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Writings 1984-2019

Physical Description: 25.75 Linear Feet(44 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Includes drafts, galleys, published versions, and reprints of Dana Gioia's poems, essays, librettos, and other writings, as well as notes, correspondence, reviews, and other related documents.

Arrangement

Organized in three subseries:
  • Subseries 1. Poetry 1986-2016
  • Subseries 2. Other works 1977-2018
  • Subseries 3. Publications 1984-2019
 

Poetry 1986-2016

Physical Description: 12.25 Linear Feet(23 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, proofs, notes, correspondence, publicity, and other materials related to Dana Gioia's published works of poetry and poetry criticism, including his five volumes of poetry: Daily Horoscope (1986), The Gods of Winter (1991), Interrogations at Noon (2001), Pity the Beautiful (2012), and 99 Poems: New & Selected (2016); and his books Can Poetry Matter? (1991), Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry (2003); and Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (2004).

Related Materials

The manuscripts and working drafts for the poem "California Hills in August" were donated to the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library in 1995 for the exhibit and book project The Hand of the Poet. (Berg Collection Uncataloged Manuscripts: Berg Backlog200903)

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by publication date.
Box 1, Folder 2

Daily Horoscope (1986): California Hills in August

Box 1, Folder 3

Daily Horoscope (1986): Cruising with the Beach Boys

Box 1, Folder 4

Daily Horoscope (1986): In Chandler Country

Box 1, Folder 5

Daily Horoscope (1986): Eastern Standard Time

Box 1, Folder 6

Daily Horoscope (1986): Men After Work

Box 1, Folder 7

Daily Horoscope (1986): Waiting in the Airport

Box 1, Folder 8

Daily Horoscope (1986): Flying Over Clouds

Box 1, Folder 9

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Man in the Open Doorway

Box 1, Folder 10

Daily Horoscope (1986): Insomnia

Box 1, Folder 11

Daily Horoscope (1986): In Cheever Country

Box 1, Folder 12

Daily Horoscope (1986): Notebook manuscript

Box 1, Folder 13

Daily Horoscope (1986): Daily Horoscope 1: Today Will Be

Box 1, Folder 14

Daily Horoscope (1986): Daily Horoscope 2: Nothing Is Lost

Box 1, Folder 15

Daily Horoscope (1986): Daily Horoscope 3: Do Not Expect

Box 1, Folder 16

Daily Horoscope (1986): Daily Horoscope 4: Beware of Things in Duplicate

Box 1, Folder 17

Daily Horoscope (1986): Daily Horoscope 5: The Stars Now Rearrange Themselves

Box 1, Folder 18

Daily Horoscope (1986): Daily Horoscope 6: News Will Arrive From Far Away

Box 1, Folder 19

Daily Horoscope (1986): Pornotopia

Box 1, Folder 20

Daily Horoscope (1986): An Elegy for Vladimir de Pachmann

Box 1, Folder 21

Daily Horoscope (1986): Lives of the Great Composers

Box 1, Folder 22

Daily Horoscope (1986): A Curse on Geographers

Box 1, Folder 23

Daily Horoscope (1986): A Short History of Tobacco

Box 1, Folder 24

Daily Horoscope (1986): Bix Beiderbecke

Box 2, Folder 1

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Mad Nun

Box 2, Folder 2

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Memory

Box 2, Folder 3

Daily Horoscope (1986): Speech from a Novella

Box 2, Folder 4

Daily Horoscope (1986): My Secret Life

Box 2, Folder 5

Daily Horoscope (1986): The End

Box 2, Folder 6

Daily Horoscope (1986): An Emigré in Autumn

Box 2, Folder 7

Daily Horoscope (1986): Instructions for the Afternoon

Box 2, Folder 8

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Garden on the Campagna

Box 2, Folder 9

Daily Horoscope (1986): Song from a Courtyard Window

Box 2, Folder 10

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Journey, the Arrival and the Dream

Box 2, Folder 11

Daily Horoscope (1986): Thanks for Remembering Us

Box 2, Folder 12

Daily Horoscope (1986): Cuckoos

Box 2, Folder 13

Daily Horoscope (1986): Photograph of my Mother as a Young Girl

Box 2, Folder 14

Daily Horoscope (1986): His Three Women

Box 2, Folder 15

Daily Horoscope (1986): Parts of Summer Weather

Box 2, Folder 16

Daily Horoscope (1986): View from the Second Story

Box 2, Folder 17

Daily Horoscope (1986): The End of a Season

Box 2, Folder 18

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Sunday News

Box 2, Folder 19

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Country Wife

Box 2, Folder 20

Daily Horoscope (1986): Four Speeches for Pygmalion

Box 2, Folder 21

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Room Upstairs

Box 2, Folder 22

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Letter

Box 2, Folder 23

Daily Horoscope (1986): Sunday Night in Santa Rosa

Box 3, Folder 1

Daily Horoscope (1986): Graywolf correspondence

Box 3, Folder 2

Daily Horoscope (1986): Graywolf publicity materials

Box 3, Folder 3

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (earliest version, titled Poems, 1979-80)

Box 3, Folder 4

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (early version 1, titled Journeys in Sunlight)

Box 3, Folder 5

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (early version 2, titled Journeys in Sunlight)

Box 3, Folder 6

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (early version 3, titled Journeys in Sunlight)

Box 3, Folder 7

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Man in the Open Doorway manuscript (early version of Daily Horoscope)

Box 3, Folder 8

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (early version)

Box 3, Folder 9

Daily Horoscope (1986): Notes

Box 3, Folder 10

Daily Horoscope (1986): Revised edition, 2002

Box 3, Folder 11

Daily Horoscope (1986): Editorial correspondence

Box 3, Folder 12

Daily Horoscope (1986): The Man in the Open Doorway manuscript (bound submission to Graywolf)

Box 3, Folder 13

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (bound submission to Graywolf; first version with new title)

Box 3, Folder 14

Daily Horoscope (1986): Manuscript (final bound submission to Graywolf)

Box 27, Folder 1

Words for Music (1987): Words for Music

Box 27, Folder 2

Words for Music (1987): Song for the End of Time

Box 27, Folder 3

Words for Music (1987): The Labors

Box 27, Folder 4

Words for Music (1987): Touch

Box 27, Folder 5

Words for Music (1987): Departures

Box 27, Folder 6

Words for Music (1987): Family Reunion

Box 27, Folder 7

Words for Music (1987): Beggar's Nightmare

Box 27, Folder 8

Words for Music (1987): For the Birth of Christ

Box 27, Folder 9

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Drafts

Box 27, Folder 10

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Fine print galleys, 1989

Box 27, Folder 11

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Fine print version, 1989

Box 27, Folder 12

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Expanded version, 1996

Box 27, Folder 13

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Galleys, 2000

Box 27, Folder 14

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Fine press printing manuscript, 2000

Box 27, Folder 15

Creative Collaboration (1989, 2000): Fine press printing, 2000

Box 4, Folder 1

The Gods of Winter (1991): Prayer

Box 4, Folder 2

The Gods of Winter (1991): All Souls'

Box 4, Folder 3

The Gods of Winter (1991): Night Watch

Box 4, Folder 4

The Gods of Winter (1991): Veterans' Cemetery

Box 4, Folder 5

The Gods of Winter (1991): The Song (Rilke)

Box 4, Folder 6

The Gods of Winter (1991): The Gods of Winter

Box 4, Folder 7

The Gods of Winter (1991): Planting a Sequoia

Box 4, Folder 8-9

The Gods of Winter (1991): Counting the Children

Box 4, Folder 10

The Gods of Winter (1991): Rough Country

Box 4, Folder 11

The Gods of Winter (1991): Cleared Away

Box 4, Folder 12

The Gods of Winter (1991): Places to Return

Box 4, Folder 13

The Gods of Winter (1991): Guide to the other Gallery

Box 4, Folder 14

The Gods of Winter (1991): News from Nineteen Eighty-Four

Box 4, Folder 15

The Gods of Winter (1991): The Silence of the Poets

Box 4, Folder 16

The Gods of Winter (1991): My Confessional Sestina

Box 4, Folder 17

The Gods of Winter (1991): Money

Box 4, Folder 18

The Gods of Winter (1991): The Next Poem

Box 5, Folder 1-7

The Gods of Winter (1991): The Homecoming

Box 5, Folder 8

The Gods of Winter (1991): Becoming a Redwood

Box 5, Folder 9

The Gods of Winter (1991): Maze without a Minotaur

Box 5, Folder 10

The Gods of Winter (1991): Los Angeles after the Rain

Box 5, Folder 11

The Gods of Winter (1991): Speaking of Love

Box 5, Folder 12

The Gods of Winter (1991): Equations of the Light

Box 6, Folder 1

The Gods of Winter (1991): Graywolf correspondence

Box 6, Folder 2

The Gods of Winter (1991): Graywolf publicity materials

Box 6, Folder 3

The Gods of Winter (1991): Peterloo Poets Edition, UK

Box 6, Folder 4

The Gods of Winter (1991): Peterloo UK Prose Statement (Poetry Society Bulletin, 1991)

Box 6, Folder 5

The Gods of Winter (1991): Peterloo Poets

Box 6, Folder 6

The Gods of Winter (1991): Night Watch manuscript (Early version of The Gods of Winter, 1989)

Box 6, Folder 7

The Gods of Winter (1991): Night Watch plan (Early version of The Gods of Winter)

Box 6, Folder 8

The Gods of Winter (1991): Bound galleys

Box 6, Folder 9

The Gods of Winter (1991): First complete version circulated privately (reactions)

Box 6, Folder 10

The Gods of Winter (1991): First proof

Box 6, Folder 11

The Gods of Winter (1991): Second proofs

Box 6, Folder 12

The Gods of Winter (1991): First submission to Graywolf

Box 6, Folder 13

The Gods of Winter (1991): Manuscript (bound submission to Graywolf)

Box 15, Folder 1-3

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Early drafts

Box 15, Folder 4

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): "The Sub-Culture of Poetry" (New York Public Library version; April 11, 1990)

Box 15, Folder 5

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): "The Sub-Culture of Poetry" (Revisions after New York Public Library lecture)

Box 15, Folder 6

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): "The Sub-Culture of Poetry" (original Atlantic submission)

Box 15, Folder 7

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): "The Sub-Culture of Poetry" (expanded Atlantic submission)

Box 15, Folder 8

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Atlantic proofs

Box 15, Folder 9

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Issue of The Spectator, 1993

Box 15, Folder 10

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Atlantic correspondence

Box 15, Folder 11

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): William Whitworth (The Atlantic)

Box 15, Folder 12

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): "The Sub-Culture of Poetry" (New York Public Library Correspondence) 

Box 16, Folder 1

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Responses

Box 16, Folder 2

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Letters to Atlantic

Box 16, Folder 3

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): The Atlantic

Box 16, Folder 4

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Note for UK Poetry Review

Box 16, Folder 5

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Computer network

Box 16, Folder 6-8

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Letters to Atlantic Monthly

Box 16, Folder 9

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Responses

Box 16, Folder 10

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Reviews of Can Poetry Matter? Newspaper reviews/columns

Box 16, Folder 11

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Responses to "Can Poetry Matter?" Atlantic version

Box 16, Folder 12-13

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Critical articles

Box 16, Folder 14

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Responses to Can Poetry Matter? Newspapers

Box 16, Folder 15

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Can Poetry Matter?: Internet Discussions/Essays

Box 16, Folder 16

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Responses to "Can poetry Matter?" Journals

Box 16, Folder 17-18

"Can Poetry Matter?" Essay (1991): Related publications

Box 17, Folder 1

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Can Poetry Matter?

Box 17, Folder 2

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Dilemma of the Long Poem

Box 17, Folder 3

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Notes on the New Formalism

Box 17, Folder 4

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Strong Counsel (Robinson Jeffers)

Box 17, Folder 5-8

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Loneliness of Weldon Kees

Box 17, Folder 9-11

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Anonymity of the Regional Poet (Ted Kooser)

Box 17, Folder 12

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Business and Poetry

Box 17, Folder 13-14

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): "Business and Poetry" (drafts 1 and 2)

Box 18, Folder 1-3

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): "Business and Poetry" (drafts 3, 4, final version)

Box 18, Folder 4

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): "Business and Poetry" (notes and letters)

Box 18, Folder 5

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Two Views of Wallace Stevens: The Sense of the Sleight of Hand Man

Box 18, Folder 6

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Two Views of Wallace Stevens: The Emperor of Hartford

Box 18, Folder 7

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Bourgeois in Bohemia (T. S. Eliot)

Box 18, Folder 8

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Successful Career of Robert Bly

Box 18, Folder 9

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): John Ashbery

Box 18, Folder 10

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): James Dickey

Box 18, Folder 11

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Theodore Weiss

Box 18, Folder 12

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Difficult Case of Howard Moss

Box 18, Folder 13

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Donald Justice (Gioia drafts: "Tradition and an Individual Talent")

Box 18, Folder 14

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Donald Justice (final Gioia manuscript: "Tradition and an Individual Talent")

Box 18, Folder 15

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Example of Elizabeth Bishop

Box 18, Folder 16

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Poet in an Age of Prose

Box 18, Folder 17

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): The Poet in an Age of Prose (notes)

Box 19, Folder 1

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Outline for the book

Box 19, Folder 2

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Preface drafts and manuscript, 1992

Box 19, Folder 3-4

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Manuscript

Box 19, Folder 5-6

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): First proofs

Box 19, Folder 7-8

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Second proofs

Box 19, Folder 9

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Introduction to tenth-anniversary edition

Box 19, Folder 10

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Graywolf correspondence

Box 19, Folder 11

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Graywolf publicity materials

Box 19, Folder 12

Can Poetry Matter? (1992): Tenth anniversary edition preface

Box 7, Folder 1

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Words

Box 7, Folder 2

Interrogations at Noon (2001): The Voyeur

Box 7, Folder 3

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Interrogations at Noon

Box 7, Folder 4

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Failure

Box 7, Folder 5

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Divination

Box 7, Folder 6

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs as Refrain

Box 7, Folder 7

Interrogations at Noon (2001): The Litany

Box 7, Folder 8

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Entrance (Rilke)

Box 7, Folder 9

Interrogations at Noon (2001): New Year's

Box 7, Folder 10

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Metamorphosis

Box 7, Folder 11

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Pentecost

Box 7, Folder 12

Interrogations at Noon (2001): After a Line by Cavafy

Box 7, Folder 13

Interrogations at Noon (2001): A California Requiem

Box 7, Folder 14

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Descent to the Underworld (Seneca)

Box 7, Folder 15

Interrogations at Noon (2001): The End of the World

Box 8, Folder 1

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Song for the End of Time

Box 8, Folder 2

Interrogations at Noon (2001): The Archbishop

Box 8, Folder 3

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Nosferatu songs

Box 8, Folder 4

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Alley Cat Love Song

Box 8, Folder 5

Interrogations at Noon (2001): At the Waterfront Café

Box 8, Folder 6

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Juno Plots Her Revenge (Seneca)

Box 8, Folder 7

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Corner Table

Box 8, Folder 8

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Long Distance

Box 8, Folder 9

Interrogations at Noon (2001): My Dead Lover

Box 8, Folder 10

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Accomplice

Box 8, Folder 11

Interrogations at Noon (2001): The Bargain

Box 8, Folder 12

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Spider in the Corner

Box 8, Folder 13

Interrogations at Noon (2001): For Sale

Box 8, Folder 14

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Time Travel

Box 8, Folder 15

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Summer Storm

Box 8, Folder 16

Interrogations at Noon (2001): The Lost Garden

Box 8, Folder 17

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Unsaid

Box 9, Folder 1

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Graywolf correspondence

Box 9, Folder 2

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Graywolf publicity materials

Box 9, Folder 3

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Working drafts

Box 9, Folder 4

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Book manuscript

Box 9, Folder 5

Interrogations at Noon (2001): R. S. Gwynn manuscript comments

Box 9, Folder 6

Interrogations at Noon (2001): David Mason manuscript comments

Box 9, Folder 7

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Diane Thiel manuscript comments

Box 9, Folder 8

Interrogations at Noon (2001): First proofs

Box 9, Folder 9

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Second proofs

Box 9, Folder 10

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Uncorrected page proofs

Box 9, Folder 11

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Design samples

Box 9, Folder 12

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Cover designs

Box 9, Folder 13

Interrogations at Noon (2001): Catalog, ad

Box 20, Folder 1

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Manuscript

Box 20, Folder 2

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Correspondence

Box 20, Folder 3

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Outlines

Box 20, Folder 4

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Draft

Box 20, Folder 5

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Proofs

Box 20, Folder 6

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Preface

Box 20, Folder 7

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Barrier of a Common Language

Box 20, Folder 8

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): The Rise of James Fenton

Box 20, Folder 9

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): The Most Unfashionable Poet Alive (Charles Causley)

Box 20, Folder 10-11

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Charles Causley essay drafts

Box 20, Folder 12

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Home Is So Sad (Philip Larkin)

Box 20, Folder 13

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): The Two Wendy Copes

Box 20, Folder 14

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): Robert Graves

Box 20, Folder 15

Barrier of a Common Language (2003): The Novelist as Poet (Anthony Burgess)

Box 21, Folder 1-2

Disappearing Ink (2004): Book manuscripts

Box 21, Folder 3

Disappearing Ink (2004): Graywolf correspondence

Box 21, Folder 4

Disappearing Ink (2004): Graywolf publicity materials

Box 21, Folder 5

Disappearing Ink (2004): Hudson Review

Box 21, Folder 6

Disappearing Ink (2004): Proof with cover

Box 21, Folder 7

Disappearing Ink (2004): Preface

Box 21, Folder 8

Disappearing Ink (2004): Proofs

Box 21, Folder 9-10

Disappearing Ink (2004): Drafts

Box 22, Folder 1

Disappearing Ink (2004): Drafts

Box 22, Folder 2

Disappearing Ink (2004): Final copy

Box 22, Folder 3

Disappearing Ink (2004): The Hand of the Poet

Box 22, Folder 4

Disappearing Ink (2004): Rexroth Rediscovered

Box 22, Folder 5

Disappearing Ink (2004): Brother Beat

Box 22, Folder 6

Disappearing Ink (2004): Jack Spicer and San Francisco's Lost Bohemia

Box 22, Folder 7

Disappearing Ink (2004): John Haines

Box 22, Folder 8

Disappearing Ink (2004): Discovering Kay Ryan

Box 22, Folder 9

Disappearing Ink (2004): The Cult of Weldon Kees

Box 22, Folder 10

Disappearing Ink (2004): On Being a California Poet

Box 22, Folder 11

Disappearing Ink (2004): "All I Have Is a Voice" September 11th and American Poetry

Box 22, Folder 12-13

Disappearing Ink (2004): Two Views of Robert Frost

Box 22, Folder 14-15

Disappearing Ink (2004): Elizabeth Bishop: From Coterie to Canon

Box 22, Folder 16

Disappearing Ink (2004): Elizabeth Bishop, Library of Congress Lecture (Dec. 28, 2000)

Box 22, Folder 17-18

Disappearing Ink (2004): Barbara Howes and the Eminent Sorority

Box 22, Folder 19

Disappearing Ink (2004): The Journey of William Jay Smith

Box 22, Folder 20

Disappearing Ink (2004): Donald Hall

Box 10, Folder 1

Disappearing Ink (2004): Philip Levine

Box 10, Folder 2

Disappearing Ink (2004): Randall Jarrell

Box 10, Folder 3

Disappearing Ink (2004): Samuel Menashe

Box 10, Folder 4

Disappearing Ink (2004): Donald Justice

Box 10, Folder 5

Disappearing Ink (2004): James Tate and American Surrealism

Box 10, Folder 6-7

Disappearing Ink (2004): What Is Italian American Poetry?

Box 10, Folder 8

Disappearing Ink (2004): "Connect the Prose and the Passion"

Box 10, Folder 9

Disappearing Ink (2004): Graywolf Press correspondence

Box 10, Folder 10

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Present

Box 10, Folder 11

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Angel with the Broken Wing

Box 10, Folder 12

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Prophecy

Box 10, Folder 13

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Reunion

Box 10, Folder 14

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Road

Box 10, Folder 15

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Shopping

Box 10, Folder 16

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet

Box 10, Folder 17

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Prayer at Winter Solstice

Box 10, Folder 18

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Finding a Box of Family Letters

Box 10, Folder 19

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods

Box 10, Folder 20

Pity the Beautiful (2012): *Las Animas (Luzi)

Box 10, Folder 21

Pity the Beautiful (2012): *Hunt (Luzi)

Box 10, Folder 22

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Seven Deadly Sins

Box 11, Folder 1

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Autumn Inaugural

Box 11, Folder 2

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Special Treatments Ward

Box 11, Folder 3-4

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Haunted

Box 11, Folder 5

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Pity the Beautiful

Box 11, Folder 6

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Heart of the Matter

Box 11, Folder 7

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Cold San Francisco

Box 11, Folder 8

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Apple Orchard

Box 11, Folder 9

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Being Happy

Box 11, Folder 10

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Coat

Box 11, Folder 11

Pity the Beautiful (2012): The Argument

Box 11, Folder 12

Pity the Beautiful (2012): After a Line of Neruda

Box 11, Folder 13

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Who's There?

Box 11, Folder 14

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Starting Over

Box 11, Folder 15

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Majority

Box 12, Folder 1

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Graywolf correspondence

Box 12, Folder 2

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Graywolf publicity materials

Box 12, Folder 3

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Manuscript correspondence

Box 12, Folder 4

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Working drafts

Box 12, Folder 5

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Early manuscript

Box 12, Folder 6

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Final manuscript

Box 12, Folder 7

Pity the Beautiful (2012): First page proofs

Box 12, Folder 8

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Uncorrected proofs

Box 12, Folder 9

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Catalog, flyers

Box 12, Folder 10

Pity the Beautiful (2012): Film by Melissa Kester

Box 13, Folder 1

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Book manuscript

Box 13, Folder 2

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Copy edited manuscript

Box 13, Folder 3

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): First page proofs

Box 13, Folder 4

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): First page proofs with corrections

Box 13, Folder 5

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Second proofs with corrections (reordered table of contents)

Box 13, Folder 6

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Cover copy and publicity materials

Box 13, Folder 7

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Graywolf contract

Box 13, Folder 8

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Correspondence

Box 13, Folder 9

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Bound galleys (original table of contents)

Box 13, Folder 10

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Table of contents drafts

Box 13, Folder 11

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Monster

Box 13, Folder 12

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Homage to Soren Kierkegaard

Box 13, Folder 13

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): My Handsome Cousin

Box 14, Folder 1

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Deal with the Devil

Box 14, Folder 2

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): The Ancient Ones

Box 14, Folder 3

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Meditation on a Line from Novalis

Box 14, Folder 4

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Index to My Next Book of Poems

Box 14, Folder 5

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Progress Report

Box 14, Folder 6

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Vultures Mating

Box 14, Folder 7

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Sea Pebbles: An Elegy

Box 14, Folder 8

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Film Noir Style

Box 14, Folder 9

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Film Noir Style (notebook)

Box 14, Folder 10-12

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Style (drafts)

Box 14, Folder 13

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Household Gods

Box 14, Folder 14

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Come Back

Box 14, Folder 15

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): An Old Story

Box 14, Folder 16

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Marriage of Many Years

Box 14, Folder 17

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): The Killer (revisions of "The Homecoming")

Box 14, Folder 18

99 Poems: New & Selected (2016): Revised older poems

 

Other works 1977-2018

Physical Description: 9.58 Linear Feet(17 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Drafts, galleys, proofs, correspondence, notes, publicity, and other materials related to Dana Gioia's other published works. These include works Gioia edited; introductions and forewords Gioia wrote for anthologies, other poet's collections, and magazines; and his libretto for Nosferatu, an opera collaboration with the composer Alva Henderson.
Box 23, Folder 1

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Prospectus (2004)

Box 23, Folder 2

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Table of contents drafts

Box 23, Folder 3

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Table of contents

Box 23, Folder 4

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Authors' questionnaire

Box 23, Folder 5

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Writing assignments

Box 23, Folder 6

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Manuscript of critical notes with drafts

Box 23, Folder 7

Twentieth Century American Poetics (2004): Correspondence

Box 24, Folder 1

Best American Poetry (2018): Introduction (drafts)

Box 24, Folder 2

Best American Poetry (2018): The State of Poetry: Loud & Live (LA Review of Books)

Box 24, Folder 3

Best American Poetry (2018): Correspondence

Box 24, Folder 4

Best American Poetry (2018): Table of Contents (drafts)

Box 24, Folder 5

Best American Poetry (2018): Final selections

Box 24, Folder 6

Best American Poetry (2018): Reviews/Responses

Box 24, Folder 7

Best American Poetry (2018): Uncorrected proofs

Box 25, Folder 1

California Anthologies (1999-2013): Misread City

Box 25, Folder 2

California Anthologies (1999-2013): California Poetry: Contents and Notes for Introduction

Box 25, Folder 3

California Anthologies (1999-2013): California Poetry: Prospectus

Box 25, Folder 4

California Anthologies (1999-2013): California Poetry: Author fact sheets and correspondence

Box 25, Folder 5

California Anthologies (1999-2013): California Poetry: Preface

Box 25, Folder 6

California Anthologies (1999-2013): Essay: California as a Cultural Place, 2012-2013

Box 25, Folder 7

California Anthologies (1999-2013): "Just One Damn Thing After Another": Jack Foley Essay, 2012-2013, LA Review 2013

Box 25, Folder 8

California Anthologies (1999-2013): Jack Foley introduction: O Powerful Western Star, 2000

Box 26, Folder 1

Poetry as Enchantment: (NYU Burnshaw Lecture, 2005)

Box 26, Folder 2

Poetry as Enchantment: (Beijing Lecture, 2013)

Box 26, Folder 3

Poetry as Enchantment (Library of Congress Lecture, 2014)

Box 26, Folder 4

Poetry as Enchantment: (Drafts) 1

Box 26, Folder 5

Poetry as Enchantment: (Drafts) 2

Box 26, Folder 6

Poetry as Enchantment: (Drafts) 3

Box 26, Folder 7

Poetry as Enchantment: (Tsinghua University, published version, 2014)

Box 26, Folder 8

Poetry as Enchantment: (Dark Horse Version, 2015)

Box 26, Folder 9

Poetry as Enchantment: (Wiseblood Version, 2015-16)

Box 26, Folder 10

Poetry as Enchantment: (Commentary / Reaction)

Box 27, Folder 16

Lonely Impulse of Delight (2004): MS. Drafts

Box 27, Folder 17

Lonely Impulse of Delight (2004): Final MS

Box 27, Folder 18

Lonely Impulse of Delight (2004): Stanford Magazine

Box 27, Folder 19

Lonely Impulse of Delight (2004): Southern Review

Box 27, Folder 20

Lonely Impulse of Delight (2004): Artichoke Edition

Box 27, Folder 21

Lonely Impulse of Delight (2004): Twice-Told Children's Tales

Box 28, Folder 1

Weldon Kees: Chronology of Kees' stories

Box 28, Folder 2

Weldon Kees: The Waiting Room (MS. & Materials)

Box 28, Folder 3

Weldon Kees: Two Prose Sketches (Aralia Press, 1984)

Box 28, Folder 4

Weldon Kees: "Contributor's Note" (1999)

Box 28, Folder 5

Weldon Kees: Preface to The Waiting Room (Drafts)

Box 28, Folder 6

Weldon Kees: Naked Kees (MS./Drafts)

Box 28, Folder 7

Weldon Kees: The Afterlife of Weldon Kees

Box 28, Folder 8

Weldon Kees: On "Aspects of Robinson"

Box 28, Folder 9

Weldon Kees: Selected Short Stories (2002)

Box 28, Folder 10

Weldon Kees: Neglected Poets: Weldon Kees

Box 28, Folder 11

Weldon Kees: Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004)

Box 28, Folder 12

Weldon Kees: Sequoia: Weldon Kees Issue (1979)

Box 28, Folder 13

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony (Graywolf Galleys)

Box 28, Folder 14

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony (Graywolf Correspondence

Box 28, Folder 15

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony (Graywolf Publicity Materials)

Box 28, Folder 16

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony (Revised Preface, 1984)

Box 28, Folder 17

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony (Abattoir Edition, Final MS., 1983)

Box 28, Folder 18

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony: Introduction (Abattoir Edition, MS. First Version)

Box 28, Folder 19

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony (Bibliographical Notes & Materials)

Box 29, Folder 1

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Preface (Drafts 1)

Box 29, Folder 2

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Preface (Drafts 2)

Box 29, Folder 3

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Hudson Review Essay

Box 29, Folder 4

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Publicity Materials & Correspondence

Box 29, Folder 5

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): B. J. Omanson Correspondence

Box 29, Folder 6

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Dark Horses Anthology Essay

Box 29, Folder 7

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Wyeth Juvenilia

Box 29, Folder 8

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): Ellie Wyeth Correspondence

Box 29, Folder 9

John Allen Wyeth / This Man's Army (2008): This Man's Army (Reviews)

Box 30, Folder 1

New Italian Poets (1991): Introduction MS. and Drafts

Box 30, Folder 2

New Italian Poets (1991): Valerio Magrelli Translation Draft 1

Box 30, Folder 3

New Italian Poets (1991): Valerio Magrelli Translation Draft 2

Box 30, Folder 4

New Italian Poets (1991): Patrizia Cavalli Translation Drafts

Box 30, Folder 5

New Italian Poets (1991): Fabio Doplicher Translation Drafts

Box 30, Folder 6

New Italian Poets (1991): Story Line Press Materials / Correspondence

Box 30, Folder 7

New Italian Poets (1991): Correspondence

Box 30, Folder 8

New Italian Poets (1991): Poetry Society of America Event (1989)

Box 30, Folder 9

New Italian Poets (1991): Fano Conference

Box 30, Folder 10

New Italian Poets (1991): Alia Award

Box 31, Folder 1

Seneca essays (1993-1995): Seneca & the Idea of Lyric Tragedy

Box 31, Folder 2

Seneca essays (1993-1995): Draft 1

Box 31, Folder 3

Seneca essays (1993-1995): Draft 2

Box 31, Folder 4

Seneca essays (1993-1995): Draft 3

Box 31, Folder 5

Seneca essays (1993-1995): Proofs

Box 31, Folder 6

Seneca essays (1993-1995): Seneca: Notes on the Production

Box 31, Folder 7

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Acting Version)

Box 31, Folder 8

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Correspondence)

Box 31, Folder 9

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act I Drafts)

Box 31, Folder 10

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act II Drafts) 1

Box 31, Folder 11

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act II Drafts) 2

Box 32, Folder 1

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act III Drafts) 1

Box 32, Folder 2

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act III Drafts) 2

Box 32, Folder 3

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act IV Drafts)

Box 32, Folder 4

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Act V Drafts)

Box 32, Folder 5

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Full Play Working Draft)

Box 32, Folder 6

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Final MS.)

Box 32, Folder 7

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Proofs)

Box 32, Folder 8

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Verse Excerpts)

Box 32, Folder 9

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Publicity Materials)

Box 32, Folder 10

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Soho Production, 1995)

Box 32, Folder 11

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): (Comments from Poets)

Box 32, Folder 12

Seneca, The Madness of Hercules (1995): Research Material

Box 33, Folder 1

Longfellow Correspondence, 2000

Box 33, Folder 2

Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism (Columbia Copy-Edit), 1992

Box 33, Folder 3

Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism (Corrected Proofs)

Box 33, Folder 4

Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism (Drafts) 1, 1992

Box 33, Folder 5

Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism (Drafts) 2, 1992

Box 33, Folder 6

Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism (Final Copy), 1992

Box 33, Folder 7

Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism (Notes)

Box 33, Folder 8

Longfellow: The Big Read

Box 33, Folder 9

Longfellow: Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature (2004)

Box 33, Folder 10

Longfellow: Wayside Inn Reprints, 2008

Box 33, Folder 11

Longfellow: "Paul Revere's Ride" MS: Poems for Students vol. 2, 1998

Box 34, Folder 1

Fallen Western Star (2000): Drafts (1)

Box 34, Folder 2

Fallen Western Star (2000): Drafts (2)

Box 34, Folder 3

Fallen Western Star (2000): Drafts (3)

Box 34, Folder 4

Fallen Western Star (2000): Final Version

Box 34, Folder 5

Fallen Western Star: Hungry Mind Review (Winter 1999-2000)

Box 34, Folder 6

Fallen Western Star (2000): Responses

Box 34, Folder 7

Fallen Western Star (2001): "Fallen Western Star" Wars, Edited by Jack Foley

Box 35, Folder 1

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Graywolf Correspondence)

Box 35, Folder 2

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Graywolf Publicity Materials)

Box 35, Folder 3

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Correspondence; Typescript MS., 1985-86)

Box 35, Folder 4

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Early versions, I-XI, 1977)

Box 35, Folder 5

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Revised versions, 1989)

Box 35, Folder 6

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Book MS.)

Box 35, Folder 7

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Unbound Sheets)

Box 35, Folder 8

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (First proofs)

Box 35, Folder 9

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Second proofs)

Box 35, Folder 10

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Drafts, 1977-79)

Box 35, Folder 11

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): ("From Pastoral to Apocalypse," Field, 1982)

Box 35, Folder 12

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Drafts)

Box 35, Folder 13

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): (Preface drafts)

Box 35, Folder 14

Eugenio Montale Mottetti (1990): ("Reading Montale's Motets," Boulevard, 1987)

Box 35, Folder 15

Eugenio Montale: "Casting Light on Montale's Shadow: (1992)

Box 35, Folder 16

Eugenio Montale: "Cracking Fireworks" (Jeremy Reed Review, 1991)

Box 36, Folder 1

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Dunstan Thompson Essay: Notebooks

Box 36, Folder 2

Dunstan Thompson (2015): "Two Poets Named Dunstan Thompson" (Drafts 1)

Box 36, Folder 3

Dunstan Thompson (2015): "Two Poets Named Dunstan Thompson" (Drafts 2)

Box 36, Folder 4

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Thompson's Selected Poems: Afterword (Proofs)

Box 36, Folder 5

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Thompson's Selected Poems: Proposals

Box 36, Folder 6

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Hudson Review Version

Box 36, Folder 7

Dunstan Thompson (2015): "Revisiting Vice-Versa" (Drafts)

Box 36, Folder 8

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Philip Trower Memoir

Box 36, Folder 9

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Dunstan Thompson Typescript: The Seven Levels of Troy

Box 36, Folder 10

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Philip Trower: Correspondence & Documents

Box 36, Folder 11

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Dunstan Thompson: Unpublished & Uncollected Material

Box 36, Folder 12

Dunstan Thompson (2015): Copies of Proust and Shakespeare inscribed by Thompson

Box 37, Folder 1

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Winter Requiem (Gioia sketches & texts)

Box 37, Folder 2

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Winter Requiem (score)

Box 37, Folder 3

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Winter Requiem (Schola Cantorum correspondence)

Box 37, Folder 4

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Winter Requiem (programs & reviews)

Box 37, Folder 5

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Alley Cat Serenade (song)

Box 37, Folder 6

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): The Country Wife (song)

Box 37, Folder 7

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Planting a Sequoia (song)

Box 37, Folder 8

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Planting a Sequoia (orchestral version)

Box 37, Folder 9

Alva Henderson (2001-2009) / Malathi Iyengar: Planting a Sequoia (dance version)

Box 37, Folder 10

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): The Song (song)

Box 37, Folder 11

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Touch (song)

Box 37, Folder 12

Alva Henderson (2001-2009): Song Recital Programs

Box 38, Folder 1

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts & Notebooks 1

Box 38, Folder 2

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts & Notebooks 2

Box 38, Folder 3

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts & Notebooks 3

Box 38, Folder 4

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts & Notebooks 4

Box 38, Folder 5

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts (Act One, Scene One)

Box 38, Folder 6

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts (Act One, Scene Two)

Box 38, Folder 7

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts (Act One, Scene Three)

Box 38, Folder 8

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts (Act Two, Scene One)

Box 38, Folder 9

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts (Act Two, Scene Two)

Box 38, Folder 10

Nosferatu Libretto (2001): Drafts (Act Two, Scene Three)

Box 38, Folder 11

Nosferatu (2001) Synopsis: Drafts and Final

Box 38, Folder 12

Nosferatu (2001): Murnau Material

Box 39, Folder 1

Nosferatu (2001): "Sotto Voce" Essay Drafts 1

Box 39, Folder 2

Nosferatu (2001): "Sotto Voce" Essay Drafts 2

Box 39, Folder 3

Nosferatu (2001): "Sotto Voce" Essay Drafts 3

Box 39, Folder 4

Nosferatu (2001): "Sotto Voce" Final Essay

Box 39, Folder 5

Nosferatu (2001): Screenplay (Gabriel Rummonds)

Box 39, Folder 6

Nosferatu (2001): Screenplay (Melissa Kester)

Box 39, Folder 7

Nosferatu (2001): Screenplay (Melissa Kester Correspondence/Contracts)

Box 39, Folder 8

Nosferatu (2001): Jack Foley Essay

Box 39, Folder 9

Nosferatu (2001): Interview with Lequita Vance Watkins

Box 39, Folder 10

Nosferatu Libretto: First Published Version (1998)

Box 39, Folder 11

Nosferatu (2001): Published Excerpts

Box 39, Folder 12

Nosferatu (2001): Anne Williams Forward

Box 39, Folder 13

Nosferatu: Graywolf MS. (2000)

Box 39, Folder 14

Nosferatu: Graywolf Proofs (2000)

Box 39, Folder 15

Nosferatu: Graywolf Covers, Catalogue

Box 40, Folder 1

Nosferatu: Mercer Showcase (1996)

Box 40, Folder 2

Nosferatu: Palo Alto Showcase (1997)

Box 40, Folder 3

Nosferatu: Crested Butte Showcase (1998)

Box 40, Folder 4

Nosferatu: San Francisco Showcase (1999)

Box 40, Folder 5

Nosferatu: West Chester Showcase (2001)

Box 40, Folder 6

Nosferatu: UTC Showcase (2002)

Box 40, Folder 7

Nosferatu: Opera Idaho (2004)

Box 40, Folder 8

Nosferatu: World Premiere Rimrock Opera (2004)

Box 40, Folder 9

Nosferatu: Correspondence-Chuck Maryan

Box 40, Folder 10

Nosferatu: Correspondence - Sarah Holman

Box 40, Folder 11

Nosferatu: Correspondence-Miscellaneous

Box 40, Folder 12

Nosferatu: Vocal Score

Box 40, Folder 13

Nosferatu: Excerpts and Arias

Box 40, Folder 14

Nosferatu: Opera Promotional Materials

 

Publications 1984-2019

Physical Description: 4 Linear Feet(4 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Publications either written, edited, or contributed to by Dana Gioia. Box 76 includes works by Gioia, anthologies he appeared in, and a bibliography; box 77 includes works edited by Gioia; box 78 includes works edited by Gioia and works with an introduction, foreword, or afterword by Gioia; and box 79 includes a textbook series edited by Dana Gioia and X.J. Kennedy.
Box 76, Item 1

99 Poems, New & Selected (advance copy). Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016

Box 76, Item 2

99 Poems, New & Selected (hardcover). Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2016

Box 76, Item 3

99 Poems, New & Selected (paperback). Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017

Box 76, Item 4

Barrier of a Common Language: An American Looks at Contemporary British Poetry. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003

Box 76, Item 5

Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (hardcover). Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1992

Box 76, Item 6

Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (paperback). Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1992

Box 76, Item 7

Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture (with new introduction). Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2002

Box 76, Item 8

The Catholic Writer Today and Other Essays. Belmont: Wiseblood Books, 2019

Box 76, Item 9

Daily Horoscope (hardcover). Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1986

Box 76, Item 10

Daily Horoscope (paperback). Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1986

Box 76, Item 11

Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2004

Box 76, Item 12

The Gods of Winter (hardcover). Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1991

Box 76, Item 13

The Gods of Winter (paperback). Cornwall: Peterloo Press, 1991

Box 76, Item 14

Golos v polden' [Interrogations at Noon]. Moscow: Rosspen, 2007

Box 76, Item 15

Interrogations at Noon. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2001

Box 76, Item 16

Jack Foley's Unmanageable Masterpiece (with Peter Whitfield). Monongahela Books, 2019

Box 76, Item 17

La Escala Ardiente [The Burning Ladder]. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2010

Box 76, Item 18

The Laetare Medal: A Recipient's Remarks. Notre Dame University Commencement, 2010

Box 76, Item 19

Nosferatu: An Opera Libretto. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 2001

Box 76, Item 20

Pity the Beautiful. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2012

Box 76, Item 21

Planting a Sequoia and Other Poems. Athens: Society de Kata, 2019

Box 76, Item 22

Prayer. Mixed duet and Piano with Morten Lauridsen. New York: Peermusic, 2013

Box 76, Item 23

"Tony Caruso's Final Broadcast, a libretto," Italian Americana Cultural and Historical Review 23 no. 1 (Winter 2005)

Box 76, Item 24

Hagstrom, Jack W. C. and Bill Morgan. Dana Gioia: A Descriptive Bibliography with Critical Essays. Jackson: Parrish House, 2002

Box 76, Item 25

Jarman, Mark, and David Mason (eds). Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism. Brownsville: Story Line Press, 1996

Box 76, Item 26

Phillips, Rodney. The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript. New York: Rizzoli, 1997

Box 77, Item 1

100 Great Poets of the English Language. With Dan Stone. New York: Penguin Academics, 2005

Box 77, Item 2

The Art of the Short Story: 52 Great Authors, Their Best Short Fiction, and Their Insights on Writing. With R.S. Gwynn. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006

Box 77, Item 3

Best American Poetry 2018. Guest editor with David Lehman. New York: Scribner, 2018

Box 77, Item 4

California Poetry from the Gold Rush to the Present. Edited with Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks. Berkeley: Heyday Books, 2004

Box 77, Item 5

Certain Solitudes: On the Poetry of Donald Justice. Edited with William Logan. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1997

Box 77, Item 6

The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction. Edited with R.S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 2001

Box 77, Item 7

The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction (compact edition). Edited with R.S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 2001

Box 77, Item 8

The Longman Masters of Short Fiction. Edited with R.S. Gwynn. New York: Longman, 2002

Box 77, Item 9

The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles. Edited with Scott Timberg. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2003

Box 77, Item 10

New Italian Poets. Edited with Michael Palma. Brownsville: Story Line Press, 1991

Box 77, Item 11

Poems from Italy (hardcover). Edited with William Jay Smith. St. Paul: New Rivers Press, 1985

Box 77, Item 12

Poems from Italy (paperback). Edited with William Jay Smith. St. Paul: New Rivers Press, 1985

Box 78, Item 1

Poetry Speaks. Advisory editor with Robert Pinsky and Rita Dove. Naperville: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2001

Box 78, Item 2

Poetry Speaks Expanded. Advisory editor with Robert Pinsky and Rita Dove. Naperville: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007

Box 78, Item 3

Selected Short Stories of Weldon Kees (2 copies). Edited and introduced. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002

Box 78, Item 4

Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry. Edited with David Mason and Meg Schoerke. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004

Box 78, Item 5

Twentieth-Century American Poetry (hardcover). Edited with David Mason and Meg Schoerke. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004

Box 78, Item 6

Twentieth-Century American Poetry (paperback). Edited with David Mason and Meg Schoerke. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004

Box 78, Item 7

Weldon Kees: The Ceremony & Other Stories. Edited and introduced. Port Townsend: Graywolf Press, 1984

Box 78, Item 8

Borderless: The Art of Luis Tapia. Foreword. Long Beach: Museum of Latin American Art, 2017

Box 78, Item 9

Fulvio Testa: Watercolors. Introduction and verse. New York: Claude Bernard Gallery, 1988

Box 78, Item 10

God's Grandeur: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Introduction. McLean: The Trinity Forum, 2016

Box 78, Item 11

Here at Last is Love: Selected Poems of Dunstan Thompson. Afterword. Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015

Box 78, Item 12

Mottetti: Poems of Love. The Motets of Eugenio Montale. Translation and Introduction. Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1990

Box 78, Item 13

Sacred and Profane Love: The Poetry of John Donne. Introduction. McLean: The Trinity Forum, 2010

Box 78, Item 14

Seneca: The Tragedies Volume II. Introduction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1995

Box 78, Item 15

This Man's Army: A War in Fifty-Odd Sonnets by John Allan Wyeth. Introduction. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008

Box 78, Item 16

Un Reservoir a Paysages by Fulvio Testa. Text. Chicago: Roger Ramsay Gallery, 1992

Box 79, Item 1

An Introduction to Fiction, Seventh Edition. New York: Longman, 1999

Box 79, Item 2

An Introduction to Fiction, Ninth Edition. New York: Longman, 2005

Box 79, Item 3

An Introduction to Fiction, Tenth Edition. New York: Longman, 2007

Box 79, Item 4

An Introduction to Fiction, Eleventh Edition. New York: Longman, 2010

Box 79, Item 5

An Introduction to Poetry, Ninth Edition Instructors Manual. New York: Longman, 1998

Box 79, Item 6

An Introduction to Poetry, Tenth Edition. New York: Longman, 2002

Box 79, Item 7

An Introduction to Poetry, Eleventh Edition. New York: Longman, 2005

Box 79, Item 8

An Introduction to Poetry, Twelfth Edition. New York: Longman, 2007

Box 79, Item 9

An Introduction to Poetry, Thirteenth Edition. New York: Longman, 2010

Box 79, Item 10

Backpack Literature, Second Edition. New York: Longman, 2008

Box 79, Item 11

Backpack Literature, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2012

Box 79, Item 12

Handbook of Literary Terms. New York: Longman, 2005

Box 79, Item 13

Handbook of Literary Terms, Second Edition. New York: Longman, 2009

Box 79, Item 14

Literature, Eighth Edition Compact Edition. New York: Longman, 2016

Box 79, Item 15

Literature, Eleventh Edition Instructors Manual. New York: Longman, 2010

Box 79, Item 16

Literature, Eleventh Edition Portable Edition (4 volumes: Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Writing). New York: Longman, 2010

Box 79, Item 17

Literature, Thirteenth Edition. New York: Longman, 2016

Box 79, Item 18

Literature, Thirteenth Edition Portable Edition (4 volumes: Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Writing). New York: Longman, 2016

Box 79, Item 19

Literature for Life. New York: Longman, 2013

 

Professional 2002-2018

Physical Description: 7.5 Linear Feet(14 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Materials related to Dana Gioia's work with the National Endowment for the Arts, including documentation of his NEA nomination and confirmation; his congressional testimony; reports; publicity; and working documents and correspondence related to NEA programs he worked with. Also includes documentation of Gioia's tenure as California Poet Laureate, and materials related to his 2007 Stanford University commencement address.

Arrangement

Organized in two subseries:
  • Subseries 1. National Endowment for the Arts 2002-2011
  • Subseries 2. Other 2007-2018
 

National Endowment for the Arts 2002-2011

Physical Description: 5.92 Linear Feet(11 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Materials related to Dana Gioia's tenure as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, an independent federal agency created to fund the arts and arts education in American communities. Includes documentation of Gioia's nomination and confirmation, reports, his congressional testimony, and various programs he worked with, including Poetry Out Loud, NEA Jazz Masters, The Big Read, Shakespeare in American Communities, and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience.
Box 41, Folder 1

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Nomination Documents (2002)

Box 41, Folder 2

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Nomination Acceptance Announcement (2002)

Box 41, Folder 3

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Nomination News Clippings (2002)

Box 41, Folder 4

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Confirmation Process: Documents (2002-2003)

Box 41, Folder 5

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Media Clips for Chairman Launch (2003)

Box 41, Folder 6

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Reconfirmation Process: Documents (2005-2006)

Box 41, Folder 7

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Nomination: Letters of Congratulations (2002)

Box 41, Folder 8

NEA Chairmanship: NEA DG Departure Letter (Sept. 2008)

Box 41, Folder 9

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Departure: Letters (2009)

Box 41, Folder 10

NEA Chairmanship: NEA Departure: Selected News Coverage (2009)

Box 42, Folder 1

NEA Congressional Testimony (2003)

Box 42, Folder 2

NEA Congressional Testimony: Programs for Military and Military Families (June 2003)

Box 42, Folder 3

NEA Congressional Testimony (2004)

Box 42, Folder 4

NEA Congressional Testimony (2005)

Box 42, Folder 5

NEA Congressional Testimony (2006)

Box 42, Folder 6

NEA Congressional Testimony (2007)

Box 42, Folder 7

NEA Congressional Testimony (2008)

Box 42, Folder 8

NEA Congressional Testimony: NEA Budget (FY 2007)

Box 42, Folder 9

NEA Congressional Testimony: NEA Cumulative Appropriation Hearings (FY 2003-2009)

Box 42, Folder 10

NEA Congressional Testimony: U.S. Senate Submission: Artists' Tax Deduction Policy (2007)

Box 42, Folder 11

NEA Congressional Testimony (2003-2008): Congressional Statement about Chairman Dana Gioia

Box 42, Folder 12

NEA Congressional Testimony (2003-2008): NEA Congressional Meetings/Postings

Box 42, Folder 13

NEA Congressional Testimony (2003-2008): NEA Congressional trips, Sample Schedules

Box 42, Folder 14

NEA Congressional Testimony (2003-2008): Senator Harry Reid

Box 42, Folder 15

NEA Congressional Testimony (2003-2008): U.S. Congress (Miscellaneous letters)

Box 43, Folder 1

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Announcement and Coverage (April 23, 2003)

Box 43, Folder 2

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Program Launch (New London, Sept. 23, 2003)

Box 43, Folder 3

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare Congressional Event (Oct. 28, 2003)

Box 43, Folder 4

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Phase I (2003- mid 2004)

Box 43, Folder 5

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Phase II (late 2004-2005)

Box 43, Folder 6

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Phase III (2006-2007)

Box 43, Folder 7

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Military Tour (2004)

Box 43, Folder 8

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Dramatist article (2006)

Box 43, Folder 9

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare Miscellany

Box 43, Folder 10

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare for a Future Generation (2008)

Box 43, Folder 11

Shakespeare Programs: Letters

Box 43, Folder 12

Shakespeare Programs: Why Shakespeare? DVD (Lawrence Bridges, 2004)

Box 43, Folder 13

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in Our Time DVD (2004)

Box 43, Folder 14

Shakespeare Programs: Teaching Shakespeare Audio CD (2003)

Box 43, Folder 15

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, Teachers Guide, Recitation Contest

Box 43, Folder 16

Shakespeare Programs: Shakespeare in American Communities, NEA emails

Box 44, Folder 1

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading at Risk: Summary Report (2004)

Box 44, Folder 2

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading at Risk: Full Report (2004)

Box 44, Folder 3

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading at Risk: Press Release (July 8, 2004)

Box 44, Folder 4

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading at Risk: Media Coverage

Box 44, Folder 5

NEA Reports (2004-2008): To Read or Not to Read: Summary Report (2007)

Box 44, Folder 6

NEA Reports (2004-2008): To Read or Not to Read: Full Report (2007)

Box 44, Folder 7

NEA Reports (2004-2008): To Read or Not to Read: Drafts for Preface (2007) 

Box 44, Folder 8

NEA Reports (2004-2008): To Read or Not to Read: Press Coverage

Box 44, Folder 9

NEA Reports (2004-2008): To Read or Not to Read: Public Correspondence

Box 44, Folder 10

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading on the Rise: Report (2008)

Box 44, Folder 11

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading on the Rise: Press Coverage

Box 44, Folder 12

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Reading Reports: NEA emails

Box 44, Folder 13

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Artists in the Workforce: Summary (2008)

Box 44, Folder 14

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Artists in the Workforce: Full Report (2008)

Box 44, Folder 15

NEA Reports (2004-2008): Artists in the Workforce: Press Coverage  

Box 45, Folder 1

The Big Read: Program Announcements (Dec. 2005)

Box 45, Folder 2

The Big Read: Program Launch (first ten cities, 2006)

Box 45, Folder 3

The Big Read: National Expansion (2007)

Box 45, Folder 4

The Big Read: Program Books (3 versions: Pilot Phase / National Expansion / Expanded)

Box 45, Folder 5

The Big Read: Arts Midwest Results Reports on 3 Pilot Phases

Box 45, Folder 6

The Big Read: Reader's Guide (First Design)

Box 45, Folder 7

The Big Read: Reader's Guide (Drafts of Preface)

Box 45, Folder 8

The Big Read: Reader's Guides: Phase 1 (Bradbury, Fitzgerald, Hurston, Lee)

Box 45, Folder 9

The Big Read: David Kipen Blog

Box 45, Folder 10

The Big Read: Egypt

Box 45, Folder 11

The Big Read: Egypt (Ray Bradbury Preface to Arabic Translation of Fahrenheit 451, limited Diplomatic Version, 2008)

Box 45, Folder 12

The Big Read: Russia

Box 45, Folder 13

The Big Read: Mexico

Box 45, Folder 14

The Big Read: Press Coverage

Box 45, Folder 15

The Big Read: Miscellaneous Letters

Box 45, Folder 16

The Big Read: NEA emails

Box 45, Folder 17

The Big Read: Poetry

Box 45, Folder 18

The Big Read: Publicity Materials

Box 46, Folder 1

International Programs: Open World Russian Cultural Leaders Keynote Addresses (2004)

Box 46, Folder 2

International Programs: UNESCO, Appointment as Head of Cultural Delegation (2005)

Box 46, Folder 3

International Programs: UNESCO (Correspondence)

Box 46, Folder 4

International Programs: Europalia.usa 2007

Box 46, Folder 5

International Programs: Europalia.usa 2007 (Correspondence)

Box 46, Folder 6

International Programs: Moscow Bibliobraz (2004)

Box 46, Folder 7

International Programs: Open World, Visit to Russia (October 2005)

Box 46, Folder 8

International Programs: Moscow Poetry Biennale (2007)

Box 46, Folder 9

International Programs: Open World, Russian Poets in U.S. (2005-2008)

Box 46, Folder 10

International Programs: Northern Ireland Poets (2008)

Box 46, Folder 11

International Programs: José Emilio Pacheco Celebration: Washington DC (2005)

Box 46, Folder 12

International Programs: Connecting Lines, U.S. / Mexico Exchange (2006)

Box 46, Folder 13

International Programs: Preamble for US Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (2016), MS. /Correspondence

Box 46, Folder 14

International Programs: Preamble for US Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement (2016), "Supporting Innovation, Creativity, & Enterprise"

Box 47, Folder 1

NEA Opera Honors: Program Announcement (2008)

Box 47, Folder 2

NEA Opera Honors: Ceremony (2008)

Box 47, Folder 3

NEA Opera Honors: Supreme Court Lunch (Oct. 31, 2008))

Box 47, Folder 4

NEA Opera Honors: Press Coverage (2008)

Box 47, Folder 5

NEA Opera Honors: Dana Gioia Remarks (2008)

Box 47, Folder 6

NEA Opera Honors: Ceremony (2009)

Box 47, Folder 7

NEA Opera Honors: Press Coverage (2009)

Box 47, Folder 8

NEA Opera Honors (2010)

Box 47, Folder 9

Miscellaneous NEA Programs: NEA Arts Education Programs

Box 47, Folder 10

Miscellaneous NEA Programs: National Heritage Fellowships (2003-2008)

Box 47, Folder 11

Miscellaneous NEA Programs: NEA Journalism Institutes

Box 47, Folder 12

Miscellaneous NEA Programs: NEA / University of Southern California

Box 47, Folder 13

Miscellaneous NEA Programs: NEA American Masterpieces: Announcement Event (2004)

Box 47, Folder 14

Miscellaneous NEA Programs: NEA American Masterpieces: Programs

Box 48, Folder 1

Poetry Out Loud: NEA/Poetry Foundation Correspondence (John Barr, Stephen Young)

Box 48, Folder 2

Poetry Out Loud: Pilot Program (2005)

Box 48, Folder 3

Poetry Out Loud: NEA Program Announcements (2005, 2006)

Box 48, Folder 4

Poetry Out Loud: Poetry Foundation Letter (2010)

Box 48, Folder 5

Poetry Out Loud: National Finals (2006)

Box 48, Folder 6

Poetry Out Loud: National Finals (2007)

Box 48, Folder 7

Poetry Out Loud: National Finals (2008)

Box 48, Folder 8

Poetry Out Loud: National Finals (2009)

Box 48, Folder 9

Poetry Out Loud: National Finals (2010)

Box 48, Folder 10

Poetry Out Loud: National Finals (2011)

Box 48, Folder 11

Poetry Out Loud: Miscellaneous Press

Box 48, Folder 12

Poetry Out Loud: NEA Internal Review (2008)

Box 48, Folder 13

Poetry Out Loud: Media Report (March 2006)

Box 48, Folder 14

Poetry Out Loud: Arts Education in the News piece (March 2007)

Box 48, Folder 15

Poetry Out Loud: Media Report (May 2006)

Box 48, Folder 16

Poetry Out Loud: Clip Report (April 2007)

Box 48, Folder 17

Poetry Out Loud: Program Guides (2005-2008)

Box 48, Folder 18

Poetry Out Loud: Teacher Guides (2005-2007)

Box 48, Folder 19

Poetry Out Loud: Anthology (2005)

Box 48, Folder 20

Poetry Out Loud: CDs/DVDs (2005-2011)

Box 48, Folder 21

Poetry Out Loud: DG's CD Script (2004)

Box 48, Folder 22

Poetry Out Loud: NEA emails

Box 49, Folder 1

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Awards History

Box 49, Folder 2

NEA Jazz Masters: Program Expansion (2003)

Box 49, Folder 3

NEA Jazz Masters Awards (2004)

Box 49, Folder 4

NEA Jazz Masters Awards (2005)

Box 49, Folder 5

NEA Jazz Masters Awards (2006)

Box 49, Folder 6

NEA Jazz Masters Awards (2007)

Box 49, Folder 7

NEA Jazz Masters Awards (2008)

Box 49, Folder 8

NEA Jazz Masters Awards (2009)

Box 49, Folder 9

NEA Jazz Masters Tours (2005-2007)

Box 49, Folder 10

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Major Media Pieces

Box 49, Folder 11

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Letters

Box 49, Folder 12

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Jazz in the School

Box 49, Folder 13

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Jazz in the Schools DVD

Box 49, Folder 14

NEA Jazz Masters: Reunions (2004-2008)

Box 49, Folder 15

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Congressional Events

Box 49, Folder 16

NEA Jazz Masters: NPR Jazz Profiles (Radio Show CDs, 2005) 

Box 49, Folder 17

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): Dave Brubeck on Cultural Diplomacy (Audio CD: A private recording for Secretary Dina Powell)

Box 49, Folder 18

NEA Jazz Masters (2003-2009): NEA emails

Box 50, Folder 1

Operation Homecoming: Program Announcement (April 2004)

Box 50, Folder 2

Operation Homecoming: Library of Congress Event (Sept. 12, 2006)

Box 50, Folder 3

Operation Homecoming: Random House Book (2006)

Box 50, Folder 4

Operation Homecoming: Random House Book, DG Preface MS. (2006)

Box 50, Folder 5

Operation Homecoming: CD

Box 50, Folder 6

Operation Homecoming: Movie (April 2007)

Box 50, Folder 7

Operation Homecoming: Program Book

Box 50, Folder 8

Operation Homecoming: Guide for Writers

Box 50, Folder 9

Operation Homecoming: New Yorker Issue (June 12, 2006)

Box 50, Folder 10

Operation Homecoming: Muse of Fire (Film by Lawrence Bridges)

Box 50, Folder 11

Operation Homecoming: Letters

Box 50, Folder 12

Operation Homecoming: Complete Richard Wilbur footage (DVD)

Box 50, Folder 13

Operation Homecoming: Symphony Space NPR Event (2006)

Box 50, Folder 14

Operation Homecoming: Poetry Magazine Controversy (2004)

Box 50, Folder 15

Operation Homecoming: Great American Voices (Military Bases Opera Tour, 2005-2006)

Box 50, Folder 16

Operation Homecoming: NEA emails

Box 51, Folder 1

National Book Festival: Poetry Pavilion (2004)

Box 51, Folder 2

National Book Festival: Poetry Pavilion (2005)

Box 51, Folder 3

National Book Festival: Poetry Pavilion (2006)

Box 51, Folder 4

National Book Festival: Poetry Pavilion (2007)

Box 51, Folder 5

National Book Festival: Poetry Pavilion (2008)

Box 51, Folder 6

National Medal of the Arts (2003)

Box 51, Folder 7

National Medal of the Arts (2004)

Box 51, Folder 8

National Medal of the Arts (2005)

Box 51, Folder 9

National Medal of the Arts (2006)

Box 51, Folder 10

National Medal of the Arts (2007)

Box 51, Folder 11

National Medal of the Arts (2008)

Box 51, Folder 12

National Medal of the Arts (Correspondence)

Box 51, Folder 13

White House Poetry Event (2003)

Box 51, Folder 14

White House Poetry Day (February 12, 2003)

Box 51, Folder 15

White House Salute to American Authors Event (March 22, 2004)

Box 51, Folder 16

White House Black Music Month Event (June 2004)

Box 51, Folder 17

White House Shakespeare Event (April 20,2005)

Box 51, Folder 18

NEA Poetry programs: September 11 Remembrance (2003)

Box 51, Folder 19

NEA Poetry programs: W. H. Auden Centenary: Folger Library / UVA (2007)

Box 51, Folder 20

NEA Poetry programs: Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial (2008)

Box 51, Folder 21

NEA Poetry programs: H. W. Longfellow Bicentennial (2007)

 

Other 2007-2018

Physical Description: 1.58 Linear Feet(3 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, press coverage, a scrapbook, and other documentation related to Gioia's tenure as California Poet Laureate; and materials related to his 2007 Stanford University commencement address, including drafts, responses, and reprints.
Box 52, Folder 1

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Letters to Laureate

Box 52, Folder 2

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): California Arts Council

Box 52, Folder 3

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Statewide Gathering of California Laureates (Tujunga 2018)

Box 52, Folder 4

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Nomination and Confirmation

Box 52, Folder 5

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Anthony Rendon (Speaker of the House)

Box 52, Folder 6

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Poetry Out Loud

Box 52, Folder 7

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Presentation: California Library Association (2016)

Box 52, Folder 8

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Application for Second Term

Box 53, Folder 1

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): BBC Radio Documentary, "Every County in the State of California"

Box 53, Folder 2

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): 58-County Tour: Events

Box 53, Folder 3

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): Selected Press Coverage

Box 53, Folder 4

California Poet Laureate (2015-2018): "On the Road with the Poet Laureate" Personal Scrapbook

Box 54, Folder 1

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Drafts

Box 54, Folder 2

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Final Version

Box 54, Folder 3

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Letters

Box 54, Folder 4

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Emails

Box 54, Folder 5

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Coverage/Responses

Box 54, Folder 6

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Wall Street Journal Version

Box 54, Folder 7

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Reprints

Box 54, Folder 8

Stanford Commencement (2007): Programs

Box 54, Folder 9

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): American Record Guide

Box 54, Folder 10

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Journal of Singing Reprints

Box 54, Folder 11

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Liberal Education Reprints

Box 54, Folder 12

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Cultural Quarterly Reprints

Box 54, Folder 13

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): The Dramatist Reprints

Box 54, Folder 14

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Young Arts Reprints

Box 54, Folder 15

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): The Gilmore Reprint

Box 54, Folder 16

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey Program Reprint

Box 54, Folder 17

Stanford Commencement Address (2007): Creating a Life You'll Love

 

Correspondence 1975-2019

Physical Description: 11.42 Linear Feet(21 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Dana Gioia's letter and email correspondence, primarily with other poets, publishers, and scholars. Most boxes also include some related documents, such as biographical material and correspondence with others about the subject.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically. Gioia's physical arrangement was retained, however, as he kept related correspondents together, such as his college professors or publishing house employees.
Box 55, Folder 1-4

Elizabeth Bishop (1975-1992)

Box 56, Folder 1-4

Ray Bradbury (1994-2011)

Box 56, Folder 5-12

Dave Brubeck (2004-2013)

Box 56, Folder 13-15

Anthony Burgess (1980-1984)

Box 55, Folder 5-21

Robert Fitzgerald (1975-2017)

Box 57, Folder 1-10

Jack Foley (1992-2013)

Box 75, Folder 1-18

Jack Foley (2000-2019)

Box 60, Folder 1-3

Donald Hall (1979-2008)

Box 60, Folder 4

Ian Hamilton (1990-1992)

Box 58, Folder 1-15

John Haines (1988-2014)

Box 60, Folder 5-7

Anthony Hecht (1986-2013)

Box 59, Folder 1-10

Alva Henderson (1982-12016)

Box 61, Folder 1-10

Daniel Hoffman (1987-2013)

Box 72, Folder 1-7

Barbara Howes (1977-1994)

Box 62, Folder 1-12

Donald Justice (1989-1997)

Box 63, Folder 1-13

Donald Justice (1977-2005)

Box 64, Folder 1-13

Ted Kooser (1980-2019)

Box 65, Folder 1-13

David Mason (1978-1992)

Box 66, Folder 1-12

David Mason (1993-2014)

Box 67, Folder 1-12

David Mason (1999-2018)

Box 60, Folder 8-9

William Maxwell (1985-2000)

Box 68, Folder 1-4

Samuel Menashe (1979-2012)

Box 68, Folder 5-6

Robert Mezey (1988-2015)

Box 68, Folder 7-8

N. Scott Momaday (1985-2010)

Box 69, Folder 1-13

Frederick Morgan, Paula Deitz: Hudson Review (1976-2005)

Box 68, Folder 9-14

Howard Moss (1982-1987)

Box 70, Folder 1-2

John Nims (1981-2000)

Box 70, Folder 3-8

Robert Philips (1979-2004)

Box 70, Folder 9-14

Peter Russell (1984-2003)

Box 71, Folder 1

David Slavitt (1990-2016)

Box 72, Folder 8-14

William Jay Smith (1979-2015)

Box 71, Folder 2

W.D. Snodgrass (1991-1999)

Box 74, Folder 1-3

Radcliffe Squires (1976-1991)

Box 74, Folder 4-5

Jon Stallworthy (2001-2014)

Box 73, Folder 1-14

Kevin Starr (2003-2017)

Box 71, Folder 3-7

Felix Stefanile (1980-2009)

Box 74, Folder 6

Charles Tomlinson (1986-1994)

Box 74, Folder 7-12

Richard Wilbur (1975-2017)

Box 74, Folder 13-14

Miller Williams (1991-2006)

 

Broadsides and posters 1983-2018

Physical Description: 3.75 Linear Feet(2 boxes)

Scope and Contents

Poetry broadsides primarily authored by Dana Gioia, with a few by other poets. Also includes posters either featuring Gioia's poetry, or advertising poetry readings by him. Box 80 includes an incomplete set of The Printed Poem, The Poem as Print, an oversize broadside series edited by Dana Gioia and Alastair Reid, printed by James Trissel, and published by the Press at Colorado College. Posters include two samples of advertising used in the Los Angeles and New York City public transit systems featuring Gioia's poetry, and a few posters for Gioia's poetry readings. Box 81 includes broadsides printed by Michael Peich (Aralia Press, Green Library Press); Norman Clayton; and others including hit & run press, Red Hen Press, and Salt-Works Press.

Arrangement

Arranged by size, with oversize materials in box 81, and by printer or format within each box.
Box 80, Folder 1

Broadsides printed by Norman Clayton 1991-2018

Box 80, Folder 2

Broadsides printed by Michael Peich 1983-2014

Box 80, Folder 3

Broadsides printed by others 1983-2018

Box 81, Folder 1

The Printed Poem, The Poem as Print: The Press at Colorado College 1985

Box 81, Folder 2

Broadsides 1987-2017

Box 81, Folder 3

Posters 1997-2006 and undated