What I Write about when I Write about Home

John Guzlowski is a retired professor of English at Eastern Illinois State University, and a poet. His writing appears in Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac; Ontario Review; North American Review; Salon.com; Rattle; Atticus Review, and many other print and online journals. He has published several books of poetry and a novel. Guzlowski’s poems and personal essays about his parents’ experiences as slave laborers in Nazi Germany and refugees making a life for themselves in Chicago appear in his memoir in prose and poetry, Echoes of Tattered Tongues (Aquila Polonica Press).