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The latest Cape News article. Retreating to the last refuge of the scoundrel (coward): nostalgia. At Witt's End: The Hitchhiker

Read Jack's article honoring his mother for mother's day on Cape News: At Witt's End: Mother's Day for Mary C.

Kustomrama Encyclopedia has chosen Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture as one of the 50 must-read books for auto enthusiasts....

On friend of independent authors and Publishers Daily Reviews founder Don Sloan's blog, Beat Bop got another favorable review. Get the...

As a guest reviewer on Michael Gillan Maxwell's blog, AJ Sabatini details the political intrigue weaving itself into Varian Pike's life...

From Printed Matter, Inc.: Collection of often funny sometimes poignant poems contains two separate but related works: Cock Dreams and...

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...