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Description: Correspondence, press coverage, a scrapbook, and other documentation related to Gioia's tenure as California Poet Laureate; and materials related to his 2007 Stanford University commencement address, including drafts, responses, and reprints.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 2007-2018
Call number: mssGioia
Creator: Gioia, Dana(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Dana and Mary Gioia, December 2019, February 2020.
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Materials related to Dana Gioia's work as a poet, essayist, and editor as well as his roles as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and Poet Laureate of California. The Writings series is divided into Poetry, Other Writings, and Publications, and includes drafts, galleys, published versions, and reprints of Gioia's poems, essays, and other writings, as well as notes, correspondence, reviews, and other related documents. The Professional series includes materials related to Gioia's work with the NEA, including documentation of his NEA nomination and confirmation; his congressional testimony; reports; publicity; and working documents and correspondence related to NEA programs such as The Big Read, Poetry Out Loud, NEA Jazz Masters, and others. There is also correspondence, press coverage, a scrapbook, and other documentation of Gioia's tenure as California Poet Laureate; and materials related to his 2007 Stanford University commencement address, including drafts of the speech, responses, and reprints. The Correspondence series is comprised primarily of Gioia's letter and email correspondence with other poets, publishers, and scholars, and also includes some biographical and other material related to each correspondent. The Broadsides and posters series includes poetry broadsides authored by Dana Gioia and others, and a few posters related to Gioia's poetry.

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The Gods of Winter (1991): Guide to the other Gallery

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Planting a Sequoia and Other Poems. Athens: Society de Kata, 2019

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The Catholic Writer Today and Other Essays. Belmont: Wiseblood Books, 2019

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Weldon Kees: The Ceremony & Other Stories. Edited and introduced. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984

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Manuscripts

Materials related to Dana Gioia's work with the National Endowment for the Arts, including documentation of his NEA nomination and confirmation; his congressional testimony; reports; publicity; and working documents and correspondence related to NEA programs he worked with. Also includes documentation of Gioia's tenure as California Poet Laureate, and materials related to his 2007 Stanford University commencement address.

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