On Friday, May 1 The Trinity Forum hosted from Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Poet Laureate of California, Dana Gioia. Dana shared his unique insights about beauty, poetry, and solitude. Dana encourages us to use this time of quarantine to begin afresh.

Learn more about Dana Gioia.

 

 

T.S. Eliot

Wallace Stevens

Jacques Maritain

Thomas Acquinas

A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce

Georgia O'Keeffe

Étienne Mallarmé

Edgar Allen Poe

Friedrich Nietzsche
Horace

Catullus

Virgil

W.H. Auden

Philip Larkin

Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson

A.E. Stallings

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

John Greenleaf Whittier

King Lear, by William Shakespeare

The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoevsky

C.S. Lewis

Immanuel Kant

Frederick Turner

Makoto Fujimura

 

 

“Poetry, Imagination, and Spiritual Formation” an Evening Conversation in with Dana Gioia, September 11, 2019

“Why Poetry Matters” an Evening Conversation with Dana Gioia, April 20, 2016 

“Why Beauty Matters: The Significance of Beauty in Art, Faith, and Politics” an Evening Conversation with Dana Gioia, April 1, 2014 

“Poetry, Prayer, and Passion” an Evening Conversation with Dana Gioia, October 18, 2012

“Art + Faith: A Theology of Making” an Online Conversation with Makoto Fujimura, January 29, 2021

“Culture Care: Mending to Make New” an Online Conversation with Makoto Fujimura, August 7, 2020

“Culture Care” an Evening Conversation in with Makoto Fujimura, September 19, 2017

“Culture Care in a Fragmented Modern World” an Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura, November 4, 2016

“Beauty in a Broken World” an Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura, March 31, 2016

 

Special thanks to Ned Bustard for the artwork and Andrew Peterson for the music.