Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley Born (1926-05-21)21 May 1926 Arlington, Massachusetts, United States Died 30 March 2005(2005-03-30) (aged 78) Odessa, Texas Resting place Cambridge, Massachusetts Language English Nationality American Education B.A. at Black Mountain College Genre Poetry Literary movement Modernism, Post-Modernism Notable works For Love Notable awards Robert Frost Medal (1987) Literature portal Robert 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'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.