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). His writing has appeared in the New England Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He is a person who stutters.
Poetry
Spring 2025
Stutterfied
The Kenyon Review · “Stutterfied” by Adam Giannelli beneath mistakeI say word gust say tongue rufflebeneath suffering fromI say ordering an omelet & taking attendance withbeneath plagued byI say just […]
Nov/Dec 2019
How to Hear a Stutter
Read a micro-conversation with the author here. Do not say spit it out. I’m not chewing. I’m humming. Do not interrupt. Bask in palpitation. Do not look away. The eyes […]
Poetry
Nov/Dec 2019
Stutterfied
beneath disfluency I say mosaic beneath disorder I say texture say my own species of sigh beneath distortion I say a gratuitous greenery beneath impediment I say a ghostly percussion […]
Poetry
Winter 2013
Fern and Shadow
This severed earth, a veined vapor. Its name is prunes easily in water. Its name: fern and shadow. An understudy, porous. On the subway, I hear the others lap against […]
Poetry
Winter 2013
Garland
The glass on the bureau can anything be seen on the bottom? Is it filled with water or milk or nothing? The dog who lost his hair has he grown […]
Poetry
Winter 2013
The Opposite of Sugar
the opposite of sugar isn't salt a pinch of salt and the green mango the opposite of the hand isn't the foot a hand to cover the groin the opposite […]
Mar/Apr 2017
Porcupine
Into pelt and sheen, rattans bond, tight- slatted. At rest, sheaved from the front, it is wickerwork, canebrake, quiver of arrows, but when provoked it erupts as bayonets, asterisk, threshing floor,
Adam Giannelli
Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press, 2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, the translator of a selection of prose poems by Marosa di […]