Dick Lourie (1937) is an American poet, editor, and musician and the author of eight books, with the most recent as of 2023[update] being Jam Session.

[3] In 1966 he was a co-founding editor of Hanging Loose Press, a small press in Brooklyn, NY, which publishes chapbooks, poetry, non-fiction, and fiction, as well as Hanging Loose Magazine.

[5] He has edited, along with Mark Pawlak, two anthologies of high school writing Smart Like Me and Bullseye.

A 2001 song cycle by composer Robert Maggio includes texts by Lourie, Mark Strand, and Billy Collins is also titled "Forgiving Our Fathers".

Lourie was born in 1937 and grew up in Brooklyn, in a family described by him as "Depression era-middle class-left wing-socialist-communist-Brooklyn-Jewish, not necessarily in that order".