Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. He was one of the leaders of the avant-garde poetry movement in Poland in the 1930s, was in the Resistance during World War II, and edited an anti-Nazi anthology. After several years in the diplomatic service he severed his ties with the post-war ... read more

Robert Hass was born in San Francisco in 1941 and now live in Berkeley.  He is the author of five volumes of poetry.  The most recent, Times and Materials, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. ... read more