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Alessio Zanelli [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Cremona - Italy
Italy
IT
Email: 
alex.zan@alice.it
Bio: 

Alessio Zanelli is an Italian poet who writes in English and whose work has appeared in over 200 literary journals from 19 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, Impressions, 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, 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, Voices In Italian Americana, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Worcester Review and World Literature Today, among many others.
His sixth original collection, titled The Invisible, was published in 2024 by Greenwich Exchange (London), whereas a poetry chapbook, titled Amalgam, was published by Cyberwit (India) in 2021.
For more information please visit www.alessiozanelli.it [2].

In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Italian
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.
Born in: 
Cremona
Italy
Raised in: 
Cremona
Italy
Website: 
https://www.alessiozanelli.it [3]
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 Member's 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).
 

What I'm reading now: 
Poesie, lettere e altri scritti by Antonia Pozzi
In Love And Revolution by Anna Akhmatova
Identifies as: 
Italian

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/alessio_zanelli

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/alessio_zanelli [2] http://www.alessiozanelli.it [3] https://www.alessiozanelli.it