Poets and Writers

After receiving a BFA in painting from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada, Hedwig Irene Gorski began an innovative career as an award-winning performance poet in the 1980s.

John Guzlowski is now retired from teaching 20th Century American Literature, Creative Writing Poetry, and Contemporary American Fiction at Eastern Illinois University since 1981.

Victoria Janda was a prominent 20th century Polish American poet recognized in Chicago for her creativity and bi-lingual verses. She published three volumes of poems.

Megan Kaminski is a poet and essayist. She is the author of two books of poetry, Deep City (Noemi Press, 2015) and Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012), with a third book Gentlewomen forthcoming from Noemi Press.

Antoni Gronowicz, one of the most prolific and famous Polish American writers of his time; there is definitely a value in taking a look at the works and writings about Poland that Gronowicz published for almost five decades.

Piotr Gwiazda received his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from New York University in 2001. He joined the English Department of the University of Pittsburgh in 2017. His latest poetry collection is Aspects of Strangers (2015).

David Jauss, an emeritus professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, currently teaches in the low-residency MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Elizabeth Kerlikowske is the author of six chapbooks of poetry and a prose poem memoir of her father.

Jacek Gulla - artist, painter, philosopher, poet.

Oriana Ivy (also known as Ioanna Warwick) is an award winning poet and author. She has won the New Letters Poetry Award, Reader's Diggest Foundation of Distinguished Writers Award.

Edward J. Jesko was born in Poland and came to the United States, for the first time, in 1943. He was then ten years old. A US Navy ship brought him to San Diego, California, straight from a concentration camp.

Irena Klepfisz (born April 17, 1941) is a Jewish lesbian author, academic and activist.