Click here to access AnnOnline, a magazine that "talks to the people who are moving, changing, challenging, and protecting… the world." Here you'll find a RealAudio interview with Hass, a short biography, a recording of Hass reading a passage from his book, or a few related links to find more information about the author.

AnnOnline: Robert Hass: The Interview
http://www.annonline.com/interviews/971113/index.html

In this link to the University of Pennsylvania's informative course on American poetry, you'll find a short Webpage devoted to the former laureate. Click here to gain access to one of the poet laureate's prose poems ("Early April"), plus you can link to an introduction to the poet by Readings in Contemporary Poetry. You may also use the search engine to look up many other contemporary and modern poets.

Robert Hass: Robert Hass Interview
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Visit this page to read a good interview with the poet, given to Grace Cavalieri of the American Poetry Review. In this interview, you'll read about Hass' opinions on imagination, nature poetry, and how he feels about his own vast body of work and its many themes. An excellent and revealing interview with the famous poet.

BIOGRAPHY
Robert Hass (b. 1941) was born in San Francisco, California. Growing up in San Francisco in the 1950's, Hass was influenced by Beat poets such as Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg as well as local poet Kenneth Rexroth. He received his B.A. from St. Mary's College of California and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford. He published his first collection of poetry Field Guide in 1973, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. His second book of poetry, Praise, won the William Carlos Williams in 1979. In addition to his outstanding poetry, Hass won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism for Twentieth-Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry, published in 1984, and has translated several books of poetry by the great Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz. From 1995 to 1997 he served as poet laureate of the United States. He has taught at the State University of New York, Buffalo, at his alma mater, and since 1987 he has been a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.