Peter Oresick

Peter Oresick (pronounced o-RES-ik) is an American poet.

As a publisher he served in senior positions in literary, scholarly, and technical publishing from 1981 to 2004 at the University of Pittsburgh Press, Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, and Printing Industries of America. In 2010 he became editor-in-chief of the literary magazine The Fourth River.

Oresick has also taught at Chatham University, The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, Emerson College, the University of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

He lives in Pittsburgh.

Poetry

 * The Story of Glass. Cambridge, MA: West End Press, 1977.
 * Other Lives. Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1985.
 * An American Peace (foreword by Gerald Stern). Minneapolis, MN: Shadow Press USA, 1985.
 * Definitions. Albuquerque, NM: West End Press, 1990.
 * Warhol-o-rama. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008.
 * To a Museum Guard at Shift Change. Chicago: West North Press, 2012.

Edited

 * Working Classics: Poems on Industrial Life (co-editor with Nicholas Coles). Urbana, IL, & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
 * David Ignatow, Despite the Plainness of Day: Love poems (co-editor with Anthony Petrosky). Pittsburgh, PA: Mill Hunk Books, 1991).
 * The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (co-editor with Ed Ochester). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993.
 * Louise McNeill, Fermi Buffalo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994.
 * For a Living: The Poetry of Work (co-editor with Nicholas Coles). Urbana, IL & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995.