Robert Hass (March 1, 1941 – ) was U.S. Poet Laureate for two terms, from 1995 to 1997. His other honors include: the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award (1972), the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America (1979), a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism (1984) and poetry (1996), a MacArthur Fellowship (1984), a National Book Award (2007), and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry (2008).
