Dana Gioia

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Born in Los Angeles of Italian and Mexican descent, Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet and writer. The first person in his family to attend college, he received degrees from Stanford and Harvard. Former California Poet Laureate and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, his most recent collection is Meet Me at the Lighthouse (Graywolf, 2023).

Literary Los Angeles

July 2023
Dana Gioia, Ming Di
Perpetually Demolished, Perpetually Renewed by Dana Gioia Los Angeles is an impossible city to describe, even for natives. Make any assertion about the place, and the opposite will of…
Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2023. 72 pages. DANA GIOIA’S newest book, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, includes several poems that are among the best he has written, especially th…
Studying with Miss Bishop: Memoirs from a Young Writer’s Life by Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia
Philadelphia. Paul Dry Books. 2021. 184 pages. AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, this book of memoirs recounts the author’s interactions with Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Fitzgerald, and John Cheeve…
The Catholic Writer Today by Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia
Belmont, North Carolina. Wiseblood Books. 2019. 213 pages. Dana Gioia is unique in contemporary poetry, as his poetry and critical commentary confirm. Rather than rise through the ranks of “academic b…
"Words"

September 2011
Dana Gioia
A poem by Dana Gioia / Spanish translation by José Emilio Pacheco The world does not need words. It articulates itselfin sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the pathare no less real for lying…