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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JACK DEWITT
NOIR IS DARK
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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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jacdewitt
- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
The American Hot Rod
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...
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jacdewitt
- Dec 23, 2021
- 12 min
Memories are Made of This: Jimmy Karcher's Ford
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....
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jacdewitt
- Dec 23, 2021
- 14 min
Death Metal
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...
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