LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lake County Library will host a conversation and poetry reading featuring Dana Gioia, California’s State Poet Laureate, on Wednesday, July 6.
The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Lakeport branch, located at 1425 N. High St.
This internationally known poet, editor and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts will read from his newest book “99 Poems: New and Selected” and share his love of poetry and literacy.
The program is free and open to the public.
Gioia is a native Californian with diverse interests whose work has earned many honors and his poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines.
Before becoming a full-time professional writer in 1992, he worked for General Foods for 15 years.
Gioia served two terms as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts where he initiated a number of outreach programs such as Shakespeare in American Communities, Poetry Out Loud and Operation Homecoming.
Since 2011 he has been the Judge Winey Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California. In 2015 he was appointed California’s State Poet Laureate.
Gioia’s Web site is http://danagioia.com .
The Lake County Library is on the Internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary .
Jan Cook is a library technician at the Lakeport Library.
Lakeport Library to host visit from California Poet Laureate
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