Bio
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
Dana GioiaThe Flowers of Evil
Charles BaudelaireBest American Poetry 2018
David LehmanBecoming AFI
Jean Picker FirstenbergThe Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley HopkinsHere at Last is Love
Dunstan Thompson