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...road from food industry executive to national arts booster is not a path well-traveled. But it is the path of Dana Gioia, a former General Foods vice president, Harvard alum, poet and newly appointed chair of the National Endowment for the Arts...
During his fifteen-year business career, Gioia wrote on his own time. And in 1992, he left the corporate world to write full time. He numbers among his many literary accomplishments three books of poetry—one of them an American Book Award winner—and the book of literary criticism Can Poetry Matter? named for his Atlantic Monthly essay which stimulated much discussion on the role of poetry in the modern world. Gioia also leads several poetry conferences and is a commentator for BBC Radio...
...Gioia describes studying at Harvard as “the most interesting academic experience of my life.” While in the comparative literature department, Gioia studied with Robert Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Bishop...
...They played a decisive role in discovering myself as a poet,” Gioia writes in an e-mail. “They also provided me with models of how a poet might lead a life—both inside and outside the academy...
...William K. Donaldson, patrol supervisor of the Harvard police, said the decision to evacuate was made by UHS Director Dr. David S. Rosenthal '59 and UHS Assistant Director for Human Resources and Operations Gioia M. Morongell...