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Dana Gioia

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Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He received a B.A. and a M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He won the 2018 Poets' Prize for his collection 99 Poems: New and Selected. Gioia currently serves as the Poet Laureate of California, teaches at the University of Southern California, and has written five volumes of poetry, as well as the influential essay collection Can Poetry Matter?

 

Dana Gioia Books

Meet Me at the Lighthouse book cover

Meet Me at the Lighthouse

Dana Gioia
The Flowers of Evil book cover

The Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire
Best American Poetry 2018 book cover

Best American Poetry 2018

David Lehman
Becoming AFI book cover

Becoming AFI

Jean Picker Firstenberg
The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins book cover

The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins
99 Poems book cover

99 Poems

Dana Gioia
Here at Last is Love book cover

Here at Last is Love

Dunstan Thompson
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