Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded

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

Monday, October 21, 2019

Olga Tokarczuk and the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Here’s my latest column for the Chicago Dziennik Zwiazkowy, the oldest Polish newspaper in America. Whether you like what I say or hate ...
Monday, October 14, 2019

Why I Never Worked in a Factory

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Here’s my latest column for Chicago’s Polish Daily News. Please leave a comment at the paper, linked below. WHY I NEVER WORKED IN A FAC...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Transcribing Notes while Waiting for FEDEX

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So I'm staring out the window waiting for the Fedex guy to show up and pick up this case of wine we never ordered and didn't want...
Monday, October 7, 2019

The Age of Medical Miracles and Wonders

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The Age of Medical Miracles and Wonders Here's an article I wrote for the Polish Daily News of Chicago about my swollen knee and Rocky...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

The Wild Place -- the best book about the DP Camps

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The Wild Place This the title of the best book I've ever read about the Displaced Persons Camps in Germany after the war. It focu...
Friday, September 13, 2019

Hurricane Poem

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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Everyday I will Remember

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Everyday I Will Remember by Christopher Kuhl This excellent book of poems by Christopher Kuhl about his family and their experiences in...
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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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