Male : Poet of the Black Mountain group. Novelist & storywriter. Lost the use of his left eye in an accident before he was five years old. Married Ann MacKinnon in 1946 (divorced 1955), Bobbie Hawkins in 1957 divorced 1976) & Penelope Highton in 1977. Died of Pneumonia

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Arlington, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1926 Date of Death : 2005 Age : 78

Other Work : Professor at State University of New York, Buffalo 1990

Education : Harvard & Black Mountain College

1952-1960
Le Fou : Poems (1952 The Golden Goose, Columbus) - 1st book
The Kind of Act of (1953)
(Ed) Mayan Letters by Charles Olson (1953)
The Immoral Proposition (1953)
A Snarling Garland of Xmas Verses (1954)
The Gold Diggers (1954 Divers Press, Mallorca) - stories
All that is Lovely in Men (1955 Williams, Asheville) - Dan Rice 200 signed
Ferrini and Others (1955) - et al
If You (1956)
The Whip (1957 Migrant Press, Worcester, UK)
A Form of Women (1959 Jargon Books, NY)

1961-1965
For Love : Poems 1950-1960 (1962 Scribner)
The Island : A Novel (1963 Scribner)
[His only novel]
Mister Blue (1964)
Words (1965)
An American Sense : Essay (c1965)
(Ed) New American Story (1965) - with Donald Allen
The Gold Diggers and Other Stories (1965)

1966-1968
About Women (1966)
(Ed) Selected Writings of Charles Olson (1966)
Poems 1950-1965 (1966 Calder & Boyars)
A Sight (1967)
(Ed) The New Writing in the USA (1967) - with Donald Allen
Words (1967)
Robert Creeley Reads (1967 Turret Books/Calder & Boyars) - 45rpm recording
The Finger (1968)
5 Numbers (1968 Poet's Press, NY) - 150 signed
Pieces : Poems (1968 Black Sparrow Press, LA) - 250 signed
Numbers (1968)
Contexts of Poetry (1968)
Divisions and Other Early Poems (1968)
Pieces (1968)

1969-1970
Hero (1969)
A Wall (1969)
The Charm : Early and Uncollected Poems (1969 Four Seasons Press, SF) (1971)
Mazatlan : Sea (1969 Poet's Press, SF) - 50 signed
A Quick Graph : Collected Notes & Essays (1970 Four Seasons, SF)
Mary's Fancy (1970)
In London (1970)
The Finger : Poems 1966-1969 (1970)
As Now it Would be Snow (1970)
America (1970)
Christmas : May 10, 1970 (1970)

1971-1975
St Martin's (1971 Black Sparrow)
Sea (1971)
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 (1971 Shambala & Mudra, Berkeley) - Arthur Okamura
Listen (1972 BSP) - 1500. A play
A Day Book (1972 NY)
For My Mother (1973)
A Sense of Measure : Essays (1973)
(Ed) Walt Whitman (1973)
Kitchen (1973)
His Idea (1973 Coach House Press)
Context of Poetry : interviews 1961-1971 (1973 Bolinas) - Edited by Donald Allen
Sitting Here (1974)
Thirty Things (1974)

1976-1980
Selected Poems (1976)
Hello - A Journal Feb 23 to May 3, 1976 (1976 Hawk Press, New Zealand) - 750 signed
Mabel : A Story (1976 London)
Presences (1976)
Away (1976 Black Sparrow) - 200 numbered & signed Bobbie Creeley
Myself (1977 Bedfordshire) - 250
Thanks (1977 Deerfield / Gallery Press) - 250 signed
Desultory Days (1978 Sceptre Press) - 250 numbered
Later (1978 Toothpaste Press, West Branch) (1980 Boyars)
Corn Close (1980 Sceptre Press)

1981-1990
Echoes : Poems (1982 Toothpaste)
Mirrors (1983 NY)
Collected prose (1983 Scribner) (1983 Boyars)
Collected Poems 1945-75 (1984 California UP) (1984 Marion Boyars)
A Calendar Morning (1984 Coffee Chapbook Five, Iowa) - 600 signed
Memories (1984 Pig Press, Durham) - 100 signed & numbered
Memory Garden (1986 NY)
The Collected Essays (1989 California UP)
Jane Hammond (1989)
Dreams (1989 Periphery & Salient Seedling)
Windows (1990)
Autobiography (1990)
Have a Heart (1990)
Places (1990)

After 1991
The Old Days (1991)
Gnomic Verses (1991)
Tales Out of School (1993)
Life and Death (1993)
Daybook of a Virtual Poet (1998)
So There : Poems 1976-1983 (1998)
Just in Time : Poems 1984-1994 (2001)
Drawn and Quartered (2001) - with A Rand

READING
Warren Tallman : Three Essays on Creeley (1973)
Ann Mandel : Measures - Creeley's Poetry (1974)
Cynthia Edelberg : Creeley's Poetry - A Critical Introduction (1978)