This is a video from the Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival 2009. This segment contains poetry by Robert Hass, and one poem read in unison by most of the featured poets at the festival. Below is a short description of Robert Hass. ROBERT HASS, Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005, author of sixteen books including poetry, essays, translations, and anthologies, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, Pulitzer Prize 2008, National Book Award 2007, two-time National Book Critics Circle Award, MacArthur Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Professor. If you would like to find out more about the creators of the Berkeley Watershed Poetry Festival, go to: http://poetryflash.org For more about the videographer go to: http://rhodespoetry.com