David Axelrod
Adjunct Professor, Book Arts
Contact
- Office
- Schreiber Gym 127
- Phone
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- Fax
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- david.axelrod@mso.umt.edu
- Office Hours
Wednesday 3-6:00 pm and by appointment
- Website
Personal Summary
see my webpage for more:
Education
1984-88: Doctor of Philosophy, English, Ohio University, Athens
1980-82: Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, 老虎机攻略, Missoula
1976-80: Bachelor of Arts, Departmental Honors in English, Ohio State University, Columbus
Courses Taught
Book Arts Practicum
Teaching Experience
Faculty Affiliate, 老虎机攻略, 2023 (pending)
MFA Director/Adjunct Instructor, Eastern Oregon University, 2021-2023
Professor of English, Eastern Oregon University, 2003-2021 (retired)
Visiting Professor, Pädagogiche Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany, summer 2007- 2013
Visiting Professor, Pädagogiche Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany, fall semester 2005-2006
Associate Professor of English, Eastern Oregon University, 1993-2003
Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Oregon State College, 1989-92
Instructor, Eastern Oregon State College, 1988-89
Writing Instructor, Ohio University—Lancaster Campus Incarcerated Student Program, 1985-88
Teaching Assistant, Ohio University, 1984-88
Teaching Assistant, 老虎机攻略, 1981-82
Field of Study
Creative Writing, Modern Literatures, Letterpress
Selected Publications
SELECTED PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS (bibliographry available on request):
老虎机攻略 Place, Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellingham Review, Boulevard, Chronicle of Higher Education, Cimarron Review, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, Kenyon Review, New Letters, Poetry East, River Styx, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, Willow Springs, Quarterly West, etc.
Publications
BOOK PUBLICATIONS:
Skiing with Dostoyevsky: New & Selected Poems, Lynx House, 2024
Years Beyond the River, Terrapin Books, 2021 (poems)
The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, Oregon State University, 2019 (personal essays)
The Open Hand, Lost Horse Press, 2017 (poems)
Sensational Nightingales: The Collected Poems of Walter Pavlich, Lynx House Press, 2017 (editor)
Folly, Lost Horse Press, 2014 (poems)
What Next, Old Knife? Lost Horse Press, 2012 (poems)
Departing by a Broken Gate, WordCraft, 2010 (poems)
The Cartographer's Melancholy, Eastern Washington University Press, 2005 (poems)
The Chronicles of the Withering State, Ice River Press, 2004 (a poem-sequence).
Troubled Intimacies, Oregon State University Press, 2004 (personal essays)
The Kingdom at Hand, Ice River Press, 1993 (a long-poem)
Jerusalem of Grass, Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, 1992 (poems)
Specialized Skills
SAMPLE TEACHING EXPERIENCE (and attendent specialized skills):
Creative Writing: MFA Poetry Workshop; MFA Nonfiction Workshop; Writing the Natural World; Writing-Across-Genres; Writers and Visual Artists in Collaboration; Introduction to Imaginative Writing; Intermediate Poetry Writing; Advanced Poetry Writing; Fundamentals of Screenwriting
Literature: Architectures of the Possible; Queer Ecologies; Next Generation Indigenous Poetry; Writing the Anthropocene; Contemporary American Documentary Film; Poetry of Witness; Contemporary American Poetries; Landscape and Memory in the Literature of the American West; Allegory and Film: The Dekalog; History of the Novel; Poetics of Economy; Literacy & Orality in the Electronic Age; Survey of Modernist Poetry; Contemporary Literature; Image & Text; World Literature Survey; Introduction to Literature; Modern American Writers Survey; Modern British Writers Survey; Major Authors: Whitman; Landscape, Modernity, and the Literary Imagination
Composition: Advanced Composition; Introduction to Expository Prose; Developmental Composition; Freshman Composition; Intermediate Prose Writing
Other: Professional Editing and Publishing; Bookmaking: History and Practice
Professional Experience
Director, Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, EOU (2018-present)
Faculty Director, Ars Poetica Reading Series, Eastern Oregon University (1989-present)
Faculty Advisor, Oregon East, EOU (2018-present)
Co-Director, Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, EOU (2014-2018)
Co-Founder, Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, EOU (2012-2014)
Discipline Representative in English/Writing, EOU (2007-2009)
Chair, College Personnel Committee, EOU (2007-2009)
Discipline Representative in English/Writing, EOU (2000-2004)
General Education Committee, EOU (2002-2003)
Contributing Editor, Lynx House Press (2017-2022)
Editor, Basalt Press (2005-2021)
Editor, basalt: a journal of fine and literary arts (2018-2021)
Faculty Advisory Editor, Oregon East (1988-89, 1994-95, 2007-08, 2018-2019)
Associate Editor, basalt: a journal of fine and literary arts (2005- 2018)
Editor, Calapooya (1998-2004)
Editor, Downstream (1996-1998)
Advisory Editor, Oregon Poetry, Oregon Literature Series (1990-1992)
Assistant Editor, Milton Quarterly (1987-1988)
Contributing Editor, Shitepoke (1984)
International Experience
See above in education
Honors / Awards
2022 Dr. Sherwin W. Howard Poetry Award, for “First Night Out Since You Died,” “Thresholds,” “Homestead, Crooked Canyon,” “A Stop Along the Mullen Road,” and “Sonoma Before the Fire,” Weber: The Contemporary West
2019 Kenneth O. Hanson Poetry Prize, Reed College
2018 EOU Foundation Grant for Basalt Press collaboration with EOU Students to publish Thomas Madden posthumous poetry collection
2015 EOU Sabbatical & Summer Scholarship Award
2014 EOU Foundation Grant for basalt letterpress collaboration with Ian & Jennifer Boyden
2013 Silcox Prize for “On Ebenalp” (Mountain Writers & Cloudbank)
2012 Publisher Fellowship, Literary Arts
2012 EOU Foundation Grants for basalt letterpress collaboration with Susan Murrell and Crystal Williams
2011 EOU Foundation Grants for basalt letterpress collaboration with Susan Murrell and Carl Adamshick
2007-14 EOU Foundation Grants for basalt: a journal of fine & literary arts
2012 Literary 2007 Wildhorse Foundation Grant
2007 Eastern Oregon Arts Foundation Grant
2007 Union Country Cultural Coalition Grant
2006 Oregon Book Award Finalist
2005 EOU Sabbatical & Summer Scholarship Award
2004 Spokane Poetry Prize (EWU Press)
2003 Kay Deeter Award for Poetry (Fine Madness)
2003 Eastern Oregon University Summer Scholarship Award
2002 Eastern Oregon University Faculty Merit Award
2001 Eastern Oregon University Summer Scholarship Award
2000-01 Pacific Northwest USSA Nordic Ski Coach of the Year
2000 Oregon Literary Arts Publisher's Grant
1999 Eastern Oregon University Summer Scholarship Award
1999 Eastern Oregon University Faculty Merit Award
1998 Eastern Oregon University Summer Scholarship Award
1994 Oregon Literary Arts Individual Fellowship
1993 Eastern Oregon State College Research Grant
1992 Carolyn Kizer Poetry Prize (Calapooya)