New Italian Poets

Dana Gioia is a poet and critic. He has published five collections of poetry, most recently 99 Poems: New Selected, which won the Poets' Prize. His child collection, Interrogations at Noon, was awarded the American Book Award. Gioia's first critical collection, Can Poetry Matter?, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Gioia show more has served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and California State Poet Laureate. show less