An Afternoon with Poet Robert Hass & Friends

Join us for this extraordinary opportunity to hear one of America’s most engaging poets in person at a benefit for The West Marin Review (WMR). Inverness resident Robert Hass was US Poet Laureate from 1995 to 1997. He has received numerous accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize and the MacArthur “Genius” Award, and has also contributed poems to WMR, the award-winning journal published by Point Reyes Books in collaboration with a group of professional artists, writers, and editors from West Marin. Bob will be joined by two other poets, Giovanni Singleton is the winner of the 81st California Book Award for Poetry. She is also a teacher and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, a journal dedicated to the work of artists and writers of the African Diaspora and other contested spaces. Poet John Shoptaw won the Northern California Book Award in poetry this year for book Times Beach. The book is an ambitious collection of poems that evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them

About West Marin Review: Founded in 2006, West Marin Review published its first volume in 2008. The publication is a collaborative effort by a dedicated team of volunteers. Local artists, writers, poets, and community members serve as reviewers for each issue. The Review received a design award from The New York Book Show in 2010.

About Robert Hass: Bob Hass is a poet, essayist, and translator. His books include Time and Materials (National Book Award in poetry and the Pulitzer Prize), and The Apple Trees at Olema. Essay collections include What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World. Twice a winner of National Book Critics Circle Award, he served as US Poet Laureate from 1995–1997. An active environmentalist, he serves on the board of directors of International Rivers and River of Words. He is married to the poet Brenda Hillman. With her he divides his time between the Point Reyes peninsula and Berkeley where he is a UC professor.