Peter Oresick

Poet

Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsylvania US

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Author's Bio

PETER ORESICK earned his college tuition in the 1970s during summers laboring for the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. He worked as a publisher for 22 years, and as a high school teacher, a Poet-in-the-Schools, and director of Master's programs in both publishing and creative writing. As an editor, his anthologies include "Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life"; "For a Living: The Poetry of Work"; and the forthcoming "The Pittsburgh Novel: A Readers' Guide to Western Pennsylvania in Fiction, 1792-2013". His most recent book of poems is a verse biography of Andy Warhol, "Warhol-o-rama."

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Iconoscope: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015)

Warhol-o-rama (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008)

For a Living: The Poetry of Work (University of Illinois Press, 1995)

Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life (University of Illinois Press, 1990)

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Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Pittsburgh

Raised in:

Pittsburgh, PA

Pennsylvania

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Last update: Aug 06, 2018