Event

Dana Gioia: 99 Poems

Presented by Peninsula Arts & Letters and Kepler's Books

Thursday, May 26, 2016

7:30pm

Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

We are so honored to bring the newly appointed Poet Laureate of California, Dana Gioia, to celebrate the publication of his new collection. We hope youll join us in welcoming this profound and meaningful artist to Keplers Books in Menlo Park.

Dana Gioia is widely known in the literary community for his rigorous craft and his imaginative use of traditional forms, rhyme and meter. He tackles the everyday drama and emotional moments in our lives and explores universal themes like grief, love, time, family and his own mortality. This is the first collection of Gioias to gather work from across his storied career, including a dozen remarkable new poems.

The Washington Post raves, 99 Poems is one of the most anticipated collections of 2016, and it does not disappoint. No matter what the topicmystery, place remembrance, imagination, stories, songs, loveor the form, these polished pieces are vibrant and inviting.

Dana Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet. Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia is a native Californian of Italian and Mexican descent. He earned an M.B.A at Stanford University and an M.A. in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. In December of 2015, Gioia was named Poet Laureate of California by Governor Jerry Brown and will advocate for the education and practice of poetry during his two-year term. He has published four full-length collections of poetry, as well as eight chapbooks. He divides his time between Los Angeles and Sonoma County, California.