Lecture: Politics and Poetry: a Reading and Conversation

Speaker: Robert Hass

Professor of the Graduate School Robert Hass reflects on his experience with the way the politics with which we live enters his poetry and that of his contemporaries.

Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.

4:30 p.m. - Reception
5:00 p.m. - Presentation
6:00 p.m. - Optional Early Bird Dinner