Dana Gioia
Poet; Former Chmn, National Endowment of the Arts
Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. A native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent, Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.
Gioia has published three full-length collections of poetry, as well as eight chapbooks. His poetry collection, Interrogations at Noon, won the 2002 American Book Award. An influential critic as well, Gioia's 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture.
Gioia leans towards interviewing artists whose minds he finds interesting, but figures he’d get tongue tied.
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The Aspen Ideas Conference is people from all walks of life.
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To live truthfully to your own principles.
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People are still the main inspiration, and we have a responsibility to help others.
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The American educational system is in dire straits, and arts have systematically removed from our schools.
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There is a non-stop inundation of electronic media, Gioia starts.
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Gioia hopes to bring the best art to the most people through her position as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Different works have different impacts, Gioia says.
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“Unsaid” is about leading lives that are invisible to everyone else.
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Young artists need to learn from the art that came before them.
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Literature tries to create a conversation between the present and the past.
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Hawthorne is a rough, urban neighborhood with Catholic, working-class immigrant families.
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