1. Dana Gioia - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American poet and critic who retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Gioia

Dana Gioia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24 ) is an American poet and critic who retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full time. Since January 29 , he has been chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts , the United States government's arts agency, and has worked to revitalize an organization that had become gun-shy after the bitter controversies that surrounded it in the late and early . Gioia has sought to encourage what he calls the only uniquely American form of art, jazz , as well as promoting William Shakespeare and trying to increase the number of Americans reading literature. Before taking the NEA post, Gioia was a resident of Santa Rosa, California , and before that, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Contents Early years Writing full time NEA chairman Books ... edit Early years Michael Dana Gioia—he does not use his first name and pronounces his surname "JOY-uh" — was born in Hawthorne, California (although Who's Who says Los Angeles citations needed , the son of Michael and Dorothy (Ortiz) Gioia. He grew up in Hawthorne, "speaking Italian in a Mexican neighborhood," he said. His father was the son of immigrants from

2. Dana Gioia Dana Gioia was born in Los Angeles in 1950. He received a B.A. from Stanford University. Before returning to Stanford to earn an M.B.A., he completed an http://www.poets.org/dgioi/

3. Dana Gioia Dana Gioia has published three books of verse, Daily Horoscope, The Gods of Winter, and Interrogations at Noon (Graywolf Press, 2001), http://www.poemtree.com/Gioia.htm

(b. 1950) Poems changed June, 2002. California Hills in August Guide to the Other Gallery Insomnia The Sunday News ... Unsaid Dana Gioia has published three books of verse, Daily Horoscope The Gods of Winter , and Interrogations at Noon Graywolf Press as well as a controversial and compelling book of essays, Can Poetry Matter? He has also published an opera libretto, Nosferatu.

4. Dana Gioia Dana Gioia was appointed Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by President Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in January 2003. http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco/members/48832.htm

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N O S F E R A T U recorded by the Rimrock Opera Company Libretto by Dana Gioia Barrier of a Common Language An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry In this latest offering in the Poets on Poetry series, acclaimed poet, critic, and Dana Gioia collects essays on British poets and poetry spanning the past two decades. More info... Recent Essays "Literary L.A., with No Apology" Adapted from remarks given during the Los Angeles Times Books Prizes ceremony. "Ogden Nash" Foreword from Ogden Nash : The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse by Douglas M. Parker "Lonely Impulse of Delight" One reader's childhood "A Californian in Vienna" Following a girl to Vienna and falling in love with the city "Title Tells All"

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Your Browser does not support iframes. Please upgrade your browser to a compliant version. Dana Gioia 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 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 is also a prolific literary anthologist. His anthology, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama , co-edited with X.J. Kennedy, is the best-selling college literary textbook in America. His many other anthologies include Twentieth-Century American Poetry, 100 Great Poets of the English Language , and The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction Dana Gioia was also a long-time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio. His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines including

8. Who Is Dana Gioia? / He's A Poet, A Businessman, A Northern Californian And Pres Who Is dana gioia? He s a poet, a businessman, a Northern Californian and President Bush s choice to head the National Endowment for the Arts. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/02/16/CM8

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11. An Introduction To Poetry; Author: Kennedy, X. J.; Joint Author: Gioia, Dana; Pa Author Kennedy, X. J.; Joint Author gioia, dana Edition 10; Paperback Published May 2002 Pearson Professional Education ISBN 032108764X http://www.netstoreusa.com/pxbooks/032/032108764X.shtml

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12. Gioia To Graduates: 'Trade Easy Pleasures For More Complex And Challenging Ones' Following is the prepared text of the speech delivered by dana gioia at Commencement on dana gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/june20/gradtrans-062007.html

Skip to content Home News By Topic Business and Law ... How to subscribe Search Stanford Report, June 17, 2007 Gioia to graduates: 'Trade easy pleasures for more complex and challenging ones' Following is the prepared text of the speech delivered by Dana Gioia at Commencement on June 17, 2007 L.A. Cicero Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, delivered the Commencement address June 17. Good morning. Thank you, President Hennessy. It is a great honor to be asked to give the Commencement address at my alma mater. Although I have two degrees from Stanford, I still feel a bit like an interloper on this exquisitely beautiful campus. A person never really escapes his or her childhood. Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown Today is Father's Day, so I hope you will indulge me for beginning on a personal note. I am the first person in my family ever to attend college, and I owe my education to my father, who sacrificed nearly everything to give his four children the best education possible. My dad had a fairly hard life. He never spoke English until he went to school. He barely survived a plane crash in World War II. He worked hard, but never had much success, except with his family. There is an experiment I'd love to conduct. I'd like to survey a cross-section of Americans and ask them how many active NBA players, Major League Baseball players, and

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20. Photographs From The American Poetry Review Records, 1971-1998 Ms Subject gioia, dana. Date n.d.. Photographer GreenfieldSanders, Timothy. Collection location Volume 152, Item 591 http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/photos/apr/591.html

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