John Michael Gogol
Editor, publisher, teacher
Born Aug. 15, 1938, Westfield (MA), U.S.; son of Michael and Jennie (Pietras).
Education: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Clark University, Worcester (MA), 1960; Master of Arts (M.A.), 1965, Ph.D. candidate, 1969, University of Washington, Seattle; University of Colorado, Boulder; University of Vermont, Burlington; University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Stanford University (CA); University of Heidelberg, Munich (Germany).
Career: teacher (German, history, mathematics), Chicopee Comprehensive High School, Chicopee Falls (MA), 1962-64; instructor (German, Russian), Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, 1965-68; assistant prof., Foreign Languages and Literatures Humanities Department, Pacific University, Forest Grove (OR), 1970-74; editor, publisher, American Indian Basketry and Other Native Arts Magazine, 1979 -; co-editor, co-publisher, Mr. Cogito Press, 1973 -, Portland (OR).
Author: Native American Words (poetry), 1973; Blood of their Blood. An Anthology of Polish American Poets (poems in anthology); editor, Columbus Names the Flowers; numerous poetry collections editor i.a.: Stanislaw Baranczak's and Ryszard Krynicki's poems, East European Writers Series; numerous articles i.a. in: Germanoslavica, Revue des Langues Vivantes, Malahat Review.
Member of: Native American Art Studies Association; Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America (P.I.A.S.A.).
Honors: fellowship, Fulbright Foundation and Germanistic Society of America, 1966-67, National Defense Foreign Language, 1968-70; Graves Prize award, Pomona College (CA), 1971; listed in: Who's Who in the West, Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian.
Affiliation: Democrat. Polish National Catholic
Languages: English, German, Russian, Polish
Office: Mr Cogito Press, PO Box 66124, Portland, OR 97290
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996