• Poet Robert Hayden was born Asa Bundy Sheffey into a poor family in the Paradise Valley neighborhood of Detroit; he had an emotionally traumatic childhood…
  • By the time Hayden graduated from high school in 1930, he had committed himself to becoming a poet. From 1932 to 1936, Hayden attended Detroit City...
  • Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - February 25, 1980) was an African-American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976.
  • Robert Hayden was made poet laureate of Senegal in 1966 and ten years later became America's first black poet laureate. Acclaimed as People's Poet early in his...
  • Robert Hayden - Robert Hayden's poetry, which explored his concerns about race and African-American history, gained international recognition in the 1960s...
  • Robert Hayden was born Asa Bundy Sheffey in 1913 in Detroit, Michigan. His parents separated before his birth, and he was fostered by a fractured, conflicted...
  • The first African American poet-laureate of the United States (as Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry).
  • Robert Hayden was an American poet and scholar who is widely considered one of the most important and influential African American poets of the 20th century.
  • Robert Hayden was an African American poet and professor who is best known as the author of poems, including “Those Winter Sundays” and “The Middle...