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Full Moon Painting by James Denmark http://www.gallerychuma.com/james_denmark.htm ------------------------------------------------------ The poet Robert Hayden was born in Detroit in 1913 and lived in a predominately African American neighborhood near downtown known as Paradise Valley or the black bottom. At the time of Hayden's birth Detroit was very segregated. Most of the people who lived in Paradise Valley had migrated north from the southern states to work in the auto industry. Hayden attended Detroit City College (renamed Wayne State University) and the University of Michigan. He studied with the poet W. H. Auden, researched black folk culture for the Federal Writers' Project, and spent twenty-three years teaching poetry at Fisk. Before his death in 1980 he was the Poet Laureate for the United States from 1976-1978 . Biographical information obtained by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hayden Paradise Valley: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index....