TY  - ENCYC
ID  - 2723
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/buck_robert_hayden
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Robert Hayden
T2  - Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
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A1  - Buck,Christopher
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A3  - ed. Jay Parini
Y1  - 2004/01/29
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VL  - Vol. 2
IS  - 
SP  - 177
EP  - 181
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PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - New York
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M3  - Encyclopedia; Biographies
SN  -         
LA  - English
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AB  - The first African American poet-laureate of the United States (as Library of Congress "Consultant in Poetry").
N1  - This article calls Hayden "America's Bicentennial Poet Laureate" for the first time in scholarship. A scan of the original article, complete with a photograph of Hayden, can be downloaded as a PDF document.  See "Timeline of Poets Laureate: 1971-1980 Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" at loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1971-1980.html: "He was the first African-American to be appointed Consultant in Poetry."  See also Robert Hayden’s “American Journal”: A Multidimensional Analysis and Buck & Derik Smith's "Hayden, Robert."
C1  - Scanned 2004-05-11 by Taraz Buck;  Formatted 2005-12 by Jonah Winters;  Proofread 2005-12 by Richard Stamats
KW  - 1913
KW  - 1980
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Arts and crafts
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Robert Hayden
KW  - Senegal
KW  - United States (documents)
ER  -