Teacher

As a faculty member of University of Portland’s Public Health and Wellness program, I teach the importance of autonomy, imagination, and creativity for well-being.

Writer

I have published academic works, poetry, and short stories.

You can learn more and peruse some writings and readings on the Publications page.

 Artist

I work primarily on paper with powder pigments and beeswax. My art has been featured and sold at galleries and auctions around the country. Check it out. 

A Thousand Flames

My first book of poems will be published by Verdant Publishing this November.

From the publisher:

Corey Pressman writes, paints, and teaches, and all three inform A Thousand Flames, his debut collection. These are poems of secular devotion: a bird feeder named as the axis mundi, a god of the bees, an eschatology built from cattails and slow shade. Across twelve sections the book moves between a hilltop in the fog, a Neolithic town where weaving is the prayer, and desire lines crossing a map, holding each one long enough for the ordinary to turn strange.

"Corey Pressman is a magical human - magical art, magical writing. His finely made poems are bells of vision and clarity to help us 'stay the same changing.'"

—Naomi Shihab Nye

In this fraught world, Corey S. Pressman’s ecstatic work stands ready to delight us, move us, bless us. His luminous poems beseech each of us to “shine beside the other.” They take us to where “the music comes at last / from all around.” 

— Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita