[Cwgrad-announcements] Reading by Robert Hass at UCI--Thursday, May 10

[Andrew Winer]

READING

BY 

ROBERT HASS

Thursday, May 10, 2007
8:00PM
Humanities Instructional Building, Room 135


Robert Hass has published many books of poetry including Field Guide, Praise, Human Wishes, and Sun Under Wood, as well as a book of essays on poetry, Twentieth Century Pleasures. Hass translated many of the works of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, and he edited Selected Poems: 1954-1986 by Thomas Transtromer, The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, and Poet's Choice: Poems for Everyday Life. He was the guest editor of the 2001 edition of Best American Poetry. 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. 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 Now & Then, a collection of his Washington Post articles (Shoemaker & Hoard, April 2007) and a collection of poems entitled Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins, Fall 2007).

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.

This reading is sponsored by the MFA Programs in Writing, Department of English, and the International Center for Writing and Translation. 
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