The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

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.