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cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0><font size=+3 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Robert Creeley</b></font><p><img src="creeley-1.jpg" height=319 width=226 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Robert Creeley"><b>AKA</b> Robert White Creeley<p><b>Born:</b> <a href="/lists/659/000106341/" class=proflink>21-May</a>-<a href="/lists/925/000105610/" class=proflink>1926</a><br><b>Birthplace:</b> <a href="/geo/594/000081351/" class=proflink>Arlington, MA</a><br><b>Died:</b> <a href="/lists/973/000106655/" class=proflink>30-Mar</a>-<a href="/lists/515/000106197/" class=proflink>2005</a><br><b>Location of death:</b> <a href="/geo/209/000080966/" class=proflink>Odessa, TX</a><br><b>Cause of death:</b> <a href="/lists/323/000069116/" class=proflink>Pneumonia</a><br><b>Remains:</b> Buried, <a href="/cemetery/713/000208089/" class="proflink">Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, MA</a><br><p><b>Gender:</b> Male<br><b>Race or Ethnicity:</b> White<br><b>Sexual orientation:</b> Straight<br><b>Occupation:</b> <a href="/lists/198/000068991/" class=proflink>Poet</a><p><b>Nationality:</b> United States<br><b>Executive summary:</b> Founded <i>Black Mountain Review</i><p><b>Father:</b> (physician, d. 1930)<br><b>Wife:</b> Ann MacKinnon (m. 1946, two sons, one daughter)<br><b>Wife:</b> Bobby Louise (m. 1957, div. 1976, two daughters)<br><b>Wife:</b> Penelope Highton (m. 1977, one son, one daughter)<br><p> University: <a href="/edu/473/000068269/">BA, Harvard University (1943-46)</a><br> University: <a href="/edu/855/000068651/">MA, University of New Mexico (1960)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/905/000104593/">Black Mountain College</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/617/000079380/">SUNY Buffalo (1964-2003)</a><br> Professor: <a href="/edu/519/000068315/">Brown University (2003-)</a><br><p> <a href="/honors/471/000032375/">Robert Frost Medal</a> <br> <a href="/honors/470/000032374/">Bollingen Prize in Poetry</a> <br> <a href="/honors/485/000032389/">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> <br> <a href="/honors/472/000032376/">Shelley Memorial Award</a> <br> <a href="/honors/473/000032377/">Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award</a> <br><p> <font size=-2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR</font><br> <a href="/films/818/000088554/">The Source (23-Jan-1999)</a> · Himself<br> <a href="/films/903/000252147/">What Happened to Kerouac? (16-Apr-1986)</a> · Himself<br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>For Love: Poems 1950-1960</i> (<tt>1962</tt>, poetry)<br><i>The Island</i> (<tt>1963</tt>, novel)<br><i>The Gold Diggers and Other Stories</i> (<tt>1965</tt>, short stories)<br><i>The Finger</i> (<tt>1968</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Later</i> (<tt>1979</tt>, poetry)<br><i>The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975</i> (<tt>1982</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Mirrors</i> (<tt>1983</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Memory Gardens</i> (<tt>1986</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Windows</i> (<tt>1990</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Selected Poems 1945-1990</i> (<tt>1991</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Echoes</i> (<tt>1994</tt>, poetry)<br><i>So There</i> (<tt>1998</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Life and Death</i> (<tt>1998</tt>, poetry)<br><i>Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994</i> (<tt>2001</tt>, poetry)<br><i>If I Were Writing This</i> (<tt>2003</tt>, poetry)<br><p> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=32370" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>