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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 ]
Free Press Flashback explores the work of Robert Hayden, the celebrated poet who grew up in Detroit's Paradise Valley.
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
In 2009, Hayden's poem was included in the Poetry Foundation's DC Poetry Tour, a multimedia tour of Washington DC under leads poets point of view, through a collaboration lived in a fully way. [ 20 ] "Those Winter Sundays" was one of the poems which were celebrated at the Black History Month 2018 in February.
The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate, ... 1976–1978: Robert Hayden;
Robert Hayden, (M.A. 1944). Former Poet Laureate of the United States. Garrett Hongo, a finalist for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and winner of the 1987 Lamont Poetry Prize. Lawrence Kasdan (MA) three-times Academy Awards-nominated screenwriter and director.
As poet laureate, which carries with it a $2,000 honorarium, Smith will be expected to bring poetry to segments of the community that may not be particularly familiar with it.
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.