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	washingtonpost.com: Poet Dana Gioia to Be Named NEA Chairman
		Dana Gioia, a prolific poet who left one of the top jobs at General Foods to pursue a literary career, is expected to be named the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, sources close to the selection process said yesterday.
		Gioia, 51, who since the 1980s has championed poetry concerned with everyday life, is the author of "Daily Horoscope," published in 1986; "The Gods of Winter," published in 1991; and last year's "Interrogations at Noon." He has also translated the poetry of Italian Nobel Prize winner Eugenio Montale and "The Madness of Hercules" by Seneca.
		Gioia was born near Los Angeles, the son of a Sicilian American cabdriver and a telephone operator.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A2589-2002Oct22?language=printer (653 words)

	Dana Gioia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gioia is classed as one of the "New Formalists", who write in traditional forms and have declared that this return to rhyme and more fixed metres is the new avant-garde.
		Gioia was President George W. Bush's second choice to lead the NEA, the first, composer Michael P. Hammond, having died only a week after taking office as the NEA's eighth chairman in January 2002.
		Gioia has also written or co-written a number of texts used in college courses, including the anthology (edited with Dan Stone) 100 Great Poets of the English Language (2004).He is also the author of a great many essays and reviews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dana_Gioia (1152 words)

	Dana Gioia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet and, since January 29, 2003, chairman of the (additional info and facts about National Endowment for the Arts) National Endowment for the Arts.
		Gioia is classed as one of the "New Formalists", who write in traditional forms and have declared that this return to (Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)) rhyme and more fixed ((prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse) metres is the new avant-garde.
		Gioia was President (43rd President of the United States; son of George Herbert Walker Bush (born in 1946)) George W. Bush's second choice to lead the NEA, the first, composer Michael P. Hammond, dying only a week after taking office in January 2002.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dana_gioia.htm (994 words)

	Stanford Business Magazine February 2005
		Dana Gioia says he’s a man “who’s good at running things.” In the first half of his adult life, in the late 1970s and 1980s, he parlayed that ability into business success, rising in 1991 to the position of vice president of marketing at General Foods.
		Gioia’s poems are troubled by the sense that words, if unread, are impotent (“among the endless shelves of the unreadable” “Here are the shelves of unread books” “The world does not need words”).
		Gioia says he wasn’t really able to draw on his full talents—those imaginative skills he kept vital at night—until he had risen high enough to have a broader influence at General Foods.
	www.gsb.stanford.edu /news/bmag/sbsm0502/feature_gioia.shtml (2805 words)

	NEA Chairman Dana Gioia's Biography
		Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet.
		Gioia is an active translator of poetry from Latin, Italian, German, and Romanian.
		Renominated by President George W. Bush in November 2006 for a second term and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dana Gioia is the ninth Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.nea.gov /chairman/gioia-bio.html (446 words)

	NEA News Room: Poet Dana Gioia Sworn In As First Mexican-American Chairman of The National Endowment for the Arts
		Gioia was nominated by President Bush and confirmed unanimously on January 29, 2003 by the U.S. Senate.
		Dana Gioia being sworn-in as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales Gonzalez.
		Dana Gioia being sworn in as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts by White House General Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales.
	www.nea.gov /news/news03/GioiaSwornIn.html (460 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Gioia laid much of the blame on the transformation of poets into college writing-program professors, he caught the imagination of middlebrow America, and the letters to The Atlantic Monthly poured in for months.
		Gioia are, in fact, far more populist than the feel-good, anything-is-art positions of recent NEA heads, from the actress Jane Alexander to the folklorist William Ivey.
		Gioia's poetry is filled with an odd but constant regret--not just the unbearably sad "The Gods of Winter" and "Planting a Sequoia" about the death of his son, but all the poems about himself.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la?id=110002512 (793 words)

	[New-Poetry] Dana Gioia to run NEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Gioia's nomination, which must be confirmed by the Senate, is expected to be announced by President Bush in about two weeks, a government official said.
		Gioia argued that a clubby academic subculture that had grown up around poetry was preventing it from being widely available to the mainstream.
		Gioia's 1992 collection of essays, "Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture," which was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Best Books of 1992 and became a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2002-October/009128.html (775 words)

	Commonweal : Dana Gioia Goes To Washington
		Gioia accused American poetry of becoming the property of a small, inbred, self-perpetuating clique of academics: “Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture,” he wrote.
		Gioia has always been upfront about his roots: “I think that being proud of your religion, your culture, and your ethnicity is the beginning of revival for Catholic artistic culture.
		Gioia wants to continue the conversation, but within moments, he is off the phone, headed toward the familiar interior of a Washington taxi.
	www.commonwealmagazine.org /article.php?id_article=807 (2932 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Good news from NEA's Dana Gioia
		For Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the culture wars are a thing of the past.
		Gioia spoke Feb. 9 at Radcliffe's Agassiz Theatre, outlining an exciting set of initiatives, including a plan to bring high-quality Shakespeare productions to communities throughout the nation, a program to recognize and showcase America's living jazz masters, and a series of tours and exhibitions to celebrate America's cultural legacy across all the arts.
		Gioia said that he currently has eight major theatrical companies signed up for the tour and expects to have 28 in the near future.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2004/02.12/27-gioia.html (807 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dana Gioia
		Image File history File links Official portrait of Dana Gioia, from the website of National Endowment for the Arts File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
		Gioia was President George W. Bush's second choice to lead the NEA, the first, composer Michael P. Hammond, having died only a week after taking office in January 2002.
		George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the current President of the United States and former Governor of the State of Texas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dana-Gioia (2261 words)

	Dana Gioia Gets Dream Job
		For 15 years, Dana Gioia was a man whose heart was pulled in two directions.
		So strong is Gioia's love of language that he insists on writing everything that appears over his name, which he admits is both an annoyance to his staff and a breach of protocol in Washington.
		(Gioia turned down the job when it was first offered, happy with his family in northern California and protective of his time as a writer.) In the mean time, he's motivated by the knowledge that his work matters -- that in ways both pragmatic and less so, art matters.
	www.fastcompany.com /articles/2005/11/gioia.html (1121 words)

	Interview with Dana Gioia
		Gioia's crisp analyses of the state of contemporary poetry and his bold prescriptions for change have placed him at the center of a volatile debate on poetry's relevance to contemporary culture.
		GIOIA: When I asked for more "vulgar vitality" in our poetry, I used the word vulgar in its root sense, which means "of the people." The best American poetry of the last few decades has too often been paralyzed by its own sophistication.
		GIOIA: My vision for the future of American poetry is of an art that is rooted in the great literature of the past, but understands that tradition is necessarily a dynamic process--the past enriches the present, but does not restrict it.
	gloria-brame.com /glory/gioia.htm (4327 words)

	Reason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		When I met Gioia in the mid-1990s, he was travelling the country giving poetry readings and lectures in the wake of the sensation caused by his influential book-length essay "Can Poetry Matter".
		Gioia made it his mission to bring like-minded souls together: If there were two people in Loudon County who loved metrical poetry or tonal art music, Gioia wanted to make sure they had each other's phone numbers and would be in touch with each other long after he had flown home.
		The Dana Gioia of the reading series inspired people to put their own time and money into a particular vision of cultural renewal.
	www.reason.com /hod/jh021104.shtml (678 words)

	Theater News - Feature: Creating the Culture - Dana Gioia, poised to be the new chairman of the NEA, discusses his work ...
		Dana Gioia, poised to be the new chairman of the NEA, discusses his work in theater and opera.
		Gioia was especially pleased that when the New York production of that verse play ended in 1995, company members banded together to form Verse Theatre Manhattan.
		Although Gioia was eager to tackle a full-length opera, he said he had one reservation at the outset: "I didn't want to spend five years writing something that would only be performed two or three times," as so often happens with new operas.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/2952 (1684 words)

	Pepperdine University - Pepperdine Hosts Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
		Gioia's critical collection, Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (1992), was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the "Best Books of 1992." This volume also became a finalist for the 1992 National Book Critics Award in Criticism.
		Before deciding to be a writer, Gioia had intended to be a composer.
		Gioia is also the founder and co-director of two major literary conferences.
	www.pepperdine.edu /pr/releases/2007/january/gioia.htm (348 words)

	Dana Gioia Online - Biography
		Gioia (pronounced JOY-A) was born of Italian and Mexican descent in Los Angeles in 1950.
		Gioia's second collection of poems, The Gods of Winter (1991), was published simultaneously in both the U.S. and Great Britain.
		Gioia currently co-edits with X. Kennedy four popular anthologies, including Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, the nation’s best-selling college literature textbook—as well as numerous other literary collections.
	www.danagioia.net /about/index.htm (977 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Dana Gioia
		Dana Gioia was born in Los Angeles in 1950.
		Gioia is the author of Interrogations at Noon (Graywolf, 2001), winner of the American Book Award; The Gods of Winter (1991); and Daily Horoscope (1986).
		Gioia is currently serving as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/423 (359 words)

	Poet Dana Gioia to give Commencement address
		Dana Gioia, renowned poet, literary critic and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be the 2007 Commencement speaker at Stanford University, President John Hennessy announced Tuesday.
		Gioia was born of Italian and Mexican descent in Los Angeles in 1950 and was the first member of his family to attend college, according to the biography on his website.
		"Dana Gioia's life story is one of an unyielding thirst for knowledge and relentless dedication to the art of the written word," Hennessy said.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2007/january31/speakers-013107.html (542 words)

	Response: The Seattle Pacific University Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Nominated by President George W. Bush in 2003, Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) happens to be the first creative artist to serve as the NEA chair.
		Gioia commented in one interview that art can “call people back into the church.” He described the sacraments as “outward signs that symbolize an inward turn of grace.
		Gioia’s training in poetry began in early childhood, instilling in him the conviction that art is for everyone.
	www.spu.edu /depts/uc/response/summer2k4/gioia.html (1143 words)

	The American Enterprise: Dana Gioia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		For NEA chairman Dana Gioia is among the finest living American poets and a major figure in the "New Formalism," a kind of traditionalist rebellion that promotes meter and rhyme against the modern tyranny of formlessness.
		Dana Gioia is the most offbeat agency chairman in the federal government.
		GIOIA: You're quoting from an essay in which I was the first to notice that there had been a long tradition of American businessmen who wrote poetry.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.17885/article_detail.asp (2563 words)

	CMA Conference 2004 Plenary Speaker: Dan Gioia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Dana Gioia began his term as the ninth Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts in February 2003.
		Dana Gioia, 52, is an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator and former business executive.
		Dana Gioia has taught as a visiting writer at Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Lawrence College and Wesleyan University.
	www.chamber-music.org /conference/2004Conf/gioia.asp (476 words)

	Poetry Flash: "Fallen Western Star" #286 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Springing immediately to Dana Gioia's defense was poet, critic and Contributing Editor Jack Foley, whose new collection of reviews and essays (some of them previously published in the Poetry Flash), O Powerful Western Star: Poetry and Art in California (Pantograph) carries Dana Gioia's Introduction.
		I'm sensing that Dana and I have rather different ideas of the function of criticism, with Jack seeming to side with Dana---although, actually, while he's under the impression that he's arguing Dana's point of view, on at least one point I think he's wangling way out on his own.
		Dana does say in his essay that Western writers don't talk to each other, but he's not referring to 'talk' through essays back and forth in 'major literary journals', nor to a kind of indirect discourse in which perceptive critics argue or synthesize widely differing poetics so that poets can understand each others' positions better.
	www.poetryflash.org /archive.286.WesternStar.html (3240 words)

	The Achievement of Dana Gioia — Jack Foley
		Dana Gioia is certainly the only member of the Bush administration consistently to receive good press—even ecstatic press—and that in itself is no mean achievement.
		Gioia's criticism is of considerable cultural importance—and it is beautifully written—but it is in poetry that his deepest achievement lies.
		Dana Gioia's energies extend in an extraordinary number of directions, and his poetry often circles around the notion of rediscovery—even, at times, of resurrection.
	www.alsopreview.com /columns/foley/jfgioia.htm (2149 words)

	Interview with Dana Gioia
		Gioia's crisp analyses of the state of contemporary poetry and his bold prescriptions for change have placed him at the center of a volatile debate on poetry's relevance to contemporary culture.
		GIOIA: "Pseudo-formal" verse is a term that I coined to describe a common type of bad contemporary poem.
		GIOIA: My vision for the future of American poetry is of an art that is rooted in the great literature of the past, but understands that tradition is necessarily a dynamic process--the past enriches the present, but does not restrict it.
	www.gloriabrame.com /glory/gioia.htm (4327 words)

	Dana Gioia - Commencement 2005 - Seton Hall University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator and former business executive.
		Gioia is a long-time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio.
		Gioia has taught as a visiting writer at Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Lawrence College, Colorado College and Wesleyan University.
	academic.shu.edu /commencement/gioia_bio.htm (512 words)

	Dana Gioia Confirmed for Second Term as Chairman of National Endowment for the Arts
		Gioia to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 30, 2006 where it was also approved unanimously.
		A native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent, Gioia received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University.
		Gioia was also a long-time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio.
	www.nea.gov /news/news06/GioiaConfirmed.html (674 words)

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