Zen Luminaries: Robert Hass Talks with Jon Joseph: On Working with Milosz, Haiku, & His Own Poetry

Jon Joseph talks with acclaimed poet Robert Hass about the great Japanese Haiku masters, Hass's poetry, and his twenty-five-year collaboration with the poet Czeslaw Milosz.

Robert Hass, a Bay Area native, is one of the most prolific and celebrated American poets of the last half century. He served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1995–1997, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, MacArthur Fellowship, and Wallace Stevens Award.
Among the early influences on Hass’s work were the Chan-Zen leanings of Beat poets Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Lew Welch. Later, Hass would publish The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994). Hass also translated and worked closely with Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz for many years.

PZI Zen Luminaries event, August 11, 2024