Author: Frank J. Cebulski
Alternate names: F. J. Cebulski, Francis Joseph Cebulski, Jr.
Bio: Frank Cebulski—Brief Biography
Frank Cebulski is a San Francisco Bay Area poet and arts writer, where he has lived since 1964. He has published five books of poetry: Corm (Oyez: Berkeley, 1974), Mediterranean Sonnets (North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, 1988), Concrete Visual Shaped (Light • Gravity Press: Berkeley, 2006), Only Emotion Endures (AuthorHouse: Bloomington, Indiana, 2009), and, most recently, The Fifth World (AuthorHouse: Bloomington, 2010). He is founder and owner of Light • Gravity Press, where he published various broadsides of his concrete, visual and shaped poems, and also a privately printed collection for friends of the poet. He has translated poems from French and Latin, including an important book of poems by the well-known French poet and photographer, Denis Roche, Éros énergumène (Eros Raving), Editions du Seuil. He studied physics and English at the University of Colorado, and British and American literature at the universities of Cincinnati, California at Berkeley, and Kings College, London. He was Bancroft Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and Fulbright Lecturer to France at the University of Metz. He was Contributing Editor to Artweek for thirty years and has written art criticism for Art in America and Sculpture. He is currently an arts and entertainment writer for Examiner.com. He was the first Director of Technical and Professional Writing at San Francisco State University. He lives in Albany, California. To learn more about him and his poetry, visit his website at www.cebulski.net.