Dana Gioia

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News & Interviews

Recent News

Studying with Miss Bishop Review: Learning His Lines: Review by James Campbell in The Wall Street Journal. (December 31, 2020)


Dana Gioia’s Selected Poems Appear in Spanish: La oscuridad intacta, a selection of Dana Gioia’s poems translated by the Costa Rican poet Gustavo Solorzano-Alfarohas, has been published in Spanish by Pre-Textos (Madrid, Buenos Aires, Valencia). The book surveys Gioia’s poetic career and includes two critical essays about his work. Copies can be ordered from the publisher or on Amazon. 

Dana Gioia “On Being Translated into Spanish“ This essay first appeared in Rosebud with Gustavo Solórzano-Alfaro’s translation of Dana Gioia’s poem “Insomnia”


The Huntington Acquires the Papers of Dana Gioia, Former California Poet Laureate and Chair of the National Endowment of the Arts


Composer John Theodore created this film and music based on Dana Gioia’s poem “Prayer”

Selected Interviews

On Serving as California Poet Laureate. Published in Catamaran (Summer, 2017). Interview with Maggie Paul.

Paradigms Lost. Interview with Gloria Brame.

On Writing Nosferatu and the Role of Poet as Librettist. Interview with Lequita Vance-Watkins.

World Literature Today. Interview with Michelle Johnson.

Tethered by Letters.

Entrevista a Dana Gioia. Interview in Elipsis: poesía y literatura desde el sur.


On the Importance of Reading and Literacy