# Dana Gioia and David Lehman

David Lehman, Dana Gioia. Recorded on 2003-10-04. Kids, Families. Researchers. Teachers. Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia is an award-winning poet and critic. His third collection of poetry, "Interrogations at Noon," won the American Book Award. Also a best-selling anthologist, Gioia?s poetry, essays, translations and criticism frequently appear in numerous publications. His many books include "Daily Horoscope," "The Gods of Winter" and "Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture." He has taught as a visiting writer at Colorado College, Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Lawrence College, Mercer University and Wesleyan University. David Lehman is the author of five collections of poems, including "The Evening Sun" and "The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry." His books of criticism include "The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets," which was named a "Book to Remember 1999" by the New York Public Library; and "Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man." He edited "Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 65 Leading Contemporary Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems," and he is series editor of "The Best American Poetry," which he initiated in 1988. He teaches at Bennington College and the New School for Social Research and divides his time between Ithaca, N.Y. and New York City.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2003
- By: National Book Festival (u.s.)
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692076/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
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