Frank Judge
Frank Judge (July 17, 1946 – February 19, 2021)
Career
Judge declined an offer to teach at
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.
As a journalist, Judge was an editor and writer on arts, entertainment, consumer affairs and consumer electronics. He has written on film for over for 40 years, starting during his stay in Rome where he wrote film reviews for the Rome Daily American, the daily English language newspaper for expatriates and tourists. After his return to Rochester, he became Entertainment Editor for the Rochester-based Valley Magazine, which covered the entire Genesee Valley Region. He also wrote reviews and entertainment-related articles for the Rochester Times-Union and the Wolfe newspaper chain, then became Managing Editor of the arts newspaper, Rochester Routes.
He has interviewed a host of authors, actors, directors and other celebrities. In 1983, on the recommendation of a local radio station manager, he became the film reviewer for community station WGMC-FM in Rochester.
Judge's poetry has been anthologized in such publications as Italian Poetry Today,
His books include Two Voices and Approximations. Mounted and framed copies of his poems have been included in exhibitions in the Rochester area at such venues as the Center at High Falls Gallery, the Rochester Contemporary Art Center, the Fourwalls Gallery, the Books, Etc. Gallery (Macedon, NY), the Williams Art Gallery of the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, and the Link Gallery in Rochester's City Hall.
He was editor and publisher of Exit Online and the Pinnacle Hill Review. Since 2003, he was the President of
Since 2003, Judge has been the host of the monthly Rochester Poets reading series, which was initially held at Rochester's Writers & Books literary center but, in 2005, moved to
From 2004 to 2011, he was the Rochester area organizer for Poets Against the War & Occupation; from March 2007 to September 2009, he hosted a monthly reading series at Rochester's anti-war Peace Storefront, a program of the Peace Action & Education task force of Metro Justice of Rochester.[13] The Storefront closed at the end of September 2009 due to lack of funding, and, when no new location materialized, the series was suspended. He was a member of PA&E and was involved in its PeaceWorks Rochester project.
From 2006 to 2010, Judge served as coordinator for the Western New York annual World Poetry Day Festival held at St. John Fisher College. In 2011, he became the Rochester area coordinator for 100 Thousand Poets for Change, an annual event held in late September founded by poet Michael Rothenberg.[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.
From August 2007 to August 2009, Judge hosted the bi-weekly
Notable relatives
Judge is a cousin of Italian-born film and television actor and
References
- ^ "Frank J. Judge". Democrat And Chronicle. Archived from the original on September 2, 2023.
- ^ "Frank Judge". Directory of Writers. Poets & Writers. 28 May 1981. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
- ^ "Poets Walk". Rochester Poets Walk. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ^ "Vanderbilt Poetry Review". Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ^ "Intro". Vanderbilt Poetry Review: 5. 1974.
- ^ "Glauco Cambon, Professor, 67". The New York Times. 8 April 1988.
- ^ "September, 1973 letter from Cimatti to Judge". Letter to Frank Judge.
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(help) - ^ "Liberty's Vigil, The Occupy Anthology". FootHills Publishing. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ "Sexuality Poems". Retrieved February 10, 2017.
- ^ "Gesture and Coast to Coast". Retrieved July 30, 2018.
- ^ "Oasis".
- ^ "Peace Action & Education". Metro Justice. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. Retrieved September 10, 2009.
- ^ "St. John Fisher College 100 Thousand Poets for Change Kickoff-Rochester, New York". 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Retrieved September 4, 2012.
- ^ "June 2011 search of ancestry.com".
- ^ "Sergio Deitinger". Retrieved December 22, 2018.