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hrk299: "Where will it end? This grim cycle of workshops
churning out poems for little magazines?"
--Dana Gioia, 1983
Cornishnye: “The Unkillable Poor”: Dana Gioia and Alexander Voloshin at the Crossroads
DappledThings1: Friday Links with Tamara Nicholl-Smith, Trinity Forum & Makoto Fujimura and Dana Gioia, Terence Sweeney, Ben Myers reviews J.C. Scharl, Jessica Hooton Wilson in Church Life Journal
ArtsJournalNews: Scott Timberg And What Happened To Culture:
gallaghers: So right. but last week I stepped on a sea urchin (without the apology due it). then on the surfboard moping down at my black whiskered toes, a green sea turtle swam by a foot beneath me, like waikiki’s hotelscape had never happened. [Dana Gioia’s Travel]
gyoung9751: Thought for the Day by poet Dana Gioia - Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper
nova_monzon: Words
by Dana Gioia
The world does not need words. It articulates itself
in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path
are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted.
The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.
The kiss is still fully itself…
VoegelinEric: Dana Gioia reads from his poetry on Monday, March 27, 4:30 pm, at the Sternberg Salon in the French House, LSU
PoetryLA: “My sense is almost no one knows his work anymore. He really is a poet’s poet.” —Dana Gioia on L.A. poet Henri Coulette (1927-1988)
poetryindavis: California poet laureate emeritus Dana Gioia at 7 PM on Thursday, March 16th, 2023, at the John Natsoulas Gallery
andyojones: Introducing Dana Gioia, former Chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, New Formalist, extraordinary conversationalist, is one of my favorite things to do.
Do you plan to join us Thursday night at 7 at the Natsoulas Gallery in Davis?
NewYorkSun: Dana Gioia’s loosely metered lines seem to float on the air like jazz riffs, as the living speaker mixes with dead friends, aware all the while that soon enough, death will have closed out everyone’s tab.
ThomasSQC: 'Poetry is a profession that bears well into the seventh decade of life and beyond . . .'
Dana Gioia: running the long race
graydonhjones: “Adult life begins in a child’s imagination, and we’ve relinquished that imagination to the marketplace.” - Dana Gioia
That’ll preach!
firstthingsmag: Dana Gioia‘s new book of poetry contains a ballad retelling of his vaquero great-grandfather‘s life. Listen to him recite it in Mark’s latest!
worldlittoday: “The first and last poems serve as brackets for everything in between, like two hands holding the entirety of lived life and so preserving it.” Fred Dings reviews Dana Gioia’s latest collection, including 3 “beautiful psalms for Los Angeles.”
Ricochet: First Things: Dana Gioia: A Poet of All Trades
mark_bauerlein: For 30 minutes of the most compelling spoken poetry, listen to Dana Gioia on today's podcast:
d_catholic: First Things
firstthingsmag: Dana Gioia reads us poetry from his new collection, “Meet Me at the Lighthouse.” Check out Mark Bauerlein’s latest:
ArchCordileone: He is "the future of Catholic letters in America" according to Dana Gioia and our poet-in-residence at the
allenmendenhall: Dana Gioia: A Poet of All Trades | Mark Bauerlein | First Things
andyojones: I am so excited that my friend Dana Gioia will be coming to read in the Poetry Night reading series in Davis on March 16th at 7PM. His latest poetry book, Meet Me at the Lighthouse, has just been published by Graywolf Press. Details about this event at
andrewfrisardi: I'll second this recommendation. I especially enjoyed an autobiographical essay in it, and one on Dana Gioia. Really good book.
biancavivion: Dana Gioia’s poem “The Letter“ (1986) has been heavy on my mind all week
CommonSenseScty: Join us for an evening of poetry with the award-winning poet Mr. Dana Gioia on this Thursday at The Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria, VA.
CommonSenseScty: Join us for an evening of poetry with the award-winning poet Mr. Dana Gioia on this Thursday at The Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria, VA.
sherlyholmes: Poem of the day:
"Los Angeles After the Rain” by Dana Gioia.
nova_monzon: Unsaid
So much of what we live goes on inside—
The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches
Of unacknowledged love are no less real
For having passed unsaid. What we conceal
Is always more than what we dare confide.
Think of the letters that we write our dead.
-Dana Gioia…
markgjudge: Meet Me at the Lighthouse - poem by Dana Gioia
Classical_EDU: Missed Dana Gioia's Wednesday evening plenary, "Poetry as Human Energy"? View the recording here:
BethanyR__: "Dana Gioia has a gift for expanding the personal into the universal." — Glynn Young
Poets and Poems: Dana Gioia and "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"
WisebloodBooks: The happy few who live in peace
Realize it may not last.
The slightest change of fortune may
Annihilate the gentle past.
-Dana Gioia's translation of Hercules Furens (The Madness of Hercules), available for Pre-order in paperback and hardcover HERE:
bjomanson: AmLit from MonBks (2 of 3): *Jack Foley's Unmanageable Masterpiece: A California Literary Time Line, 1940-2005* by Dana Gioia & Peter Whitfield.
247Catholic: Dana Gioia’s Memento Mori
McBuddah: Dana Gioia on Why Ray Bradbury is So Essential
JennaLynn88: "She cannot see the winds that break
The night reflected on the lake
But knows they motion for her sake.
These are the choices they have brought her:
The night reflected on the lake,
The fire of stars changed into water."
--Dana Gioia, The Country Wife
skydog811: Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop - Econlib
CamenaUK: What is Poetic Voice? - (Dana Gioia)
RubenQuesada: Thanks to Allison Adair for bringing us together on Monday, 2/20 at 7 PM ET. Dana's anthology on poetics influenced my passion for poetry.
Poets in Conversation: Dana Gioia & Ruben Quesada
cworldreport: Meet Me At The Lighthouse begins and ends in the underworld, giving Gioia’s latest poems an arresting perspective from which he can essay subjects of profound import, including faith, time, youth, age, love, loss, life, and death, writes Edward Short.
DanaGioiaPoet: I am giving a poetry reading tonight at the historic Arion Press at 6:30pm in San Francisco. I'll be reading from my new book "Meet Me at the Lighthouse".
cjscalia: "What is the immediate effect of a great poem? What experience does it create for its readers as they first encounter it?" My reflections on Dana Gioia's new collection.
mattpboyle: “Let the young vaunt their ecstasy. We keep our tribe of two in sovereign secrecy.”
Dana Gioia
Beautiful.
CommonSenseScty: Each reserved ticket comes with a copy of Meet Me At The Lighthouse which will be made available at the event. The reading will be followed by hospitality and a book signing by the poet.
shayhow: 4 of 5 stars to Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia
CommonSenseScty: Join us for an evening of poetry with the award-winning poet Mr. Dana Gioia on March 2, at The Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria, VA.
Gioia’s sixth collection of poetry, Meet Me At The Lighthouse, will be published February 7, 2023 by Graywolf Press.
HenryEOliver: My review of 'Meet me at the Lighthouse' by Dana Gioia
trevorw1953: Meet me at the Lighthouse
Dana Gioia, Richard Hugo, and the poetry of place
sgnayak: The Jerry Pinto episode and how he identified himself as a poet first reminded me of Dana Gioia, an American poet, who spoke and read once at Kansas State U. in the early 90s during my grad school days. Gioia, now in his 70s, grew up in a working-class family, (1/6)
sgnayak: The Gioia family did produce a musician - Dana's younger brother Ted followed him to Stanford and is a noted jazz critic, musician, and music historian. (5/6)
kbemplaylist: 4:13am: Helen Sung - The Stars on Second Avenue (feat. Dana Gioia) feat. Dana Gioia
ahmednaguib: Marked as to-read: Meet Me at the Lighthouse by Dana Gioia
DappledThings1: Friday LinksCheck out our Friday Links with Seth Wieck on Dana Gioia’s new collection of poetry; Ted Gioia on The State of the Culture (2023); Anthony Esolen on Marty; and Sally Read on God and the Poet
shayhow: Meet Me at the Lighthouse: Poems by Dana Gioia
maryraphaela: We all owe Dana Gioia a debt of gratitude...
cjscalia: From Dana Gioia’s new collection.
fcb4: The Underworld by Dana Gioia Facilis descensus Averno. (Descending into Hell is easy.) —Virgil I. The Trip It isn’t difficult to visit Hell, As long as you can follow the instructions. Get on the Underground, the Western Line. Go to the final...
FrontPorchRepub: Seth Wieck considers the brightness of Dana Gioia's latest collection of poems, Meet Me at the Lighthouse: "Gioia does not linger on the threshold of death; he wants to be our guide through the Inferno and beyond."
nrcraftt: "Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world." -Dana Gioia
brothersjudd: “At the Crossroads,” a Poem by Dana Gioia
edwereddie: “At the Crossroads,” a Poem by Dana Gioia
skydog811: “At the Crossroads,” a Poem by Dana Gioia
johnnyburtka: I think giving students an opportunity to spend a weekend with Dana Gioia, Duncan Stroik, and Jane Scharl—all makers of beautiful things—is a pretty good place to start.
mark_bauerlein: Dana Gioia: “30 years ago the complaint that we live in a broken culture was dismissed as just a conservative grumble. Nobody denies it any more.”
aarikdanielsen: a benediction on the death of a young god,
brave and beautiful, rotting on a tree. ..."
— Dana Gioia
aarikdanielsen: "O Lord of indirection and ellipses,
ignore our prayers. Deliver us from distraction.
Slow our heartbeat to a cricket's call."
— Dana Gioia, from "Prophecy"
langtrygirl: Dana Gioia | The End of a Season |
bj_omanson: Intro(7): As demonstrated in the analysis of Dana Gioia, Wyeth's innovative use of the sonnet form employs many Modernist techniques, and raises the possibility of Pound's influence on Wyeth's poetic practice.
Spotlesmind101: [Dana Gioia - "Why Beauty Matters" (Talk on art, beauty, and spirituality)] has been published on SpotlessMind - -
missconstrude: New Year's
by Dana Gioia
Let other mornings honor the miraculous.
Eternity has festivals enough.
This is the feast of our mortality,
The most mundane and human holiday....
tedgioia: My brother is throwing a party—and there's a jazz angle to it.
ThePublicSquare: In a period when cultural success stories seem rare, Poetry Out Loud "demonstrates that a hugely popular program can be launched and sustained nationally—even on a relatively small budget." Poet and author Dana Gioia explains:
DanaGioiaPoet: I am giving a poetry reading in SAN FRANCISCO at Arion Press on Thursday, Feb 16. I believe seating is limited. You can reserve a spot here.
AaronDCobb: Majority (by Dana Gioia)
Now you’d be three,
I said to myself,
seeing a child born
the same summer as you. 1/5
lclinton_tx: "Let other mornings honor the miraculous.
Eternity has festivals enough.
This is the feast of our mortality,
The most mundane and human holiday."
"New Year's" by Dana Gioia
KirkLawrence: More info on Dana Gioia:
bjomanson: BEFORE THE CLANGOR OF THE GUN. The only book-length study of American WWI poet John Allan Wyeth. (See the U of SC Press edition of Wyeth's "This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-odd Sonnets." with introduction by Dana Gioia & annotations by BJ Omanson).
brothersjudd: Counter-point:
Marriage of Many Years (Dana Gioia)
"We keep our tribe of two in sovereign secrecy."
gwbled: 4 of 5 stars to The Gods of Winter by Dana Gioia
DappledThings1: DECEMBER 24: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DANA GIOIA
allfamous_org: Happy birthday Poet Dana Gioia! Hope your birthday is just like you…totally freaking awesome.
JMWSPT: This is pretty cool. Old births, new births, the rebirth of Catholic letters, and the birth of the Lord altogether.
KLNenstiel: December 24th, 1950, is the birthday of American poet and critic Dana Gioia, who once wrote: "There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions."
DeborahJShore: I listened to a conversation w Dana Gioia recently. I keep chewing how, at the heavily catholic USC, only one student in a poetry class of hundreds knew the story of the prodigal son. That popular parable seems like such a low bar that I wonder how this should inform writing.
andrewfrisardi: "Let's create the culture we want to live in," is how Dana Gioia concludes this friendly and interesting talk, well worth your time.
nickripatrazone: I love the turn in this poem by Dana Gioia.
"melancholy Christmas poems" is one of my favorite subgenres
DanRattelle: Dana Gioia has observed that, despite expectations to the contrary, Catholic art is often bawdy. Meanwhile Charles Peguy demonstrates the mystical elements of Republicanism. Understudied in this vein is Shane McGowan's contribution to to Catholic letters. In this essay I will...
college_kumaran: Memory insists on pining
For places it never went,
As if life would be happier
Just by being different
– Dana Gioia
nrcrafttweets_: "Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world." - Dana Gioia
skydog811: Sacred and Profane Love - Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
MosconiRafael: Dana Gioia - "Why Beauty Matters" (Talk on art, beauty, and spirituality)
jennfrey: New episode with the incredible Dana Gioia is here!
We talk about Baudelaire, whether and how evil might be beautiful, and the legacy of the poète maudite
poemakontsa: Another one of the poems Eugenio Montale addresses his muse and love, Dante scholar Irma Brandeis.
(Tr. Dana Gioia)
I had almost lost
hope of ever seeing you again;
And I asked myself if this thing
cutting me off
from every trace of you
this screen..
was the approach of death
TheHudsonReview: Read "Monster" by Dana Gioia (
William_Blake: Dana Gioia, erstwhile poet laureate of California, read my article on the death of SF. I told him I was writing a book & he wrote this letter challenging me:
“Write a real book — something worth rereading. What would Orwell or Gibbon make of Silicon Valley?”
Book out tomorrow!
edsmither: Christianity and Poetry by Dana Gioia | Articles | First Things
sherlyholmes: I was trying to remember who was California poet laureate after the great Dana Gioia finished his tenure in 2018 but kept drawing a blank... Turned to Google and seems like maybe no one?
gbaileymershon: You are a language I have learned by heart.
— Dana Gioia, “Marriage of Many Years”
Makes me sigh every time.
WisebloodBooks: With great gratitude we announce the publication of 100 Visions of War, poems composed by Julien Vocance (1878-1954) and translated into English for the first time by distinguished poet Alfred Nicol, w/an expansive Preface by Dana Gioia! Read more HERE:
