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Who's Who
Writer
CYNTHIA HAVEN seemed
ideal to tackle the many
lives of Dana Gioia, since she's worn so many hats
herself. A freelance literary critic for the San
Francisco Chronicle, Haven has covered poetry, opera and
theater for newspapers and magazines throughout the United
States and in Britain. While she was news director at the
School of Education, she co-authored two books on learning.
More recently, she has seen her own poetry published. "As a
journalist, I became convinced that someone needed to
describe the contemporary scene in language that would reach
the kind of audience that used to be interested in poetry
half a century ago," she says. "We are all shareholders in
poetry."
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