David Radavich


David Radavich

 

Teacher and Writer

 

Welcome to my university 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 address:

                                        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

                                       


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

And check out my new chapbook:

Canonicals: Love's Hours
 
 

 

 

 

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 six Off-Off-Broadway productions.  Fragments of the Third Planet received its European premiere in 2000 in Pforzheim, Germany as part of their Millennium Festival.  America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (Plain View Press, 2007), narrates American history from World War II to the present.  His latest poetry collection, Canonicals: Love's Hours, has just been published by Finishing Line Press (2009).
 
Radavich has also 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 Trustees, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers.   He was recently designated the 2009 Eastern Illinois University Distinguished Professor.