Dana Gioia has been nominated to be the next head of the National Endowment for the Arts. Gioia is an accomplished poet who has steadily insisted upon a return to the basics of poetry and whose work shows the fruit of such an endeavor.
This information found via Mr. Bell's Notes from a Hillside Farm, q.v. for more.
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