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.
Re: Whom would you like to interview, and what would you ask?
Gioia leans towards interviewing artists whose minds he finds interesting, but figures he’d get tongue tied.
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The Aspen Ideas Festival
The Aspen Ideas Conference is people from all walks of life.
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Re: What does it mean to be Catholic?
People are still the main inspiration, and we have a responsibility to help others.
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Re: What’s the matter with our education system?
The American educational system is in dire straits, and arts have systematically removed from our schools.
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Re: What is the biggest challenge facing the arts?
There is a non-stop inundation of electronic media, Gioia starts.
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Culture in America
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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Re: How do you reach your audience?
Different works have different impacts, Gioia says.
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Dana Gioia reads Unsaid
“Unsaid” is about leading lives that are invisible to everyone else.
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Challenges for Young Artists
Young artists need to learn from the art that came before them.
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Literature
Literature tries to create a conversation between the present and the past.
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Growing Up in Los Angeles
Hawthorne is a rough, urban neighborhood with Catholic, working-class immigrant families.
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