Frank Judge

Frank Judge is an American poet, publisher, translator, film critic, and teacher.

His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including "New Directions, The Greenfield Review", "HazMat Review", "Bitterroot", "Invisible City", and "Writer Online". His translations have appeared "Poesia verde", "Rapporti" and "Tam-Tam" (Italy), and other journals.

A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy, he spent a year in Rome, compiling material for an anthology of contemporary Italian poetry which he edited and published as a special issue of the "Vanderbilt Poetry Review". The volume contained his translations of poems by Sandro Penna, Danilo Dolci, Nelo Risi, Vittorio Sereni, Andrea Zanzotto, Pietro Cimatti, and others. He has also translated the work of Afrikaans poet Breyten Breytenbach, as well as his own poetry and the work of other American poets such as John Berryman, William Heyen and Lyn Lifshin into Italian.

He has been anthologized in such publications as [http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org "Poets Against the War"] (2003), [http://voicesinwartime.org voicesinwartime.org] , "Summer Songs" (2004), "Knocking on the Silence" (2005), an anthology of poetry inspired by the Finger Lakes region of New York State, and "Uncensored Songs" (2007), a collection of poems honoring poet Sam Abrams. His work has been published as several broadsides and poem-postcards as well on several "Dial a Poem" services.

His books include "Two Voices" and "Approximations". His poetry broadsides have been included in exhibitions in the Rochester area at such venues as The Center at High Falls Gallery and The Rochester Contemporary Gallery.

He is editor and publisher of [http://exit-online.freehostia.com "Exit Online"] and the "Pinnacle Hill Review" and is currently President of Rochester Poets and Director of the Rochester Poetry Workshop, which he formed in 2005 from the Rochester area Meetup poetry group when Meetup announced it would start levying a monthly fee for its flagship free service.

Since 2004, he has been the Rochester area organizer for [http://poetsagainstwar.freehostia.com Poets Against the War & Occupation] ; and, since March, 2007, he has hosted a monthly reading series at Rochester's anti-war [http://www.metrojustice.org/pae_storefront.htm Peace Storefront] , a program of the [http://www.metrojustice.org/pae.htm Peace Action & Education] task force of [http://www.metrojustice.org Metro Justice of Rochester] . Since March, 2006, he has served as coordinator for the Western New York [http://worldpoetryday.freehostia.com World Poetry Day] Festival; since August, 2007, he has co-hosted the bi-weekly Free Speech Zone reading series at Rochester's [http://houseofhamez.com Mez Cafe] .

Degrees of Separation Info: Judge is a cousin of -born film and television and Academy member Cesare Danova, and Italian artist [http://digilander.libero.it/sergiodeitinger/galleria.htm Sergio Deitinger] , who paints under the name DeiTinger. He is also related to Alberto Moravia through the wife of his mother's cousin.