jim bourey’s poetry has been published in
Mojave River Review, Gargoyle, Double Dealer, The Broadkill Review,
Blue Nib, Rye Whiskey Review and other journals and anthologies. He
is a contributing editor for the Broadkill Review and his poetry
book reviews regularly appear in that journal.
His working life included banking,
industrial sales, car sales, movie theater management, plumbing and
heating wholesale management, and production control in a steel forging
factory. Since retiring he has devoted himself to the study of poetry.
He has been an adjudicator for the Poetry Out Loud program in Delaware
and has also participated in several Art/Poetry projects in Saranac
Lake, NY. He is a frequent participant in poetry reading events.
He lives, with his wife Linda, at the edge of a river, near the
northern border of the Adirondack Park, though they do return to
Delaware to avoid some of the harsher winter months. jim can often be
found reading aloud in dimly lit rooms.