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The President and the Arts

October 27, 2008

Dana Gioia chairman, National Endowment for the Arts [homepage]

Sven Birkert writer

Dana Gioia, Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, argues that the arts should play a more prominent role in presidential policies, as was characteristic of the Kennedy administration. Sven Birkerts, essayist and author of The Gutenberg Elegies, moderates.

Topics: Art & Architecture | Literature & Philosophy | Politics & Public Affairs

Sub-Topics: Authors | Poetry | Profiles

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Daily Horoscope

Author: Dana Gioia

Publisher: Graywolf Press (1986)

Binding: Paperback, 96 pages

Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Author: Meg Schoerke, David Mason, Dana Gioia

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (2003)

Binding: Paperback, 1189 pages

The Art of the Short Story

Author: Dana Gioia, R. S. Gwynn

Publisher: Longman (2005)

Binding: Paperback, 926 pages

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

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

An Introduction to Poetry

Author: Dana Gioia, X. J. Kennedy

Publisher: Longman (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 784 pages

100 Great Poets of the English Language (Penguin Academics Series)

Author: Dana Gioia

Publisher: Longman (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 592 pages

The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

Author: Sven Birkerts

Publisher: Faber & Faber (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 272 pages

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