Zócalo Public SquareDana Gioia on reading – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Dana Gioia on reading https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2008/12/09/dana-gioia-on-reading/on-this-day/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2008/12/09/dana-gioia-on-reading/on-this-day/#respond Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:52:56 +0000 Zocimporter https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/?p=1014 Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced recently that he would leave his post to return to poetry, and the Aspen Institute. During his six-year tenure, Gioia built support and funding for the NEA, as he discussed during his February visit to Zócalo. We just posted a brief clip from his visit, during which he discusses why reading matters (the subject of one oft-commented upon NEA study): His full talk is available here, and worth watching (or listening).

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]]> Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced recently that he would leave his post to return to poetry, and the Aspen Institute. During his six-year tenure, Gioia built support and funding for the NEA, as he discussed during his February visit to Zócalo. We just posted a brief clip from his visit, during which he discusses why reading matters (the subject of one oft-commented upon NEA study):

His full talk is available here, and worth watching (or listening).

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