Students and Teachers in New York City

I’ve just returned from a wonderful, packed week in New York.  There were many highlights, and a running theme, now that I think of it, of students and teachers. 

I went with a former student of mine, Susan, who had been in a graduate fiction writing class I taught at the U. of Minnesota in 1974.  We’ve been fast friends ever since, and now she teaches English at a community college here in town.  We stayed at the apartment of a former teacher of mine: Dale Davis, who was my high school English teacher and who encouraged me in my … Read More