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City, UT (4106 Foothill Plaza Riverton Plaza 400 South Foothill Blvd. Salt Laka City, UT 841 0 1760 Wost 12600 South Rtvorton, UT B406S 1 8lt 3939 801-58- 3 Rl that it's the only one he has memorized. "I was always writing stories for school and they got a good response. Until I at 13, 1 was quit obsessed with comic books. For a long time, 1 planned on becoming a cartoonist. Then I discovered the video camera and decided on filmmaking, but regardless of what medium I was working in, I was always interested in telling a story. In retrospect, I had always been heading toward writing." Davis had his first creative writing class in high school and continued with introductory courses at the University of Utah until he transferred to regular Bute fyhounrj 1(if are rolling ?47 to hurtfl'"dfc continued from page University of Utah Faculty and Staff. CSr-- DflWj wn'fej poetry that recalls storytelling traditions and classic Americana. DAVIS 15 band: $ (undisclosed amount) make-u- & p soy cappuccinos: $250 wardrobe: $7000 camera crew: $ 200 a day 1 UC Riverside "Transferring to UC Riverside was so important to me the idea of having creative writing as my actual major was too tempting to resist. And then came graduate school en lieu of Club Med." From Riverside, Davis found his way to New York City, where he is currently attending the MFA poetry program at Columbia University. "Besides perhaps San Francisco or Paris, New York City is any writer's Mecca. It's this fabled land of literary adventures where we go to earn our wings. You can't help but feel inspired walking around, thinking of all those amazing people that wrote here before. And New York really holds tight to its champions of the written word, not to mention all the readings and lectures. Those are always going on around town. New York is great because it seems to understand how important artists are, how much they give to society, and in that, the city does a fair amount to give back to them, if only in the form of free wine and cheese at galleries." HONORING STORYTELLING TRADITIONS . I r-- -y ii... li ill j sy ' X - ! --i if iici.r.-- . -- :!' "M f r- r5"' In the tradition of the great storytellers, Davis' chapbook Spook Alley is full of narra- - : five poetry that bases itself on subjects taken from Americana. Reading it is like walking l through a ghost town and then talking to the one stranger who stayed behind because he thought there would be a lifetime supply of whiskey in the abandoned saloon. Tm very-influenced by stories I've heard or imagined. Urban legends, folk tales, ghost stories they all have an impossibly strong grip on my consciousness and tend to resonate loudly within my writing. I titled my chapbook Spook Alley simply because that was the feeling I got from it strange and unsettling happenings in - I - - s 1'jS". everyday America. you are here: priceless hcobostcnk Go to mastercard.com to aDDly for an internshin mal-ina mncir there are some thirds buv can't for . Pvprvrhino w money wi . vimii k a . tfiV 'b " tfrI' HJ'!' Wn"1y.rl, Wl' M' ".U'f " t portar Bfiffi' rna irmis IH.raitl, il' fn. f i k0v Ci-- VUW CIICI p.,. .r,. y ,(,. ,.;!;!' u.li. m.,.-.-I -j IdLtfl j 'V a,ji tnhy 'fu !' rfniilnii, 'wtiiTi Ir: l'I.I.Mi, Vow nai';'is- 0' L III ',ii!nr w'if' pr prio(i aw 'Hi f'ilifH A Wliw .4 Hm lit uoHmK 7 i l''i" 'v""ll(iMHlKf ? mil 'list r'tun w n Milciwiintvursrl l''! 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It's going to be a literary journal hybrid like Ploughshares crossed with Mad Magazine. The first issue will be out this summer. It isn't just poetry. It's a journal of literary land mines. It's so frustrating as a young writer to have so many magazines to read and never finding one that speaks you. My friend and I really want to create something young writers are going to find interesting and entertaining something that reflects what we're working on. We need something to give us hope and humor in the world of the future" To read more of Adam Davis, go to http:ww '.mosaic ucr. eduarchives php and click on the 2003 issue of MOSAIC. Contact haylcy&red mag corn if you'd like to get a copy of Spook Alley. h ayleyQ red mag com f "SgiESSBaasC |
