Robert Creeley
Poet, Author
1926 – 2005
Who was Robert Creeley?
Robert Creeley 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's. 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, Maine, Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
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- Born
- May 21, 1926
Arlington - Also known as
- Robert White Creeley
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Penelope Highton
(1977 - 2005/03/30) - Bobbie Hawkins
(1960 - 1976) - Ann MacKinnon
(1945 - )
- Penelope Highton
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, University of New Mexico
( - 1960) - Bachelor of Arts, Black Mountain College
( - 1955) - Harvard University
- Holderness School
- Master of Arts, University of New Mexico
- Employment
- Brown University
- Lived in
- Black Rock
(1990 - 2003) - Texas
(2003 - 2005/03/30)
- Black Rock
- Died
- Mar 30, 2005
Odessa - Resting place
- Mount Auburn Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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