- John S. Hatcher. Amazing Nashville Baha'i Community in the 1960s, The (2019). "From the Editor's Desk": Hatcher's personal memories of time in Nashville; overview of the lives of Robert Hayden and Magdalene Carney.
- Ann Boyles. "Angle of Ascent", The: Process and Achievement in the Work of Robert Hayden (1992). Hayden's poetry explores the process of individual and collective social and spiritual transformation in the contexts of contemporary culture, the Bahá'í Faith, black history, art, literature, nature, disease, and suffering.
- Harryette Mullen. Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, by Robert Hayden: Review (1997-03-22).
- Christopher Buck, Derik Smith. Hayden, Robert (2019). In his poetics of history and his nuanced representations of black life, Hayden's art showed that the African American experience was quintessentially American, and that blackness was an essential aspect of heterogeneous America.
- Robert M. Greenberg. Hayden, Robert Earl (2000). The life and work of Hayden (1913-1980), African-American poet and teacher; his membership of the Bahá'í Faith is briefly mentioned.
- Duane L. Herrmann. Hidden Meanings in the Poetry of Robert Hayden (2012). The Bahá'í Faith influenced Hayden's work on multiple levels, beyond his obvious allusions to the Bahá'í teachings regarding brotherhood of races or acceptance of religions.
- Ann Boyles. Life and Poetry of Robert Hayden, The: A Baha'i Perspective (2004-11-16).
- Robert E. Hayden, Douglas Ruhe, John S. Hatcher. Place of Poetry in Religion and Society, The: An Interview of Robert E. Hayden with Douglas Ruhe (2014). Introduction by Hatcher to the life of Hayden (2014); transcript of a talk between Hayden and Douglas Ruhe in 1975 on the future of poetry, transcendence, American destiny, important American poets, the Library of Congress, and Bahá'í spirituality.
- Roger White. Poetry and Self-Transformation (1989). Poetry is no longer very accessible to the average reader or widely read; serious poets are often in conflict with their times; the Bahá'í Writings provide a foundation for poetic expression and a renewed spiritual aesthetics.
- John S. Hatcher. Racial Identity and the Patterns of Consolation in the Poetry of Robert Hayden (1990). The dramatic tension in Robert Hayden’s poetry has often been mistaken for personal ambivalence and confusion with regard to both his ethnic identity and his beliefs as a Bahá’í — rather than the clear pattern of consolation that unites them.
- Christopher Buck. Robert Hayden (2004-01-29). The first African American poet-laureate of the United States (as Library of Congress "Consultant in Poetry").
- Duane L. Herrmann. Robert Hayden and Being Politically Correct (1993-08). Robert Hayden did not bow to or rebel against expectations of political correctness, and regarded his race as "human" rather than "black." He embraced his African-American identity, but did not want to be defined by it.
- Christopher Buck. Robert Hayden's 'American Journal': A Multidimensional Analysis (2008). A study of an often neglected poem which combines an informal cultural analysis of the USA with a social commentary on the world. It treats the human race from a universal perspective, emphasizing the importance of human solidarity.
- Benjamin Friedlander. Robert Hayden's Epic of Community (1998). A study of Hayden's poetry in the context of the American experience.
- Robert Weinberg. Tales of Magnificent Heroism: The Impact of the Báb and His Followers on Writers and Artists (2019-11). This concise survey explores how this particular episode in humanity’s religious history resonated so strongly through the decades that followed.
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