Echoes of Tattered Tongues
News, Reviews & Events — 2018-2019
This page contains News, Reviews & Events from 2018 and 2019 dealing with Echoes of Tattered Tongues, either in whole or in part. Complete listings can be found in What’s Happening section of the home page and/or in the News, Reviews & Events Archive under Media Room in the main menu. Earlier years for this title can be found under the News, Reviews & Events tab in the menu at the left of this page.
November 23–26, 2019 – San Francisco, CA – 2019 ASEEES Convention – Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2019 convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for the tenth year in a row. It was a great opportunity to showcase Echoes of Tattered Tongues, along with our other titles, meet old friends, and make new ones! Attending on behalf of Aquila Polonica were president Terry Tegnazian and creative director Ewa Wojciak.
November 22–24, 2019 – Austin, TX – Polish Perspectives at 2019 NCSS – The American Council for Polish Culture (ACPC) organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the 2019 Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. Several thousand social studies teachers attended, and browsed more than 200 booths. As in past years, Aquila Polonica was pleased to donate copies of Echoes of Tattered Tongues and others of its titles for the Polish Perspectives booth, along with a short brochure of our Aquila Polonica titles and a flyer we’ve created titled “Poland in WWII: Quick Facts”—which is a quick summary of the key aspects of Poland’s role as one of the Allies in WWII. Books, DVDs and flyers were given away to teachers before the Conference’s end.
November 4, 2019 – Warsaw Institute Interview with John Guzlowski – Terrific interview with Echoes of Tattered Tongues author John Guzlowski in the Warsaw Institute Review feature called “Tell us who you are” by Daniel Pogorzelski. “Renowned Polish-American author and poet John Guzlowski shares with us his struggles and ultimate reconciliation with his Polish identity.” Read the interview online or pdf…
October 8, 2019 – Author John Guzlowski Wins Award – We’re excited to learn that the Polish–American Historical Association has given Echoes of Tattered Tongues author John Guzlowski the 2019 Skalny Civic Achievement Award, which honors individuals or groups who advance PAHA’s goals of promoting research and awareness of the Polish–American experience and/or who have made significant contributions to Polish or Polish–American community and culture. The award will be presented to Guzlowski at the Annual PAHA Awards Banquet on Saturday, January 4, 2020 at the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City.
April 23, 2019 – World Book Day – Today is World Book Day! Established in 1995, April 23 is dedicated to book lovers around the world, to celebrate and promote reading habits, publishing and copyright.
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” – Haruki Murakami
So grab a book that you might not otherwise have read! You can’t go wrong with any of our books — they’ve all won one or more awards!
December 6–9, 2018 – Boston, MA – 2018 ASEEES Convention – Aquila Polonica exhibited at the 2018 convention of the Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) for the ninth year in a row. It was a great opportunity to showcase Echoes of Tattered Tongues along with all our other titles, meet old friends, and make new ones! Attending on behalf of Aquila Polonica were president Terry Tegnazian and creative director Ewa Wojciak.
November 30 through December 2, 2018 – Chicago, IL – 2018 NCSS Conference – Once again, the American Council for Polish Culture organized and manned the Polish Perspectives booth at the Annual Conference of the National Council for the Social Studies. More than 4,000 teachers attended, and browsed more than 250 booths. As in past years, Aquila Polonica donated copies of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, along with of its other titles (including our newest release, Fighting Auschwitz) for the Polish Perspectives booth, which were given away to teachers before the Conference’s end.
September 16, 2018 – Nasiona Magazine Interviews John Guzlowski – Wonderful, wide-ranging interview with John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded, by journalist Julian Esteban Torres Lopez in Nasiona Magazine. Mr. Torres Lopez writes: “Your book Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded is excellent on so many levels. It is raw, moving, real. The writing is compelling. Hypnotic. You speak with honesty of memoirs and the haunting voice of a refugee. Your poems and prose unearth the essence of the human condition. Storytelling at its best.” Read the review online or in PDF… Additionally, three poems are excerpted from Echoes of Tattered Tongues and separately posted by Nasiona Magazine here…
August 12, 2018 – Chicago, IL – John Guzlowski New Columnist for Polish Daily News – We’re very proud to announce that the Polish Daily News (http://dziennikzwiazkowy.com/) has asked John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues, to become a regular columnist. He’ll start out doing a column two or three times a month. Guzlowski’s columns will be published in both Polish and English. Keep an eye out for Guzlowski’s columns — we’ll tweet them as they appear!
April 23, 2018 – Poets and Dreamers reviews Echoes of Tattered Tongues – terrific review of Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolded by John Guzlowski. In conclusion, reviewer Anne Tammel writes: “We see the beauty and power possible in humanity…through this poet’s words, we catch a glimpse of what is possible for each of us…” Read the review online or in PDF…
