Dick Lourie is an American poet and the author of eight books, with the most recent as of 2021[update] being If the Delta was the Sea.
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. In 2000, he released a CD, Ghost Radio Blues, a mix of blues and spoken word. He formerly worked as an editor for the University of Massachusetts.[2] The movie Smoke Signals ends with his poem "Forgiving Our Fathers."
He currently resides in Somerville, Massachusetts, with his wife, Abby Freedman.[3]