21. Can Poetry Matter? - 91.05 A 1991 essay examining why poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America. http://www3.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/gioia/gioia.htm

As originally published in The Atlantic Monthly May 1991 Can Poetry Matter? Poetry has vanished as a cultural force in America. If poets venture outside their confined world, they can work to make it essential once more by Dana Gioia A MERICAN POETRY now belongs to a subculture. No longer part of the mainstream of artistic and intellectual life, it has become the specialized occupation of a relatively small and isolated group. Little of the frenetic activity it generates ever reaches outside that closed group. As a class poets are not without cultural status. Like priests in a town of agnostics, they still command a certain residual prestige. But as individual artists they are almost invisible. What makes the situation of contemporary poets particularly surprising is that it comes at a moment of unprecedented expansion for the art. There have never before been so many new books of poetry published, so many anthologies or literary magazines. Never has it been so easy to earn a living as a poet. There are now several thousand college-level jobs in teaching creative writing, and many more at the primary and secondary levels. Congress has even instituted the position of poet laureate, as have twenty-five states. One also finds a complex network of public subvention for poets, funded by federal, state, and local agencies, augmented by private support in the form of foundation fellowships, prizes, and subsidized retreats. There has also never before been so much published criticism about contemporary poetry; it fills dozens of literary newsletters and scholarly journals.

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23. Endowment News: Dana Gioia Biography dana gioia. dana gioia, 52, is an internationally acclaimed poet, critic,educator and former business executive. A native Californian http://www.nea.gov/endownews/news02/Gioia-bio.html

NEA Home New on the Site Learn About the NEA Apply for a Grant Manage Your Award NEA Partnerships Publications Endowment News Explore Art Forms Federal Opportunities Search/Site Map Dana Gioia Dana Gioia, 52, is an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, educator and former business executive. A native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent, Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was the first member of his family to attend college. He received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and a M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. For fifteen years he supported his writing by working as an executive for General Foods in New York, eventually becoming Vice President of Marketing. An influential critic, Gioia is best known for his 1991 book Can Poetry Matter? about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. His collection of poems, Interrogations at Noon, one of three full-length books of poetry, won the 2002 American Book Award. His anthology, co-edited with X.J. Kennedy, called Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry and Drama

24. Endowment News: Dana Gioia Confirmed As Chairman Of The National Endowment For T National Endowment for the Arts Website Endowment News dana GioiaConfirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. http://www.nea.gov/endownews/news03/GioiaConfirmed.html

NEA Home New on the Site Learn About the NEA Apply for a Grant Manage Your Award NEA Partnerships Publications Endowment News Explore Art Forms Federal Opportunities Search/Site Map Contact: Victoria Hutter Dana Gioia Confirmed as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts January 30, 2003 Washington, D.C. - Dana Gioia, nominated by President George W. Bush as the ninth Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on January 29, 2003. Upon his confirmation Mr. Gioia said: "I am honored by the Senate's vote of confirmation. Now I am eager to get started. Leading the National Endowment for the Arts is a great privilege and an enormous responsibility. Both the arts and arts education face many challenges at present, and the Endowment has much to do." Mr. Gioia plans to assume office in early February. He is currently in California completing a book of literary essays and an opera libretto. Mr. Gioia succeeds Michael P. Hammond as Chairman. Mr. Hammond assumed office on January 22, 2002 but passed away shortly after on January 29. Eileen B. Mason, who was appointed Senior Deputy Chairman by the Bush Administration, has been leading the agency since that time. Please see Dana Gioia's biography Mr. Gioia will not be available immediately for media interviews.

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29. Poet Dana Gioia Confirmed As Head Of Arts Endowment ( Poet dana gioia Confirmed as Head Of Arts Endowment, gioia, 51, a critic, translatorand awardwinning poet, will take over the arts agency next month. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3998-2003Jan30.html

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31. Resurgence Issue 204 - Dana Gioia: POET OF A COMMON WORLD. Poetry Poetry dana gioia POET OF A COMMON WORLD. These were some of the trenchant claimsmade by the American poet dana gioia in his book Can Poetry Matter? (1992). http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/issues/gioia204.htm

current issue subscribe more from this issue ... home Poetry DANA GIOIA: POET OF A COMMON WORLD Introduced by Peter Abbs Dana Gioia with a Mexican folk statue of Saint Sebastian from Resurgence issue 204 back to top What were the reasons for this narrowing of poetry to a small professional group? According to Dana Gioia, one of the main reasons lay with the artificial support for creative writing within universities. Ironically, this expansion in one confined area depleted its life in the larger community. It led, in the words of Gioia, to the superabundance of poetry within a small class and to a general impoverishment outside it. Without a place in the common culture, people became deprived of the spiritual challenge of poetry as well as the verbal charge of its formulation, while within the literary ghetto poetry was in danger of losing its way in a narcissistic maze of compliance, fashion and careerism. WHAT IS THE ANSWER to the dilemma? According to Gioia, the poet must struggle to re-enter the public realm. This could involve many different moves: from reviving many of the traditional measures of poetry, to connecting with other art forms; from writing poetry which is vulnerable, un-ironic and deeply moving, to redefining the role of poetry in the life of society. All the answers involve a dramatic movement from a professional ghetto out into the common world. We need poetry for its linguistic energy as for its seminal insight. Gioia himself is part of an American movement called Expansive Poetry. The title alone indicates the nature of his life-affirming agenda.

32. Dana Gioia dana gioia has published three books of verse, Daily Horoscope, The Gods ofWinter, and Interrogations at Noon (Graywolf Press, 2001), as well as a http://www.poemtree.com/Gioia.htm

(b. 1950) Poems changed June, 2002. Accomplice Corner Table 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.

33. "Corner Table" By Dana Gioia We understand. This last mute touch that lingers for farewell. dana gioia. © danagioia. Reprinted by permission of the author. Background by Alcina's Alibi. http://www.poemtree.com/poems/CornerTable.htm

back home up next Corner Table You tell me you are going to marry him. You knew almost at once he was the one. Your hands rest on the quilted tablecloth. "Such clever hands," I used to say. I gave them names I never spoke aloud. You tell me how you met and where you'll live. It's easier to watch your lips than listen. Your eyes flash in the candlelight like knives. The waiters drift by with their phantom meals. Tonight the dead are dining with the dead. You twist the wineglass slowly in your hand. And I speak of other things. What matters most Most often can't be said. Better to trust The forms that hold our grief. We understand

34. Dana Gioia - The Academy Of American Poets dana gioia The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selectedpoems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. dana gioia. http://www.poets.org/npm/sponsors/dgioi

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook 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 M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University where he studied with the poets Robert Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Bishop . In 1977 he moved to New York to begin a career in business. For fifteen years Gioia worked as a businessman, eventually becoming a Vice President of General Foods. In 1992 he left business to become a full-time writer. 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). His critical collection, Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (Graywolf, 1992), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award in Criticism. He has also written an opera libretto, Nosferatu, translated Eugenio Montale 's Mottetti

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Notre Dame ~ February 9-15, 2001 Dana Gioia Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Dana Gioia earned a B.A.from Stanford. Before returning to Stanford to earn an M.B.A., he completed an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University where he studied with the poets Robert Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Bishop. In 1977 he moved to New York to begin a fifteen-year business career, eventually becoming Vice President of General Foods. In 1992, he left business to become a full-time writer. His poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Slate and The Hudson Review . He is also long time literary commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio. Content from Sophomore Literary Festival program More Images Notre Dame Home Page page by Julie LaFollette C.K. Williams Diane Thiel W.P. Kinsella

36. Playbill News: Poet-Librettist-Translator Dana Gioia Confirmed As NEA Chairman dana gioia, President George W. Bush's choice for chairman for the National Endowmentfor the Arts, was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on Jan http://www.playbill.com/news/article/77598.html

March 24, 2003 Home Club Offers Benefits Join Club ... Printer-friendly Poet-Librettist-Translator Dana Gioia Confirmed as NEA Chairman By Robert Simonson 30 Jan 2003 Dana Gioia, President George W. Bush's choice for chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts, was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on Jan. 29. Gioia will assume office in early February. He is currently in California completing a book of literary essays and an opera libretto. The poet, critic and teacher Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) replaces the current acting chairman Eileen B. Mason. Senior Deputy Mason took on the duties when NEA Chairman Michael P. Hammond died suddenly in January, a week after being sworn in. Gioia's numerous credits in varying fields of the arts include his 1991 book "Can Poetry Matter?," his recurring commentary on literature and culture for BBC Radio and his classical music critiques for San Francisco magazine. Trained in music, the nominee has seen his work set to music from a full-length theatrical work called Counting the Children to the Alva Henderson-composed opera "Nosferatu" to which he wrote the libretto.

37. Headlines - Dana Gioia, MBA '77 Confirmed To Head NEA: Stanford GSB Questions about news and research gsb_info @gsb.stanford.edu (650) 7233157.dana gioia, MBA '77 Confirmed to Head NEA. Biography of dana gioia. http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/gioia_neachairman.shtml

Questions about news and research: @gsb.stanford.edu Dana Gioia, MBA '77 Confirmed to Head NEA FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victoria Hutter, National Endowment for the Arts, 202-682-5570 January 30, 2003 Gioia "I am honored by the Senate's vote of confirmation," said Gioia, a nationally-acclaimed poet and former business executive who earned his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1977. "Now I am eager to get started. Leading the National Endowment for the Arts is a great privilege and an enormous responsibility. Both the arts and arts education face many challenges at present, and the Endowment has much to do." Gioia plans to assume office in early February. He is currently in California completing a book of literary essays and an opera libretto. He is best known for his 1991 book Can Poetry Matter? about the role of poetry in contemporary culture. His collection of poems, Interrogations at Noon, one of three full-length books of poetry, won the 2002 American Book Award. He is a long time commentator on American culture and literature for BBC Radio and founded "Teaching Poetry," a conference dedicated to improving high school teaching of poetry. He has been the classical music critic for

38. Poetry Magazine, Poet For Peace: Dana Gioia, November 2002 Poetry by dana gioia, INSOMNIA, PLANTING A SEQUOIA , CALIFORNIA HILLSIN AUGUST, ROUGH COUNTRY, UNSAID, LITANY. dana gioia USA. dana http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2002/Nov02/gioia.htm

Dana Gioia USA UNSAID So much of what we live goes on inside– The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches Of unacknowledged love are no less real For having passed unsaid. What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead. ROUGH COUNTRY Give me a landscape made of obstacles, of steep hills and jutting glacial rock, where the low-running streams are quick to flood the grassy fields and bottomlands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . A place no engineers can master–where the roads must twist like tendrils up the mountainside on narrow cliffs where boulders block the way. Where tall black trunks of lightning-scalded pine push through the tangled woods to make a roost for hawks and swarming crows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , And sharp inclines where twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly

39. Dana Gioia: The Role Of The Poet-Critic As Interviewed By Garrick Davis. dana gioia and the Role of the PoetCriticAn Interview. E-mail this site to a friend. Click here http://www.cprw.com/Davis/gioia.htm

As Interviewed By: Garrick Davis D ana G ioia and the R ole of the P oet- C ritic: A n I nterview E-mail this site to a friend Interviewer's Note: Born in Los Angeles in 1950, Dana Gioia attended Stanford University and did graduate work at Harvard where he studied with Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Fitzgerald. He left Harvard to attend Stanford Business School. For fifteen years he worked in New York for General Foods (eventually becoming a Vice President) while writing nights and weekends. In 1992 he became a full-time writer, and in 1996 returned to California. Gioia has published three books of poems, Daily Horoscope The Gods of Winter (1991), and Interrogations at Noon (2001), which won the American Book Award. He is also the author of Can Poetry Matter? (1992). He has edited a dozen anthologies of poetry and fiction. A prolific critic and reviewer, he is also a frequent commentator on American culture for BBC Radio. This interview was conducted in the fall of 2002 before Dana Gioia was nominated to be Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. At Mr. Gioia's request, the Contemporary Poetry Review has delayed publication until his confirmation by the United States Senate. On January 29, 2003, Mr. Gioia was unanimously confirmed to be the new Chairman of the NEA.

40. CPR - Dana Gioia: An Introduction To Can Poetry Matter? By dana gioia. Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition of Can PoetryMatter? For more information concerning dana gioia, please click here.. http://www.cprw.com/Davis/gioia2.htm

By: Dana Gioia I ntroduction to the T enth A nniversary E dition of C an P oetry M atter? E-mail this site to a friend [Editor's Note: The Tenth Anniversary Edition of Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture will be published in August 2002 by Graywolf Press. For more information concerning Dana Gioia, please click here No one expected the huge response that "Can Poetry Matter?" generated, especially not its author. Although no one believes me, I did not set out to create a controversy. I was simply trying to addressas directly and candidly as possiblethe increasing isolation of American poetry in our culture. On occasion I had the sense that I might be expressing an arguable proposition, but ironically those passages have been the ones to escape scrutiny. What stirred debate and even denunciation in some circles were assumptions that seemed to me utterly beyond argumentespecially the notions that poetry had once been popular in the United States, that a larger and more diverse audience might be good for the art, and that contemporary poetry might occupy a meaningful place outside the university. I thought those propositions self-evident. Not everyone agreed. When the original essay appeared in the April 1991 issue of The Atlantic Monthly , the editors warned me to expect angry letters from interested parties. When the hate mail arrived typed on the letterheads of university writing programs, no one was surprised. What astonished the

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