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David B. Axelrod (born July 29, 1943) is a poet and educator. He was born in Beverly, Massachusetts, where he lived until his college years.His education included a B. A. from University of Massachusetts, 1965; M. A. from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, 1966; M. F. A. from the University of Iowa Writing Workshops, 1967; and his Ph. D. from Union Institute, 1977.He moved to Long Island in 1969, where he 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.He is, himself a student of ten languages, author of sixteen books and many articles. Axelrod's 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 and Romanian, French and Creole, Spanish and Portuguese, German and Dutch among others.In honor of his book ANOTHER WAY: Poems Derived from the Tao Te Ching, Dr. Axelrod was made a representative of the Wu Dang Temple’s American branch. For the period of April, 2007 through May 2009, he was selected to serve as Suffolk County (Long Island, New York) Poet Laureate. Summer, 2009, received the Hopkins' Society Award for his work with young authors, from the [Gerard Manley Hopkins Society] at Mainooth College, Ireland.

He is recipient of three Fulbright Awards:

First Fulbright Award recipient to win back-to-back awards in two separate areas...serving first as Poet-in-Residence in Yugoslavia, in 1989. Professor of American Literature at the University of Skopia in Macedonia in 1989-90. He also served as America's representative at the Struga Poetry Evenings where he was awarded their 1989 poetry prize.

A third Fulbright Award, as the first official Poet-in-Residence appointed in the People’s Republic of China, 1993-1994.

Founder and Director, Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., a 501-c-3 not-for-profit educational service which promotes the writing arts.

Publisher of Writers Ink Press.

President of 3WS, World-Wide Writers Services.

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