Hans Ostrom: Speak

One of the first spoken word projects AVzounds did was with American poet and academic Hans Ostrom who read the works of radical poets as well as his own poetry. We are very proud to have worked with him and we hope you enjoy listening to him. 

All our work is free to listen to or downloads. This is the link to the Speak! album Hans Ostrom album on Soundcloud:

https://soundcloud.com/avzounds/hans-ostrom-speak

Hans Ansgar Ostrom is an American professor, writer, editor, and scholar. Ostrom is a professor of African American Studies and English at the University of Puget Sound (1983–present), where he teaches courses on African-American literature, creative writing, and poetry as a genre. He is known for his authorship of various books on African-American studies and creative writing, and novels including Three to Get Ready, Honoring Juanita, and Without One, as well as The Coast Starlight: Collected Poems 1976–2006.

This is a photo of Turkish radical poet Nazim Hikmet whose poem Hans read.