Robert Creeley

Robert Creeley, who lived from 1926 to 2005, was an American poet and the author of more than sixty books. He is associated with the Black Mountain poets, although his verse aesthetic diverged from that school, and he was close to Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He held the Samuel P. Capen Professorship of Poetry and the Humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in 1991 he joined Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program there. He lived in Waldoboro, Buffalo and Providence, where he taught at Brown University, and he received the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.