The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

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.