The Northeastern Humanities Center
with the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities present:
Encountering the Humanities: An Evening with Dana Gioia, which will feature work from his new book, Pity the Beautiful.
Gioia, former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American culture and garnered bipartisan support in Congress for the mission of the Arts Endowment and public funding for the arts and arts education.
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His initiative, "The Big Read," has become the largest literacy program in the history of the federal government. "Poetry Out Loud," a national recitation contest he supported, involves more than 150,000 high school students across the country.
