Des Moines Area Community College

Sharran S. Slinkard Department of Arts and Sciences, English

On a withered bough

A crow alone is perching,

Autumn evening now

—Basho

ØBackground Information

DMACC Professor Since 1992

M.A. Literary Studies, Composition Theory—University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

B.A. English—University of Wisconsin-Madison

ØContact Information

	ssslinkard@dmacc.edu
	515-964-6549
	Office Location: Building 2, Office 1B Office Hours: MWF 11:10-12:10, TR 8:30-9:30

ØFall 2012 Classes: English 105, Composition I

Syllabus

Section XT: MWF 9:05-10:00, Building 2 Room 11

Section L: MWF 10:10-11:05, Building 2 Room 11

Section XM: MWF 12:20-1:15, Building 2 Room 7

Section XK: TR 9:40-11:05, Building 2 Room 7

Section XG: TR 11:15-12:40, Building 2 Room 7

This is thy hour, O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless.

Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,

Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best,

Night, sleep, death and the stars

—Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Graphic images courtesy of The Graphic Station

Copyright 2004 Sharran S. Slinkard