Jose Trejo Maya

He is a remnant of the Nahuatlacah oral tradition a tonalpouhque mexica, a commoner from the lowlands from a time and place that no longer exists. Born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, where he spent his childhood in the small rural pueblo of Tarimoró and wherefrom he immigrated in 1988. His inspirations include Netzahualcoyotl, Humberto Ak’abal, Ray A. Young Bear, James Welch and Juan Rulfo. Published in various journals/sites in the UK, US, Spain, India, Australia, Argentina, Germany and Venezuela. Pushcart Prize nominee in 2015; awarded Tercer Premio from El Centro Canario Estudios Caribeños – El Atlántico – en el Certamen Internacional de Poesía “La calle que tú me das” 2016; New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Finalist 2018, 2020 Jack Straw Writers Fellow; Exhibitions in CA, NY, MN, IN, MT, WA, ID amongst others. While in ceremony with Chololo medicine men in the Tule River Reservation he dreamt this written prophecy…

José D. Trejo-Maya

626-367-7756

Email: jdtrejomaya@gmail.com

3834 Monterey Ave. Apt. #110 Baldwin Park, CA 91706

Education

Date

Degree Earned

Institution

2017 Certificate in Court Interpretation SCSI, Santa Fe Springs, CA 2011 MFA Creative Writing/Poetry Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA 2004 BA Sociology and Social Work Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA 2000 AA Social and Behavioral Sciences Citrus College, Glendora, CA

Employment

Dates

Agency

Position

Duties

2021-Present Enki Health Services Inc. Interpreter/ Translator Social Services Interpreter/Translator mental health, psychiatrist, therapist and doctors’ protocols, et. Al. 2018-2020 Pasadena Unified Interpreter Interpret Special Education meetings for parents with IEP, Evaluations, Examinations. 2018-2020 USCIS Immigration Interpreter Interpret adjustment of status, citizenship and asylum applicants. 2018-2020 Monrovia Unified School District District Interpreter Interpret Special Education meetings for parents with IEP, Evaluations, Examinations. 2015-2020 Duarte Unified School District Bilingual Instructional Aide & IEP Translator/ Interpreter DUSD Provide instruction assistance to teachers in English, Science and Math. Utilize PLATO computer programs to assist EL students in coursework. Administer CELDT, LCAP, and CAHSEE exams. Mentor high school’s students. Translate and interpret at IEP meetings. Assist CBI students in small groups. Interpret RPAC and Board Meetings. 2009-2013 FedEx Ground/ Home Delivery Delivery Driver/ Assistant Contractor Resolved package disputes, coordinated vehicle maintenance/inspection, audited delivery services. Supervised drivers, troubleshot mechanical and managerial issues as they occurred, fielded customer service calls, maintained daily driver logs. 2006-2009 Azusa Unified School District Bilingual Instructional Aide Provided Spanish translation and modified instruction for 7th grade English Learners in multiple subjects, assisted in mainstreaming students with learning and behavioral disabilities. 2004-2006 Canyon Acres Children’s Services Child Care Counselor Provided physical and behavioral conflict resolution and counseling in order to reunite families or prepare children for success in a foster care environment, maintained daily detailed dossiers, administered medication,

Poetry Publications

Publication Poem Name Printed Date online/hardcopy

Nimrod International Poetry Journal

ChilamBalam (DT) Volume 55, Number 2 Spring/Summer 2012 Belleville Park Pages (UK)

Mosaic(s) DT December 12, 2014 BA Sociology and Social Work Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA Star 82 Review

Shamanism: Still/Live (WS) 39 Issue 3.2 June 8 2015 Hidden Gems Visions International Review

Calendar Stream (DI) January 5 2015 Lost Coast Review

System of a Down (DT) April 1 2015 Spring Issue Redactions: Poetry, Poetics, & Prose

Pane/Glass Glass/Pane, War Paint (DT) April mid-summer 2015 Altadena Poetry Review 2015

Images Edged in Blue Walls, Images Incised Into Holograms (DL) 2015, February 20, 2015 Acentos Review

Addendum & Storm

Black Light

Blue Ash (DT) February 15, 2015 Five Quarterly

1 Lamat*/Ce Tochtli/Uno Conejo/One Rabbit [*Star] 2 Muluc/OmeAtl/Dos Agua/Two Water 3 Oc/Yei Itzcuntli/TresPerro/Three Dog (DC) April 2 2015 almost5qQtumblr.com Qua Quarterly

Observatorio de Tulum/Luna Azul (DT) Winter 2015 The Voices Project

Carry it with/in (DI) September 8 2015 Turtle Island Quarterly

Identity: Tlaxcalteca (DI) April 23 2015 Taj Mahal Review

Mictlan n. Xibalba   (DT) August 22 2015 Constellations

Ce CoatlTlaxochimaco Yei Calli (DT) June 17 2015

Dukool(India)

Thoughts Flare/Shard, Tarasco/Purepecha, Pyramid Shifts (DI) June 30 2015 BA Sociology and Social Work Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA Solstice Literary Magazine

Inipi (DI) August 8 2015 Citrus College, Glendora, CA In Stereo Press

The Semblance, Lady Xoc, Jaguar Moon (DT) October 11, 2015 Mandala Journal

Dream Images (DI) September 9, 2015 The Stone Bird Anthology of the Eagle Rock Library

Inverness, new solar count, RepertorioPoetico, Carry Scars (DI) Pending…. Altadena Poetry Review 2016

Un MichoacánoComún/ A CommonerfromMichoacan (DI) April 23, 2016 Robin Barratt Publishing

Gone (DT) PDF The Art of Monteque Organization

(DT) Pending Identidad Latina Antología 2016 (Spain)

Obsidiana Yo –te corto                   Cárgalo por dentro (DI) May 12, 2016 Hueso Loco Journal of Arts and Literature

(DC) Issue #5 Spring/Fall 2015 UCLA American Indian Studies & Research Journal

DT Blue Ash, Teal Dawn, Black Light, Addendum & Storm, Tulare ca. 1806, Red/Feel 11/21/2016 The Flexible Persona

Nowhere Since DT Spring 2017 AMP: Hofstra Universitysdigilit magazine

MacuilXochitl DI Mid-Spring 2017 Sacramento Poetry Center –Poetry Now

Alma y Olvido DT Spring 2017 Hawai’I Review

Sun Daggers, Akashic Archives, Seven Mirror, La HierbaRetorcida DT Spring 2017 Poetry Leaves

Lightning/Blue WS Spring 2017 Corbel Stone Press (UK)

Ode Et. Al. DT Spring 2017 Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry (Australia)

Novice/Scribe DT Spring 2017 shufPoetry

DT (Death Throws, Addendum & Storm, Pain Language) Issue #8 mid-April 2017 Video Poem Art & Words Poetry

Netzahualcoyotl &Tlacaelel DT Spring Berkeley Poetry Review

DI Tonalpohualli Issue 47 Spring Corbel Stone Press (UK)

Aasuingna DT Spring Tule Review

Death Throws, Dred Scott, Jade Eyes DT November 2017 The Poetry Project

Untitled, High Priest, What makes the iris/retina shine? Obsidian Caste. DI June 2017 Ghostwoods Books

Flowers: Freeze/Frames (WS) Summer 2017 Northridge Review

Undeciphered, cuauhtliocelotl, Spirits in immaterial ether steel weight, Lightning minds I DS Fall 2017 WORDPEACE

Google This, El Cerro de la BufaGto., Spiders web in iris glare DS August 2017 “Fusionando Palabras 2017” (Argentina)

Kaleidescopio de Estrellas, Casta de Silex SI Noviembre 2017 DelugeLiteraryArtsJournal

HeyokahThunderDreamers Pending… Puerto del Sol

Hummingbirdssight… March 2018 Tulane Review

DiamondscutDiamonds Fall 2017 DodgingTheRain

Stardust in themien December 2017 Vox poetica

Winters Breeze January 2018 Rigorous

Underground Cave/Graveside, Black [Again], [No Names] Spring 2018

The Write Launch

Akashic Archives, Quest/Vision, Ode Et. Al. March 2018 Weasel Press

El Diablo Anda Suelto en Sinaloa July 2018 Empty Mirror

In Xochitl In Cuicatl [Essay] June 2018 Voxpoetica

"ChicomeAcatlIzcalliOmeTochtli/Seven Reed Resurgence Two Rabbit” June 2018 Scarlet Leaf Review

Indio Tarasco/At 12:43 noon sun/I got you/Xochimilca ca. 1519 July 2018 Yzur

La MuerteteTira Octubre 2018 SAND Journal

[yeiozomatlihueytozoztlinahuitecpatl] Issue 18 October 2018 Sunspot Literary Journal

Snows Drift September 2019 Convocatoria Poesía Libertaria 2019 que abrió La Garcita Azul (Venezuela)

Lenguaje de Dolor 28 de Septiembre 2019 PoetsChoice

www.poetschoice.in

Poets.docx October 8th 2019 Azahares Literary Magazine - Submission Form: Azahares 2020

Can you read this January 2nd 2020 Art Hole: 5 –Featured Artist

Transparencies in Time October 15th 2020

Awards

Nomination Journal/Poem Date Pushcart Prize 2015

Redactions: Poetry, Poetics & Prose “Pane/Glass Glass/Pane November 24, 2015 Tercer Premio

El Centro Canario Estudios Caribeños – El Atlántico – en el Certamen Internacional de Poesía “La calle que tú me das” 2016

Noviembre 8, 2016 New Rivers Press

Many Voices Press Finalist 2018

May 7, 2019 2020 Jack Straw Writers Series Fellowship

Recordings, Podcast, and Interviews: https://www.jackstraw.org/artist/jose-trejo-maya/

Seattle, Washington (Spring, Summer and Fall, etc.) Ecosystem X Future Art Awards

Special Mention Artist: Transparencies in Time

Winter 2022 Lynn Hanson Gallery Award

Intersections Show Awardee Summer 2022

Exhibitions

Exhibition Institution/Location Date Transparencies in Time: Cuahpohualli

Amador County Arts Council/Jackson, CA September/October 2020 Transparencies in Time: Cuahpohualli

Museum of Dead Words/New York, NY October 26th 2020 Small Works 2020:

- Submission #2: Oxomoco

Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs New York November 7, 2020 - December 4, 2020 Foundwork

https://foundwork.art/artists/...

September/October 2020 Shoreline Latinx Online Visual Art Exhibition WA

Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council

November 2020 The Meadowlark

YWCA Missoula

Cade Gallery Anne Arundel Community College MD

Transparent thoughts [Wreck - oning: National Online Juried Exhibit], Indiana March 2021 Vividness

UI Kokomo Downtown Art Gallery ID

Oxomoco https://www.iuk.edu/downtown-gallery/index.html Indiana March 18th to April 12th 2021 An Exhibition on Things Called Art: Hilliard Gallery (Kansas City, MO)

Oxomoco April 2th to May 22th 2021 City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs LA

Provisional Exhibition: Art of Recovery Fall/Winter 2021 Soundpedro LA

Audio Exhibition, San Pedro CA June 5^th 2021 Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA

Endurance of Change: June 2021 to May 2022 Hispanic Heritage Month Gallery Exhibition WA

Centro Cultural Mexicano: September 13^th to October 17^th

2021 Sculpted Spaces, Wild Lives: The Third Street Gallery Moscow, ID

Words lacerate & Transparent thoughts October 12-13 2021 to January 7^th 2022 Make.Shift Gallery Art Space

Bellingham, WA

Uixticihuatl, Oxomoco, Tonatiuh, Transparent thoughts, & So this was weaved November 5^th, 2021to November 27^th

2021 The Cade Gallery

The Route Towards Equity MD

Transparencies in Time: Dec. 2^nd 2021 to Jan. 2022 2022 Exhibitions at Umpqua Valley Arts OR

Hallie Brown Ford Gallery Jan. 14^th to March 25^th 2022 Capital Culture House Gallery (Spain)

EPHYPHANY Virtual Gallery Live: https://capitalculturehouse.org/epiphany/

Drury University: Pool Center Gallery MO

New Entry: Unmasking Ourselves February 4-25, 2022 Jersey City Hall: Cultural Affairs NJ

Exhibit: Winter 2022 Studio 659

Whiting IN

Exhibit of Transparencies in Time: Jan. 21 to Feb. 26 2022 UNCW’s CAB Gallery: “Protests Signs”

Media Names: Transparent thoughts, Oxomoco, Tonatiuh Thursday, February 24 – Friday, April 1, 2022 Ecosystem X Future Art Awards

LA

Special Mention Artist: Transparencies in Time Winter 2022: https://mozaikphilanthropy.org/ecosystemx/

Virtual Gallery Online

Transparencies in Time: https://virtualgalleryonline.org/ January 29^th to February 26^th 2022 The Lamar Dodd School of Art/ UGA Theatre

[yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl] Oxomoco February 24^th to March 3^rd 2022 VIEWPOINT Group Exhibit

Transparencies in Time: February 17^th 2022 Fresh Eye Gallery: The Land Within Us

MN

Transparent thoughts, Words lacerate, [yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl] March 9^th to April 23 2022 2022 Oregon Fringe Festival

Transparencies in Time: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 - Sunday, May 1, 2022 Con-TEMPORARY Art

Observatorium (Italy)

Exhibit: Desert Sands Extracts Exhibit Winter & Spring Gallery 55 Exhibition ID

Transparencies in Time: Desert Sands Expose: Art as Salve Exhibition

Transparent thoughts Thursday, March 24^th to Thursday, May 31, 2022 ART LIT LAB

Transparencies in Time: Extracts Desert Sands & Death Throws April 12^th to May 7^th 2022 Long Red Line -Side Street Studio Arts

Transparent thoughts Spring Exhibition CAE Curatorial Committee: (Re) Collection

Transparent thoughts April 7^th to May 7^th 2022 The Things With Feathers: Alliance for the Visual Arts Gallery & Art Center CA

Uixticihuatl, [yei ozomatli huey tozoztli nahui tecpatl], Transparent thoughts May 14^th 3-5pm 2022 Artwall

The Fulton Street Collective IL

Uixticihuatl, [yei ozomatli huey tozoztli nahui tecpatl] Spring 2022 Intersections Show: Art Start Northwest WA

"[yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl]", "words lacerate" & "Uixticihuatl" Spring 2022 Adams County Arts Council: JAE

CO

Transparent thoughts June 3^rd to June 23^rd 2022 Mother Nature Survived It: L.A. GOAL

Transparent thoughts, Oxomoco June 11^th to July 1^st 2022 Open Mind Art Space: CSUN

LA

Transparent thoughts: “Begin/Again An Exhibition Celebrating Possibility:: Spring/Summer 2022 Janice Charach Gallery: Flight MI

Addendum & Storm June 26^th to August 11^th 2022 Suavac Student Events & Entertainment Arts & Culture MN

Exhibition: Home Indigenous Lore Summer 2022 Fountain Street Church ArtPrize

MI

Transparent thoughts, Got scars that you can’t see, La Casa del Silencio, Matlactli ihuan Ome Ozomatli Izcalli Nahui Tecpatl,

Aurora Borealis, The Semblance

Lady Xoc, Jaguar Moon & Altar of Hope September 15^th

to October 9^th, 2022 Holter Museum of Art: Creativity Center MT

Uixticihuatl, Transparent thoughts Winter 2022 LeMoyne Arts Exhibits: Chain of Parks Festival FL

Transparent thoughts: Focused Moments Summer 2022: Thursday July, 14^th to Saturday August 20^th. Art Inspired by the Land OSMP Exhibit: Boulder Public Library Canyon Gallery

CO

Oxomoco Fall 2022: Friday August 5^th to Sunday September 16^th. Members Exhibition 44^th Annual Tri-State Sculptors Conference SC

[yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl], Words lacerate August 31th-October 8^th 2022. Romancing the Stone KZNSA Gallery, Durban (South Africa)

Exhibition: Digital Projection September 21, 2022 The Umbrella Arts Center: Art Ramble Call for Art 2022 MA

Transparencies in Time: Fall 2022 Solidarity Street Gallery 2022 MN

Words lacerate, yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl, Transparent thoughts, So this was weaved September 2022 Hispanic & Latino Heritage Art Show City of Greer SC

Transparencies in Time: September 2022 No Whites Allowed Angel City Brewery -Art Share L.A.

LA

Transparencies in Time: [yei ozomatli huey tozoztli nahui tecpatl], Oxomoco, Undeciphered and Transparent thoughts, et. Al. January 2023 Dia de los Muertos Wyoming State Museum WY

Undeciphered, [No Names], So this with weaved September 21st to November 2022 Medford Arts Center: Indigenous Art Program NJ

Transparencies in Time: Fall 2022 LAUNCH Gallery

LA

Transparencies in Time: Fall 2022 PASA Festival

(Korea)

Transparencies in Time: BitGlim Ongoing Stories from my Childhood Art Museum NIU

[yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl], Transparent thoughts, Oxomoco Fall 2022 Exhibition 2^nd

Floor Gallery CoffmanUnion U. of M. MN

Words lacerate, [yei ozomatli hueytozoztli nahui tecpatl], Transparent thoughts, Tonatiuh, So this was weaved & Oxomoco November 2022 to January 2023

Grants

Center for Cultural Innovation

Grant/California Relief Fund for Artists and Cultural Practitioners September 29th 2020

Public Art

Public Art/ Sculpture

Kirkland, WA

Transparencies in Time: Sculpture October 2022

Scholarships

Hudson Valley Writers Center

Poetry Workshop: The Poem Under the Poem October 24^th 2021

Professional Reference

Naelh Othman, Duarte Unified School District, Director of Student Services

1620 Huntington Dr., Duarte, CA 91010

Email: Nothman@duarteusd.org

Cell: 626-599-5010

Laurent Lanuquiette, Duarte Unified School District, High School Math Teacher

Mt. Olive Innovation & Technology High School 1400 Mt. Olive, Duarte, CA 91010

Email: llanuquiette@duarteusd.org

Cell: 626 905 8110

Thelma Reyna, Golden Foothills Press, Chief Editor/Publisher

1443 E. Washington Blvd. #232, Pasadena CA. 91104

Email: drthelly1@aol.com

Cell: 626 375 5442

Douglas Kearney, adjunct faculty, California Institute of the Arts

24700 McBeanParkway Valencia, CA 91355

Email: douglas@douglaskearney.com

Cell: 626 841 0406

Gilbert R. Cadena, Cal Poly Pomona, Ethnic & Women’s Studies Professor

3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona CA. 91768

Email: grcadena@cpp.edu

Cell: 909 869 3595