A poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force, whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. In his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate (1995-1997), he spent two years battling American illiteracy, armed with the mantra, “imagination makes communities.” His deep commitment to environmental issues led him to found River of Words (ROW) , an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
His many books of poetry include Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood, a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. Hass translated Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa; Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His collection of poems Time and Materials won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
* On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 at 4 p.m. we welcome Robert Hass in an interview conducted by faculty poet, Carol Frost, followed by a Question & Answer Session.
* On Wednesday evening, January 20, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. we will once again welcome Mr. Hass to the stage for the festival’s Gala Reading.
These are both ticketed public events. See xxx link for more information or to purchase tickets.
ROBERT HASS is a poet of great eloquence, clarity, and force, whose work is rooted in the landscapes of his native Northern California. He brings the kind of energy in his poetry to his work as an essayist, translator, and activist on behalf of poetry, literacy, and the environment. In his tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate, he spent two years battling American illiteracy, armed with the mantra, “imagination makes communities.”
His many books of poetry include Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood, a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. Hass translated Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Tomas Transtromer, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa; Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life; and Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (with Paul Ebenkamp). His collection of poems Time and Materials won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
As US Poet Laureate (1995-1997), his deep commitment to environmental issues led him to found River of Words (ROW) , an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book. He was chosen as Educator of the Year by the North American Association on Environmental Education and, in 2005, elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He received the MacArthur “Genius” award, twice the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He is a professor of English at UC Berkeley.
“Hass has significantly broadened the role of poet laureate to include not only his love for poetry but also his concern for literacy and his passion for environmentalism.” — Los Angeles Times
View poet's pageCAROL FROST’s books include Pure, Love and Scorn, Honeycomb, winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal, and Entwined: Three Lyric Sequences (2014). She has received awards and honors from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Elliston Award, Poets’ Prize, and the PEN Syndication Fiction Project Awards. Her poems have been anthologized in four Pushcart Prize anthologies, and New Anthology of American Poetry, Postmodernisms, and Breaking the Jaws of Silence: 60 American Poets. Her work appears in many journals inThe Atlantic, American Poetry Review, and The New York Times. She is the Theodore Bruce and Barbara Lawrence Alfond Professor of English at Rollins College and directs Winter With the Writers.
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