ANNOUNCING THE
PUBLICATION OF DAVID B. AXELROD'S NEWEST BOOKS OF POEMS.
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ABOUT: How to
Apologize (2009)
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ABOUT: Deciduous Poems (2008)
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ABOUT: The
Impossibility of Dreams (2007)
Dr. David B. Axelrod . . .
.
. . was appointed official Suffolk County Poet Laureate to serve a
two-year term, 2007 to 2009. He is an author and sponsor of
international writers' programs covering dozens of countries and nearly
forty languages. He has recently been appointed to serve as Suffolk
County Poet Laureate on
Long Island
,
New York
.
Dr.
Axelrod has performed and taught as an author and educator lecturing in
England, Ireland,
Austria,
France,
Sicily,
Ital
y,
Serbia,
Macedonia,
Montenegro,
Croatia, Hong Kong
and throughout the People's
Republic of
China. In summer of 2008, he
directed the International Young Writers Workshops as well as performing
at the Gerard Manley
Hopkins Festival in
Ireland
.
As a performer, the New York Times, has deemed him to be "A treat!" He has appeared at the United Nations, for the
American Library Association, as a feature on National Public Radio, as
America's official representative at the International Struga Festivals,
as featured reader at the New York State Fine Arts Center in Albany, as
poet-in-residence for Virginia, and at literally hundreds more venues
including radio and television appearances.
Himself a student of ten languages, he is the author of seventeen
books--most recently, The Impossibility of Dreams (AhadadaBooks,
Tokyo
&
Toronto
, 2007). His publications
include literally hundreds of articles, translated and published in
numerous languages including Albanian and Bulgarian, Chinese and
Japanese, Hebrew and Yiddish, Italian and Sicilian, Greek and
Macedonian, Russian and Romanian, French and Creole, Spanish and
Portuguese, German and Dutch among others!
He has entered record books as the only American to receive two
back-to-back Fulbright Awards in separate areas, as poet-in-residence in
Yugoslavia and then professor of American Literature in Macedonia. With
his third Fulbright, he became the first poet to be formally
acknowledged as American Poet in Residence in the People's Republic of
China
. There he also assisted in
establishing an
American
Center
, taught media and literature
and lectured in six provinces. For his work with alternative healing and
creative energy studies in
China
and his interpretation of the Tao
te Ching in his book entitled, Another Way, he was given an
honorary title of Taoist Priest.
Dr. Axelrod holds his Ph.D. from Union Institute in Academic Program
Design and Administration, granted for his establishing the
not-for-profit writers services, Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., as well
as Writers Ink Press. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry
from the
University
of
Iowa Writers Workshops
; a Master of Arts degree in
poetry from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars; and a
Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the
University
of
Massachusetts
.
