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'''David B. Axelrod''' (born July 29, 1943) is a [[Daytona Beach, Florida]]-based [[poet]] and author. Axelrod won several awards and honors, including the Florida Book Award gold medal.<ref name="FHC2015p24">''FHC Forum'' Summer 2015, [http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/e504bfaf#/e504bfaf/27 p. 24]</ref><ref name="FDS2015">Florida Department of State, 2015</ref> He was appointed [[Volusia County]] Poet Laureate for the period 2015–2019.<ref name="PEN">PEN America</ref>

==Early life and education==
Axelrod was born in [[Beverly, Massachusetts]], where he lived until his college years. He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] from the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] in 1965, a [[Master of Arts]] degree from the [[Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars]] in 1966, an M.F.A. from the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]] in 1967, and his Ph. D. in not-for-profit program design and administration<ref>http://www.creativehappiness.org/faq/</ref> from the Union Graduate School [[Union Institute]] in 1977.

==Awards and honors==
In honor of his book ANOTHER WAY''Another Way: Poems Derived from the [[Tao Te Ching]]'', Axelrod was made a representative of the Wu Dang Temple’s American branch, DaoUSA.<!-- Not Wudang Temple, which is Tibetan Buddhist, right? --> From April 2007 through May 2009, he was selected to serve as [[Suffolk County, New York]]'s [[Poet Laureate]].

In the summer of 2009, he received the Hopkins' Society Award for his work with young authors from the [[Gerard Manley Hopkins Society]] at [[Newbridge College]].

He has received three [[Fulbright Award]]s and he is the first Fulbright Award recipient to win back-to-back awards in two separate areas—, serving first as Poet-in-Residence in Yugoslavia in 1989, and then Professor of American Literature at the [[University of Skopia inje]], (North) Macedonia from, in 1989-–1990. He also served as America's representative at the [[Struga Poetry Evenings]] where he was awarded their 1989 poetry prize. He received a third Fulbright Award, as the first official Poet-in-Residence appointed in the People’s Republic of China in 1993.

Axelrod was appointed Volusia County Poet Laureate for the period 2015–2019.<ref name="PEN" />

In 2015 Axelrod won, together with co-authors Lenny Schneir and Carol Thomas, the 2014 [[Florida Book Award]] gold medal in the General Nonfiction category, for ''Merlin Stone Remembered''.<ref name="FHC2015p24" /><ref name="FDS2015" />

==Bibliography==
* 2014{{Snd}} ''Merlin Stone Remembered'', Llewellyn Worldwide: Woodbury, MN.
* 2014{{Snd}} ''Rusting: Ways to Keep Living'', Taylor and Seale: Daytona Beach Shores, FL.
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