Frank Judge
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Frank Judge is an American poet, publisher, translator, and film critic.
His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including New Directions, The Greenfield Review, Bitterroot, Invisible City, and Writer Online. His translations have appeared Poesia verde, Rapporti and Tam-Tam (Italy), and other journals. He also edited an anthology of contemporary Italian poetry published as a special issue of the Vanderbilt Poetry Review, for which he translated poems by Sandro Penna, Vittorio Sereni, Andrea Zanzotto, and many others. He has also translated 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 such publications as Poets Against the War (2003), voicesinwartime.org, Summer Songs (2004), and Knocking on the Silence (2005), an anthology of poetry inspired by the Finger Lakes region of New York State. He work has been published in several broadsides and poem-postcards as well on several "Dial a Poem" services.
His books include Two Voices and Approximations.
He is editor and publisher of Exit Online and the Pinnacle Hill Review and is currently President of Rochester Poets and Director of the Rochester Poetry Workshop. He founded the latter in 2005 from the Rochester area Meetup poetry group after Meetup abruptly announced it would be levying a monthly fee for what had been its flagship free service. Since 2004, he has been the Rochester area organizer for Poets Against the War & Occupation, and, in March 2006 served as a coordinator for the first Western New York World Poetry Day Festival. Judge is a cousin of Italian-born film and television actor and Academy member Cesare Danova, and Italian artist Sergio Deitinger, who paints under the name DeiTinger.
