Alessio Zanelli

Poet

Cremona - Italy
Italy
IT

Author's Bio

Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who writes in English and whose work has appeared in about 250 literary journals from 21 countries including, in the USA: Adelaide, Artemis, Atlanta Review, California Quarterly, The Caribbean Writer, Chiron Review, The Clarion Review, The Comstock Review, Concho River Review, Dappled Things, Eclectica, Ellipsis (FL), English Journal, Front Range Review, Gradiva, Hamilton Stone Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, The Heartland Review, The Henniker Review, Ibbetson Street Press, Impressions, In Parentheses, Ink Of Genesis (formerly Torrid Literature Journal), Italian Americana, Italian Poetry Review, Kelp Journal, Last Leaves, Leading Edge Magazine, Lit Magazine, The Lyric, Main Street Rag, Maryland Literary Review, Neologism Poetry Journal, The New York Quarterly, Nine Mile, North Dakota Quarterly, Nova (formerly Sanskrit), The Opiate, Ovunque Siamo, Pacific Review, The Penwood Review, Philosophy and Literature, Poetica Magazine, Potomac Review, San Pedro River Review, Santa Clara Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Slant, St. Austin Review, Statement, Thimble Literary Magazine, Tipton Poetry Journal, Tule Review, Voices In Italian Americana, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Wayne Literary Review, The Worcester Review, World Literature Today, and Xavier Review, among many others. Furthermore, two physics-related poems of his are forthcoming (in a few years...) in Scientific American.
His seventh original collection, titled All There Is To Know, should be published in early 2027 by Greenwich Exchange (London), whereas his only poetry chapbook, titled Amalgam, was published by Cyberwit (India) in 2021.
For more information please visit www.alessiozanelli.it.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
The Invisible (Greenwich Exchange, 2024)
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The Secret Of Archery (Greenwich Exchange, 2019)
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Over Misty Plains (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2012)
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Straight Astray (Troubadour, 2005)
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Small Press Verse & Poeticonjectures (Xlibris, 2003)
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Loose Sheets (Minerva Press, 2000)
Chapbook:
Amalgam (Cyberwit.net, 2021)
Prizes won: 

His poem Dreamskimmer was highly commended by former UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy at the 2007 Poetry On The Lake Competition & Festival, Orta, Italy.

His third collection Straight Astray (Troubador, UK, 2005) received an honorable mention at the 2008 London Book Festival.

His poem At A Loss was a winner of the Spring 2010 Members' Poems Competition of the Poetry Society (UK), judged by Penelope Shuttle. 

His flash fiction piece The Rag was nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2022 Anthology by Nunum (Canada) and his poem Transition Hendecapoem for the Pushcart Prize 2024 Anthology by Poetica Magazine (USA).

His poem Presence was a winner of the Winter 2025 Members' Poems Competition of the Poetry Society (UK), judged by Fred D'Aguiar.
 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Simon Armitage, Wystan H. Auden, William Blake, Billy Collins, Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy, Nikki Giovanni, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Edgar Allan Poe, Antonia Pozzi, Tracy K. Smith, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Derek Walcott, William Carlos Williams.
What I'm reading now: 
Felicity by Mary Oliver, After You Were, I Am by Camille Ralphs, The Glass Constellation by Arthur Sze

More Information

Identifies as: 
Italian
Fluent in: 
English, Italian
Born in: 
Cremona
Italy
Raised in: 
Cremona
Italy
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Last update: Sep 12, 2026