Robert L. Hass is an American poet who has received major recognition for his work. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997, a position that brought his poetry to a wider national audience. Hass won the National Book Award in 2007 and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2008 for his collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014, he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, further cementing his place among significant contemporary American poets.