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a.r. rutter {alsoabear}
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Review: Beat Bop by Don Sloan
On friend of independent authors and Publishers Daily Reviews founder Don Sloan's blog, Beat Bop got another favorable review. Get the...
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a.r. rutter {alsoabear}
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
Review: Delicious Little Traitor by AJ Sabatini
As a guest reviewer on Michael Gillan Maxwell's blog, AJ Sabatini details the political intrigue weaving itself into Varian Pike's life...
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a.r. rutter {alsoabear}
- Nov 5, 2022
- 1 min
New Blurb for Finger Food (1982)
From Printed Matter, Inc.: Collection of often funny sometimes poignant poems contains two separate but related works: Cock Dreams and...
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jacdewitt
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
Two Poems Published
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
The Enterprise Announces Varian Pike Series
A local Cape Cod paper The Enterprise did a nice writeup in 2018 covering the launch of the Varian Pike series. "Bourne Author Launches...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Poetry Sunday at WCAI
I had an opportunity in 2019 to read my poem "Edgartown" for the local NPR for the Cape, Coast, and the Islands. Listen here
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Animals
Animals is an alphabet book, a bestiary and a coloring book. The poems were not meant for children despite the book's appearance,...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Designs For/On Ahti
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Finger Food
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 2 min
Why I'm Almost Grown
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Noir Didn't End with Spade and Marlow
Read my guest post on Marc S. Bacon's blog Nostalgia City Mysteries From 2015, discussing noir as a genre
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
The Big Thrill Interview
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
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Motoring On
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Car Stars on TV
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Rat Rods
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Larry Watson: Painter
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
The Cars of American Graffiti
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Songs of the Open Road
Published in The American Poetry Review Volume 39 No. 2 An excerpt: In 1909 the Futurists dramatically declared “that the splendor of the...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
The Hirohata Merc
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...
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