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David Radavich

Author and Educator

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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:

                                        E-mail: radavich@earthlink.net

6216 Glenridge Road, Charlotte, NC 28211

                                        (704) 364-6927

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To read my recent interview with the South Charlotte News

go to: Celebrate National Poetry Month

To watch my recent interview on C-Span about the Charlotte Writers’ Club,

go to www.c-span.org/LocalContent/Charlotte and scroll down BookTV

Check out Middle-East Mezze,
an exotic, sometimes searing new book

from Plain View Press.

Now available on Kindle

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Contents

Drama:

Full-Length Comedies

ON THE VERGE: A Cycle of Plays for Our Time

A sequence of seven plays on contemporary social issues.

One-Act and Short Plays

Essays

Poetry:

AMERICA BOUND: An Epic for Our Time

A narrative of our national history as told by everyday Americans.

BY THE WAY: Poems over the Years

CANONICALS: Love's Hours

A chapbook exploring the times and seasons of love.

The Christmas Poems

Poems selected each year by Anne for Christmas.

GREATEST HITS: 1978-2000

A chapbook of popular Radavich poems.

MIDDLE-EAST MEZZE

Poems about a troubled yet enchanting part of our world.

SLAIN SPECIES: A Selection of Poems

Early poems from Europe.

Prizes and Honors

Screenplay

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A Brief Bio

David Radavich is a poet and playwright committed to social justice. Among his poetry volumes are Slain Species (Court Poetry, London, 1980), By the Way: Poems over the Years (Buttonwood, 1998), and Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2000).  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 as part of the Millennium Festival in Germany.  America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (Plain View, 2007) narrates U.S. history from World War II to the present through the eyes of everyday Americans. Canonicals (Finishing Line, 2009) investigates "love's hours." Middle-East Mezze (Plain View, 2011) focuses on a troubled yet enchanting part of our world.

Radavich has written scholarly and informal essays on poetry, drama, and contemporary issues and has performed in such far-flung locations as Canada, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, and Iceland. He has been president of The Thomas Wolfe Society and currently is president of the Charlotte Writers' Club and poetry editor of Deus Loci. Among his honors are being selected as the 2009 Distinguished Professor at Eastern Illinois University, being inducted into the University Professionals of Illinois Wall of Fame (2010), and being awarded the MidAmerica Award (2012) for his contributions to Midwestern literature and scholarship. He lives in Charlotte, NC.