Poetic Reflections On 9/11
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Robert Hass was Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Robert Hass was Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. He now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Former Robert Hass served as US poet laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. In this interview with Terry Gross, conducted only a few weeks after the events of Sept. 11, 2009, Hass discusses the power of poetry.
This interview originally aired on Sept. 21, 2001.
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