Our Issue 13 Dedication

We at The Los Angeles Review are delighted to announce that our thirteenth issue will be dedicated to Dana Gioia. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia holds a BA and an MBA from Stanford and Harvard, respectively, and has published several collections of poetry. His Interrogations at Noon won the 2002 American Book Award, and his critical volume Can Poetry Matter?, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is credited with helping revive the role of poetry in American culture. As Chairman of the NEA, Gioia garnered rare, bi-partisan congressional support for the mission of the Arts Endowment, leading Business Week Magazine to call him “The Man Who Saved the NEA.”