All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

Creeley lived in Waldoboro Maine Buffalo New York and Providence Rhode Island where he taught at Brown University. He was close with Charles Olson Robert Duncan Allen Ginsberg John Wieners and Ed Dorn. In 1991 he joined colleagues Susan Howe Charles Bernstein Raymond Federman Robert Bertholf and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo.