in a number of periodicals in the US, Poland, Italy, India, and Hungary, including North American Review, Rattle, Atticus Review, Salon, Margie, Nimrod, Poetry East, Atlanta Review, Crab Orchard Review, Chattahoochee Review, Slask, and Ackent. Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz, in a review of the bilingual edition of Language of Mules, wrote that Guzlowki's work "astonished" him and revealed an "enormous ability for grasping reality." Professor Thomas Napierkowski has written that "John Guzlowski is arguably the most accomplished Polish-American poet on the contemporary scene, a writer who will figure prominently in any history of Polish-American literature; and 'Lightning and Ashes' firmly establishes Guzlowski's artistic standing not just in Polonia but in the world of American letters." His essays on contemporary American and Polish authors can be found in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Shofar, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Polish American Studies, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, Studies in Jewish American Literature, and The Polish Review. John Guzlowski received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Poetry from the Independent Book Publishers Association and the Eric Hoffer Foundation's Montaigne Award for Thought Provoking writing for his memoir in prose and poetry Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded. He also received an Illinois Arts Council Award in 2001. In 2012, he received the Polish American Historical Association Creative Arts Award for his writing and contribution to Polish American Letters. He is also the author of three mystery novels set in a Polish-American neighborhood in Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s: Suitcase Charlie and Little Altar Boys and Murdertown (all from Kasva Press). He has also written Retreat: A Love Story, a novel about two German Lovers separated during World War II. He recently published three books of poems, True Confessions and Mad Monk Ikkyu. The former book is a collection of memoir poems that trace his life from the 60s to the present. It is published by Darkhouse Books. The second book follows the adventures of a real zen Buddhist monk as he journeys from the sea to a temple in the mountains of Japan. Finishing Line Press publishes it. His most recent book is the award-winning Small Talk: Poems about God and Writing and Me, published by Snake Nation Press. References Language of Mules. Charleston, IL: DP Press, 1999. Lightning and Ashes. Bowling Green, KY: Steel Toe Books, 2007. Język Mułów i Inne Wiersze. Katowice, Poland, Biblioteka Śląska, 2002. Echoes of Tattered Tongues: