Dana Gioia, April 24, 2008.  Socrates in San Francisco hosted a sold-out event with over 250 people in the Financial District's Julia Morgan Ballroom.  Gioia spoke on "The Role of Art in Human Community."  Poet, critic, and best selling-anthologist, Dana Gioia is one of America's leading contemporary men of letters.  Winner of the American Book Aware, Gioia is internationally recgnized for his role in reviving rhyme, meter, and narraative in contemporary poetry. Gioia's poems, translations, essays and reviews have appeared in many magazines including the New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Slate, and The Hudson Review.  A former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Gioia succeeded in garnering enthusiastic bi-partisan support in the United States Congress for the mission of the Arts Endowment, as well as in strengthening the national consensus in favor of public funding for the arts and arts education.