Join us for an evening of readings by Dana Gioia, award-winning and internationally acclaimed poet and chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts since 2003. Mr. Gioia will read several favorite passages from one of the greatest and most loved poems in Western literature, The Divine Comedy. ...

May is a month for poetry! Before it ends, the AEI cultural series will hold its fifth event. Last year Jody Bottum read from his book The Fall & Other Poems. Now Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will talk about the role of...

The Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, one of the most comprehensive polls of art and literature comprehension ever administered, presents a detailed but bleak assessment of the decline of reading's role in the nation's culture. With our society's massive shift toward electronic media for entertainment and information...

Meghan Cox Gurdon's acclaimed column, "The Fever Swamp," found in National Review Online, brings us the misadventures of a family of six, run by the author in a cheerfully haphazard fashion: "Through no fault of our own, and without ever intending it, my husband and I live in a...

Children's poems in Washington! To remind ourselves that not everything in the District of Columbia absolutely must concern politics, Michael Novak has invited Joseph Bottum and friends to read new and classic poems for children at AEI. Bring your kids, young and old, and join us for an evening of...