Peter Oresick

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Peter Michael Oresick [o-RES-ik] (b. 1955 in Ford City, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and writer.

Since 1981, Oresick has worked as a publisher. He also has taught at Emerson College, Chatham College, Carnegie Mellon University, and in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. He was educated at the University of Pittsburgh.

[edit] Works

• The Story of Glass, poetry (Cambridge: West End Press, 1977)
• Other Lives, poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1985)
• An American Peace, poetry (Minneapolis: Shadow Press USA, 1985)
• Definitions, poetry (Albuquerque: West End Press, 1990)
• Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life, (co-editor with Nicholas Coles), a poetry anthology (Urbana and Chicago: University of lllinois Press, 1990)
• The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry, (co-editor with Ed Ochester), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)
• For a Living: The Poetry of Work, (co-editor with Nicholas Coles), a poetry anthology (Urbana and Chicago: University of lllinois Press, 1995)

[edit] References

Source: Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2006. PEN (Permanent Entry Number): 0000074923.