Robert L. Hass is a poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 – 1997.Hass's first collection, "Field Guide," was published in 1973. He has published seven collections of poetry and six books of criticism. He has also translated the work of poet Czesław Miłosz.Hass 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.Hass received his undergraduate degree from Saint Mary's College his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Stanford University.