Gilchrist Haas is an American poet and was born near Valley Forge, PA in the 1960s. After studying music and philosophy in his early adulthood, he traveled extensively in Southeast Asia, where he completed his first six books of poetry. Haas lived for many years in Taipei, where he taught English and worked in children's theater. He currently resides with his family in Honolulu.
Haas's works include seven collections of poems: Pages in a Second Round, Molly's Song (and Other Poems), Baron, All Too Baron, Opus Seven: Two Small Books in the Major and Minor Modes, The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems), And Dragons in the Crease, and Some Sentences: 170 Sonnets, as well as three book-length poems: Chronicling the Era of Common Fun (a verse novella), The Stage with No True North (a verse play in five acts), and Reading Adorno, Book One (a long verse-essay on Adorno's philosophy of language).
Four of the aforementioned collections (Opus Seven, The Emerald Gong, And Dragons in the Crease, and Some Sentences) are now available in print, and the remaining six books have also been published in two volumes (Third Nature: The First Three Books of Gilchrist Haas and No True North: Three Book-length Poems). An anthology, The Era of Common Fun: Selected Shorter Poems, was released in 2024 and includes an autobiographical essay, "Haas at Sixty." Haas is currently working on an eleventh book (Some More Sentences: 170 Other Poems).
Gilchrist Haas is the penname of Andy Jones. He may be contacted at jonesbaron23@gmail.com.
Chronological List of Books:
Pages in a Second Round (begun 1992, completed 1997, revised 2004]
Baron, All Too Baron (begun 1997, completed 2003)
Molly's Song (and Other Poems) (2003)
Chronicling the Era of Common Fun (2004)
Reading Adorno, Part One (2004)
The Stage with No True North (2004)
Opus Seven (begun 2005, completed 2007) (published version)
The Emerald Gong (and Other Poems) (begun 2008, completed 2016) (published version)
And Dragons in the Crease (begun 2016, completed 2025) (published version)
Some Sentences: 170 Sonnets (begun 2025, completed 2026) (published version)
The Era of Common Fun: Selected Shorter Poems (compiled and published 2024; available in print only)
Additional Items of Interest:
"Haas at Forty" A statement about Haas's poetry addressed to his readers, written in 2005 and published as an appendix to The Era of Common Fun: Selected Shorter Poems.
"Milton with Aristotle: Some Guidelines for Future Inquiries." A research paper for a course on "Milton and Rhetoric" that offers suggestions for reading the works of Milton against the backdrop of Aristotelian thought with which Milton was extensively familiar.
A Lehusa Be (AH-lay-HOO-zuh-BAY): The Prose Writings of Gilchrist Haas (2003). A collection of essays written in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
The Man in the Poem: The (Self-) Selected Poems of Gilchrist Haas (compiled 2005, revised 2008). An earlier anthology only available online. It is mostly superceded by The Era of Common Fun: Selected Shorter Poems but includes several longer items not found elsewhere.