Major Accomplishments

Taught elementary school (grades 4 & 6) 38 years in the Toms River Regional Schools.
Voted "Teacher of the Year" 2002-2003 by his colleagues.
Nominated for an "Excellence in Education Award" in 2002.
Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teacher: The Best Teachers In America Selected By the Best Students (5th Edition, 1998), and (8th Edition, 2004).
Did district-wide workshops for teachers on "The Effective Use of Poetry in the Classroom."
Presenter at numerous young authors' conferences at various schools.
Received (1999) an award from the Toms River Regional Schools Board Of Education and high praise for his book To The Shore Once More. The book just went into its 4th printing.
Helped found the literary magazine Without Halos in 1983 and served as its editor-in-chief from 1985 through 1995.
Since 1996, he served as poetry editor of the new renaissance, an award-winning international magazine emphasizing literature and the arts.
Listed in the Marquis Who's Who in America (60th Diamond Edition, 2006) Marquis Who's Who in the World (23th edition),Marquis Who's Who in the East (26th edition), Who's Who in U.S. Writers, Editors and Poets (2002 Edition), Marquis Who's Who in American Education (2004- 2005), International Who's Who in Poetry, (2005) (Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, London and New York) and International Authors and Writers Who's Who-Seventeenth Edition (Cambridge, England), among others.
Listed on www.NJpoets.com

In 2005 he co-edited The Poets of New Jersey (from Colonial to Contemporary) (Jersey Shore Publications) with Emanuel di Pasquale and Sander Zuloaf. This book celebrates the extraordinary poets who have lived and worked in New Jersey from Colonial times to the present.
For Frank's fourth book in 2003, he teamed up with the illustrator Margie Moore to create the first ABC book of the Jersey Shore, A Gull's Story (Jersey Shore Publications). The book not only teaches the ABCs, but also about the shore and life.
In 2001, Frank published To The Shore Once More, Volume II (Jersey Shore Publications) which also became a regional best seller.
In 1999, he published his book of essays, poems, and works by local artists; To The Shore Once More (Jersey Shore Publications) became a regional best seller over 16,000 copies.
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 of the Jersey Shore.