David Radavich


David Radavich


Teacher and Writer



Welcome to my Web site.  Feel free to browse through individual pages below and read any of the sample poems or essays.   You may contact me and share your comments or suggestions at the following addresses:

                                        Department of English, Eastern Illinois University
                                        600 Lincoln Avenue, Charleston, IL 61920
                                        (217) 581-6971 (phone); (217) 581-7209 (fax)
                                        E-mail: daradavich@eiu.edu

                                        1020 Williamsburg Drive
                                        Charleston, IL  61920
                                        (217) 345-9280



Check out America Bound: An Epic for Our Time,
a unique new work from Plain View Press!
 

A New Poem
 
 



 
 
 
 

Contents

Drama:

Full-Length Comedies

Serious Plays: ON THE VERGE: A Cycle of Plays for Our Time

One-Act and Short Plays

Essays

Poetry:

AMERICA BOUND: An Epic for Our Time

BY THE WAY: Poems over the Years

The Christmas Poems

GREATEST HITS: 1978-2000

SLAIN SPECIES: A Selection of Poems

Prizes and Honors

Screenplay

Teaching
 

 

 


A Brief Bio


David Radavich is the author of Slain Species (Court Poetry Press, London, 1980), By the Way: Poems over the Years (Buttonwood Press, 1998), and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2000).  He has also published a full-length comedy, Nevertheless . . . (Aran Press, 1989), several short dramas, and a wide range of poetry in journals and anthologies.  His plays have been performed across the U.S., including five Off-Off-Broadway productions.  Fragments of the Third Planet received its European premiere in 2000 in Pforzheim, Germany as part of their Millennium Festival.  Radavich has written scholarly and informal essays on poetry and drama and performed in a variety of countries.  He is currently Vice President of The Thomas Wolfe Society and Chair of the state-wide University Professionals of Illinois Board of Trustees, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.  His newest book is America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (Plain View Press, 2007).
 
 
 
 

 

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