TWA Poet: Dana Gioia

Born: 1950

Today is also the birthday of poet and essayist Dana Gioia, born in Hawthorn, California (1950). Gioia’s résumé is rather unpoetic. He attended business school at Stanford, claiming to be “the only person in history who went to business school to be a poet,” and ended up a vice president at General Foods, where he marketed products like Kool-Aid. A year…