David Radavich
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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 American history from World War II to the present. Canonicals: Love’s Hours was issued by Finishing Line Press in 2009. His latest book, Middle-East Mezze, focuses on Iraq, Palestine, and Egypt and will be published in late 2010.

Radavich has also 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. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Charlotte Writer’s Club, he currently is president of The Thomas Wolfe Society and poetry editor of Deus Loci.
 
Among his favorite authors: Torquato Tasso and Czeslaw Milosz.
 
Recent memorable reading: Betty Adcock’s The Difficult Wheel and Tony Hoagland’s Incorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty