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David Radavich

Mailing Address:
1020 Williamsburg Drive
Charleston, IL  61920

County: Coles

e-mail:daradavich@eiu.edu

Phone:
work: 217-581-6971
home/fax: 217-345-9280

Genre: Poetry, Drama

Periodical Publications:

  • Poetry has appeared in Broken Streets, Comstock Review, International Peotry Review, Louisville Review, Obris, Times Literary Supplement, and others
  • Plays have appeared in Agora and Platte Review
  • Essays have appeared in American Drama, Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Poet & Writer, A View from the Loft, U.S. News & World Report, and others
  • Entries in A Companion to Southern Literature, Encyclopedia of the Midwest, Companion to American Drama, and others
  • Reviews in Kansas City Star and Literary magazine Review

Book Publications:

  • Greatest Hits 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2000
  • By the Way: Poems over the Years, Buttonwood Press, 1998
  • Nevertheless. . . (play in two acts), Aran Press, 1988
  • Slain Species, Court Poetry Press, 1980

Forthcoming Publications:

  • "Center Stage: Midwestern Plays and Playwrights" in Midwestern Miscellanies, 2003
  • "Man Among Men: David Mamet's Homosocial Order" in Critical Studies of David mamet, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House, 2003)
  • "Midwestern Dramas" in In the Middle of the Midwest: An Anthology of Creative Non-Fiction, ed. Becky Bradway (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003)

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

  • Featured Poet, Pink Pony Poetry Series, New York, 2002
  • "Person of the Year" 2000, The Daily Eastern News
  • Featured Poet, Unitarian Univeralist General Assembly, 2000
  • Centruy: 100 Major Poets, 1996
  • Illinois Distinguished Author, 1995
  • Fulbright Lectureships, Germany, 1979 - 80 & 1980 - 81
  • Presidential Research Grants, 1987, 1989, 1997 & 2003
  • 1st Prize, Tell-Tale Poetry Competition, 1978
  • 1st Prize, International Verse Competition, 1982
  • Others

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

  • New York City (2002 & 2003)
  • Michigan State U (2001), Corfu, Greece (2000), Left Bank Books, St. Louis (1998), Alexandria, Egypt (1996), U. of Cincinnati (May 1998), Western Illinois U. (April 1998), Barnes & Noble Bookstore (Champaign, IL, April 1998), Celebration of the Arts (Charleston, IL, August 1997), and many others

Recent Workshops:

  • The Loft, Minneapolis/St. Paul, 2000, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC, 2000, Peace College, Raleigh, NC, 2000

Present Employment:

  • Dept. of English, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL.

Preferred Audience:

  • No preferred audience

Willing to travel:

  • yes
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