Peter Oresick

Peter Oresick (pronounced "o-RES-ik") is an American poet, publisher, and professor.

Currently he is coordinator of the Chatham University Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. Since 1997, he has been Adjunct Professor of Graphic Communications Management in The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is also a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh. At Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, he directed the Master of Arts in Writing and Publishing Program. From 2005-2008 he was on the faculty of the Literary Arts Department at the Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

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.

Born in 1955 in Ford City, Pennsylvania, he was educated at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a BA in Education and a MFA in Poetry.

Published works

Poetry

* "Warhol-o-rama", poetry (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008).
* "Opredeleniia: stikhotvoreniia: perevod s angliiskogo", Russian-language translation of 31 Oresick poems from "Definitions" (Almaty, Kazakhstan: Zhibek Zholy, 1999).
* "Anyqtau: olengder", Kazakh-language translation of 22 Oresick poems from "Definitions" (Almaty, Kazakhstan: Zhibek Zholy, 1999).
* "", (co-editor with Nicholas Coles), poetry anthology (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995).
* "Fermi Buffalo", by Louise McNeil (posthumously), (editor), poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994).
* "The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry", (co-editor with Ed Ochester), poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993).
* "Despite the Plainness of Day: Love Poems", by David Ignatow, (co-editor with Anthony Petrosky), poetry (Pittsburgh: Mill Hunk Books, 1991).
* "", (co-editor with Nicholas Coles), poetry anthology (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990).
* "Definitions", poetry (Albuquerque: West End Press, 1990).
* "An American Peace", (Foreword by Gerald Stern) poetry (Minneapolis: Shadow Press USA, 1985)
* "Other Lives", poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1985).
* "The Story of Glass", poetry (Cambridge: West End Press, 1977).

Nonfiction

* "The GATF Guide to Troubleshooting for the Web Offset Press, 5th Edition", (editor) nonfiction (Pittsburgh: GATFPress, 2004).
* "PrintScape: A Crash Course in Graphic Communications", (co-author with Daniel G. Wilson, Deanna Gentile, and GATF Staff) nonfiction (Pittsburgh: GATFPress, 2001).
* "The Book before Gutenberg", (editor) nonfiction (Pittsburgh: GATFPress, 2001).
* "Ink on Their Hands: Career Stories from the Publishing Industry", (editor) nonfiction (Pittsburgh: GATFPress, 2001).
* "The Invention of Lithography: Bicentennial Commemorative Edition 1798-1998", by Alois Senefelder, (editor) nonfiction (Pittsburgh: GATFPress, 1998).
* "Čirč, Slovakia Greek Catholic Church Records, 1783-1949", (co-editor with Lawrence Oresick and Ed Gernat) nonfiction (Pittsburgh: Cathedral Publishing, 1996).

ources

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

External links

* [http://www.warholorama.com Book Website for Oresick's "Warhol-o-rama"]
* [http://www.popcitymedia.com/features/PeterOresick0730.aspx Interview with Oresick about Warhol in "Pop City" Magazine (http://www.popcitymedia.com)]