John Rybicki's poems and stories have appeared in North American Review, Field, Bomb, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Quarterly, as well as in numerous anthologies. He currently teaches creative writing to inner-city children in Detroit, and serves as a guest lecturer at schools throughout the country. His first book of poems, Traveling at High Speeds (New Issues Poetry Press) appeared in 1996, and his latest collection, Yellow-Haired Girl with Spider (March Street Press), was published in 2002.  

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