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Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. [ 1 ]
"Those Winter Sundays" is a poem written in 1962 by American Robert Hayden (1913–1980), while he was teaching as an English professor at Fisk University. The poem is one of Hayden's most recognized works, together with "Middle Passage". [1]
Free Press Flashback explores the work of Robert Hayden, the celebrated poet who grew up in Detroit's Paradise Valley.
The American poet Robert Hayden started researching with the intent of writing his poem in the late 1930s [2] and started to write "Middle Passage" in 1941 and sought to include it in The Black Spear, an "epic sequence" of poetry inspired by Stephen Vincent Benét's work John Brown’s Body.
Robert Hayden (1913–1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. Robert Hayden may also refer to: Robert Haydn, a fictional character in The Law of Ueki
Marge Piercy, (BA) Poetry and Fiction (1957); author of seventeen volumes of poems; Paisley Rekdal, (MFA) poet and essayist. Poet Laureate of Utah. Theodore Roethke, (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1932) regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and two National Book Awards for Poetry.
This is a list of notable African American poets. For other African Americans, ... Robert Hayden, poet, essayist, and educator [17] Gil Scott-Heron, poet, author [18]
At the age of 40, Dove was the youngest person in the position and the first African American since the title was changed to Poet Laureate (Robert Hayden had served as the first non-white Consultant in Poetry from 1976 to 1978, and Gwendolyn Brooks had been the last Consultant in Poetry in 1985–86