in Discovering Ganesha: The Remover of Obstacles, Chapbook by Poets on Site, Pasadena, July 2009.
"The Camellia" in Don Kingfisher Campbell's Tails from Poetic Oceans, April 5, 2009, http://kingfisher1031.blogspot.com/
"The Monument of Time" and "Memento Vitae" in the Clockwise Cat online journal, Vol. 15, October 2009.
"On Fear of Contentment," Sage Trail, October-November 2009.
Eight poems, "Eloe 1, Amor 1, In Passing 6, Ellenai 1, The Jungle, Green Sea at Albian, Black Cats, and On Bliss" (from Miriam's Iris and Poets on Site chapbooks) in bilingual chapbook, Sunlight Confessions, KRAK group of artists and poets, Los Angeles, October 2009.
"The Jungle," (after Milford Zornes's painting "Burma Jungle at Shadowsuet"), Ekphrasis Journal, September 2009.
"The Monument of Time," Phantom Seed, No. 3, Fall 2009.
Reading "The Music Box" from "Rose Always" - February 2010. Photo by Jola
Maranska-Rybczynska.
"The Sycamores," San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No. 43, Fall 2009.
"The Taste of the Sky" and "Tulip Dust" in Poetry and Cookies, Chapbook of Altadena Public Library, edited by Pauline Dutton, April 2009, p. 112-113.
"Blades and Bliss - 1. Rage, mirrored, 2. Love, unveiled" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No. 41, Spring 2009.
Read the poem here.
"At Dawn (In Passing 3)" and "Interlude - Of the Mountains" from Miriam's Iris in Magnapoets, January 2009.
Seven poems, "A White Letter," "Gold Leaf, Ultramarine," "Entrapment," "Mountain Waltz," "Always," "Marking Time," and "Meadow Dreams" in Poets on Site chapbook for the 12th Annual Fukuhara Workshop at Manzanar and Alabama Hills, Observations and Interpretations, September 2009.
"Sophia 2" and "Sophia 4" from Miriam's Iris, in Mystic Saint Blog Spot,
http://mysticsaint.blogspot.com/2008/10/sophianic-love-and-blessing.html.
Eleven poems, "Magnolia Courtyard," "Horse of the Earth," "Phoenix Dance," "The Cricket Sings," "The Mask of Chung," "Tibetan Prayer Horn," "The Deer Flight," "Buddha with Swans," "Arms of Mercy," "Illuminata," and "Exit Tanka" for Permanent Collection Tour Chapbook at the Pacific Asia Museum, Poets on Site, August 2009.
"Water of the Fountain" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly No. 40, Fall 2008.
Claremont Concert, read at the Passing of the Laurels Ceremony, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, California, April 25, 2010, published in poeticdiversity.org vol. 8 no. 2 (August 2008): http://youtu.be/ceX1_IWZW4Q
"The Universe" in Southland Poets of the Fantastic Chapbook, Pasadena, March 2008.
"On Seeing Forest Dance," "The Sierra," and "The Monument of Time" in Milford Zornes Chapbook no. 2,
Pasadena: Poets on Site, May 2008.
"Wild Boars," "The Jungle" and "The Source of the Nile" in Zornes in Asia (India, China, Burma) Chapbook, Pasadena: Poets on Site, August 2008.
Eight poems in 11th Annual Henry Fukuhara Workshop Exhibition Chapbook, Pasadena: Poets on Site, September 2008: "A Passage," "View from Long Pine," "Blue," "Timelessness," "Afternoon Tea," "A Crust of Lichen," "Manzanar Internment Camp," and "Colors"
Seven poems in Three Generations Chapbook (Zornes, Anderson, Liebrecht),
July 2008, two for Anderson ("Venice" and "Rancho Cucamonga") and five for Zornes ("Point San Vincente," "California Coast", "Sunset Beach", "Alabama Hills," and "Green See at Albian"), Pasadena: Poets on Site, August 2008.
Rose Always - A Court Love Story. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008, rev. edition, 2011. Surprisingly sweet and gentle, this love story of a crime victim and a sex offender consists of 77 brief, lyrical poems and 23 narrative fragments. Inspired by the Songs of Songs and centuries of love poems, from Sappho to Milosz.
Video recording of a reading of selected love poems from Rose Always - A Court Love Story (poems no. 12, 13, 20, 52) at the first reading as Poet Laureate of Sunland-Tujunga, at Bolton Hall Museum, Tujunga, California, May 23, 2010: http://youtu.be/k5W-X6mEygM
Miriam's Iris, or Angels in the Garden. Los Angeles: Moonrise Press, 2008. A poetry collection organized around appearances of six angels:
Amor, the angel of romance; Eros, the angel of desire; Eloe, the angel of sorrow; Thanatos, the angel of death; Ellenai,
the angel of consolation; and Sophia, the angel of wisdom.
Passing of the Laurels Ceremony for the Sixth Poet Laureate of Sunland Tujunga, with Joe DeCenzo, McGroarty Arts Center, Tujunga, California, April 25, 2010.
Includes reading of two short poems from "Miriam's Iris" ("Of the Mountains" and "Of Bliss"): http://youtu.be/xLMhXh01bl8
The first reading of Of the Mountains, a poem inspired by a painting by Bill Anderson, "Foothill Rancho Cucamonga, Cliff Road" and read at "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://youtu.be/TL3oXxJC-Bg
Green Sea at Albian, (Cathedral), inspired by a painting by Milford Zornes of the same title, read at "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://www.youtu.be/sCO7aSYXfgc
Into the Sunset, inspired by Milford Zornes's painting, "Sunset Beach" and read at the "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery, Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://youtu.be/jDuuBhg0fuw
Point San Vincente, inspired by Milford Zornes's painting of the same title. "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery, Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://www.youtu.be/jLai-H7wf5A
Stravinsky's Venice, inspired by Bill Anderson"s painting Venice, Italy. "Three Generations" Exhibition, APC Gallery, Torrance, California, July 26, 2008: http://youtu.be/hh6SWgsX09c
"Watercolors," in Milford Zornes Chapbook no. 1, Pasadena: Poets on Site, March 2008.
"My love is like the weather" in San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, No. 37, Winter 2007, the weather issue.
