John Rybicki’s latest book of poems, When All the World Is Old (Lookout Books), was published in 2012. He is the author of two previous collections, We Bed Down into Water (Northwestern University Press, 2008), and Traveling at High Speeds (New Issues Press, 1996). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, the American Poetry Review, and Ecotone, and reprinted in The Best American Poetry (2009). He teaches poetry writing through the InsideOut Literary Arts Project.  

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