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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

email

ssslinkard@dmacc.edu

phone001

515-964-6549

home

Building 2, Office 1B

Office Hours MWF 11:10-12:10, TR 8:30-9:30

 

 

ØSpring 2012 Classes: English 105, Composition I

Syllabus

 

          Section B: MWF 9:05-10:00, Building 2 Room 7

          Section F: MWF 10:10-11:05, Building 2 Room 7

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

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

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

 

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

 

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Graphic images courtesy of The Graphic Station

Copyright 2004 Sharran S. Slinkard