Careful attention to the world is evident in all of ROBERT HASS’s work as a poet, translator, educator, and lifelong advocate of environmental causes. Since his appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate (1995-1997), he has launched the Watershed conference, which introduces inner-city children to nature writing; River of Words, which combines environmental and arts education; and a nationwide anti-illiteracy campaign. A MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellow, other honors include two National Book Critics Circle Awards, and publication of his first book, Field Guide, in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The major English translator of Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, and editor of The Essential Haiku, his publications include the poetry volumes Sun Under Wood (1996), Human Wishes (1989), and Praise (1979), and Twentieth Century Pleasures (1984), a collection of critical essays. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, he has taught at the University of California at Berkeley since 1989.