Two performances of the World Premiere of Sung with Words, a jazz song cycle by Helen Sung to the poems of Dana Gioia.
Lori Laitman and Dana Gioia on The Three Feathers
Librettist Dana Gioia and composer Lori Laitman interviewed by Susan Dormady Eisenberg.
Dana Gioia selected for Aiken Taylor Award
The Sewanee Review is proud to announce that Dana Gioia is the recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. [Read more…]
A Poet Reflects on Our Times (The Catholic World Report)
A review of Pity the Beautiful by Ann Applegarth:
When Dana Gioia (pronounced JOY-uh) was appointed Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California, the position he now holds, David St. John of USC described his new colleague as “partly an old-fashioned storyteller and partly a metaphysical poet of reflection and devotion.”
In Pity the Beautiful, Gioia’s long-awaited fourth volume of poems, the poet wears both hats with grace. The 32 poems manage to soar toward the tip of heaven while remaining firmly grounded in the daily lives and loves of real and imaginary people who populate his poetic earth.