Join us for a reading with poet Dick Lourie & Jim Dunn followed by a reception. All are welcome!

Parking available on Chapel Street, nearby, and just down the road at the North Shore Arts Association.

Dick Lourie is the author of several poetry collections, among them Calls on the Dream Telephone, Stumbling, Anima, and Ghost Radio. His 2009 book, If the Delta Was the Sea, is a collection of poems based on the history and music of Clarksdale, Mississippi, where he has performed in festivals as a blues sax player since 1997. He has released two CDs combining sax and spoken word with a blues band, and his readings frequently feature both his poetry and his sax. 

His most recent (2021) book of poems, Jam Session, is a free-floating meditation on jazz and blues, and the relationship between them. His poem “Forgiving Our Fathers” was featured in the movie Smoke Signals. Writing about his work, Denise Levertov observed that his “voice speaks with a unique and convincing eloquence.” 

He is a founding coeditor (1966) and still active with Hanging Loose Press and Hanging Loose magazine. He has edited more than 100 titles for the press and has coedited, with colleague Mark Pawlak, several collections of student writing drawn from the special high school section of each issue of the magazine. The next issue of Hanging Loose magazine, due this spring, will be #114.

Jim Dunn is the author of This Silence is a Junkyard (Spuyten Duyvil, 2022) Soft Launch (Bootstrap Press/Pressed Wafer, 2008), Convenient Hole (Pressed Wafer, 2004), and Insects In Sex (Fallen Angel Press, 1995). His work has appeared in Castle Grayskull, Blazing Stadium, Can We Have Our Ball Back?, Bright Pink Mosquito, The Process, eoagh, Gerry Mulligan, Cafe Review, Meanie, and the anthology tribute to John Wieners, The Blind See Only In This World. He edited the John Wieners Journal, A New Book From Rome with Derek Fenner and Ryan Gallagher of Bootstrap Press.