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

[amy king]

Dana Gioia and John Barr should throw down one day, wrestling over who has more moxy when it comes to making money out of art while simultaneously making insipid remarks about the state of poetry past, present, future.  Who would win that title?  


jforjames at aol.com wrote:  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 
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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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