previously, accepted the appointment for 19761977 during America's Bicentennial, and again in 1977–1978 though his health was failing then. He was awarded successive honorary degrees by Brown University (1976) and Fisk, (1978). In 1977 he was interviewed for television in Los Angeles on At One With by Keith Berwick. In January 1980 Hayden was among those gathered to be honored by President Jimmy Carter and his wife at a White House reception celebrating American poetry. He served for a decade as an editor of the Bahá'í journal World Order. Other famed poems include "The Whipping" (about a small boy being severely punished for some undetermined offense), "Middle Passage" (inspired by the events surrounding the United States v. The Amistad affair), "Runagate, Runagate", and "Frederick Douglass". Bibliography The Lion and the Archer: Poems. With Myron O'Higgins. Nashville: Counterpoise, 1948. Selected Poems by Robert Hayden. NY: October House 1966. Words in the Mourning Time: Poems by Robert Hayden. London: October House, 1970 Angle of Ascent: New and Selected Poems by Robert Hayden. NY: Liveright, 1975 American Journal: Poems by Robert Hayden. NY: Liveright Pub. Corp., 1982 Collected Prose: Robert Hayden. Ed. Frederick Glaysher. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1984. Collected Poems: Robert Hayden. Ed. Frederick Glaysher. NY: Liveright, 1985; rpt. 1996. Further reading Related documents on Baháʼí Library Online. References External links Those Winter Sundays hermeneusis by ex-Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky Academy of American Poets listing About Hayden's Life And Career Online Selection of Poems Audio of Hayden's poem Soledad "On 'Middle Passage"": Poetry Foundation Modern American Poetry "The Hopwood Poets Revisited: Eighteen Major Award Winners", features an original essay about Robert Hayden by his fellow-poet and faculty colleague Laurence Goldstein, recalling the impact and aftermath of Hayden's Hopwood "Major Poetry" Award at the University of Michigan. 1913 births 1980 deaths 20th-century African-American writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American poets 20th-century Bahá'ís 20th-century essayists African-American academics African-American Bahá'ís African-American male writers African-American poets American former Protestants American male essayists American Poets Laureate Bahá'í poets Converts to the Bahá'i Faith from Protestantism Fisk University faculty Hopwood Award winners People from Detroit Poets from Michigan University of Michigan alumni Wayne State University alumni Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan Writers from Detroit Federal Writers' Project people