CURRICULUM VITAE

Website:    http://www. poetrydoctor.org and   http://www.writersunlimited.org

Also featured at: http://axelrod.roguescholars.com Email: axelrodthepoet@yahoo.comAddress: 233 Mooney Pond Rd. Post Office Box 2344, Selden, Long Island, NY 11784

Phone 631-451-0478

Dr. David B. Axelrod Professor; Author/Poet

RECENT HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Authorial/Professional:
NEWS!! In recognition of his studies and writings, Dr. David B. Axelrod has been given the title of Taoist Priest as an official representative of the Wudang Taoist Association whose Temple is located in the Wudang Mountains of Hubei, China. Dr. Axelrod is a founding member and Vice President of the Chinese-American Enrichment Association and on the board of Chi for Longevity, Inc., and has worked with the Temple for over ten years. In addition to years of Taoist studies, including work while a Fulbright Poet and Professor in China , the Temple recognized his contributions through the publication of his newest book: Another Way, Poems Derived from the Tao Te Ching.

Reviews of work of Dr. Aaron Kramer and Dr. Jesse Glass at http://www.poetrybay.com
Featured poet at North Sea Poetry Series, Southampton, NY and at Catskills Mountain Arts Festival, Hunter, NY; featured at numerous Long Island events.
Featured at http://www.eatwritecafe.com
Featured reading on line at: http://www.poetryvlog.com/daxelrod.html
Winner Rogue Scholars poetry award: http://www.roguescholars.com
Continued publication of poems, articles, reviews on line and in print. Performances, workshops and readings.

Director of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., celebrating 28 years of not-for-profit service to the Long Island and the general public; publisher of Writers Ink Press.

President, 3WS, World-Wide Writers Services, international booking agency, editorial services.

"Healing Power of Poetry" seminars at Hungtington Library, Dowling College, and The Wellness Center, Northport; Great Neck Library.

FULBRIGHT AWARDS AND U.S. SERVICE DISTINCTIONS
First Fulbright Poet-in-Residence in China. Over twenty performances in Liao Ling, Shenzehn, Beijing, GuangZhou, ChenSha, JiangLai, ChengDu, MianYang, and Hong Kong among others.
Fulbright Lecturer, GuangZhou Foreign Language University. Invited to help establish an American Studies Program; lecturer in American Literature, American Film and Culture.

Served as Warden for American citizens in Guangzhou, assisting with foreign expert safety and living conditions.
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. Poems. Birnham Woods Press, Northport, N.Y. Published with funding from U.S.I.A. and Fulbright.
Became the only American to ever hold two consecutive Fulbright Scholar Awards, in separate areas: Poet-at-Large, the Professor of American Literature. Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Serbia and Macedonia.
RESURRECTIONS. Poems. Published bilingually in Macedonian and English by Government of Macedonia, with the funding and assistance of Fulbright and the United States Infomation Agency.
Selected by U.S.I.A. as sole representative of United States at 1988 and 1989 Struga Writers Festivals. Winner of Struga Poetry Award.
EDUCATION
1977 Ph.D., Writing Arts, Literature Program Design & Administration, Creative Writing. Union Institute.
1968 M.F.A., Poetry. The Writers' Workshops, University of Iowa.
1966 M.A., Literature, Creative Writing, Poetry; Gilman Fellowship in Theatre. The Writing Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University.
1965 B.A., English major; emphases in Creative Writing and Journalism. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1961 Honors Diploma. Beverly High School, Beverly, Massachusetts.
EMPLOYMENT & RELATED EXPERIENCE
1969-continuing. Senior Professor, English, Suffolk County Community College, division of State University of New York. Literature, Media and Communications, Creative Writing.
Recent Academic Accomplishments:
Selected in competition for sabbatical grant as poet, SUNY Suffolk College.
National performance and workshop series.
Grant for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY Suffolk College.
Sponsor of visiting writers: Most recently:Li Young Lee; Peter Matthiessen.
Selected by Suffolk College as Distinguished Professor for features in Perspectives. Selected by Newsday for feature as "Star in his teaching galaxy." Cited by President John Cooper as exemplary faculty member before Suffolk County Legislature and at various educational events through academic year.
Served as faculty coordinator for Loyalist College, Canadian sister-school program.
Served as faculty coordinator of International Projects Committee.
Three separate lecture series in Hong Kong, as poet and freelance journalist and with authorization to pursue sister-school agreement with Shue Yan College of Hong Kong for exchange of students and faculty.
Designated to attend "Global Issues in Community College Education" conference at SUNY Binghampton.
Young Poets programs for Smithtown Library System.
Award for Outstanding Arts Programs. Westhampton Writers Guild. Presented at 8th Annual International Writers Festival.
Distinguished Lecturer, Nassau-Suffolk Library Assoc. Great Books Series.
Workshops such as Annual "Travel Literature" Seminar, Key West, Florida.
Sponsor of Westhampton Writers Festival, events and evenings, spanning the writing arts.
Director, numerous writers; conferences, such as "Breaking In: How to Sell Your Writing," and "The Business of the Arts," funded by U.S. Small Business Administration.
1972-1988. years as Director, Suffolk, Long Island International Writers Conferences featuring over fifteen countries and forty languages.
Poetry Editor, BROADSIDE, international folksong magazine, featuring such personalities as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Allen Ginsburg.
1976-1990. years on Editorial Board, Cross-Cultural Communications.
Co-ordinated literary tours and performances.
Publisher, Writers Ink Press. Alternative press cont. publishing contemporary literature and arts news.
1976-1990. President, Alliance of New York Writers & Publishers, Inc. Literary Agency.
Since 1975, Director, Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc. Not-for-Profit Writers Service.
Free-lance, feature writer. NEW YORK TIMES, Long Island Section. Feature & Editorial, NEWSDAY.
1979- 1981. Co-Director, New York Institute of Technology Certificate Program in Writing.
1979-1984. Fellow, International Institute for Creative Communications, Florida International University.
1975-1978. Editor-in-chief, THE WORD, Newsletter of Faculty Association of Suffolk College. Founder, Director, Evening College Teachers Union.
1973-1978. Board of Directors, East End Council for the Arts Humanities. Helped raise $100,000 for the arts.
Founder, Editor, MAIN STREET PRESS. Publishers of arts editions: Stafford, Simpson, Ferlinghetti.

1975-1978. President, Director of Community Center for Arts, North Shore Beach Association, Rocky Point, N.Y.
1972-1974. Consultant and Reviewer. Bobbs Merrill; Little, Brown & Co.; Houghton Mifflin.
1974-1977. Director, C.W. Post Young Poets Workshops.
1970-1974. Poet-in-Residence, New York State Poets in the Schools, Visiting poet, funded NYSCA.

1969-1973. Co-founder, Editor, STREET MAGAZINE, Street Press. Publishers of Long Island literature and arts.
1977-1978. Presdient, North Shore Beach Association, with duties essentially as Village Mayor, Rocky Point, New York.

1969-1975. Board of Directors, Editor, NORTH SHORE BEACH NEWS. North Shore Beach Association, Inc.

1966-1969. Teaching Assistant; Certified in master teaching programs: Pennsylvania Sate and University Iowa.
1963. Public Relations Office, Editor of COLLAGE, University of Massachusetts.
1965. Creative Writing Specialist, New York City's literary program center, 92nd St. YM&WHA. Director, Federal Cultural Enrichment Programs, Pennsylvania and Skidmore College.
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
2004, ANOTHER WAY. Karma Dog Editions, Boulder, Colorado
2001. RANDOM BEAUTY. Amereon House: Mattituck, New York.

2001. LOVE IN THE KEYS, second edition. Ai Press, Long Island Publishers Services: Selden, New York.

1995. THE CHI OF POETRY: NEW AND SELECTED POETRY, 1960-1995. Introduction by X. J. Kennedy. American/People's Press, Birnham Woods Graphics: Northport, Long Island, NY.

1993. THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE: Poems. Birnham Woods Graphics: Northport, New York.
1991. LOVE IN THE KEYS: New Poems. Ai Press: Selden, NY.
1989. RESURRECTIONS: New Poems. Bilingual, Macedonian- English. New World Pres: Skopia, Macedonia, Yugoslavia.
1989. A PERPETUAL CALENDAR OF POEMS. Illustrations by Nicolo D'Alessandro. Bilingual, Italian-English. Antigruppo Siciliano: Palermo & Trapani, Sicily.
1987. WHITE LIES: New Poems. La Jolla Poets Press: La Jolla, CA.
1986. THE END OF THE UNIVERSE: Surrealistic Poems. CRI Productions: Port Jefferson, NY.
1982. HOME REMEDIES: New & Selected Poems, with introduction by X. J. Kennedy. Cross-Cultural Communications: Merrick, NY.
1981. THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH A CHICKEN: Audio Cassette. Talking Books Series. Cross-Cultural Communication.
1980. THE MAN WHO FELL IN LOVE WITH A CHICKEN: Surrealistic poems. Cross-Cultural Communications.
1979. A MEETING WITH DAVID B. AXELROD AND IGNAZINO RUSSO: Bio-bibliography & Poems, bilingual Italian-English with artist's work. Antigruppo Siciliano: Trapani, Sicily.
1976. A DREAM OF FEET: New Poems. Cross-Cultural Communications.
1974. MYTHS, DREAMS & DANCES: New Poems, with introduction by Michael Atkinson. Despa Press: Northampton, MA.
1972. STARTING FROM PAUMANOK: Five Long Island Poets. Edited and with poems by D. B. Axelrod. Despa Press.
1971. STILLS FROM A CINEMA: second edition. Despa Press.
1968. STILLS FROM A CINEMA: Poems. Despa Press.
ANTHOLOGY PUBLICATIONS
2000. URBAN NATURE: Anthology of nature in the city. (Milkwood Press)
1996. BEST OF LONG ISLAND: Anthology of first five years of the L.I. Quarterly. William Heyen, editor. Birnham Woods Graphics, Northport, NY.
1994. IN AUTUMN: Anthology of L. I. Poetry. George Wallace, Ed. Birnham Woods Graphics, Northport, NY.
1991. PREPOSTEROUS: Poems of Youth, Ed. Paul B. Janeczko. Orchard Books: New York, NY.
1989. 101 PORTRAITS OF POETS, Rose Graubart, Ed. & Illustrator. Cross- Cultural Communications: Merrick, NY.
1976 and continuously in each edition of textbooks: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE. INTRODUCTION TO POETRY. Dana Gioia & X.J. Kennedy, editors.
1986. SUTURED WORDS: Contemporary Poetry about Medicine. Jon Mukland, editor. Aviva Press: Brookline, MA.
1984. MONEY ENCYCLOPEDIA. Harvey Rachlin, editor. Harper & Row, Co.: New York, NY. (Financial reference work includes 40 pages of my writing.)
1984. STRINGS: A Gathering of Family Poems. Paul B. Janeczko, editor. Bradbury Press: Scarsdale, NJ.
1983. ISLAND LIGHT: Long Island Poetry. Adie Meyer Sanders, editor. Suffolk County Tercentennial Committee: Hauppauge, NY.
1982. POETS AND ARTISTS: Poets & Artists of the Region Collaborating, Anthology and Showing. Guild Hall Museum: Easthampton, NY.
1981. PAUMANOK RISING: An Anthology of Eastern Long Island Aesthetics. V. Clemente, G. Everett editors. Street Press: Port Jefferson, NY.
1978. VAGABOND ANTHOLOGY: 1966-1977. John Bennett, Editor. Vagabond Press: Ellensburg, WA.
1976. RENDEZVOUS WITH THE SEA. Robert Olmsted, editor. Northwoods Press: Bigfork, MN.
1975. BICENTENNIAL ANTHOLOGY, James Scrimgeour, Ed., Northern Illinois University Press: IL.
1965 ET AL: Anthology of College Poetry. Henry Paper, editor. Poetry Congress Press: Lewisburg, PA.
PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS
ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED PUBLICATIONS in nearly 300 different periodicals, journals, newspapers including: NEW YORK TIMES, NEWSDAY, BOSTON GLOBE, NY DAILY NEWS. KANSAS QUARTERLY, NEW LETTERS, WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW, GREENFIELD REVIEW, CONFRONTATION, LONG ISLAND QUARTERLY, LIPS, FOOTWORK. See sample bibliography in "Acknowledgments" from CHI OF POETRY: New & Selected Poems.

PUBLICATIONS IN TRANSLATION
A special bilingual collection consisting of my poems in English, Chinese prepared for publication for my travel to China, GuangZhou, Hong Kong and Beijing. OVER THREE HUNDRED POEMS translated and published internationally in fourteen languages including: Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, Albanian, German, French, Spanish, Yiddish, Hebrew, Sicilian, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Swahili, Chinese. TWENTY PERFORMANCES AND LECTURES in capacity of Fulbrights throughout China. OVER FORTY PUBLICATIONS and performances for Fulbrights in Yugoslavia. "An Interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer," TEL AVIV REVIEW, Tel Aviv, Israel, (August, 1988). WINNER, STRUGA FESTIVAL AWARD POETRY CONTEST for "In My Friend's Village; "Struga Poetry Festival," Article and poem published in OKO, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, September, 1988. "Poesia Inediti di David B. Axelrod," Full page featuring my work, TRAPANI NUOVO, Trapani, Sicily, Italy, August, 1988. Full page features in TRAPANI NUOVO. (1979, 1988).
HONORS & AWARDS
Selected to speak at Conference on Asain Studies, Madison, Wisconsin.
Selected by Newsday for feature as "Star in his teaching galaxy."
Selected by Suffolk College as Distinguished Professor for features in Perspectives.
Nominated for Kubrisch Award for promotion of International understanding.

Selected to speak at International Civic and Development Program of Community Colleges, Orlando, Florida.
Featured for excellence in teaching and contribution to international studies in PERSPECTIVES college journal. Major features in VILLAGE TIMES and CITIZEN JOURNAL.
Honored for community service by Middle Country Library System.
Fulbright Award as first Poet-in-Residence in People's Republic of China.
Special Award for Excellence in Arts Programs. Westhampton International Writers Festival.
Award for Distinguished Service and Director of Suffolk College, State University of N.Y., Visiting Writers Program, The Writers Club.
1990- Featured presenter in WRIV-TV Cable Television, cont. "Ideas and Images," Literature series.
1991 Recipient, Island Publishing Award and Suffolk College, SUNY Certificate of Merit for contribution to arts as sponsor of 15 years of creative writing programs.
1990 Selected to perform before United Nations as part of International Poetry Series as translator of Yugoslav and Macedonian poetry.
1989- Fulbright Poet-at-large, Yugoslavia.
1990 Fulbright Lecture, University of Skopje, Macedonia.
1988- America's sole representative at Struga Poetry Evenings. Poetry Festival award
1989- for best poem. Performed at opening & closing ceremonies (on bridge); featured numerous TV & radio shows.
1988 Grant for performance tour throughout Sicily from Antigruppo Siciliano, including nine performances, two television appearances and Honorary Medals for poetry, cities of Castellemarre del Gulfo (Circolo Culturale I. Pirandello) and Citte di Balestrate.
Suffolk College Award: "Outstanding Advisor, The Writers Club."
State University of New York Research Grant.
Official Proclamation: April 24 & 25th named "David B. Axelrod Days," by Suffolk County Executive in honor of fifteen years of "meritorious service to arts and for his literary work."
Citation for Contribution to Arts: Town of Brookhaven, Long Island.
Creative Arts Service Award, as Director, Long Island International Writers Conference.
New York State Council on the Arts and Committee on Small Magazine, Editors and Publishers (COSMEP) Grant. Filmed, scripted, edited documentary: "19th Annual Alternative Press Book Fair."
C.W. Post College, Academy of American Poets Award for the poem "The Vandal." Award presented by Richard Wilbur.
Virginia Council on the Arts Grant as poet-in-residence. Three programs as visiting writer.
Cultural Exchange Grant, Cross-Cultural Communications, Antigruppo Siciliano, Trapani, Sicily. On tour for 30 days, 28 public performances and appearances on Radio, TV as visiting writer/poet.
Medal for the Arts, for poetry and contributions to Italo-American friendship. Presented by Mayor for City of Trapani, Sicily, Italy.
America the Beautiful Foundation, grant as director of community arts newsletter to serve North Shore Beach, Long Island, NY.
Annual recipient of Poets & Writers, Inc. funding for over 100 poetry performances and director for visiting writers' programs.
Suffolk County Grant for Cultural Programs. The Troupe: Poetry, Mime, Music Performances.
Suffolk County Cultural Affairs Committee Awards; Arts Programs.
Sponsor, director, 12 programs in creative writing, poetry. Grant for Writing Programs. New York State Council for the Arts, Literature Panel, including poetry and periodical publications.
United Teachers Press Award, in national competition: Best News Story and Best Editorial.
1967-1969. Full Scholarship, Writing Workshops, University of Iowa.
1966-1967. Full Scholarship, teaching assistant, Pennsylvania State University.
1965-1966. Gilman Fellowship, Theater. The Writers Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University.
1964-1965. Honors Program, Amherst College/Four College undergraduate studies, University of Massachusetts.
1964. Annual Playwrighting Award, University of Massachusetts.
1963-1964. National Collegiate Journalism Award, Best College Newspaper, as Editor-in-Chief of tri-weekly news. University of Massachusetts.

PERFORMANCES, MEDIA APPEARANCES
Continuing poetry workshops, master classes, performance nationally.
U.S. TOUR publicizing CHINA JOURNALS. TV and radio throughout U.S. speaking on politics, trade, human rights, the arts and medicince in China.
PERFORMANCES IN HONG KONG AND PRC. January and July- August. Poetry, book and freelance author's lectures. Twenty performances in six provinces of China and in Hong Kong as well as on Voice of America/ China, and United States Information Agency American Centers in Guangzhou, Beijing and Chengdu.
TV AND RADIO: Throughout China, Hong Kong; Europe emanating from Struga and on TV Novi Sad; Radio Yugoslavia. From Tunisia to Rome via TV Mazara Del Vallo and Trapani. On Radio Italy and widely on radio in Sicily; As poet, arts host, &/or arts producer in Sweden, Amsterdam, England, Australia, Ireland, France, Germany. In the U.S. on National Public Radio, featured on "All Things Considered" and on hundreds of radio broadcasts including WNYC, WABC, WBLI, WBAB, WALK. Regularly as arts host and poet on U.S. cable channels. On CBS, NBC, PBS, WOR, WPIX. LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF PERFORMANCES, lectures, guest workshops as poet, professor, tax expert, comedian with an audience of millions.
WORKSHOPS AND POETRY PERFORMANCES

American Library Association; New Jersey Library Association; United Nations Poetry Series.
Grinnell, Amherst, Johns Hopkins, C.W. Post, Hofstra, Adelphi, Dowling, Southampton, Brooklyn College, American University, Harriman, Eckerd, Universities of Massachusets, North Carolina, New Mexico, Delaware, Maryland, Iowa, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Tampa, among others; NY Institute of Technology; State University of New York at Farmingdale, at Stony Brook, at Plattsburg, at Albany, at Utica, at Syracuse; Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute.
Passaic, Suffolk, East End Huntington, Islip Arts Councils, Brooklyn & Herkesher Museums. Too many others to innumerate.
Private academies including Worcester, Chatham, The Gunnery, South Kent, Darlington School, Fay School, Stony Brook School and Canterbury Academy; Berkley Preparatory and many others.
Annual Alternative Press Bookfairs; four International Writing Conferences; fifteen Suffolk, Long Island Writers Conferences; Dozens of public libraries including NY Public Library and Nassau-Suffolk Library Association.

PROMOTIONAL APPEARANCES Bookstores internationally, `including Canios, Borders Books, B. Dalton, NYC and other; Barnes and Noble; Poetry Society of America, NYC and L.I.. Four intentional tours throughout Sicily, Italy, England, Ireland, Yugoslavia and San Wai bookstore, Beijing, China.
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES & BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
1976-cont. Elected to Membership, P.E.N. America.
1978-cont. Elected Member, Poetry Society of America.
1977-cont. Academy of American Poets.
Listed in every edition of DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN POETS AND WRITERS since I helped support and publicize the start of Poets & Writers, Inc. in early 1970's.
WHO'S WHO IN THE EAST (since 1974).
CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS (three editions since 1974).
MARQUIS' COMMUNITY LEADERS IN AMERICA (since 1972).
INTERNATIONAL WHO'S WHO IN POETRY (since 1973).
OUTSTANDING YOUNG MEN OF AMERICA & WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES (1970, 1965).
BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS and bibliography archived at Southampton College. Books, extensive periodical publications archived at Suffolk College, Selden, NY and State University of New York, Brockport, NY.

Foreign Language Studies and Skills

Language- Speak- Read- Write- Translate
French       2     1     3     2
German      3     2     3     3
Italian        3     3     4     3
Spanish      4     4     5     5
Yiddish       2     4     4      3
Hebrew      4      3     4     5
Macedonian 3     3     4     3
Serbian       3     3     4     3
Mandarin     3     4     2/4* 5
Cantonese   4     4     5     5

Other language studies: Greek, Latin.
Skills: 1= excellent; 2= good; 3= fair; 4= with assistance; 5= unable. *Pin yin, good; few simplified characters; no old style.