The April poetry issue of On the Seawall, a writing site managed by the poet Ron Slate, is now live. Two of my poems are included. Check...

A local Cape Cod paper The Enterprise did a nice writeup in 2018 covering the launch of the Varian Pike series. "Bourne Author Launches...

I had an opportunity in 2019 to read my poem "Edgartown" for the local NPR for the Cape, Coast, and the Islands. Listen here

Animals is an alphabet book, a bestiary and a coloring book. The poems were not meant for children despite the book's appearance,...

When I was a graduate student in English at the University of Connecticut, I met a group of fans of the psychologist Carl Jung. The group...

Sandra Lerner and Sue Horvitz were artist friends who also ran a small press that published artist books. They heard me read a series of...

More than ten years ago, I started writing poems about growing up in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1950’s. I have always felt that there...

Read my guest post on Marc S. Bacon's blog Nostalgia City Mysteries From 2015, discussing noir as a genre

Check out one of the early interviews I did in 2015 when Delicious Little Traitor was first picked up by Black Opal Books The Big Thrill

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 43 No. 3 An excerpt: There is a horsepower war going on now that is much more intense than...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 42 No. 3 An excerpt: The first car to be a real star on a TV series was Norm Grabowski’s...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 40 No. 6 An excerpt: In the 1997 Kirk Jones, a graphic designer, and Jay Ward, an art...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 40 No. 2 An excerpt: During the week of July 20th 2010, the New York Times noted the...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 39 No. 5 An excerpt: American Graffiti was the surprise hit of 1973. Made on a budget of...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 39 No. 2 An excerpt: In 1909 the Futurists dramatically declared “that the splendor of the...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 38 No. 5 An excerpt: I was doing some reading on the concept of “cool” for a course I...

Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 30 No. 3 An excerpt: In Call Me Ishmael Charles Olson writes, “I take SPACE to be the...

In the mid Fifties, when I was in my early teens, the streets of Stamford, Connecticut seem to be invaded by a whole new class of car....

In the late nineties, I was at a particularly low point in my life. I had tried and failed with a more contemporary Varian (known simply...

Although DeWitt started writing poems as an undergraduate at Northeastern where he met the poets Jon Anderson, Harold Bond, Joseph...