Every now and then San Francisco-born former U.S. Poet Laureate and literary award-magnet Robert Hass puts out a dense, delicious collection of essays. The new one, What Light Can Do, trades in all ...

With specificity, clarity, and inspired insight, Hass (Times and Materials), a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, painstakingly dissects and analyzes poetic form. Hass’s reading is ...

In 1997, former poet laureate Hass inaugurated the now famous Poet's Choice column in the Washington Post Book World , in which he chose a poem and accompanied it ...

To write about Robert Hass is to face describing an abundantly rich life. Besides being a once-syndicated columnist who provided a weekly dose of excellent poetry by others (with accessible commentary ...

Robert Hass appears with fellow poet Forrest Gander as part of the Merwin Conservancy’s “Green Room” lecture series on Wednesday at the Doris Duke Theatre. “It was thrilling, the way he and Paula ...

Yeah, I know, Robert Hass is barely in this picture. But at least you can see how full Wright Hall was last night. Hass' poetry is intimate in the way it reveals the speaker's stream of conciousness.

“Summer Snow,” the first book of poems in nearly a decade by Robert Hass, is a volume of commemorations. I would use the word “elegy,” but Hass, who served as U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, is ...

Robert Hass, Age 82, was reunited with his family on April 23, 2024. Parents are mother, Gene Hass, father, William Hass. Brothers were Donald Hass{wife Joan Hass}, Gerald Hass, (wife still alive ...