26: Dana Gioia-The Great Poetry Revival

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🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dana Gioia is a poet, a librettist, the Judge Widney Professor at the University of Southern California. As the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana was unanimously confirmed twice by the Senate to lead the NEA from 2003 through 2009. He has been given ten honorary degrees and won numerous awards, including the 2010 Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University. In 2015, Gioia was named the Poet Laureate of California by Gov. Jerry Brown.

This is one of those conversations deserving close attention, even if your only exposure to poetry was in high school with e.e. cummings and Alan Ginsberg. Dana is a master at communicating subtlety and mystery, and bears interesting insights galore.

Catholics and other Christians need to get into the game of creative writing, music, poetry, and other sources of beauty for which this sad world is…starving.

Here is a great intro to his work, 99 Poems: New and Selected

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0:53.4	Yes, indeed, welcome to the Patrick Coffin show.
0:58.7	I am the aforementioned Patrick Coffin. So many exciting things to talk about, things that are near and dear to my heart, things that I've been asked about. Art, poetry, the mystery of words, the mystery of life, the interaction of all three,
1:16.8	the dearth of Catholics in the arts, art and Christian faith, the difference between Christian
1:21.1	art and art by Christians, we're going to plunge deep and wide,
1:25.2	hopefully with our guest who knows an awful lot about all of the above, probably the most qualified
1:30.4	person I can think of to weigh in about art and mystery and high quality communication through poetry.
1:37.0	He's Dana Joya. He's the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
1:40.0	He's a degree holder from Stanford University and Harvard University, and he was named
1:46.6	by Governor Gerald Brown, the Poet Laureate of California Loeb these two years ago.
1:51.1	He's also published five full-length collections of poetry most recently
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