David Giannini

David Giannini's most recent full-length collections of poetry include Already Long Ago; The Dawn of Nothing Important; In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended; Mahap; The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up; and Faces Somewhere Wild; He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Award. Porous Borders, a book of prose-poems, was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2017.) Numerous chapbooks of his poems and prosepoems have been published by a variety of small presses...See more

David Giannini's most recent full-length collections of poetry include Already Long Ago; The Dawn of Nothing Important; In a Moment We May Be Strangely Blended; Mahap; The Future Only Rattles When You Pick It Up; and Faces Somewhere Wild; He was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and The National Book Award. Porous Borders, a book of prose-poems, was published by Spuyten Duyvil Press in 2017.) Numerous chapbooks of his poems and prosepoems have been published by a variety of small presses through the years, and his poetry has been published in national and international magazines and anthologies. He received Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; an award for prose-poetry from the University of Florida; a Finalist Award from the Naugatuck Review, and a Finalist Award for the James Hearst Poetry Prize of The North American Poetry Review in 2021. He has been a gravedigger; beekeeper; taught at Williams College, The University of Massachusetts, and Berkshire Community College, and he taught preschoolers and high school students, among others. Giannini was the Lead Rehabilitation Counselor for Compass Center, which he co-founded as the first rehabilitation clubhouse for severely and chronically mentally ill adults in the northwest corner of Connecticut. See less