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Meet the Poet: Dana Gioia
February 10, 2004
Dana Gioia chairman, National Endowment for the Arts [homepage]

Dana Gioia speaks about the relationship between poetry and education.

Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, is an internationally-acclaimed poet. His books include Can Poetry Matter? and the award-winning poetry collection Interrogations at Noon. A teacher of writing at several colleges, Gioia founded "Teaching Poetry," a conference dedicated to improving high school teaching of poetry and the West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative, the nation's largest annual all-poetry writing conference.

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Image of Daily Horoscope
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: Graywolf Press (1986)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Image of Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Author: Meg Schoerke, David Mason, Dana Gioia
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 1189 pages
Image of The Art of the Short Story
Author: Dana Gioia, R. S. Gwynn
Publisher: Longman (2005)
Binding: Paperback, 926 pages
Image of Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry
Author: Meg Schoerke, David Mason, Dana Gioia
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 544 pages
Image of Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing, Compact Edition (5th Edition)
Author: Dana Gioia, X. J. Kennedy
Publisher: Longman (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 1664 pages
Image of An Introduction to Poetry
Author: Dana Gioia, X. J. Kennedy
Publisher: Longman (2006)
Binding: Paperback, 784 pages
Image of 100 Great Poets of the English Language (Penguin Academics Series)
Author: Dana Gioia
Publisher: Longman (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 592 pages

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