Word: gioia
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...poetry is dead, who killed it? In the 19th century it was a vital part of Western culture. Writers like Byron and Tennyson were practically rock stars. "Every newspaper in the U.S. printed poems," says Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. "At the end of Longfellow's life, his birthday was like a national holiday...
...When Gioia finished school and began a business career in New York, he was faced with finding time to write outside of his eleven-hour work...
...Gioia also credits his business experience with fortifying his conviction that poetry should not be solely the province of academics and intellectuals...
...addition to rebuilding the NEA as a premier public institution through which he can “provide leadership in building a national consensus to support arts and arts education,” Gioia says he hopes to establish what he calls “democratic access” to art as a worthy goal compatible with that of artistic excellence...
...Gioia writes, poetry “must be created for ordinary people, even if they don’t yet care about...