Jersey Shore Publications is pleased to bring you
To The Shore Once More, Volume III, the third and final volume in Frank Finale s bestselling series of coffee table books about the Jersey Shore.
Join once more acclaimed author and poet Frank Finale as he captures Life at the Jersey Shore while exploring universal themes that touch us all.
This oversized volume contains more than 130 resplendent paintings by forty-five contemporary artists and features some of the loveliest landmarks and locations at the Jersey Shore.
The book is divided into four chapters by season and takes place in many of the towns and regions along the coast. Frank and the artists take readers on a journey through the past and present, from Sandy Hook to Long Beach Island, and these graceful personal essays, poems, and paintings will elicit an emotional response and lingering memory.
This companion volume is one of the most enchanting and beautiful books about the Jersey Shore ever published and will make a great gift for special occasions and holidays. It will bring you closer to the places you love at the Shore and is sure to bring many days of reading and viewing pleasure you, your family, and friends will treasure it for years to come.
Frank Finale has more than four hundred poems and essays published in more than one hundred different books, journals, and magazines. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, regional bestsellers
To The Shore Once More, Volumes I and II and three beloved children's books,
A Gull's Story, Parts 1-3. He has also co-edited two acclaimed poetry anthologies:
Under A Gull's Wing and
The Poets of New Jersey.
Frank is a graduate of Ohio State University and received a Master of Arts degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1976. He taught elementary school for thirty-eight years in the Toms River Regional School District in New Jersey. During his time as an educator, he received numerous awards and was named to the State of New Jersey's Governor s Teacher Recognition Program.
Frank was one of the founding editors of the poetry journal Without Halos (1983-1995) and was poetry editor (1996-2012) of the new renaissance, an international, prize winning literary magazine of ideas and opinions, emphasizing literature and the arts.
Frank is a regular essayist for Jersey Shore Magazine and has been widely published in hundreds of magazines and journals including The Baltimore Review; Blue Unicorn; Chelsea; The Christian Science Monitor; The Georgia Review; Journal of New Jersey Poets; LIPS; Long Shot; The Long Story; Middlesex: A Literary Journal; Negative Capability; The New York Quarterly; The Paterson Literary Review; Poet Lore; and Sensations among others. His essay A Walk Along The Beach, appeared on the State of New York's Regents High School Examination in English (August 2010), and several of his poems have been nominated for Pushcart Press prizes.
His poems and essays have been anthologized in numerous books including A Celebration of Cats; A Loving Voice II: A Caregiver s Book of More Read-Aloud Stories For The Elderly; Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (various editions 1985-1997); The Best of Reminisce; Blood To Remember: American Poets On The Holocaust (first edition); Dear Winter; First Light: Poems, Stories And Essays of The Winter Holiday Season; Howl of Sorrow; Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning To Be American; Italian American Writers On New Jersey; Life On The Line: Selections On Words & Healing; Movieworks; Palisades, Parkways & Pinelands; Peace Is Our Profession: Poems And Passages of War Protests; Shore Stories; Teaching Poetry In High School; Tree Magic; and Tree Stories: A Collection of Extraordinary Encounters among others.
Frank Finale regularly gives readings of his work throughout New Jersey. Born in 1942, he currently lives in Bayville at the Jersey Shore.
