DR. DAVID B. AXELROD 

SUFFOLK COUNTY POET LAUREATE    

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SATURDAY, MAY 17,  2:OO p.m., The Farmingdale Public Library, 116 Merrits Road (downstairs). 516-249-9090. Poetry reading with Dr. Axelrod and Paula Camacho, hosted by Yolanda Coulaz. Open Reading will follow.

Dr. David B. Axelrod, Suffolk County ’s  Poet Laureate, maintains a website at www.writersunlimited.org/laureate where he offers his services to the public. Dr. Axelrod has been published in hundreds of magazines and anthologies. He is the recipient of three Fulbright Awards including his being the first official Fulbright Poet-in-Residence in the People’s Republic of China . The New York Times described him as “A Treat!” He has shared the stage with such notables as Louis Simpson, Galway Kinnell, X. J. Kennedy, William Stafford, Robert Bly and Allen Ginsberg and performed for the United Nations, the American Library Association and hundreds of venues. He has been translated into fourteen languages. For more information about Dr. Axelrod and his eighteenth and newest book DECIDUOUS POEMS (Ahadada Books, Toronto and Tokyo , 2008) visit his website at http://www.poetrydoctor.org.   

Paula Camacho moderates the Farmingdale Poetry Group. Her poems have won a number of awards and have been published in Writers’ Journal, Lucidity, Farmingdale Observer, Newsday, North Shore Woman’s Newsletter and the following anthologies: Performance Poet’s Association Literary Review, Long Island Quarterly, Long Island Expressions, Dream, For Loving Precious Beast, Long Island Sounds: 2007, Friends of the Hempstead Plains, Songs of Seasoned Women and the Farmingdale Poetry Chapbook.  She has published Hidden Between Branches, and two chapbooks, The Short Lives Of Giants, and November’s Diary.

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Yolanda Coulaz is a poet, photographer, editor and founder of Purple Sage Press. She teaches poetry workshops to middle and high school students throughout Long Island . Coulaz edited and published the anthology For Loving Precious Beast to help benefit Loving Touch Animal Rescue. Her first book of poetry Spirits and Oxygen is currently being used in an advanced course in poetry at SUNY Stony Brook.  Contact her @ (631) 420-0425 or yolandacoulaz@msn.com