The Poets of New Jersey
~ From Colonial to Contemporary ~

Edited by Emanuel di Pasquale, Frank Finale, and Sander Zulauf

The Editors

"The Poets of New Jersey" editors Sander Zulauf, Frank Finale, and Emanuel di Pasquale
on the beach at Long Branch, Sunday, October 9, 2005.

Emanuel di Pasquale has lived in New Jersey since 1968 and teaches at Middlesex County College. His books of poems include Genesis (BOA Editions Limited, 1989) and The Silver Lake Love Poems (Bordighera, 2000). He was awarded The Bordighera Poetry Prize in 1998, The Academy of American Poets' Raiziss/de Palchi Fellowship in 2000, and the Chelsea Award for Poetry in 2002. He is currently the poetry editor of the literary journal Chelsea and lives in Long Branch, along the ocean, with his younger daughter, Elisabeth Raffaela.

Frank Finale is one of the founding editors of Without Halos (1983–1995). He is currently the Poetry Editor of the new renaissance and co-edited the anthology Under a Gull's Wing (Down the Shore Publishing, 1996). He is the author of To The Shore Once More, Volumes I & II and A Gull's Story, a children's book (Jersey Shore Publications, 1999–2003). He taught for thirty-eight years in the Toms River Regional Schools in New Jersey and was chosen for the 2002 Governor's Teacher Recognition Program. He currently lives in Bayville with his wife, Barbara.

Sander Zulauf, a native New Jerseyan, edits the Journal of New Jersey Poets and teaches poetry and writing in the English and Philosophy Department at County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey. In 1971, with Irwin Weiser, he originated the Index of American Periodical Verse, an annual poetry reference book, and edited the first ten volumes. In 1999 he was named first Poet Laureate of the Episcopal Church's Newark Diocese. His two books of poetry are Succasunna New Jersey and Living Waters. He lives in Andover with his wife, photographer Madeline Zulauf.