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Robert Creeley (1926-2005), poet, editor, and teacher, published more than sixty books of poetry and more than a dozen books of prose, essays, and interviews. Part of an emerging counter-tradition in post-War American poetry, Creeley began correspondence with William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound in the 1940s. In 1950 he met the poet Charles Olson, rector of Black Mountain College, who invited Creeley to join the faculty of the progressive arts college in North Carolina. Creeley edited The Black Mountain Review and received his Master's Degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1960.
While publishing poetry at a prolific rate, Creeley taught at universities in the United States and one in Canada. He received numerous honors, including two Fulbright fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship, Yale University's Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and others. From 1989-1991, he was the New York State Poet Laureate. Robert Creeley died near Marfa, Texas, where he was in a two-month literary residency at the Lannan Foundation. In fall 2006, The University of California Press published The Selected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005.
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