is
an author and sponsor of international writers’ programs covering dozens of
countries and nearly forty languages. He has performed and taught as an author
and educator lecturing in England, France, Sicily, Italy, Serbia, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Croatia, Hong Kong and throughout the People's Republic of China.
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, author of sixteen books and literally hundreds of
articles, his work has been translated and published in numerous languages
including Albanian and Bulgarian, Chinese and Japanese, Hebrew and Yiddish,
Italian and Sicilian, Greek and Macedonian, Russian, Albanian 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.
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.
Dr.
Axelrod has received grants for literally hundreds of thousands of dollars of
writing, arts and service projects including funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council for the Arts; County of
Suffolk; State of Virginia; Towns of Brookhaven, Westhampton and Riverhead;
America the Beautiful Foundation; International Paper Company; Bankers Trust
and Marine Midland and Chemical Bank; State University of New York Research
Division and Board of Education Cooperative Services among many others.
As
founder and director of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., a not-for-profit
(501-C-3) organization he continues to provide information on the writing
arts. In that capacity he also publishes arts books under the imprint of
Writers Ink Press. More recently he founded 3WS, World-Wide Writers Services,
a network for authors and editors aiding international publication and
exchange. Dr. Axelrod’s own Curriculum Vita enumerates nearly twenty pages
of education, artistic and administrative accomplishments.
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