Frank Judge

Frank Judge (July 17, 1946 – February 19, 2021)[1] was an American poet, publisher, translator, journalist, film critic, teacher, and arts administrator.

In his introduction to the anthology, Italian poet Pietro Cimatti notes that it "presents itself as honestly as its poems – tastefully and unpretentiously; including some notable poets, many who have been writing for years, and some relatively new ones – an open-ended package, a heterogeneous product of language by skilled craftsmen"[5] Of Judge's work as a poet and translator, scholar and translator Glauco Cambon[6] observed that "he moves at ease between English and Italian literature, between writing his own poetry and translating poems from other languages.".

[7] The volume contained his translations of poems by Sandro Penna, Danilo Dolci, Nelo Risi, Vittorio Sereni, Andrea Zanzotto, Pietro Cimatti, and others.

A number of his poems have been published as broadsides, mounted art, poem-postcards and calling cards, as well on several Dial-a-Poem services.

From 2011 to 2018 he taught creative writing at OASIS,[12] the group of educational centers founded in 1983 and supported for many years by The May Company, which became part of Macy's.

From 2006 to 2010, Judge served as coordinator for the Western New York annual World Poetry Day Festival held at St. John Fisher College.

[14] In December 2008, he started the monthly series, Rochester Poets @ Lovin' Cup, a cafe which opened in the summer of 2008 at Park Point near RIT in Henrietta, NY.

The series was discontinued in 2009 when time constraints, audience mix, lack of publicity and promotion, and changing focus by the venue made an ongoing literary event unfeasible.