Dana Gioia is Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. A native Californian, Gioia attended Stanford (B.A. and M.B.A.) and Harvard Universities (M.A. in Comparative Literature).
He has published three full-length collections of poetry including Interrogations at Noon, winner of the 2002 American Book Award. An influential critic as well, his 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, and is credited with helping to revive poetry in American public culture.
His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Washington Post Book World, New York Times Book Review, Slate and The Hudson Review. Gioia has written two opera libretti and is an active translator of poetry from Latin, Italian and German.
He is currently Director of the Harman-Eisner Program in the Arts at the Aspen Institute.
Dana Gioia appears in the following:
How to Save the NEA
Thursday, February 02, 2017
The Greene Space
Molière à la Richard Wilbur
Monday, May 3, 2010
7:00 PM
Poet Richard Wilbur will discuss his passion for translating Molière with Dana Gioia, before a live studio audience and through a live video webcast.
Dana Gioia
Friday, January 16, 2009
Kurt asks Gioia, the departing chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, about his sense of where the arts in America are headed at this moment of flux. Gioia was a Bush appointee, but he's down with a Democrat who reads poetry.
Dana Gioia
Thursday, October 16, 2008
The National Endowment for the Arts ...
Art, Poetry, and Jello Jigglers
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Big Ideas
Thursday, July 03, 2008
Web Extra
Friday, August 04, 2006
Dana Gioia reads his translation of the poem "Las Animas," by Mario Luzi.
Dana Gioia
Friday, August 04, 2006
Dana Gioia is a poet, translator, and former businessman who handles the unenviable task of running the National Endowment for the Arts while convincing Congress to fund it. Gioia urges support of the arts across party lines and recites one of his poems (not at the same ...
Now Playing: Dana Gioia
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Dana Gioia is the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and an accomplished poet and literary critic. But he also has an MBA and used to be a Vice President of Marketing at General Foods. Kurt Andersen asks Gioia about straddling the worlds of poetry and ...
