Robert L Hass was born on March 1,1941 and is an American poet.
16 Facts About Robert Hass
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Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997.
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Robert Hass was born in San Francisco and grew up in San Rafael.
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Robert Hass grew up with an alcoholic mother, a major topic in the 1996 poem collection Sun Under Wood.
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Awestruck by Gary Snyder and Allen Ginsberg, among others in the 1950s Bay Area poetry scene, Robert Hass entertained the idea of becoming a beatnik.
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Robert Hass graduated from Marin Catholic High School in 1958.
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Robert Hass has been hailed as "a lyrical virtuoso who is able to turn even cooking recipes into poetry".
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Robert Hass is married to the poet and antiwar activist Brenda Hillman, who is a professor at Saint Mary's College of California.
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Robert Hass graduated from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California in 1963, and received his MA and Ph.
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Robert Hass taught literature and writing at the University at Buffalo in 1967.
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Robert Hass has been a visiting faculty member in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa on several occasions, and was a panelist at the Workshop's 75th anniversary celebration in June 2011.
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Robert Hass serves as a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, was a trustee of the Griffin Poetry Prize, and works actively for literacy and the environment.
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In 1999 Robert Hass appeared in Wildflowers, the debut film by director Melissa Painter.
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Robert Hass's poems tend to vary in structure as he alternates between prose-like blocks and free verse.
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Robert Hass's poems have been said to have a stylistic clarity, seen in his simple, clear language and precise imagery.
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Robert Hass's watershed program expanded into the non-profit organization River of Words.