Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

My Parents' Experiences as Polish Slave Laborers in Nazi Germany and Displaced Persons after the War

Saturday, May 11, 2019

Mother's Day Poem

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My Mother's Optimism When she was seventy-eight years old and the angel of death called to her an...
Sunday, May 5, 2019

May 3rd — Polish Constitution Day

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Here’s my latest column for Chicago’s Polish paper Dziennik Zwiazkowy. The column talks about the importance of May 3rd to Poles when I w...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

CAT IN THE SEWER

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Cat in the Sewer Our cat Lydia was a stay at home cat for a long, long time. When we would open the door, she’d just sit there in the ...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Burning Harry Potter Books

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Earlier today, I read about some priests in Poland burning some of the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.  At first, I thought ...
Friday, March 29, 2019

PLEA FROM A FEARFUL AMERICAN

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Plea from a Fearful American My latest column for the Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the Polish Daily, is about gun control and what it mean...
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Charity in America

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Charity in America Here’s my latest column from Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the Polish Daily News.  It’s about the people who helped us w...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Writing

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Writing I'm always writing.  24 hours a day I got my antenna up waiting to hear from the muse. Most of the time the signal is weak, ...
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John Guzlowski
I was born in a refugee camp in Germany after World War II, and came with my parents Jan and Tekla and my sister Donna to the United States as Displaced Persons in 1951. My Polish Catholic parents had been slave laborers in Nazi Germany. Growing up in the immigrant and DP neighborhoods around Humboldt Park in Chicago, I met Jewish hardware store clerks with Auschwitz tattoos on their wrists, Polish cavalry officers who still mourned for their dead horses, and women who walked from Siberia to Iran to escape the Russians. My poems try to remember them and their voices. These poems have appeared in my chapbook Language of Mules and in both editions of Charles Fishman’s anthology of American poets on the Holocaust, Blood to Remember. Since retiring from teaching American Literature in 2005, I've written two new books about my parents. My new poems about them appear in my books Echoes of Tattered Tongues (Aquila Polonica, 2017) and True Confessions (Darkhouse Books, 2019).
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