[New-Poetry] BizPo: Dana Gioia on the Close Connection between Business and Poetry

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On 5/31/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
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> http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1745&source=rss
> Dana Gioia on the Close Connection between Business and Poetry
>  Published: May 30, 2007 in Knowledge at Wharton
>  This article has been read 1,593 Times
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>  Dana Gioia (pronounced Joy-a) claims to be the only person in history who
> went to business school to be a poet. Having earned a degree from Stanford's
> graduate school of business, he worked 15 years in corporate life,
> eventually becoming vice president of General Foods. In 1991, Gioia wrote an
> influential collection of essays titled, "Can Poetry Matter?" in which he
> explored, among other themes, the nexus between business and poetry. Since
> 2002, he has been chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts where he
> has overseen programs aimed at making Shakespeare and poetry recitation more
> popular in the U.S. Gioia, who is a speaker at the Wharton Leadership
> Conference in Philadelphia on June 7, talked about these ideas with
> management professor Michael Useem and Knowledge at Wharton.
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> title.
> An edited transcript of the conversation is below.
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