News Release (February 5, 1974) Professor and poet of English at Lewis and Clark College to read excerpts of his work at TESC
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News Release (February 5, 1974) Professor and poet of English at Lewis and Clark College to read excerpts of his work at TESC
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5 February 1974
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TheEve~green State College
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 5, 1974
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Anthony Ostroff, poet and profe~sor
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at 8 p.m. in the third floor Library-lou~ge of The Evergreen State College.
Ostroff, former,Lewis and Clark,vice'president for academic affairs and dean
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of the faculty, has published more thanl~O~I:ticles,
short stories and poems in
a wide variety of journals, inc1uding;A.tl~riti~Monthly, Harper's and the New Yorker.
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His wo~ks
have been included in 20~.ooks and anthologies, and he has written
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three books:
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Three Self EvaLuatLons ,:pub Li.shed .by Beloit in 1953; Imperatives,
published by Harcourt, Brace and World ,in 1962; andThe
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Contemporary Poet as Artist
and Critic, published by Little, Brown,Company in 1964.
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The recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, Ostroff has lectured throughout
the United States and Europe on education affairs and American Literature, and has
taught at the University of Californi~, Berkeley,University of Buffalo,and Vassar.
He obtained his bachelor's degree from Northwest University in 1946 and his master's
from the University of Michigan in 1949.'
Sponsored by Eye-5, the Portland poet will spend three days in the South Puget
Sound area working with students at Evergreen, St. Martin's College, Pacific Lutheran
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University and Olympia-area high schools ..
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