Tag Archives: Robert Hayden

Pushing Back against the Purity Police

By Robin Bates | Published: February 21, 2022

While not as bad as fascists for censoring reading materials, leftwing purists present their own problems.

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Our Parents’ Invisible Sacrifices

By Robin Bates | Published: February 1, 2022

As I tend our fire, I think of Robert Hayden’s luminescent poem “Those Winter Sundays.”

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March Madness Is Divinest Sense (Sort of)

By Robin Bates | Published: March 31, 2021

Having a March Madness bracket for poems provided excitement for kids and enlightenment for this teacher.

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Burdened by Ice

By Robin Bates | Published: January 26, 2019

Spiritual Sunday With much of the country groaning under the weight of winter storms, I share a Robert Hayden poem in which the speaker calls out to God in his misery. I warn you the poem does not conclude with a comforting—or a facile—promise. Sounding very much like George Herbert in his inability to pray, […]

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On a Father’s Unspoken Love

By Robin Bates | Published: June 18, 2017

Robert Hayden’s “Those Sunday Mornings” lends itself to a religious interpretation about a caring father who selflessly takes care of his child, expecting nothing in return.

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