Thank you for this post, Mary. I'm looking forward to meeting you later this year at the RSMA meeting. My then boyfriend took me to a Ruth Suckow Annual Meeting as a hot date 25 years ago and I was astonished to learn about this wonderful writer--I was an English teacher at Hawkeye Community College. I'd taken classes at ISU and Buena Vista and had numerous literature courses, but I'd never heard of Suckow. I began using one of her short stories ("A Rural Community") in my Intro to Literature class and students liked her and "got" her.
Thank you, Cherie, for your comment. I'm glad that you are a Suckow supporter and helped your students enjoy her work. I look forward to seeing you in the fall.
What a vivid picture of a time and place. Thanks again for your introduction to Ruth Suckow's work and for your introduction today to the excerpt from her novel.
Thank you for this post, Mary. I'm looking forward to meeting you later this year at the RSMA meeting. My then boyfriend took me to a Ruth Suckow Annual Meeting as a hot date 25 years ago and I was astonished to learn about this wonderful writer--I was an English teacher at Hawkeye Community College. I'd taken classes at ISU and Buena Vista and had numerous literature courses, but I'd never heard of Suckow. I began using one of her short stories ("A Rural Community") in my Intro to Literature class and students liked her and "got" her.
Thank you, Cherie, for your comment. I'm glad that you are a Suckow supporter and helped your students enjoy her work. I look forward to seeing you in the fall.
What a vivid picture of a time and place. Thanks again for your introduction to Ruth Suckow's work and for your introduction today to the excerpt from her novel.
Thank you Mary. Having just learned about Ruth Suckow this past summer, I am anxious to read her books.