Robert Creeley

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Robert Creeley
Creeley in 1972
Born	(1926-05-21)May 21, 1926 Arlington, Massachusetts, US
Died	March 30, 2005(2005-03-30) (aged 78) Odessa, Texas, US
Education	Harvard University Black Mountain College (BA)
Genre	Poetry
Literary movement	Modernism, Post-Modernism
Notable works	For Love
Notable awards	Bollingen Prize, 1999, Robert Frost Medal, 1987

Robert White Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005)^[1] 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.