Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Happy Birthday to Me

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Happy Birthday to Me There's an old cliche that I hear more and more as I grow older. Supposedly it started with the American actress ...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Protests and Riots

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Growing up in Chicago in the late 1960s, I felt that the world was always on the edge of protests and riots.   This feeling started in 1...
Friday, June 5, 2020

Little Altar Boy Reviewed in the WSJ!

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First Major Review of Little Altar Boy! The Wall Street Journal loved it! Here’s what they said: John Guzlowski’s powerful “Little A...
Friday, April 24, 2020

My Mother and Her Ukrainian Neighbors

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My Mother and Her Ukrainian Neighbors Tens of thousands of Poles in Eastern Poland were killed between 1943 and 1944 by Ukrainian Natio...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

A Letter to My Mother

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A Letter to My Mother Dear Mom, I know you’ve been gone a long time now, almost 15 years, but I dreamt I was with you again ...
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Monday, April 13, 2020

Alone

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Alone Here’s my most recent column for the Polish Daily News. It’s a piece on aloneness during the pandemic: ALONE This pa...
Monday, March 30, 2020

The End of the World

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The End of the World My father used to say this all the time.  As a joke. He had seen the world end once before with his own eyes.  He...
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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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