Robert Creeley
Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the
Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. He was close with
Charles Olson,
Robert Duncan,
Allen Ginsberg,
John Wieners and
Ed Dorn. He served as the
Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at
State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues
Susan Howe,
Charles Bernstein,
Raymond Federman,
Robert Bertholf, and
Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo. Creeley lived in
Waldoboro,
Buffalo, and
Providence, where he taught at
Brown University. He was a recipient of the
Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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