David GianniniDavid Giannini's most recently published collections of poetry include MAYHAP (Dos Madres Press, 2019), IN A MOMENT WE MAY BE STRANGELY BLENDED (Dos Madres Press, 2019), Porous Borders (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2019), THE FUTURE ONLY RATTLES WHN YOU PICK IT UP (Dos Madres Press, 2018), FACES SOMEWHERE WILD (Dos Madres Press, 2017), SPAN OF THREAD (Cervena Barva Press, 2015) and AZ Two (Adastra Press), a Featured Book in the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival. His work appears in national and international literary magazines and anthologies, including New Hungers for Old: One-Hundred Years of Italian-American Poetry. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2015. New Feral Press published 15 of his chapbooks between 2011-18 including Traveling Cluster and Inverse Mirror, a collaboration with artist, Judith Koppel. Awards include: Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Awards; The Osa and Lee Mays Award For Poetry; an award for prosepoetry from the University of Florida; and a 2009 Finalist Award from the Naugatuck Review. He has been a gravedigger; beekeeper; taught at Williams College, The University of Massachusetts, and Berkshire Community College, as well as 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. Read More Read Less