Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012), which was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His prose poem “Alliterative Autobiography,” drawing upon his childhood, recasts stuttering in a positive light through its numerous repetitions. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Yale Review, FIELD, and elsewhere.
In residence, he worked on poems about stuttering and speech disfluency.
