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...

When Paul Walker died in the fiery crash of his Porsche Carrera GT on 11/30/2013 in Valencia, California, it was an eerie reminder of...