• In conjunction with For Love: A Centenary Symposium for Robert Creeley Thursday & Friday, May 21 & 22 [RSVP] [learn more]

    Creeley Listening Station

    A program of tracks celebrating the centenary of 
    poet Robert Creeley (b. 1926)

    Listen to the program…

    The Rhythm (1965)

    [The Rhythm 1:57] Berkeley Poetry Conference – July 23, 1965

    The Language (1965)

    [The Language 0:45] Berkeley Poetry Conference – July 23, 1965

    For Love (1961)

    [For Love 2:28] Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress – June 1, 1961

    The Warning (1966)

    [The Warning 0:30] Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University – October 27, 1966

    Oh No (1966)

    [Oh No 0:30] Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University – October 27, 1966

    I is the Grandson (1975)

    [I is the Grandson 1:37] The World Record: St. Mark’s Poetry Project 1969-1980 – October 22, 1975

    Old Song (2005)

    [Old Song 0:52] CUE Art Foundation – January 18, 2005

    Echoes (2000)

    [Echoes 0:43] Kelly Writers House – April 10 & 11, 2000

    The World (1995)

    [The World 1:26] in conversation with Alan Riach; University of Waikato, New Zealand – July 26, 1995

    The Dance (1990)

    [The Dance 1:06] William Carlos Williams cover; Walking the Dog lecture series, Poetics Program, SUNY-Buffalo – October 15, 1990

    Mother’s Voice (1984)

    [Mother’s Voice 1:20] MLA reading, Washington, D.C. – December 29, 1984

    Return (c.1972)

    [Return 0:28] home reading, Bolinas, CA – c.1972

    Massachusetts (1975)

    [Massachusetts 1:16] The Door Selected Poems, S Press #40/41, Buffalo, NY – April 16-18, 1975

    (1965)

    The Cracks (1969)

    [The Cracks 0:50] University of Massachusetts, Amherst – 1969

    Chanson (1961)

    [Chanson 0:35] Big Table Magazine reading, The Second City, Chicago, IL – May 15, 1961

    Ambition Cannot… (1985)

    [Ambition Cannot Find Him 0:17] Emily Dickinson cover; New College, San Francisco, CA – September 25, 1985

    Help (1998)

    [Help 2:26] Goddard College, Plainfield, VT – May 18, 1998

    I Know a Man (1966)

    [I Know a Man 0:35] Woodberry Reading Room, Harvard University – October 27, 1966

    Form & Content (2003)

    [Comments on form and content 1:34] XCP radio program, Leonard Schwartz, host – November 24, 2003

    It All Returns –

    Robert Creeley Live on Record

    A poetry concert produced & with liner notes

    by Chris Mustazza

    Poetry has been a central part of audio history since the invention of sound recording, yet literary audio occupies a liminal space in discussions of popular recordings. This is because they live somewhere in the gaps between speech and writing, orality and literacy, and Louis Zukofsky’s famous calculus interval, “lower limit speech, upper limit music.” No one better traverses this sonic frontier than Robert Creeley. . . To that end, I would like to present to you It All Returns: Robert Creeley Live on Record, curated from a set of Creeley’s performances in the PennSound Archive.

    Read the liner notes. . .

    Learn more about events & exhibits in Buffalo around the Creeley centenary:

    Robert Creeley 1926-2005

    The internationally acclaimed American poet Robert Creeley published more than 60 books of poetry, prose, essays, interviews, and artist collaborations. Associated with the Black Mountain School of poetry, he had innumerable profound connections across literary formations and several generations of poets. Creeley lived in the Black Rock neighborhood of Buffalo, and taught at SUNY, Buffalo (UB) for 37 years, 1966-2003. At UB he served as the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities, was appointed SUNY distinguished professor, and was a co-founder of the Poetics Program in 1991

    Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo