Polish American Writers

Gary Gildner is a nationally recognized poet and writer, whose books include Somewhere Geese are Flying, Blue Like the Heavens,The Second Bridge, and The Warsaw Sparks. He has received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes; Gary was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer to both Poland and Czechoslovakia. Gildner lives in Idaho’s Clearwater Mountains.

 

Awards won by Gary Gildner:

2002 ForeWord Magazine
MY GRANDFATHER'S BOOK has been named one of the Top Ten Academic Books of the Year
(for My Grandfather’s Book)

2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award
Finalist: Biography
(for My Grandfather’s Book)

“But this language of yours,” said one of the instructors, himself an obvious Britisher, “where does it come from?”  … “From the mouth of Polish mothers,” I replied.

—William Carlos Williams, The Autobiography, p. 311