Meet the Poet: Dana Gioia
1,434 views · Published 15 April 2014 · 1:18:47 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
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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