Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 06/02/1961  Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Benedict Peter and Mary Patricia Rybicki
Spouse: Julie Moulds (deceased)
Children: Martel
Address(es):
Permanent:
7546 S. Crooked Lake Drive
Delton, MI 49046
USA
Contact Information:
Phone: 616-623-3099
Email: [email protected]

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	When all the world is old : poems - In poems raw and graceful, authentic and wise, Rybicki pays homage to the brave love he and his wife shared during her 16-year battle with cancer, and praises the caregivers nurses and doctors and friends who helped them throughout.	Poetry	Adult	Wilmington, NC : Lookout Books/University of North Carolina Wilmington	2012
	We bed down into water : poems	Poetry	Adult	Evanston, Ill. : TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press	2008
	Yellow-haired girl with spider	Poetry	Adult	Greensboro, N.C. : March Street Press	2002
	Traveling at High Speeds	Poetry	Adult	Kalamazoo, MI : New Issues Poetry Press, Western Michigan University	1996

What is the aim or goal of your writing: I have no choice whether to write or not. It's as if God left his fingerprint branded across my forehead, as if He whispered, this is what you are called to do. In other words, I work my heart out as a wordsmith, and every now and then, after writing droves of mediocre sentences, starlight or God's own fires sparks through the pen. In terms of teaching, I am part holy man, part instructor. I have this thunderous love for language, and when students witness this it sets fire to their lives. Teaching creative writing is the purest thing I do: to watch as a writer learns to walk on water, or burn holes in the page. It is a glory to be there to witness that grand awakening that takes place in young writers, to watch as they become possible through their instrument. To watch as they scrawl across the sky the kinds of sentences God might roll out of bed and read. My work ethic: "I work like a monster, am singularly driven."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: Yes

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/john-rybicki

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