Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, announced recently that he would leave his post to return to poetry, and the Aspen Institute. During his six-year tenure, Gioia built support and funding for the NEA, as he discussed during his February visit to Zócalo. We just posted a brief clip from his visit, during which he discusses why reading matters (the subject of one oft-commented upon NEA study):

His full talk is available here, and worth watching (or listening).