Jim Tilley
Jim Tilley | |
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 Jim Tilley | |
| Born | 1950 (age 73–74) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation | poet |
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Jim Tilley (born 1950), Canadian-born and a physicist by education, is an American poet who previously worked at senior management levels in the insurance and investment banking businesses.
Business career
Jim Tilley was born in
In 1983, Tilley joined the Wall Street firm, Morgan Stanley, where he remained until his retirement in 2001. While at Morgan Stanley, he headed Worldwide Fixed Income Research and ended his career as Institutional Securities’ Chief Information Officer.
During his careers in the insurance industry and on Wall Street, Tilley wrote many pioneering research papers and was twice awarded the
Tilley has served on the board of the Society of Actuaries, as chair of The Actuarial Foundation, on the board of the
Career as a poet
After his retirement from Morgan Stanley in 2001, Tilley started writing poetry. Over 40 of his poems have been published in literary journals and magazines such as
Tilley won the Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize for Poetry,[2] the New England Poetry Club’s Firman Houghton Award,[3] and the Editors’ Choice Award from Rhino. Four of Tilley's poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Poetry
Jim Tilley's work appears in the college textbook anthology "Literature to Go" (Bedford/St. Martin’s),[4] edited by Michael Meyer. His first book of poetry, "In Confidence,"[5] was published in January 2011 by Red Hen Press. His poems range from lyric to narrative, and while he generally writes in free verse, about half the poems in the book are in the form of sonnets.
Peer Reviews
Of Jim Tilley’s book, "In Confidence," Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001–2003, writes:
Jim Tilley does confide in his readers here as he explores a refreshing variety of subjects—everything from the complexity of father-son and husband-wife relations to the more solvable problems of dark matter and the origins of the cosmos. But what wins our confidence is not his range but his steady hand on the poem and his steady gaze at the world.
David Wojhan, who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2007:
"Jim Tilley is a bracing and quietly confident writer, able to consistently surprise us, whether in missives from domestic life, topical poems, or poems which quirkily address what he calls ‘the big questions.’ These are wry, bittersweet, and unobtrusively instructive poems in the tradition of Wilbur, Schuyler, and Dunn, and they are very much worth reading."
References
- ^ "Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model". TSA, Vol. XLV (1994). SOA. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ^ "On The Art of Patience". The Sycamore Review. 20 November 2008.
- ^ "Binoculars". New England Poetry Club. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2011.
- ISBN 978-0-312-62412-5.
- ISBN 978-1-59709-473-3.