Dana Gioia

Quick Facts

Full Name	Dana Gioia
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Dec 24, 1950(1950-12-24)
Age	74
Birthplace	Hawthorne
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Dana Gioia Biography

Dana Gioia is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on December 24, 1950 in Hawthorne, California, United States. American poet writer, author, as well as National Endowment for the Arts Chairman (2003-2009). His poetry collection of acclaim includes The Gods of Winter and Interrogations at Noon. The collection that he wrote won an award in 2002. American Book Award.

He was presented with his Presidential Citizens Medal in 2008 by the then- President of America, He was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2008 by then-American President George W. Bush..

Gioia was the first person in his family to go to college and earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 1973, a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1975, and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford Business School in 1977. As both a graduate and undergraduate, Gioia was editor of Stanford’s literary journal the Sequoia Magazine.

After business school, Gioia joined General Foods in 1977, where he eventually became vice president of marketing. He was on the team that invented Jell-O Jigglers and is credited with helping reverse a long-running sales decline for Jello.

He was married to Mary Elizabeth Hiecke in 1980. One of his sons was born dead and Gioia honored the baby through his poetry “Planting a Sequoia.”

Dana Gioia Net Worth

Dana Gioia is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dana Gioia 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the past, before becoming a full-time writer He worked in the field of marketing for General Foods Corporation and promoted Jell-O products.

He began his teaching in the University of Southern California in the year 2011.

Michael Dana Gioia (/ˈ dʒ ɔɪ . ə / ; born December 24, 1950) is an American poet and writer. He spent the first fifteen years of his career writing at night while working for General Foods Corporation. After his 1991 essay “Can Poetry Matter?” in The Atlantic generated international attention, Gioia quit business to pursue writing full-time. He served as the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) between 2003 and 2009. Gioia has published five books of poetry and three volumes of literary criticism as well as opera libretti, song cycles, translations, and over two dozen literary anthologies.

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Who is Dana Gioia Dating?

According to our records, Dana Gioia married to Mary Elizabeth Hiecke. As of December 1, 2023, Dana Gioia’s is not dating anyone.

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Gioia has written several collections of criticisms. In his landmark 1991 essay “Can Poetry Matter?” Gioia objects to how marginalized poetry has become in America. He believes that university English departments appropriated the field from the public:

Facts & Trivia

Dana Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Dana Gioia celebrates birthday on December 24 of every year.

Interrogations at Noon (2001), Gioia’s third collection, was the winner of the 2002 American Book Award. It includes both translation and many original poems in which contemplative and occasionally wistful notes predominate, as in the concluding stanza of “Summer Storm”: “And memory insists on pining / For places it never went, / As if life would be happier / Just by being different.” His poem “Words” explores the power and limits of language to understand the world. Many of the other poems examine the lives of poets, painters, and composers.

Top Facts about Dana Gioia

1. Dana Gioia is an American poet and writer.
2. He served as the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
3. Gioia has published five full-length collections of poetry.
4. He is a recipient of the American Book Award.
5. Gioia’s work has been translated into over 20 languages.
6. He holds degrees from Stanford and Harvard universities.
7. Gioia was born in Los Angeles, California in 1950.
8. His poetry often explores themes of identity and culture.
9. Gioia is also a respected literary critic and essayist.
10. He advocates for greater public engagement with the arts.

Is Dana Gioia Catholic?

I was raised and educated as a Catholic. I remain a communicant. That means that my perspective as a lifelong Catholic affects everything I write in some way, large or small, even when my subject is not explicitly religious.

Where does Dana Gioia live?

From 2003 to 2009, Gioia served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, he was appointed poet laureate of California. He lives in Sonoma County, California , with his wife and two sons.

What was Dana Gioia's job in 2007?

At the request of U.S. President George W. Bush, Gioia served between 2003 and 2009 as the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In November 2006, Business Week magazine profiled Gioia as “The Man Who Saved the NEA”.

Is Dana Gioia married?

Mary Elizabeth Hiecke

What is planting a sequoia about?

Dana Gioia’s “Planting a Sequoia” is about a father who has lost his first son and in memory of him he plants a sequoia tree. The poem is separated into five stanzas each having five lines. The speaker writes in the first person point of view to the sequoia tree, but on a deeper level he is speaking to his dead son.