Showing posts with label Dana Gioia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dana Gioia. Show all posts
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Dana Gioia Defines the Enchantment in Poetry

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Dana Gioia may be one of the most productive writers / poets working today. He has six poetry collections, seven essay collections, two tran...
Monday, February 19, 2024

“Christianity and Poetry” by Dana Gioia

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Does poetry matter to your faith?  Most Christians would likely be puzzled at the question even being asked.    Poet  Dana Gioia  says it sh...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Rediscovering Seneca: Dana Gioia Translates "The Madness of Hercules"

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I took two years of Latin in high school. Even (way back) then, Latin was a dying subject. Nine of us took Latin I. Five of us took Latin II...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Poets and Poems: Dana Gioia and "Meet Me at the Lighthouse"

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Flashback to 20 years ago: I had a cousin who’s about 15 years older than I am. Out of the blue, she began calling. I had become the keeper ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Poets and Poems: James Matthew Wilson and “The Hanging God”

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I found poet and writer  James Matthew Wilson in a short reference on a blog, short but glowing, as in, “You need to read Wilson’s new ...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

“The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins”

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Virtually none of his poetry was published during his lifetime. The major poems he did submit were rejected. He abandoned what could ha...
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