Jack DeWitt

My most recent book Hoochie Coochie Man is the third Varian Pike Mystery set in the 1950’s in Stamford CT, featuring a private eye trying to adapt to a post-war America where he doesn't quite fit in. The second, Beat Bop, was recently released with Hoochie Coochie Man through Cold Chair Books.The Pike series originated with Delicious Little Traitor in 2015 (Black Opal Books).

Before the Varian Pike series I wrote a lot about cars, mainly hot rods and customs in an American Poetry Review column “Cars and Culture” (2010-2013) and in a book Cool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustom Kulture (2003) One of the APR essays was selected as a notable essay of 2009 in Best American Essays 2010.

Almost Grown is the latest of four books of poems. Released in 2008 by Paper Kite Press it is about growing up in Stamford, CT. Others are Finger Food (Synapse), Animals (Northeastern) and Designs For/On Ahti (Blanshard Press). Poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including American Poetry Review, The New American Review and the Painted Bride Quarterly. My work is also in three anthologies: The New Geography of American Poets, The Hot Rod Reader and The Vampire Poems.