Articles written by: John Guzlowski

John Guzlowski

John Guzlowski is an award-winning poet and blogger extraordinaire. A retired professor of contemporary literature at Eastern Illinois University, Guzlowski has written extensively on Polish, Jewish and Polish American writing and poetry. His own poetry is inspired by his parents’ years in German camps and the family’s experience as post-war immigrants and deals with the universal themes of trauma, pain, memory, parent-child relations and love. Guzlowski's latest book, Lightning and Ashes, is now available.

Quodlibet with Cardinals and A Letter to Serafin
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 — Winter / Poetry

Quodlibet with Cardinals and A Letter to Serafin

Poetry by John Minczeski; introduced by John Guzlowski

What Paderewski Taught Me about Being
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 — Summer / Poetry

What Paderewski Taught Me about Being

Poet Kath Abela Wilson once wrote about “How I Fell In Love with Chopin.” This poem was written for the Paderewski-Chopin conference at Loyola University, Nov. 12, 2010 and read while accompanied by mathematician and flutist, Rick Wilson.

Poetry: Leonard Kress and Cecilia Woloch
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 — Fall / Poetry

Poetry: Leonard Kress and Cecilia Woloch

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Leonard Kress grew up in and around Philadelphia and graduated from Temple University with a degree in Religious Studies. Cecilia Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up there and in rural Kentucky, one of seven children of a homemaker and an airplane mechanic.

Chopin with Cherries Review
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 — Spring / Books

Chopin with Cherries Review

Maja Trochimczyk has gathered together poems to commemorate Chopin’s 200th birthday – and they’re as inspiring as they are exhilarating.

Second Language Poems
2009 — Summer / Poetry

Second Language Poems

CR’s Poetry Editor shares some of his “Kitchen Polish.”