Dana Gioia on reading
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).
