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Robert HaydenRobert Hayden (August 4, 1913 - 1980), born as Asa Bundy Sheffey, was a United States African-American educator and poet. He grew up in an adopted family in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised as a Baptist, but converted to the Bah' religion during the early 1940s after marrying a Bah', Inez Morris. He is one of the most well-known Bah' poets and his religion influenced much of his work. Robert Hayden was elected to the American Academy of Poets in 1975. From 1976 - 1978, Hayden was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Comments by the editor of his Collected Poetry (1985) and Collected Prose (1984) may be found at http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/RobertHayden.htm Hayden's most famous and most anthologized poem is "The Whipping", which is about a small boy being severely punished for some undetermined offense. Hayden, Robert Hayden, Robert Hayden, Robert Hayden, Robert
For another person of the same name, see: Geek Code.
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