David Giannini

Poet

Becket, MA
Massachusetts US

Author's Bio

David Giannini’s most recent published collections of poetry include AZ TWO (Adastra Press,) a “Featured Book” in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival; OTHERS’ LINES (one in Peter Ganick’s small chapbook project;) and HOW ELSE? (Longhouse Publishers.) His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies. He has been a gravedigger; beekeeper; and taught at Williams College, The University of Massachusetts, and Berkshire Community College, among others. His Installation, The International House Dust Collection, was exhibited most recently at the Yager Museum in Oneonta, New York in 2005. He lives in Becket, Massachusetts. He has been a committee and board member of The Becket Arts Center where a dramatic reading of his extended narrative prosepoem, RIM , was produced in 2005. He has published more than 30 collections with small presses, including, most recently, six chapbooks with Feral Press/Prehensile Pencil. SPAN OF THREAD, his book of selected prosepoems will be published in 2013 via Cervena Barva Press. Poets and Writers does not allow all presses to be included in credits, therefore many are missing.

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
New Hungers for Old: One Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry (Star Cloud Press, 2012)
Books:
IN A MOMENT WE MAY BE STRANGELY BLENDED (Dos Madres Press, 2019)
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THE FUTURE ONLY RATTLES WHEN YOU PICK IT UP (Dos Madres Press, 2018)
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FACES SOMEWHERE WILD (Dos Madres Press, 2017)
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Span of Thread (Cervena Barva Press, 2015)
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RIM/WAVE (Quale Press, 2012)
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AZ II (Adastra Press, 2009)
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OTHERS' LINES (small chapbook project, 2009)
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RIM (Indian Mountain Press, 1998)
Chapbooks:
DARKENING LAMP OF TREES (Feral Press, 2016)
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The Furure Only Rattles When You Pick It Up (Feral Press, 2016)
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Porous Borders (Selection) (Feral Press, 2015)
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Raven Pillow & Time (Feral Press, 2014)
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Felt In a Heartbeat (Feral Press, 2013)
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Antonio & Clara (Feral Press, 2012)
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Inverse Mirror (Feral Press, 2012)
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When We Savor Was Is Simply There (Feral Press, 2012)
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Not Every Sky (Feral Press, 2011)
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Within Forever (Feral Press, 2011)
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You Can See (Feral Press, 2011)
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HOW ELSE? (Origin-Longhouse, 2009)
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SIDE-WAYS (Quale Press, 2002)
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ANTONIO & CLARA (Adastra Press, 1992)
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STEM (White Pine Press, 1982)
Prizes won: 

Awards include: Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; and an award for prosepoetry from the University of Florida. He won a Finalist Award from The Naugatuck Review in 2010.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Manhattan
Raised in: 
NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: May 24, 2019