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See Geek Code for the related Robert Hayden Robert Hayden ( August 4 , 1913 - 1980 ), born as '''Asa Bundy Sheffey''', was a United States African-American Poet , Essayist , and Educator . LIFE Hayden grew up in an adopted family in Detroit, Michigan . He was raised as a Baptist , but converted to the Bahá'í Faith during the early 1940s after marrying a Bahá'í, Erma Inez Morris. He is one of the best-known Bahá'í poets and his religion influenced much of his work. CAREER Hayden was elected to the American Academy of Poets in 1975. From 1976 - 1978 , Hayden was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the position which in 1985 became the Poet Laureate Consultant In Poetry To The Library Of Congress . Hayden's most famous and most Anthologized poem is ''Those Winter Sundays'', which deals with the memory of fatherly love and loneliness. Other famed poems include ''The Whipping'', which is about a small boy being severely punished for some undetermined offense; ''Middle Passage'', inspired by the events surrounding the '' Amistad '' affair; ''Runagate, Runagate''; and '' Frederick Douglass ''. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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