Robert Creeley

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Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926-1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and writer of more than sixty books.

He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, but his verse style differed from that school's.

He was close to Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners, and Ed Dorn.

He taught Poetry and Humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He joined Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in establishing the Buffalo Poetics Program.

Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Buffalo, and Providence, where he taught at Brown University.

He was a winner of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.

Early life

Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, and grew up in Acton. Helen and Jack were born by their mother. He lost his left eye at the age of two. He attended the Holderness School in New Hampshire. He graduated from Harvard University in 1943 but moved to serve in the American Field Service in Burma and India from 1944 to 1945. He returned to Harvard in 1946 but eventually earned his BA from Black Mountain College in 1955, where he also taught some courses. Creeley spent two months in San Francisco in the spring of 1956 after learning from Kenneth Rexroth about a local poetic "renaissance" underway. Allen Ginsberg, who had just completed Howl, was withheld by Jack Kerouac and was reunited there. Jackson Pollock was later identified and befriended at the Cedar Tavern in New York City by Creeley.

He worked as a chicken farmer in Littleton, New Hampshire, for a brief period before becoming a tutor in 1949. According to Corman, he wrote to Cid Corman, whose radio show he heard on the farm, and Corman ordered him to read on the program, which is how Charles Olson first heard of Creeley.

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