Dec. 29: A Talk with NEA Chairman, Dana Gioia, and a New Year’s Story
December 29th, 2006
We talk with National Endowment for the Arts chairman Dana Gioia about poetry, the state of reading in America, and what role government can play in fostering the popular love of literature. We also play a selection from POETRY OUT LOUD, a CD produced by the NEA. And we read Jour de l’An, a story about New Year’s Day in Provence by Writer’s Voice host, Francesca Rheannon.
Dana Gioia’s last book of poetry, Interrogations At Noon, won the National Book Award. He’s also written CAN POETRY MATTER?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture. He brings his sensibility and passion as a poet to his job as Chairman of the National Endownment for the Arts — and to a wide-ranging conversation with Writer’s Voice. Gioia also talks about The Big Read, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
And it’s New Year’s, a time for reflection of times past and anticipation of the future. We hear a reading of Jour de l’An, a story about New Year’s in Provence, read by author and Writer’s Voice host, Francesca Rheannon. And click here to read the story and find a recipe for Internet Apple Crisp.
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