Dick Lourie

Dick Lourie

Dick Lourie is a poet and the author of eight books. His most recent collection, If the Delta was the Sea, is available from Hanging Loose Press.

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Professional life

In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[1]

He has edited, along with Mark Pawlak, two anthologies of high school writing Smart Like Me and Bullseye. A musician as well as a poet, Lourie plays the tenor sax and trumpet with the Blue Suede Boppers, the G-Clefs, and musician Big Jack Johnson. In 2000, he released a CD, Ghost Radio Blues, a mix of blues and spoken word. He is retired from the University of Massachusetts, where he worked as an editor.[2]

Personal life

He currently resides in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife, Abby Freedman.[3]

Bibliography

Ghost Ship. Hanging Loose (1998)
If the Delta was the Sea. Hanging Loose (2008)

Sources

  1. ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 New York Post
  2. ^ http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2005/03/talking_with_so.html
  3. ^ Ghost Ship by Dick Lourie. Hanging Loose Prees: Brooklyn, NY; 1998

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