Dana Gioia

Official site for poet and critic Dana Gioia

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Music & Film

Dana Gioia O.K. You Mugs
O.K. You Mugs, Writers on Movie Actors, with essay by Dana Gioia
  • Drama at the Opera House

  • Glass Appeal

  • Handel’s Many Messiahs

  • Moulin Rogue (on Baz Luhrman)

  • Warner Brothers’ Fat Men

Selected Essays

  • W. H. Auden
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Anthony Burgess
  • Charles Causley
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Peter Davison
  • Tom Disch
    • Remembering Tom Disch
  • T.S. Eliot
  • William Everson
  • William Everson
  • James Fenton
  • Jack Foley
  • Robert Frost
    • On Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
    • Robert Frost and the Modern Narrative
  • Gabriel García Márquez
  • Thom Gunn
  • R. S. Gwynn
  • John Haines
  • Donald Hall
  • H. L. Hix
  • Barbara Howes
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • John Keats
  • Weldon Kees
    • Weldon Kees: Naked Kees
    • Weldon Kees: On “Aspects of Robinson”
    • On John T. Irwin’s The Poetry of Weldon Kees
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Ted Kooser
  • Philip Larkin
  • Philip Levine
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Robert McDowell
  • Samuel Menashe
  • Frederick Morgan
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Kay Ryan
  • William Jay Smith
  • Felix Stefanile
  • Radcliffe Squires
  • James Tate
  • Dunstan Thompson
  • Richard Wilbur
  • John Allan Wyeth