Current Work Appears In:

James Dickey Review, Vol: 33 (2017):  "Bullet in the Brain" "Death's Tailor"
The Briar Cliff Review, Vol: 29 (2017):  "If There is Such a Thing as Mercy"
Orchard Street Press, Ltd.:  "Edison's Last Breath"

Forthcoming:

Lake Effect:  "Rainbow Valley," "Resurrection," "The Execution of Mata Hard"
I-70 Review:  "Radiolucence," "Reliquaries," "The Leper Tree," "The Recording Angel," "Waiting for Houdini's Ghost"

Forthcoming (book):

Orison Books: Obscura 

News:

July, 2018:
  • ​Frank's manuscript, Obscura, was accepted for publication at Orison Books
  • "Radiolucence," "Reliquaries," "The Leper Tree," "The Recording Angel," and "Waiting for Houdini's Ghost" accepted for publication in I-70 Review
May, 2018:
  • Frank's manuscript, Obscura, was named a finalist for this year's Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition
  • Frank's poem, "Edison's Last Breath," was named a finalist in this year's Orchard Street Press, Ltd. Poetry Competition. The poem will be published this summer.
February, 2018:
  • "Rainbow Valley;" "Resurrection;" "The Execution of Mata Hari," accepted for publication in Lake Effect
October, 2017:
  • "Laika" accepted for publication in Gettysburg Review​
September, 2017:
  • Frank's third manuscript, Swallow, was named a semi-finalist in this year's Word Works Open Reading period
August, 2017:
  • ​"Elegies in Spring" and "Plunder" accepted for publication in Chariton Review
June, 2017:
  • ​"Bullet in the Brain" and "Death's Tailor" accepted for publication in James Dickey Review
May, 2017:
  • ​"Litany of 'The Most Beautiful Suicide'" was named a finalist in the 2017 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition.  The judge was poet, Cecilia Woloch
  • ​​"Something About Her Mouth That Makes Us Want To..." was selected for Special Merit in the 2017 Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition
April, 2017:
  • "Candlemas, 1933" selected for inclusion in special tenth edition of Chagrin River Review​
February, 2017:
  • Frank's third manuscript, Swallow, was named a semi-finalist in this year's Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Competition
December, 2016:
  • "Luna Moth" accepted for publication in Catamaran Literary Reader
  • "Skeleton Lake," selected as winner of the 2016 Crab Orchard Review Special Issue Feature Award
  • "If There is Such a Thing as Mercy," accepted for publication by Briar Cliff Review
  • "Reliquaries" and "If There is Such a Thing as Mercy" named Finalists in the 2017 Briar Cliff Review Annual Writing Contest​
October, 2016:
  • "To the Corpse of Alexander the Great" and "A Kind of Benediction" published in Gettysburg Review
  • "Maria Callas' Tapeworm" featured on North American Review (online)
September, 2016:
  • "Armageddon," selected for Special Merit by Marge Piercy in The Comstock Review's 2016 Muriel Craft Bailey Contest
  • Frank's third manuscript, Swallow, was named a semi-finalist in this year's Word Works Washington Prize Competition
April, 2016:
  • Granted an Individual Excellence Award for 2016 by the Ohio Arts Council.
  • Frank's third manuscript, Swallow, was named as a finalist in this year's Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition
January, 2016:
  • ​​"Each Things That Has Been Taken," featured as Monthly Verse at Fjords Review​
October, 2015:
  • Frank's third manuscript, Swallow, was named as a semi-finalist in this year's Press 53 Award for Poetry​
September, 2015
  • Frank's third manuscript, Swallow, was given an Honorable Mention in this year's May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize Competition. The judge, and sole reader, was poet Mekeel McBride