Poetry off the Shelf: Dana Gioia

| 7:00 PM
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street 
Free admission
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Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed poet, critic, and librettist. The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia has published four full-length collections of poetry, most recently Pity the Beautiful. His collection Interrogations at Noon won the 2002 American Book Award in poetry, and he recently received the 2014 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. His 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter? was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture. He holds the Judge Widney Chair in Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.

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