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<DIV align=center><B>READING<BR><BR>BY <BR><BR>ROBERT HASS<BR><BR>Thursday, May
10, 2007<BR>8:00PM<BR>Humanities Instructional Building, Room
135<BR><BR></B></DIV>Robert Hass has published many books of poetry including <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300076339/thebarclayagency"><I>Field
Guide</A></I>, <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880012420/thebarclayagency"><I>Praise</A></I>,
<A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880012129/thebarclayagency"><I>Human
Wishes</A></I>, and <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880015578/thebarclayagency"><I>Sun
Under Wood</A></I>, as well as a book of essays on poetry, <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/088001539X/thebarclayagency"><I>Twentieth
Century Pleasures</A></I>. Hass translated many of the works of Nobel
Prize-winning Polish poet, <I>Czeslaw Milosz</I>, and he edited <I>Selected
Poems: 1954-1986</I> by Thomas Transtromer, <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0880013516/thebarclayagency"><I>The
Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa</A></I>, and <I>Poet’s
Choice: Poems for Everyday Life</I>. He was the guest editor of the 2001 edition
of <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743203844/thebarclayagency"><I>Best
American Poetry</A></I>. His deep commitment to environmental issues led him to
found <A href="http://www.riverofwords.org">River of Words</A> (ROW), an
organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with
the Library of Congress Center for the Book. Hass is chairman of ROW’s board of
directors, and judges their annual international environmental poetry and art
contest for youth. He is also a board member of International Rivers Network.
Robert Hass 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. His forthcoming books include <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593761465/thebarclayagency">Now
& Then</A>, a collection of his <I>Washington Post</I> articles (Shoemaker
& Hoard, April 2007) and a collection of poems entitled <A
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1593761465/thebarclayagency"><I>Time
and Materials</A></I> (Ecco/HarperCollins, Fall 2007).<BR><BR>Awarded the
MacArthur Fellowship, twice the National Book Critics’ Circle Award (in 1984 and
1997), and the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1973, Robert Hass is a professor
of English at UC Berkeley.<BR><BR>This reading is sponsored by the MFA Programs
in Writing, Department of English, and the International Center for Writing and
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