Frank Finale
| Frank Finale has more than three
hundred fifty poems and essays published in more than one
hundred different books, journals, and magazines. His critically acclaimed books about the Jersey Shore and New Jersey include “To The Shore Once More” (1999) and “To The Shore Once More, Volume II” (2001), as well as his children's books, "A Gull's Story" (2002) and "A Gull's Story, Part 2" (2006), both illustrated by Margie Moore. He also co-edited "The Poets of New Jersey" (2005) with Emanuel DiPasquale and Sander Zulauf. Mr. Finale taught elementary school for thirty-eight years at East Dover Elementary School in the Toms River Regional School District in New Jersey. He has done numerous Young Authors' Conferences for many different schools in New Jersey and was twice named in Who's Who Among America's Teachers: The Best Teachers In America Selected By the Best Students (5th Edition, 1998 and 8th Edition, 2004). He was also voted Teacher of the Year 2002-2003 by his colleagues at East Dover and named to the state of New Jersey's 2002 Governor's Teacher Recognition Program. He is currently the poetry editor for the new renaissance, an international magazine of ideas and opinions, emphasizing literature and the arts. In 1996, he co-edited, with Rich Youmans, Under A Gull's Wing (Down The Shore Publishing), the critically acclaimed anthology of poems and photographs about the Jersey Shore. In 1983, he helped found the literary magazine, Without Halos as well as its publishing organization, The Ocean County Poets Collective. He served as editor-in-chief from 1985 through 1995. In April 1999, he was a presenter and reader in the prestigious Eighteenth Annual Writers' Conference held at The College Of New Jersey. Over the years, his poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas Quarterly, New York Quarterly, Chelsea, Negative Capability, Press Quarterly, Poetry NOW, Poet Lore, Pig Iron, Blue Unicorn, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum, The Paterson Literary Review, Visions International, LIPS, Journal Of New Jersey Poets, Coast Magazine, New Jersey Outdoors, California Quarterly, Baltimore Review, and the new renaissance among others. In the 1990s, his work has been anthologized in Movieworks (Little Theatre Press, 1990); Blood To Remember: American Poets On The Holocaust (Texas Tech University Press, 1991); Life On The Line: Selections On Words & Healing (Negative Capability Press, 1992); A Loving Voice II: A Caregiver's Book Of More Read-Aloud Stories For The Elderly (The Charles Press, 1994); Under A Gull's Wing (Down The Shore Publishing, 1996); First Light: Poems, Stories and Essays Of The Winter Holiday Season (Calypso Press, 1998); Anthology Of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry, 1985, 1986-1988, and 1997 Editions (Alan Pater, Editor); Shore Stories (Down The Shore Publishing, 1998); Sunlight On The Moon (Carpenter Gothic Publishers, 1999); Identity Lessons, Contemporary Writing About Learning To Be American (Penguin Books, 1999); Teaching Poetry In High School (National Council Of Teachers Of English, 1999); Tree Stories: A Collection of Extraordinary Encounters (SunShine Press Publications, 2002); Italian American Writers On New Jersey (Rutgers University Press, 2003); and Tree Magic (SunShine Press Publications, 2005). Mr.
Finale is listed in, among others: He received a Master Of Arts Degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1976. Mr. Finale regularly gives readings throughout the Jersey Shore and New Jersey. Born in 1942, Mr. Finale is a Pisces who has lived by the sea most of his life and currently resides with his wife, Barbara, two cats, and almost too many books in Bayville, New Jersey.
Barbara and Frank Finale, Bradley Beach, Easter 1966. |
