Website:
http://www.poetrydoctor.org and http://www.writersunlimited.org
Also
featured at: http://axelrod.roguescholars.com
where a Poetry Sampler may be found.
Email:
axelrodthepoet@yahoo.com
Address:
233 Mooney Pond Road, Post
Office Box 2344, Selden, Long Island, NY 11784
Phone
631-451-0478
Profession:
Professor; Author/Poet
NEW! Listed in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B._Axelrod
NEW! A gift of poetry: http://www.thebestpoetry.com
RECENT
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES
Authorial/Professional:
2008 Publication of DECIDUOUS POEMS (AhadadaBooks, Tokyo and Toronto, Canada).
2007 Appointed Suffolk County Poet Laureate for two-year term, until 2009.
2007 Publication of THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF DREAMS (AhadadaBooks,
Tokyo and Toronto, Canada).
2007 Awarded a sabbatical to complete next book of poems. Leave will extend
from May 15, 2007 to January 20, 2008.
2007 Winter, spring: scheduled for seven performances from Long Island to San Francisco.
2006 Honored by Long Island Poetry Collective for 30 years of Poetry and Arts work.
2006 Collected papers and publications of David B. Axelrod, curated by William Heyen
for University of Rochester Contemporary Literature collection.
2006 Published in eight print and on-line E-zines and anthologies; Twelve
featured readings. Oberon Foundation honors for poetry.
2006 Launched website to make my complete, collected poetry available free
on-line at www.thebestpoetry.com
2006 Honored by Wu Dang Taoist Association for his book, Another Way: Poems based
on the Tao Te Ching, and work with Chinese-American cultural
exchange. Authorized to serve as Taoist Priest.
2006 30th Anniversary of Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc.
FULBRIGHT AWARDS AND U. S. SERVICE
DISTINCTIONS
1995 THE CHI OF POETRY, NEW & SELECTED POEMS. Published
as an American/Chinese joint venture with a special grant from Fulbright and
United States Information Agency.
1993-1994 1st Fulbright Poet-in-Residence in China. Over twenty
performances in Liao Ling, Shenzehn, Beijing, GuangZhou, ChenSha,
JiangLai,ChengDu, MianYang, and Hong Kong among others.
1993-1994 Fulbright Lecturer, GuangZhou Foreign Language University.
Invited to help establish an American Studies Program;lecturer in American
Literature, American Film and Culture.
1993-1994 Served as Warden for American citizens in Guangzhou, assisting with
foreign expert safety and living conditions.
1993 THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. Poems. Birnham Woods Press,
Northport, N.Y., published with funding from U.S.I.A. and Fulbright.
1989-1990 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.
1989 RESURRECTIONS. Poems. Published bi-lingually in Macedonian and
English by Government of Macedonia, with the funding and assistance of
Fulbright and the United States Information Agency.
1988 Selected by U.S.I.A. as sole representative of United States at Struga
Writers Festival. Winner of Struga Poetry Award.
EDUCATION
1977 Ph.D., Writing Arts, Literature Program Design & Administration,
Creative Writing. Union Institute.
1968 M.F.A., Poetry, Journalism. The Writers Workshops, University of
Iowa.
1966 M.A., Literature, Theater and Creative Writing, Poetry; The Writing
Seminars, The Johns Hopkins University.
1965 B.A., English. Journalism. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1961 Honors Diploma. Beverly High School, Beverly, Massachusetts.
EMPLOYMENT & RELATED EXPERIENCE
1969-cont. Senior Professor, English, Suffolk College, division of State
University of New York. Literature, Media and Communications,
Creative Writing.
2004-cont. Selected to design on-line course for The Art of Poetry as part of
the SUNY Learning Network. Now maintaining seven on-line courses from
Developmental to Creative and Technical Writing.
2002-2003 Completed training for asynchronous/on-line courses. Designing
courses in Creative Writing and Poetry now offered through SUNY.
2002 Grant for development of on-line course in Creative Writing.
2001 Selected in competition for sabbatical grant as poet, SUNY Suffolk
College.
2001 National performance and workshop series.
1999-2000 Grant for Excellence in Teaching, SUNY Suffolk College.
Sponsor of visiting writers: Li Young Lee; Peter Matthiessen.
2000 Founder, Creative Health Institute (CHI), a center for creativity and
healing.
2000 Recipient of Abraham Schenck Foundation grant for poetry.
1999 Established poetrydoctor.org to provide credit and non-credit on-line
courses and service for writers.
1997-cont. Co-founder, Vice President, Association for Chinese American
Enrichment. Not-for-profit educational society promoting cultural exchange and
goodwill between U.S. and China.
1996-2004 Co-Editor, Chi for Longevity. Newsletter for students of Chi Gong
and Tai Chi.
1995 Sponsor of First Annual Long Island Poetry Marathon.
1994 Included in new anthology of Long Island Poetry (William Heyen, Editor).
1995 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.
1994-1997 Served as faculty coordinator for Loyalist College, Canadian
sister-school program. Served as faculty coordinator of International
Projects Committee.
1995-1996 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.
1996 Designated by President Cooper to attend "Global Issues in Community
College Education" conference at SUNY Binghampton.
1995 Young Poets programs for Smithtown Library System.
1993 Award for Outstanding Arts Programs. Westhampton Writers Guild.
Presented at 8th Annual International Writers Festival.
1990 Distinguished Lecturer, Nassau-Suffolk Library Assoc. Great Books Series.
1990-cont. Founder, Director, 3WS, World Wide Writers' Service, cont.
providing network for international authors as well as workshops such as
Annual "Travel Literature" Seminar, Key West, Florida.
1981-1997 Contributing Writer, Anton Publications. Articles serialized in
seventeen Long Island weekly newspapers.
1989-1993 Sponsor of Westhampton Writers Festival, events and evenings,
spanning the writing arts.
1975-1976 Director, numerous writers; conferences, eg. "Breaking In: How
to Sell
Your Writing," "The Business of the Arts," funded by U.S. Small
Business Administration.
1975-1990 Director, Suffolk, Long Island International Writers Conferences
featuring over fifteen countries and forty languages.
1985-1986 Poetry Editor, BROADSIDE, international folksong magazine, featuring
such personalities as Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and Allen Ginsburg.
1975-1990 Editorial Board, Cross-Cultural Communications. Coordinated
literary tours and performances.
1982-cont. Publisher, Writers Ink Press. Alternative press publishing
contemporary literature and arts news.
1976-1990 President, Alliance of New York Writers & Publishers, Inc.
Literary Agency.
1975-cont. Director, Writers Unlimited Agency, Inc., Not-for-Profit
Writers Service.
1980-cont. Freelance, 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.
1975-1979 Editor-in-chief, THE WORD, Newsletter of Faculty Association
of Suffolk College. Founder, Director, Evening College Teachers Union.
1973- Board of Directors, East End Council for the Arts 1978 & Humanities.
Helped raise $100,000 for the arts.
1978-1979 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 theSchools,
Visiting poet, funded NYSCA.
1969-1973 Co-founder, Editor, STREET MAGAZINE, Street Press. Publishers of
Long Island literature and arts.
1969-1975 Board of Directors, Editor, NORTH SHORE BEACH NEWS. North
Shore Beach Association, Inc.
1966-1969 Teaching Assistant; Certified in master teachingprograms:
Pennsylvania Sate and University Iowa.
1962-1965 Public Relations Office, Editor of COLLAGE, University of Massachusetts.
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
2008 DECIDUOUS POEMS. AhadadaBooks, Ontario and Tokyo.
2007 THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF DREAMS: New Poems. AhadadaBooks, Ontario and
Tokyo.
2005 ANOTHER WAY: Poems derived from the Tao Te Ching. Karma Dog
Editions, Boulder, CO.
2001 RANDOM BEAUTY, New Poems. Edited by Louis Simpson. Amereon Press: New
York.
2001 LOVE IN THE KEYS. Second Edition. Ai Press: Selden, NY.
1994 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.
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.
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
2006-2008 LONG ISLAND LIGHT: Northsea Poetry Scene Anthology, ed. Tammy
Nunzio Morgan.
2006 LONG ISLAND: LIGHT OF CITY AND SEA. Long Island Anthology, ed. Dan Moran.
2005 MARSHLAND: Wetlands Preservation Anthology, ed. Maxwell Wheat.
2005 KISS YOUR BUTTS GOODBY: A Stop-Smoking Anthology.
2005 DREAM LONG ISLAND. ed. Barbara Reir-Myers.
2003 CONNELLAN CELEBRATION: In honor Leo Connellan. (Univ. of Connecticut
Press).
2000 URBAN NATURE: Anthology of nature in the city. (Milkwood Press).
1994 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.
1989 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE. INTRODUCTION TO POETRY.
Included in all eight (9) editions. Dana Gioia & X.J. Kennedy, editors.
Little, Brown & Co.: Boston.
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
OVER SIX HUNDRED PUBLICATIONS in more than 400 different periodicals,
journals, newspapers and on-line magazines, including: NEW YORK TIMES,
NEWSDAY, BOSTON GLOBE, NY DAILY NEWS. KANSAS QUARTERLY, NEW LETTERS, WESTERN
HUMANITIES REVIEW, ROGUE SCHOLARS, POETRY BAY, BIG CITY, PEDESTAL,
CONFRONTATION, LONG ISLAND QUARTERLY, LIPS, FOOTWORK. For more complete
bibliography, see four pages of "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 Fulbright's first official
poet-in-residence in PRC, 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
2007 Appointed Suffolk County, Long Island Poet Laureate
2007 Sabbatical Award to write new book of poems.
2006 Honored for 30 years of contributions to Arts and Poetry by Long Island
Poetry Collective on the occasion of their 30th Anniversary.
2006 Oberon Foundation, honors for poetry.
2006 Abraham Schenck Foundation grant for new book of poems.
2005 Selected to design on-line course, The Art of Poetry, as part of SUNY
Learning Network.
2004 Ronkonkoma Poetry Prize.
2004 Rogue Scholars Poetry Award.
2003 Grant for development of on-line creative writing courses, SUNY.
2000 Abraham Schenck Foundation grant for poetry publication.
2000 SUNY Suffolk College grant and award for preparation and publication
of new book of poetry.
1996 Selected to speak at Conference on Asian Studies, Madison, Wisconsin.
1996 Selected by Newsday for feature as "Star in his teaching
galaxy."
1995 Selected by Suffolk College as Distinguished Professor for features in
Perspectives. Kubrisch Award nominee for promotion of International
understanding.
1995 Selected to speak at International Civic and Development Program of
Community Colleges, Orlando, Florida.
1994 Featured for excellence in teaching and contribution to international
studies in PERSPECTIVES college journal. Major features in VILLAGE
TIMES and CITIZEN JOURNAL.
1995 Honored for community service by Middle Country Library System.
1993- Fulbright Award as first Poet-in-Residence in
1994 People's Republic of China.
1993 Special Award for Excellence in Arts Programs.
Westhampton International Writers Festival.
1992 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.
1989-1990 Fulbright Poet-at-large, Yugoslavia. Fulbright Lecture,
University of Skopje, Macedonia.
1988-1989 America's sole representative at Struga Poetry Evenings. Poetry
Festival award for best poem. Performed at opening & closing ceremonies
(on bridge); featured numerous TV & radio shows.
1988-1990 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.
1987 Suffolk College Award: "Outstanding Advisor, The Writers Club."
1986 State University of New York Research Grant.
1985 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."
1985 Citation for Contribution to Arts: Town of Brookhaven, Long Island.
1985 Creative Arts Service Award, as Director, Long Island International
Writers Conference.
1982 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."
1981 C.W. Post College, Academy of American Poets Award for the poem "The
Vandal." Award presented by Richard Wilbur.
1979-1980 Virginia Council on the Arts Grant as poet-in-residence. Three
programs as visiting writer.
1979 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.
1979 Medal for the Arts, for poetry and contributions to Italo-American
friendship. Presented by Mayor for City of Trapani, Sicily, Italy.
1975-1978 America the Beautiful Foundation, grant as director of
community arts
newsletter to serve North Shore Beach, Long Island, NY.
1972-1990 Annual recipient of Poets & Writers, Inc. funding for over
100 poetry
performances and director for visiting writers' programs.
1979 Suffolk County Grant for Cultural Programs. The Troupe: Poetry, Mime,
Music Performances.
1976-1978 Suffolk County Cultural Affairs Committee Awards; Arts
Programs.
Sponsor, director, 12 programs in creative writing, poetry.
1975-1979 Grant for Writing Programs. New York State Council for the
Arts,
Literature Panel, including poetry and periodical publications.
1974 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, Writing Workshops, 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 Playwriting 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
2008 Continuing poetry workshops, master classes, performance nationally,
including featured performance at Bird and Beckett Book Store in San
Francisco; Workshop and Performance at Gerard Manley Hopkins Summer Festival,
Monasterevin, Ireland; North Sea Poetry Scene; Huntington Poetry Barn;
Stevenson Academy; numerous others. See activities at: www.writersunlimited.org/laureate/eventschedule.htm
Continue to work in Suffolk County and U.S. TOUR publicizing new poetry books
and the writing arts.
1990's included work international to promote CHINA JOURNALS. TV and radio
throughout U.S. speaking on politics, trade, human rights, the arts and
medicine 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.
WORKSHOPS AND POETRY PERFORMANCES
LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF PERFORMANCES, lectures, guest workshops as poet,
professor, tax expert, comedian with an audience of millions.
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 Massachusetts, 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, C. W. Post campus, Long Island University.
Catskills Mountains Literary Festival, North Sea Poetry Series, 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 Book fairs; 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,
Barnes and Noble 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
2006-cont. Wikipedia
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, COLLECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS, curator, William
Heyen., for University of Rochester Contemporary Authors' Collection. Papers
and bibliography archived at Southampton College, now part of SUNY Stony Brook
Poetry Center collection. Books, extensive periodical publications archived at
Suffolk College, Selden, NY and State University of New York, Brockport, NY.
Foreign Language Studies and highest level of skills reached in course of
study. With one-month review I can resume same or higher level of proficiency.
Language Speak Read
Write Translate
French
2 1
3 2
German
3 2
3 3
Italian
4 3
4 3
Spanish
4 4
5 5
Yiddish
2 4
4 3
Hebrew
4 3
4 5
Macedonian 4
3 4
3
Serbian
4 3
4 3
Mandarin 3
4 2/4*
5
Cantonese 4
4 5
5
Other language studies: Spanish, Greek, Latin.
Skills: 1= excellent; 2= good; 3= fair; 4= with assistance; 5= unable. *Pin
yin, good; few simplified characters; no old style.
