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After spending six years at the University of Maine (B.A. and
M.A. in English), it was time to pull a “Shawshank.” Aiming for Zihuatanejo, Mexico,
the rental truck steered toward Lafayette, Louisiana, where David found a
small colony of creative writers opening hotels and sanding decks. He has
been enrolled in the Ph.D. Creative Writing Program at UL ever since. His
poetry has appeared in the Southwestern Review and the Maine Review,
and he is working on his own book of poems entitled Afraid of My Name,
which is due out in May 2001. David is currently the editor for the Southwestern
Review and president of Sigma Tau Delta. |
David Saffo So Far
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1999-present: Graduate Teaching
Assistant, University of Louisiana: Rhetoric and Composition, Composition and
Literature, Introduction to Creative Writing.
1997-1999: Graduate Teaching Assistant,
University of Maine: College Composition.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
2001 Southwestern Review,
“Life Raft”
2000 Southwestern Review,
“Life Rafts”
1996 Maine Review, “Half the
Answer”
1994 Maine Review, “Someone
is Waiting,” “Untitled,” and “Humanity Shown”
PUBLIC READINGS
2001 UL’s Graduate Reading Series,
April
POETRY PUBLICATIONS
2001 Southwestern Review, “Life Raft”
2000 Southwestern Review, “Life Rafts”
1996 Maine Review, “Half the Answer”
1994 Maine Review, “Someone is Waiting,” “Untitled,”
and “Humanity Shown”
PUBLIC READINGS
2001 UL’s Graduate Reading Series, April (forthcoming)
2000 University of Louisiana’s Graduate Reading
Series, November 16
2000 The Rinky Dink, Lafayette, April 11
2000 The Rinky Dink, Lafayette, February 14
2000 University of Louisiana’s Graduate Reading
Series, February 3
EDITING EXPERIENCE
2001 Southwestern Review, Editor
2000 Southwestern Review, Reader
1996 Maine Review, Editorial Staff
1995 Maine Review, Editorial Staff
AWARDS
1997 Arthur E. Davenport Scholarship
ORGANIZATIONS
2001 Sigma Tau Delta, President
2000 Sigma Tau Delta, Vice-President
2000 Saint Martin Parish Poetry Contest, Judge
David Saffo on UL-Lafayette
The past year and a half at UL has provided many opportunities to read my work publicly during the Thursday Night Reading Series and other “holiday” readings as well as submitting it to workshops consisting of a broad range of poetics. UL has also allowed me the chance to hone my editing and Pagemaking skills on the 2001 Southwestern Review, the university’s in-house outlet for graduate publication . This is possible because of the recent acquisition by the Creative Writing Department of top of the line software and printers for student projects. I have gone from “illiterate” to “PageMaker proficient” in just under 50 hours. UL also affords me the opportunity to add much needed teaching experience to my vitae. I am currently teaching English 102: Composition and Literature and English 223: Introduction to Creative Writing and am finding them both as challenging as they are rewarding . . . to see their eyes light up when a line length exercise changes their worldview from flat to round, syntactical to enjambed, hypotactic to paratactic . . . makes all the difference. And lastly, but I believe of crucial importance, is the twelve month riding season enjoyed here in Louisiana. The weather shock I, my car, and my bike (“Ava”lanche) have undergone is only slight in comparison to my extreme pleasure at finding what could quite possibly be the world’s best local coffee shops. “If I Didn’t Care” I would still be looking for the Pacific.
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