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Hans Ostrom    Professor of English  
 University of Puget Sound
 Tacoma, WA 98416 USA
 Telephone: 253-879-3235 Email: ostrom@ups.edu   Web Log:  http://poetsmusings-muser.blogspot.com/

http://redtalesbook.blogspot.com/

Near Cafe Adlon in Berlin.        

BOOKS:

                                   Information about Metro: Journeys in Writing Creatively, a book co-written with Wendy Bishop and Kate Haake.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature, edited with J. David Macey

The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006 (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2006): Amazon

The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976-2006 (Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, 2006): Barnes and Noble

 Information about  A Langston  Hughes Encyclopedia.

Online and In Progress: http://redtalesbook.blogspot.com/

OTHER ITEMS:

"The Green Bird," a short story first published in Ploughshares (1986).

  A poem entitled "Morphine," published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.     

Information about The Subject Is Story 

"The Power of Poetry," article published for National Poetry Month in the Tacoma News Tribune, April 9, 2006

LINKS TO COURSE-RESOURCE PAGES:

English 126: Writing, Reading, Life, and Meaning

English 342: Genre: Fiction (Detective Fiction)

                   Connections 375: Harlem Renaissance  

English 465: Iraq War Discussion Group

Selected Course-Syllabi:  (Links To Course-Resource Pages Appear Above)

Fall 2008: English 126: Arguing Through Literature--Writing, Reading, Life, and Meaning

Fall 2008: Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance

Fall 2008: English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)

FURTHER BACK: ARCHIVE OF SYLLABI:

Spring 2008: English 203: Introduction to Creative Writing (Poetry)

Spring 2008: Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance

Spring 2008: English 482: Topics in African American Literature (20th Century African American Literature)

Spring 2008: Iraq War Discussion Group (Bristow, Cohn, Dillman, Kupinse, Ostrom)

Fall 2007: Connections 375: The Harlem Renaissance

Fall 2007: English 340: Genre-Poetry (History of Anglo-American Lyric Poetry)

Fall 2007: English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)

Spring 2007: English 342: Genre Fiction (Detective Fiction)

Fall 2006: English 126: Genre-Studies in Literature: Writing, Reading, Life, and Meaning

Fall 2006: English 403: Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)

Spring 2006: English 340: Genre: Poetry--Contemporary American Poetry

Spring 2006: English 402--Advanced Creative Writing: Short Fiction

English 101: First-Year Writing Seminar

English 124: First Year Seminar in Writing and Rhetoric (Rhetoric of Word and Image)  English 202: Introduction to Creative Writing: Short Fiction

English 203: Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry   English 210: Introduction to English Studies (Fall 2005)

English 340: Genre--Poetry English 342: Genre: Fiction (Detective Fiction)--Spring 2005 [Version ]

English 342 : Detective Fiction [Version #1]   English 360: Langston Hughes and James Baldwin

English 375: The Harlem Renaissance: Earlier Version

English 375: The HR: Spring 2004 Version:           English 402: Fiction Writing (Spring 2005)

English 402 : Fiction Writing  English 402:  Fiction Writing, Version #2

English 402: Fiction Writing, Version #3  (Spring 2004)  English 403:  Poetry Writing

English 403: Poetry Writing (Fall 2005) English 405: Writing and Gender

English 426: African-American Literature English 449: 20th Century American Literature

English 481: Asian-American Literature  English 492: Historical Perspectives on Writing and Rhetoric

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photo of  Sierra Buttes, Sierra County, California:

                     Sierra Buttes: peak elevation approximately 8,000 feet

 Gender Goes to the Movies: Students from English 405 Recommend Movies That Concern Gender Issues

      George Simenon and His Detective, Maigret

      Harlem: Map

      Harlem Renaissance Art

       Harlem Renaissance: Some Poetry

       Indian Tribal Pre-Contact Territories (California): Map

          James P. Johnson: Stride Piano, "Charleston," Blues

        Jane Austen Information Page

       Johnny Cash

        Johnson, Samuel--Quotations

        Michel Foucault

        Mystery Novels, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction: Lists and Sources

          Nature Conservancy

          Organic Gardening

Poets Visit Schools to Read  Works by Langston Hughes, Lawrence, Kansas      

        Post-Modernism Website: Definitions and References

 Sherlock Holmes International

 Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric

St. Leo Parish, Tacoma, Washington

St. Petersburg, Russia

SDS Students for a Democratic Society (Tacoma)

Sweden

 Tallest Tree in the World

 Washo Indians

Wolverine

 Women and Gender: Resources for Research

Working-Class Students (An article by Richard Rodriquez)

 World Hunger

 World Population Growth (1-2050 A.D)

 Writing on the Edge (A Journal Published at U.C. Davis)

           I attended Roseville High School in Roseville, California, graduating in 1971.                                 ~

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