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Peter Oresick [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania US
Email: 
PeterOresick@gmail.com
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."

Gives readings: 
No
Travels for readings: 
No
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Born in: 
Pittsburgh
Raised in: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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