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Dana Gioia
Michael Dana Gioia (born December 24, 1950) is an American poet and writer. Gioia also served as the Chairman of the federal arts agency the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). He was born in Hawthorne, California to Italian and Mexican parents, attended Stanford and Harvard Universities, and spent the first fifteen years of his career writing at night while working for General Foods Corporation. After his 1991 essay "Can Poetry Matter?" in the ''The Atlantic'' generated international attention, Gioia quit business to pursue writing full-time. Gioia has published four books of poetry and three volumes of literary criticism as well as opera libretti, song cycles, translations, and over two dozen literary anthologies.
In August 2011, Gioia became Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California where he now teaches.〔()〕 He currently divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California.
==Early years==
Michael Dana Gioia—his surname is pronounced "JOY-uh"—was born in Hawthorne, California, the son of Michael Gioia and Dorothy Ortez. His younger brother is jazz historian Ted Gioia.〔(Stanford.edu )〕 Gioia grew up in Hawthorne, "speaking Italian in a Mexican neighborhood", he said. He attended Catholic schools for twelve years including Junipero Serra High School in Gardena, California.
Gioia was the first person in his family to go to college and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1973, a Master's degree from Harvard University in 1975, and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School in 1977. From 1971–73, he was editor of ''Sequoia Magazine'' and then its poetry editor from 1975–77.
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