Writing the Polish Diaspora

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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Maria Czapska and Her Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising

The following piece about Maria Czapska and her memoir of the Warsaw Uprising was written by Ted Lipien. Mr. Lipien is an international med...

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Pilot and Girl by Danuska Blaszek

Danuska Blaszek Danuska Blaszek is a Polish poet who lives in the United States and Poland. Her poetry has appeared in numerous books and...

Monday, December 17, 2018

GOD THROUGH BINOCULARS -- A HITCHHIKER AT A MONASTERY

Danusha Goska is a writer, essayist, and memoirist who has written some of the most engaging prose I've read in the last 20 years....

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About Me

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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