Dust
Music by Gabriel Walker
Frank Messina is a poet, actor and visual artist. His work has appeared in the NY Times, Beloit Poetry Journal, and on NPR, PBS and the BBC. In 2013, his 2001 poetry journal was accessioned into the permanent collection of the September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. His Mets baseball-related poetry has been widely published with sport fans referring to Frank as The Mets Poet.
As an actor, Frank has appeared in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, and in many independent films and documentaries. As a painter, his large abstract paintings hang in private and public collections worldwide. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Emily Smith.)