Robert Creeley

First Half (29:12): MP3, RealAudio

Second Half (29:08): MP3, RealAudio

PoemTalk Podcast #16, discussing Creeley's "I Know A Man," April 8, 2009

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket 2

Hit Singles

Various readings of "I Know A Man" (text) (text-audio alignment):

Read at San Francisco State University, May 20, 1956 (0:28): MP3 Read At the Vancouver Poetry Conference, August 12, 1963 (1:27): MP3 Read at Harvard University, October 27, 1966 (0:35): MP3 Read in Bolinas, CA, July 1971 (0:26): MP3 Read in Bolinas, CA, c. 1965-1970 (0:25): MP3 Read at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, July 26, 1995 (0:25): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Studio Recording at Black Mountain College, c. 1954

Full Reading (9:54): MP3

The Rites (1:03): MP3 The Crisis (0:26): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:30): MP3 For W.C.W. (0:18): MP3 The Carnival (0:24): MP3 The Charm (0:33): MP3 The Pedigree (0:22): MP3 The Dishonest Mailman (0:26): MP3 Apple Uppfle (0:32): MP3 The Revelation (0:22): MP3 The Operation (0:29): MP3 For Irving (0:24): MP3 The Dissapointment (0:19): MP3 El Noche (0:14): MP3 The Whip (0:31): MP3 Like They Say (0:18): MP3 A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (0:44): MP3 The Riddle (0:23): MP3 The Ball Game (0:45): MP3 The Innocence (0:28): MP3 Something for Easter (0:20): MP3

At San Francisco State University, May 20, 1956

Full Reading (54:17): MP3

Hart Crane (1:58): MP3 Le Fou (1:30): MP3 A Song ("Ihad wanted a quiet testament") (0:57): MP3 The Crisis (0:26): MP3 For Ranier Gerhadt (1:41): MP3 The Riddle (0:39): MP3 The Rites (1:03): MP3 The Ball Game (1:03): MP3 The Innocence (0:32): MP3 Something for Easter (0:37): MP3 The Grace (10:18): MP3 The Carnival (1:35): MP3 The Charm (0:31): MP3 The Pedigree (0:17): MP3 After Lorca (2:09): MP3 For an Anniversary (0:31): MP3 The Kind of Act of (1:03): MP3 The Dishonest Mailman (0:38): MP3 The Crow (0:48): MP3 For Martin (0:28): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (1:46): MP3 The Changes (0:31): MP3 For Irving (0:37): MP3 I Know a Man (0:25): MP3 The End (0:27): MP3 Death of Venus (0:38): MP3 The Lover (0:28): MP3 Wait for Me (0:38): MP3 For Somebody's Marriage (0:26): MP3 The Business (0:23): MP3 The Dissapointment (0:20): MP3 The Warning (0:16): MP3 A Form of Adaptation (0:41): MP3 Song ("Were I myself more blithe") (0:38): MP3 Stomping with Catallus (1:20): MP3 The Apology (0:11): MP3 Like They Say (0:19): MP3 The Whip (0:35): MP3 All That is Lovely in Men (0:24): MP3 A Dedication (1:18): MP3 A Day at the Beach (0:41): MP3 The Prejudice (0:23): MP3 Naughty Waters (published as Naughty Boy") (0:33): MP3 "To work is to contradict contradictions, to do violence to natural violence..." (0:59): MP3 The Commentary (0:37): MP3 Old Song (0:23): MP3 A Wicker Basket (1:13): MP3 For David (0:27): MP3 Lover's Leap (0:27): MP3 Hold It (0:34): MP3 Goodbye (0:28): MP3 Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:29): MP3 Air ("Cat Bird Singing") (0:41): MP3 If You (0:46): MP3 For Anne (0:24): MP3 A Marriage (0:21): MP3 Song ("God give you pardon from gratitude") (0:14): MP3 For the New Year (0:40): MP3 And (0:48): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

At the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, July 16, 1959

Full Reading (1:00:29): MP3

Hart Crane (1:30): MP3 A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (0:44): MP3 Le Fou (0:28): MP3 The Crisis (0:29): MP3 The Riddle (0:24): MP3 The Innocence (0:29): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:29): MP3 The Operation (0:26): MP3 I Know a Man (0:22): MP3 The Lover (0:41): MP3 A Warning (1:00): MP3 Song ("Were I myself more blithe") (0:36): MP3 The Whip (0:34): MP3 All that is Lovely in Men (0:18): MP3 Please (0:51): MP3 If You (0:44): MP3 Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:14): MP3 The Tunnel (0:26): MP3 Just Friends (0:31): MP3 The Friend (0:36): MP3 The Invoice (0:24): MP3 They Say (0:19): MP3 Juggler's Thought (0:23): MP3 The Wind (1:11): MP3 Saturday Afternoon (0:27): MP3 The Interview (0:29): MP3 Je vois dans hasard tous les biens que j'espère (0:26): MP3 Entre Nous (0:16): MP3 The Three Ladies (0:59): MP3 New Years 1958 (1:02): MP3 The Hill (0:39): MP3 A Gift of Great Value (0:39): MP3 My Love (0:29): MP3 The Names (0:22): MP3 Going to Bed (0:52): MP3 The Door (3:19): MP3 The Snow (0:43): MP3 The Awakening (1:24): MP3 The End (0:22): MP3 For Irving (0:23): MP3 For a Friend (0:23): MP3 Like They Say (0:18): MP3 La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche." (0:21): MP3 The Total Parts of a World (0:23): MP3 The Death of Venus (0:32): MP3 The Ball Game (0:46): MP3 The Carnival (0:26): MP3 The Rites (1:07): MP3 The Rhyme (0:21): MP3 The Charm (0:33): MP3 After Lorca (0:25): MP3 The Kind of Act of (0:48): MP3 Chanson (0:24): MP3 For W.C.W. (0:19): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Big Table Magazine Reading at The Second City, Chicago, May 15, 1961

Introduction by Paul Carroll (1:56): MP3 Hart Crane (2:51): MP3 Le Fou (1:05): MP3 A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (0:47): MP3 The Crisis (0:39): MP3 The Riddle (1:18): MP3 The Rhyme (0:24): MP3 The Innocence (0:40): MP3 The Ball Game (0:52): MP3 The Carnival (0:29): MP3 The Charm (0:39): MP3 After Lorca (1:51): MP3 The Dishonest Mailman (0:53): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:31): MP3 For W.C.W. (1:10): MP3 Apple Uppfle (0:36): MP3 The Operation (0:28): MP3 Chanson (0:35): MP3 Don't Sign Anything (0:25): MP3 The Conspiracy (0:32): MP3 The End (0:25): MP3 The Business (0:30): MP3 The Warning (0:23): MP3 A Form of Adaptation (0:50): MP3 Like They Say (0:25): MP3 La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche" (0:54): MP3 The Whip (0:40): MP3 Juggler's Thought (0:30): MP3 A Form of Women (1:32): MP3 They Say (0:24): MP3 The Friend (0:47): MP3 Please (0:51): MP3 The Three Ladies (1:07): MP3 Oh No (0:36): MP3 Crowd (1:29): MP3 Goodbye (0:47): MP3 A Wicker Basket (1:35): MP3 The Bed (0:34): MP3 Just Friends (0:46): MP3 The Way (0:38): MP3 A Marriage (0:33): MP3 Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:42): MP3 She Went to Stay (0:24): MP3 If You (0:54): MP3 The Tunnel (0:35): MP3 The Names (0:29): MP3 A Gift of Great Value (0:49): MP3 The Invoice (0:32): MP3 Naughty Waters (published as Naughty Boy") (0:40): MP3 Song ("God give you pardon from gratitude") (0:20): MP3 Entre Nous (0:17): MP3 Sing Song (0:35): MP3 The Place (1:03): MP3 The Souvenir (0:16): MP3 The Menu (0:21): MP3 For the New Year (0:48): MP3

Reading in the Recording Laboratory at the Library of Congress, June 1, 1961

"Mr. Creeley reads sixteen poems from his collection, "The Whip"; five poems from his collection, "A Form of Women"; and nine poems from his collection,"For Love"." - Library of Congress Catalog

Full Reading (54:32): MP3

Introduction (14:33): MP3 A Song (0:50): MP3 The Crisis (0:33): MP3 The Riddle (0:29): MP3 The Rhyme (0:23): MP3 The Innocence (0:34): MP3 The Ball Game (0:52): MP3 The Carnival (0:31): MP3 The Charm (0:39): MP3 The Dishonest Mailman (0:32): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:32): MP3 The Operation (0:31): MP3 Chanson (0:34): MP3 The Conspiracy (0:27): MP3 I Know a Man (0:27): MP3 The Warning (0:23): MP3 The Whip (0:42): MP3 Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:41): MP3 If You (0:52): MP3 The Tunnel (0:30): MP3 The Door (3:38): MP3 The Hill (1:06): MP3 For Love (2:29): MP3 Fire (0:36): MP3 The Name (1:18): MP3 The Sign Board (1:18): MP3 The Awakening (1:34): MP3 Kore (0:47): MP3 The Rain (0:56): MP3 The Woman (0:39): MP3 The Rescue (0:48): MP3

Recording courtesy of Library of Congress

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

from Exact Change Yearbook c.1963, broadcast by Paul Blackburn on "Contemporary Poetry"

Heroes; For Love (3:05): MP3

At the Vancouver Poetry Conference, August 12, 1963

Due to a power outage, only the first 14 minutes of the reading were recorded.

Full Reading (13:57): MP3

A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (1:40): MP3 The Innocence (0:33): MP3 The Ball Game (1:04): MP3 The Carnival (0:28): MP3 After Lorca (0:41): MP3 The Crow (0:29): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:35): MP3 The Operation (0:43): MP3 I Know a Man (1:27): MP3 The Lover (0:35): MP3 Wait for Me (1:17): MP3 The Warning (0:20): MP3 A Form of Adaptation (0:51): MP3 La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche" (0:31): MP3 The Whip (0:15): MP3 All That is Lovely in Men (0:25): MP3 Juggler's Thought (0:32): MP3 A Form of Women (1:07): MP3

These recordings were originally made available to the Slought Foundation by Fred Wah. PennSound publication made with thanks to Slought and with the permission of Fred Wah and the Creeley Estate.

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

At the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, December 4, 1963

Full Reading (44:06): MP3

Archive Introduction (0:14): MP3 Hart Crane (3:47): MP3 Le Fou (0:55): MP3 The Crisis (1:57): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (1:33): MP3 I Know a Man (2:49): MP3 Wait for Me (2:03): MP3 The Whip (1:11): MP3 New Years (2:53): MP3 The Door (4:11): MP3 Kore (2:09): MP3 The Name (1:13): MP3 Fire (2:40): MP3 For Love (3:34): MP3 The Language (1:49): MP3 There Is (0:52): MP3 The Book (9:56): MP3

Recording courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Recordings from Slought Foundation

From the 1963 Vancoucer Poetry Conference:

7/24/63: Morning discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg:

Part 1 (1:06:53): MP3 Part 2 (14:19): MP3

7/24/63: Evening discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg

Part 1 (1:05:16): MP3 Part 2 (34:26): MP3

7/26/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg

Part 1 (32:08): MP3 Part 2 (1:06:11): MP3 Part 3 (15:15): MP3

7/29/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Philip Whalen

Part 1 (1:05:42): MP3 Part 2 (1:05:51): MP3

7/31/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson

Part 1 (1:06:07): MP3 Part 2 (1:03:57): MP3

8/2/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson

Part 1 (52:01): MP3 Part 2 (45:32): MP3

8/5/63: Lecture by Robert Duncan

Part 1 (1:38:00): MP3 Part 2 (24:37): MP3

8/7/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov

Part 1 (23:49): MP3 Part 2 (53:46): MP3

8/12/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov

Part 1 (39:25): MP3 Part 2 (50:52): MP3

8/14/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson

Part 1 (17:33): MP3 Part 2 (1:07:39): MP3

8/16/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg

Part 1 (21:15): MP3 Part 2 (1:00:51): MP3

At the Berkeley Poetry Conference "A Sense of Measure", 1965

July 22

Part One Full Reading (46:16): MP3

Introduction (3:23): MP3 The Rhythm (1:58): MP3 The Rocks (1:40): MP3 Water (1:07): MP3 The Mountians in the Desert (0:33): MP3 Water (1:07): MP3 Waiting (0:46): MP3 The Invitation (0:47): MP3 For William Carlos Williams (0:37): MP3 Song (0:37):MP3 The Fire (0:38): MP3 For No Clear Reason (0:29): MP3 The Messengers (For Allen Ginsberg) (0:50): MP3 I (1:19): MP3 Something (1:08): MP3 Walking (0:40): MP3 The Language (1:07): MP3 The Window (0:47): MP3 The Chance (2:39): MP3 Hellow (0:18): MP3

Part Two Full Reading (33:41): MP3

July 23

Part One Full Reading (1:01:29): MP3

Part Two Full Reading (23:17): MP3

"A Sense of Measure," Berkeley Poetry Conference, July 23, 1965

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

complete recording (1:25:39): MP3

Richard Moore USA: Poetry Documentary, 1966

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, October 3, 1966 Full Reading (53:10): MP3

Introduction (2:11): MP3 The Rain (1:12): MP3 Kore (0:57): MP3 The Plan (1:03): MP3 The Man (0:46): MP3 A Wish (0:39): MP3 The Name (1:29): MP3 The First Time (1:45): MP3 The Rose (1:35): MP3 Love Comes Quietly (0:35): MP3 The People (0:44): MP3 Fire (0:37): MP3 For Friendship (0:22): MP3 The Gesture (1:36): MP3 For Love (8:21): MP3 Dimensions (1:04): MP3 Distance (3:17): MP3 Some Place (0:57): MP3 Song ("What do you") (0:27): MP3 The Box (0:39): MP3 A Piece (1:14): MP3 A Prayer (0:24): MP3 Here ("What/has happened") (0:36): MP3 One Way (1:57): MP3 Anger (4:29): MP3 A Sight (4:29): MP3 The Woman (2:11): MP3 From the Dream (0:53): MP3 Fragments (0:43): MP3 Oh My Love (0:34): MP3 A Tally (1:31): MP3 A Birthday (1:14): MP3 Intervals (0:57): MP3 The Hole (1:44): MP3

These recordings were originally made available to the Slought Foundation by Fred Wah. PennSound publication made with thanks to Slought and with the permission of Fred Wah andthe Creeley Estate.

Reading at the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, October 24, 1966

with John Wieners

Complete Reading (28:26): MP3

Introduction by Ed Sanders (3:00): MP3 Some Place (1:34): MP3 Song ("I wouldn't") (0:55): MP3 Song ("What do you") (0:28): MP3 For Helen (0:45): MP3 A Night Sky (0:32): MP3 The Answer (1:08:40): MP3 Dimensions (1:08): MP3 A Place (0:39): MP3 Some Echoes (0:20): MP3 Fancy (0:33): MP3 The World (1:29): MP3 Going (0:23): MP3 The City (0:42): MP3 Words (0:43): MP3 A Reason (0:55): MP3 The Shame (0:28): MP3 The Statue (0:51): MP3 The Window ("There will be no simple") (0:54): MP3 To Bobbie (1:10): MP3 They (0:41): MP3 A Method (0:50): MP3 A Sight (2:11): MP3 Pieces (0:19): MP3 The Circle ("Houses in") (0:36): MP3 The Hole (1:34): MP3 The Flower ("Remember the way you") (0:26): MP3 Water ("Water drips") (1:02): MP3 Intervals (1:03): MP3 For Joel (1:45): MP3

Enhanced audio recording courtesy of the Unterberg Poetry Center and The Estate of Robert Creeley

At the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, October 24, 1966

Full Reading (23:20): MP3; RM file

Introduction by Ed Sanders (2:37): MP3 Some Place (0:47): MP3 Song ("I wouldn't") (0:28): MP3 Song ("What do you") (0:23): MP3 For Helen (0:32): MP3 A Night Sky (0:26): MP3 The Answer (0:25): MP3 Dimensions (0:57): MP3 A Place (0:29): MP3 Some Echoes (0:18): MP3 Fancy (0:30): MP3 The World (1:22): MP3 Going (0:18): MP3 The City (0:36): MP3 Words (0:38): MP3 A Reason (0:50): MP3 The Shame (0:22): MP3 The Statue (0:43): MP3 The Window (0:47): MP3 To Bobbie (1:03): MP3 They (0:34): MP3 A Method (0:42): MP3 A Sight (2:01): MP3 Pieces (0:14): MP3 The Circle (0:29): MP3 The Hole (2:02): MP3 Intervals (0:38): MP3 For Joel (1:20): MP3

On Olson, in Albuquerque, recorded 1966.

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

Full Reading (1:08:40): MP3

At Harvard University, October 27, 1966

courtesy Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard.

Introduction (2:20): MP3 Le Fou (0:34): MP3 A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (2:36): MP3 The Crisis (0:35): MP3 The Riddle (0:33): MP3 The Rhyme (0:27): MP3 The Innocence (0:39): MP3 The Ball Game (1:00): MP3 The Carnival (0:34): MP3 After Lorca (0:46): MP3 The Dishonest Mailmen (1:15): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:36): MP3 For W.C.W. (0:29): MP3 Chanson (0:34): MP3 Don't Sign Anything (0:34): MP3 The Conspiracy (2:39): MP3 The End (0:29): MP3 I Know a Man (0:35): MP3 [text-audio alignment] A Counterpoint (1:33): MP3 The Warning (0:31): MP3 The Whip (0:49): MP3 La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche" (0:20): MP3 Juggler's Thought (0:32): MP3 A Form of Women (1:34): MP3 They Say (0:25): MP3 The Friend (0:50): MP3 The Three Ladies (1:11): MP3 Oh No (0:30): MP3 Goodbye (0:42): MP3 If You (0:58): MP3 The Tunnel (0:38): MP3 The Names (0:29): MP3 A Gift of Great Value (0:52): MP3 Somewhere (0:38): MP3 New Years (1:24): MP3 Entre Nous (0:27): MP3 Sing Song (0:41): MP3 The Place (2:08): MP3 The Souvenir (0:24): MP3 The Door (3:48): MP3 Kore (0:59): MP3 The Name (1:27): MP3 For Love (2:42): MP3 The Woman (2:34): MP3 The Window (0:57): MP3 To Bobbie (1:40): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

From Today's Poets: Their Poems, Their Voices. Volume 3, 1967/1968

Full Reading (5:18): MP3

Oh No (0:31): MP3 A Tally (1:33): MP3 Words (0:47): MP3 The Invoice (0:34): MP3 The Cracks (0:55): MP3 A Reason (0:55): MP3

Robert & Bobbie Creeley: Placitas phone log, late September/early October, 1968

Full Recording (109:38): MP3

Thanks to Bobbie Hawkins, Bill Katz, Elsa Dorfman, and Penelope Creeley for permission to make this available on PennSound. Ed. Ch. Bernstein. Thanks to Alexandra J. Gold for provided dates.

From The World Record: Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project, 1969-1980

I is the Grandson (1:37): MP3 Anger (4:45): MP3

Response to Martin Duberman's interview questions on Black Mountain, from the late 1960's

Courtesty Jeff Davis. Recording from North Carolina Division of Archives and History.

Talk and Reading on "Contemporary American Poets," recorded in Bolinas in 1970

Full Reading (28:02): MP3

This recording is from the collection of Robert Creeley

Reading in Bolinas, CA, July 1971

The Messengers (0:53): MP3 I Know a Man (0:26): MP3

From The Dial-a-Poem Poets (1972)

The Dial-a-Poem Poets at UbuWeb

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Listen, 1972

Radio play by Robert Creeley, performed by Robert and Bobbie Creeley.

Listen (23:09): MP3

Listen was first published in 1972 by Black Sparrow Press, in an edition containing monoprints by Bobbie Creeley. The recording above was released on cassette by Black Sparrow in the same year. The play was first broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk, West Germany, on December 1, 1971 in a translation by Klaus Reichert.

The quotation beginning at 15:56 and ending 16:48 ("Now if you are sitting opposite me . . .") is from The Divided Self by R.D. Laing, Penguin, London 1965, p. 21.

The quotation beginning at 17:09 and ending at 17:19 ("The I . . .") is from Notebooks 1914-1916 by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Anscombe, Harper Torchbook, New York, 1969, p. 80.

Kyle Schlesinger on Listen: Meaning: I Hear You

Creeley reading from his home in Bolinas, CA (c. 1965-70; more likely 1972)

[We are still working on identifying the date of cuts 1-6. Send corrections/additions to us at PennSound@writing.upenn.edu]

On traveling and coming to terms with his poetic career (2:24): MP3 Return (0:28): MP3 The Charm (2:13): MP3 Speaking briefly on For Love (0:38): MP3 Creeley reads "A Form of Women," from For Love, and discusses his inspirations (2:55): MP3 Song ("Those rivers run from that land") (1:32): MP3 Correction from Lisa Hollenbach: The recordings of "Heroes" through "The Name" were originally made for a birthday compilation tape Paul Blackburn made for Ezra Pound in honor of his 78th birthday in 1963. The tape was recorded not in New Mexico. Creeley begins the original tape (at UCSD) with a dedication to Pound--"For Ezra Pound, who's very very good to me, from Robert Creeley"--and reads these 10 poems. Heroes (0:48): MP3 The House (0:25): MP3 The People (0:27): MP3 For Love (2:05): MP3 The Whip (0:35): MP3 I Know a Man (0:25): MP3 La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche" (0:12): MP3 Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:31): MP3 The Hill (0:39): MP3 The Name (1:13): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

In Discussion with Joanne Kyger and Greg Hewlett, June 19, 1972 (Location Unknown)

Full Discussion (1:23:59): MP3

Performing Poetry (14:03): MP3 The Mediums of Print and Tape (3:38): MP3 Space, Linearity, and Puns in Poetry (7:32): MP3 Gertrude Stein's Influence (4:38): MP3 Stories (6:16): MP3 The Format of Poetry Readings (7:50): MP3 Voice (10:48): MP3 Bookmaking (3:33): MP3 Accessibility (1:48): MP3 Listening to Recordings of Music versus Poetry (2:01): MP3 Intention in Poetry (7:32): MP3 Being Attentive to the Page and the Act of Writing (9:04): MP3 Keats and Neurological Change, Olson and Stabilized Schizophrenia (5:11): MP3

At Goddard College, May 18, 1973

Edited by Seth Forrest

Full Reading (1:27:24): MP3, RealAudio

Introductions (2:05): MP3 The Plan is the Body (from Away) (4:30): MP3 Spring (from Backwards) (1:21): MP3 But You (from Backwards) (0:30): MP3 Oh Mabel (from Backwards) (0:16): MP3 Dear Dorothy (from Away) (6:05): MP3 Flesh (from Backwards) (1:13): MP3 Home Again (Unpublished?) (0:16): MP3 Joking with audience (0:57): MP3 Away (from Away) (4:44): MP3 Faces (for Joe Brainard) (0:58): MP3 Berlin: First Night & Early Morning (from Away) (2:32): MP3 Places (Uncollected, from The Collected Poems) (3:37): MP3 As We Sit (from Thirty Things) (3:39): MP3 Every Day (from Away) (1:10): MP3 Unknown Short Story (8:16): MP3 Unknown Short Story (5:25): MP3 Presences: a Text for Marisol (8:02): MP3 As Real as Thinking (from Pieces) (3:31): MP3 Flowers (from Pieces) (2:51): MP3 The Family (from Pieces) (0:32): MP3 Kate’s (from Pieces) (0:09): MP3 For You (from Pieces) (0:17): MP3 Remarks on Gregory Corso (5:27): MP3 A Step (from Pieces) (0:58): MP3 Having To (from Pieces) (0:51): MP3 The Car (from Pieces) (1:32): MP3 Pieces of Cake (from Pieces) (0:31): MP3 The Finger (from Pieces) (9:04): MP3 One Thing (Incomplete) (from Pieces) (0:10): MP3 I Cannot See You (Incomplete) (from Pieces) (0:12): MP3 Gemini (from Pieces) (1:06): MP3 In Secret (from Pieces) (0:26): MP3 Time is some sort of hindsight (from Pieces) (0:33): MP3 Follow the Drinking Gourd . . . (from Pieces) (2:58): MP3

For Love, published by S Press as tape #41, recorded by Michael Köhler in Buffalo, New York, April 16th and 17th, 1974



Cover photograph by Ann Charter

Published by S Press 1975 / 1979; Written versions in: For Love (1962) and Poems 1950–1965 (1978)

Complete recording (29:06): MP3

The Door Selected Poems, published by S Press as tape #40/41, recorded by Michael Köhler in Buffalo, New York, April 16th, 17th, and 18th, 1974

A Selection of poems from:

The Charm:

The Return (partial) (0:22): MP3

Sanine to Leda (0:45): MP3

An Obscene Poem (0:37): MP3

Broken Back Blues (1:07): MP3

For Somebody's Marriage (0:32): MP3

For Love:

Le Fou (0:44): MP3

The Crisis (0:36): MP3

For Rainer Gerhardt (1:06): MP3

The Immoral Proposition (0:38): MP3

I Know a Man (0:33): MP3

The Business (0:36): MP3

The Warning (0:23): MP3

The Whip (0:49): MP3

A Wicker Basket (1:31): MP3

The Door (4:11): MP3

A Token (0:19): MP3

The Gift (0:39): MP3

The Name (1:24): MP3

Love Comes Quietly (0:23): MP3

Words:

The Rocks (0:48): MP3

I is the Grandson (1:37): MP3

The Language (0:40): MP3

The Measure (0:26): MP3

The Woman (2:12): MP3

Distance (3:01): MP3

Some Place (0:57): MP3

Going (0:22): MP3

The Hole (1:36): MP3

Intervals (0:42): MP3

Numbers:

1,2,3,0. (4:52): MP3

A Day Book

Looking for a Way (0:19): MP3

Persons (0:50): MP3

The Act of Love (1:51): MP3

Time (1:02): MP3

Massachusetts (1:17): MP3

For Benny and Sabina (0:51): MP3

Smoke (0:53): MP3

For the Graduation: Bolinas School, June 11, 1971 (0:44): MP3

Complete recording (42:14): MP3

Original released on cassette by S Press, Dusseldorf/München, Germany, 1975.

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Rockdrill 1: I Know a Man, Poems 1945 - 1975

CD available for purchase from Rockdrill, a series commissioned by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London.

Return (0:28): MP3 For an Anniversary (0:27): MP3 The Europeans (0:16): MP3 The Revelation (0:27): MP3 Chasing the Bird (0:41): MP3 The Changes (0:34): MP3 Stomping with Catullus (1:10): MP3 The Picnic (0:38): MP3 The Sentence (0:27): MP3 Preface to "For Love" (1:28): MP3 A Song (0:58): MP3 The Crisis (0:35): MP3 The Innocence (0:36): MP3 After Lorca (0:37): MP3 The Dishonest Mailman (0:32): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:33): MP3 The Conspiracy (0:29): MP3 I Know a Man (0:29): MP3 The Disappointment (0:23): MP3 Naughty Boy (0:40): MP3 The Whip (1:13): MP3 All That is Lovely in Mean (0:23): MP3 A Form of Women (1:27): MP3 Please (1:01): MP3 Oh No (0:30): MP3 Goodbye (0:41): MP3 A Marriage (0:30): MP3 Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:56): MP3 If You (1:00): MP3 Heroes (0:59): MP3 The Door (4:12): MP3 Kore (0:55): MP3 The Rain (0:59): MP3 Midnight (0:28): MP3 Mind's Heart (0:18): MP3 Love Comes Quietly (0:23): MP3 The People (0:32): MP3 The Wife (0:34): MP3 For Love (2:31): MP3 Preface to "Words" (1:03): MP3 The Rhythm (1:11): MP3 The Mountains in the Desert (0:34): MP3 For W.C.W. (0:35): MP3 I (1:31): MP3 Something (1:03): MP3 Anger (4:55): MP3 The Answer (0:28): MP3 Some Echoes (0:23): MP3 A Prayer (0:17): MP3 Joy (0:17): MP3 A Picture (0:27): MP3 Here (0:13): MP3 Intervals (0:35): MP3 From "Song" (Allen Ginsberg) (0:12): MP3 As Real as Thinking (0:37): MP3 The Moon (1:08): MP3 Names (0:26): MP3 America (0:38): MP3 Mazatlan: Sea (1:25): MP3 B- (1:36): MP3 Four (0:37): MP3 Here (8:54): MP3 "Do you think..." (2:01): MP3 Massachusetts (1:31): MP3 For Benny and Sabina (0:51): MP3 Rain (0:58): MP3 Rain (2) (0:34): MP3 As Now It Would Be Snow (1:41): MP3 For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887 - October 7, 1972 (3:13): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Reading of Just Buffalo, December 1, 1978

Full Reading (35:43): MP3

From "Presences" (15:09): MP3 Think of the Good Times (incomplete) (4:01): MP3 Paterson (incomplete) (3:02): MP3 Arroyo (0:52): MP3 This Day (1:36): MP3 The Last Mile (1:47): MP3 If I Had My Way (2:32): MP3

PennSound only link to Full Reading with Denise Levertov: MP3

Concerned Citizens for Cerritos Benefit Reading, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 6, 1979

Full Reading (2:12:13): MP3

The Rhythm (1:16): MP3 For No Clear Reason (0:55): MP3 The Messengers (1:24): MP3 Desultory Days (4:23): MP3 The Fact (4:49): MP3

Recordings from Naropa Poetics Audio Archives (1979-1999)

Class by Robert Creeley on the Academy of Practicing Poets (June 19, 1979): Link

Jack Collom, Carl Rakosi, Robert Creeley reading (June 20, 1979): Link

Lecture on language poetry - Part 1 (July 9, 1984): Link

Lecture on language poetry - Part 2 (July 9, 1984): Link

Lecture on Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Part 1 (June 23, 1986): Link

Lecture on Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Part 2 (June 23, 1986): Link

Lecture - Part 2 (June 27, 1986): Link

Lecture on John Wieners and his poems - Part 1 (June 30, 1986): Link

Lecture on John Wieners and his poems - Part 2 (June 30, 1986): Link

Lecture on poetry in motion (July 2, 1986): Link

Lecture on the imagination of procedure - Part 1 (July 4, 1986): Link

Lecture on the imagination of procedure - Part 2 (July 4, 1986): Link

Boulder Theater Naropa Institute reading (July 12, 1991): Link

Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy panel, Poetry and jazz - Part 1 (July 12, 1991): Link

Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy panel, Poetry and jazz - Part 2 (July 12, 1991): Link

Lecture at Boulder High School (July 8, 1994): Link

Lecture on eco-poetics - Part 1 (June 18, 1997): Link

Lecture on eco-poetics - Part 2 (June 18, 1997): Link

Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Michael Ondaatje panel (June 17, 1999): Link

Larry Bell, Talk at TAOS/NM, May 28, 1980

Full Reading (45:57): MP3

On friends (7:46): MP3 On difficult times (6:53): MP3 On writing company (4:26): MP3 On stability (7:58): MP3 On relationships, Wells and Shelley (18:52): MP3

This recording is part of the collection Robert Creeley

Reading at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1981

Full Reading (1:01:31): MP3

Pre-Reading Conversation (11:25): MP3 Introduction (3:34): MP3 Creeley describes his first reading in Buffalo (2:32): MP3 The Immoral Proposition (0:39): MP3 The Operation (1:13): MP3 Chanson (0:44): MP3 The Conspiracy (0:30): MP3 I Know a Man (0:34): MP3 The Lover (0:43): MP3 A Form of Women (2:04): MP3 The Name (3:06): MP3 The People (1:13): MP3 I is the Grandson (3:39): MP3 The Teachings (5:06): MP3 The Moon (1:27): MP3 from Numbers (9:01): MP3 from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:58): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

At Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, July 1984

Full Reading (1:11:25): MP3

Introduction by Reed Bye (1:59): MP3 from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:16): MP3 Myself (1:07): MP3 This World (1:22): MP3 Barcelona: February 13, 1977 (0:46): MP3 Echoes (incomplete) (2:20): MP3 Blues (2:20): MP3 The Edge (1:18): MP3 Time (2:05): MP3 Hotel Schrieder Heidelberg (1:56): MP3 Ich Bin... (0:28): MP3 Aprés Anders (6:01): MP3 The Missing Link (0:57): MP3 Shot (0:48): MP3 The Old Days (0:17): MP3 Lazy (0:11): MP3 Paper (0:09): MP3 Picture (0:33): MP3 The View (0:42): MP3 Mush (0:16): MP3 Number (1:57): MP3 La Cabeza (6:05): MP3 Thanks (2:49): MP3 Erotica (2:11): MP3 from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:27): MP3 Anger (6:10): MP3

MLA Reading, Washington, D.C., 1984

Full Reading (62:30): MP3

Introduction by Diane Wakoski (3:15): MP3 Creeley's Thanks and Preface (1:41): MP3 The Language (0:33): MP3 Don't Sign Anything (1:01): MP3 I Know a Man (1:24): MP3 A Form of Women (1:34): MP3 For Love (4:11): MP3 Sitting Here (3:09): MP3 Thee (0:58): MP3 Situation Of (0:21): MP3 Again (0:26): MP3 The Which (0:48): MP3 Ice Cream (0:46): MP3 What (1:12): MP3 The News (0:28): MP3 Smell of Gum Wrappers (1:14): MP3 Where We Are (2:41): MP3 Voices from the Silence (4:03): MP3 The Creative (7:22): MP3 For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887 - October 7, 1972 (3:08): MP3 Cebu (5:37): MP3 So There (4:03): MP3 This World (1:24): MP3 Later pt. 6 ("Hey, Spot!"): (1:16): MP3 Later pt. 8 (1:02): MP3 Desultory Days (3:35): MP3 Mother's Voice (1:20): MP3 Bresson's Movies (2:33): MP3 Post-reading remarks with Charlies Bernstein and others (1:08): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

Creeley Interview, 1984 (34:47): .RAM

Courtesy of Wired for Books Visiting the New College, September 20-25, 1985 Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

Three lectures introduced by Aaron Shurin. Reading introduction by Duncan McNaughton September 20, 1985 Complete Lecture on Emily Dickinson, Part I (1:35:46): MP3 Challening the Image of Emily Dickinson as Eccentric, Reactive, and Fragile (11:06): MP3 On the Comings and Goings of the Amherst Town and Church, Her Secondary School Education, and Her Daily Interactions (10:39): MP3 On Her Family Life (3:34): MP3 Reading from Emily Dickinson's Letters (8:28): MP3 On the Patterns of her Friends and Family (13:47): MP3 Reading from Emily Dickinson's Letters (3:19): MP3 On Her Productivity During 1862 (2:39): MP3 On Williams and Dickinson, and Not Providing Explanations (4:55): MP3 Death and the Civil War in Relation to her Poetry (10:57): MP3 Reading "Success is counted sweetest" (0:32): MP3 Reading "Ambition cannot find him" (0:17): MP3 Her Influences and Reading Interests (8:05): MP3 Dilemmas of the Anthology Presentation, Rhythmic Shifts, Metric Variations, and Her Use of the Dash (3:23): MP3 On the Notions of Place and Home (14:47): MP3 September 23, 1985 Full Poetry Reading (53:56): MP3

Complete Lecture on Emily Dickinson, Part II (1:35:58): MP3 September 25, 1985 Complete Lecture on Emily Dickinson, Part III (1:56:13): MP3 Reading at the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, 1986

with Gwendolyn Brooks Introduction by poet D.H. Melhem Full Reading (32:41): MP3 Recording courtesy of the Unterberg Poetry Center and The Estate of Robert Creeley Reading at the Naropa Institute, July 5, 1986

with Ed Dorn Full Reading (25:07): MP3 Bilingual Reading in Germany with Klaus Reichert, September 1986 Full Reading (39:50): MP3 Chanson (1:22): MP3 The Conspiracy (0:53): MP3 The Dissapointment (0:45): MP3 A Form of Women (2:47): MP3 A Gift of Great Value (1:24): MP3 Kore (1:26): MP3 The Lady in Black (0:50): MP3 The Gift (1:11): MP3 For Love (4:26): MP3 The Language (1:15): MP3 Song (1:00): MP3 The Hole (3:05): MP3 Enough (7:12): MP3 After (1:12): MP3 Love (0:56): MP3 Erotica (2:25): MP3 The Edge (2:40): MP3 Oh LOve (0:52): MP3 If Happiness (0:54): MP3 Waiting (0:27): MP3 Song (1:11): MP3 Self Portrait (1:37): MP3

"New Letters on the Air" Reading and Interview, April 1988

Full Reading (29:41): MP3 Reading for the Friends of the Scranton Public Library Poetry Series, April 13, 1988 Creeley by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, 1988 ©Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian At the University of Helsinki, February 14, 1989 Part 1, Full Reading (43:49): MP3

Part 2, Full Reading (27:00): MP3 Poets and Painters, Part 2, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, 1990

with Robert Creeley, Eric Fischl, Jorie Graham, Brice Marden, and Arthur Danto Full Reading (1:06:54): MP3 Charles Bernstein's graduate Seminar at SUNY-Buffalo, September 13, 1990 Part 1, Full Reading (1:23:52): MP3

Part 2, Full Reading (57:28): MP3 Olson's Open Field, the Act of Creation, and the Body (4:50): MP3 Olson and Williams' Experience of Woman (6:12): MP3 The Lack of Company in Williams (2:57): MP3 Beginning with One Thing in Mind and Ending with Another (6:06): MP3 Creeley's Own Interest in Poetry and Fighting for New Ways of Reading and Writing (4:07): MP3 The Beat Generation (4:25): MP3 Allen Ginsberg and Rhythm (8:19): MP3 Discussing Larry Eigner's "Country/Harbor/Quiet/Act/Around" (6:13): MP3 The Spatial and Typographical in Eigner's Writing (4:55): MP3 The Relation of Writing to the Body (6:50): MP3 The Physicality of Articulation (2:08): MP3 Turning Physical Disability into a Resource (8:53): MP3 The Relationship of Speech to the Conditions of Poetry (2:46): MP3 The Peripheral and the Central (3:00): MP3 Writing on Paper, the Typewriter, and the Computer (11:48): MP3 On Place (19:34): MP3 Discussing the Poem "I" (17:58): MP3 Reading "Something" (1:24): MP3 Connection to the "I" in the Poems "I" and "Something" (1:21): MP3 Reading "Walking" (0:23): MP3 Making Use of Emotion in Poetry (4:58): MP3 Thinking and Impedance (6:58): MP3 Portraiture and Sincerity (4:42): MP3 "Walking the Dog" Lecture Series on Poeticsat SUNY-Buffalo September 17, 1990 Part 1 (1:11:04): MP3

Part 2 (1:33:04): MP3, RealAudio October 15, 1990 Part 1 (51:45): MP3

Part 2 (51:40): MP3 On jazz music and prosody in relation to a cluster of Beat and Black Mountain poets (3:23): MP3 On Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, periodicity, and classic metrics (3:41): MP3 On correspondence with Irving Layton on Robert Graves (14:02): MP3 On Thomas Campion, weight and duration of syllables, and Michael Palmer's commentary in Code of Signals (5:31): MP3 On Robert Lowell, open verse, and Campion's "Follow Thy Fair Sun" (5:48): MP3 On rhythm in William Carlos Williams's "The World Narrowed to a Point" (3:37): MP3 On Gertrude Stein and Ron Silliman's The New Sentence (8:23): MP3 On Michael Palmer's commentary on Clark Coolidge's "A Note on Bop" (7:35): MP3 On Robert Graves' thoughts on his contemporaries (5:02): MP3 On aural vs. visual experiences of poetry and Louis Zukofsky (2:36): MP3 Reads William Carlos Williams's "The Dance" (1:07): MP3 Reads WCW's "Burning the Christmas Greens" (5:38): MP3 Reads WCW's "History of Love" (0:30): MP3 Reads WCW's "When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue" (2:05): MP3 Reads WCW's "The Birth of Venus" (3:04): MP3 Reads WCW's "The Seafarer" (1:32): MP3 Reads WCW's "The Dish of Fruit" (0:19): MP3 Reads WCW's "The Act" (1:26): MP3 Reads WCW's "Lear" (1:33): MP3 On Donald Wessling's The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading (1:55): MP3 On Ron Silliman, the sentence, and ordered authority in syntax (16:52): MP3 Reads and Discusses Emily Dickinson's "My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun" (0:57): MP3

Creeley talks to Charles Bernstein's Poetics Seminar; the focus is on gender issues. SUNY-Buffalo, Feb. 28, 1991

Part 1 (46:58): MP3

Part 2 (46:50): MP3

Part 3 (47:00): MP3

Part 4 (33:59): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, March 20, 1991

Full Reading (48:03): MP3

Creeley on Collaboration at Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, April 8, 1991

Full Talk (1:02:43): MP3 Poetry 1991 : The State of the Art, St. Marks Symposium, New York, May 3, 1991 Talk by Robert Creeley (27:54): MP3 Talk by Harryette Mullen (20:51): MP3 Talk by Ann Lauterbach (11:46): MP3 Talk by Charles North (29:42): MP3 Complete program (1:18:31): MP3

"The Radio Reading Project" with Ernesto Livon-Grossman, 1992

Full Reading and Interview (59:18): MP3

Introduction (2:12): MP3 Preface to Selected Poems (4:25): MP3 The Revelation (1:12): MP3 "Guido, i'vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io," from The Charm (1:13): MP3 Something for Easter (0:25): MP3 The Charm (0:56): MP3 Chasing the Bird (1:14): MP3 For Somebody's Marriage (0:50): MP3 "To work is to contradict contradictions, to do violence to natural violence..." (1:03): MP3 The Picnic (0:48): MP3 The Skeleton (0:29): MP3 Le Fou (1:18): MP3 The Innocence (1:55): MP3 The Dishonest Mailman (0:31): MP3 The Conspiracy (1:34): MP3 A Form of Women (2:57): MP3 Oh No (1:24): MP3 The Sign Board (1:51): MP3 The Rescue (0:48): MP3 The House (1:23): MP3 A Picture (3:43): MP3 A Piece (0:16): MP3 Interview with Ernesto Livon-Grossman (26:50): MP3

Andrew Kohn Interview with Robert Creeley, December 16, 1992

Full Reading (38:59): MP3

This recording is from the Robert Creeley Tape Collection

Reading at Ganz Auditorium, Roosevelt Auditorium, Chicago, April 1, 1993

Complete Recording (32:53): MP3

Courtesy of George Drury

Ballade pour Robert Creeley, c. 1993

Recorded by Jacques Darras in Paris for the France Culture documentary series Albatros. Creeley discusses his life and work and reads poems, with Pierre Joris, to the improvised jazz of Steve Lacy. Produced by Jacques Taroni for Radio France.

Part 1 (40:54): MP3

Part 2 (41:13): MP3

Books Books Books

This radio series pilot, from the mid-1990s, features Robert Creeley and Charles Bernstein. It was never broadcast and no other programs were produced.

Full Reading: MP3, RealAudio

Reading with Charles Bernstein and Susan Howe at SUNY Buffalo, March 31, 1995

Introduction (2:50): MP3

Histoire de Florida (18:24): MP3

Robert Creeley in conversation with Alan Riach at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, July 26, 1995

Complete Recording (51:15): MP3

I Know a Man (0:25): MP3

The World (1:27): MP3

"I Know a Man" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 16.

SUNY Buffalo, Creeley @ 70 Celebration, October 11, 1996

Opening event, 3-5pm at UB's Katharine Cornell Theatre. (1:30:20): MP3

Introduction to event by organizer Charles Bernstein; introduction to Creeley by UB President William Greiner; (9:04) Joseph Conte introduction to Gilbert Sorrentino followed by Sorrentino reading; (58:52) Creeley talking; (1:13:28) Creeley reads "Dogs of Auckland"

8:30pm at Cornell theater: Full Creeley reading followed by conversation with Jim Dine and Bernstein (2:13:11): MP3

Introduction by Susan Howe (14:25): MP3 Creeley's Preface (5:16): MP3 Introduction to Mabel: A Story (8:15): MP3 "For More" from Mabel: A Story (21:36): MP3 Histoire de FLorida (21:01): MP3 Introduction to Jim Dine by Charles Bernstein (5:04): MP3 Conversation between Jim Dine, Charles Bernstein, and Robert Creeley (57:25): MP3

Video Recording of Creeley evening reading (Part 1)

Video of Jim Dine conversation (Part) 2

Reading at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, May 18, 1998

Kyle Schlesinger and Robert Creeley, Plainfield, Vermont, 1998

On his poetic influences and the Norton Anthology (6:00): MP3 "Sherwood" by Alfred Noyles; "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley (5:22): MP3 "When I am Dead, my Dearest" by Christina Rosetti; "Hart Crane" (6:09): MP3 On Slater Brown; "For Love" (5:04): MP3 On the aging of his mother (7:43): MP3 "For my mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887-October 7, 1972" (5:08): MP3 On the condition of poetry and meeting Penelope (5:44): MP3 "So There" (3:22): MP3 "Four Days in Vermont" (5:35): MP3 "Help" (2:27): MP3

For more information, click here

Rockdrill 2: Just in Time, Poems 1976 - 1998

CD available for purchase from Rockdrill, a series commissioned by the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck College, London.

So There (3:36): MP3 Myself (1:09): MP3 This World (1:09): MP3 The House (1:28): MP3 I Love You (0:48): MP3 For Years Later (1:07): MP3 Thanks (0:56): MP3 First Rain (0:41): MP3 The Edge (1:20): MP3 Song ("Love has no other friends") (1:13): MP3 Time - for Willy (2:03): MP3 Mother's Voice (0:56): MP3 Buffalo Evening (0:34): MP3 Oh Max (5:25): MP3 Room (0:29): MP3 Massachusetts May (0:35): MP3 Fathers (1:08): MP3 Memory Gardens (0:44): MP3 Supper (0:13): MP3 Mother's Photograph (0:36): MP3 Valentine (0:29): MP3 Back (1:01): MP3 The Doctor (1:11): MP3 Stairway to Heaven (0:44): MP3 Oh (0:40): MP3 "Ever since Hitler..." (0:39): MP3 Thinking (1:13): MP3 Whatever (0:32): MP3 Helsinki Window (5:37): MP3 Spring Light (0:39): MP3 New Mexico (1:13): MP3 East Street Again (0:48): MP3 A Note (1:02): MP3 This House (1:19): MP3 Edges (1:43): MP3 Histoire de Florida (19:17): MP3 Credo (2:07): MP3 Goodbye (1:14): MP3 Four Days in Vermont (4:47): MP3 Edges (2:40): MP3

SUNY-Buffalo, November 5, 1999

Full Video (1:05:40): RealVideo

This event took place Friday, Nov. 5, 1999 at 8 p.m., Allen Hall, South Campus, State University at Buffalo, New York and was also

broadcast live on WBFO, 88.7 FM. Thanks to Just Buffalo Literary Center, WBFO, SUNY Buffalo, and Robert Creeley for

permission to make this event available on the Web. RealVideo by Anya Lewin. EPC feed.

Reading at Harvard University, 1999

Introduction by Jorie Graham (5:55): MP3 Histoire de Florida (20:54): MP3 Possibilities (10:00): MP3

Reading at the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Camden, NJ, November 21, 1999

After an introduction, Creeley talks about Whitman and starts his reading with "Histoire de Florida"

Reading and brief discussion (1:11:32): MP3

This recording is courtesy of Jack Krick

Photographs of the visit

April 10 Reading: Quicktime Video

MP3 singles of April 10 reading

Place (0:31): MP3 Won't it be Fine? (2:57): MP3 Bresson's Movies (1:12): MP3 Echoes (0:43): MP3 En Famille (5:13): MP3 Help (1:03): MP3 Love (0:25): MP3 Myself (2:02): MP3 The House (1:32): MP3 There (1:03): MP3 Thinking (0:52): MP3 This World (0:08): MP3 End of Presences: A Text for Marisol (9:07): MP3 "Where late the sweet birds sang..." (4:20): MP3

April 11 interview and conversation moderated by Al Filreis

Full Interview (1:20:06): MP3 (audio only); QuickTime Video

Podcast of the Interview and Conversation: MP3

Introduction (5:45): MP3 On using Monologue (6:29): MP3 Using tools to make objective writing and sound (5:49): MP3 Poems of memory and assumption (4:46): MP3 Making it new (6:11): MP3 On the impact of William Carlos Williams's angry poetry (3:57): MP3 On young poets (2:54): MP3 Form as an expression of content (4:08): MP3 On having few precedents (4:59): MP3 On Denise Levertov (4:31): MP3 Poetry, the internet, and social power (3:35): MP3 Conversation with Marjorie Perloff about love poetry (7:01): MP3 On making objective texts (4:05): MP3 On Bob Dylan (3:08): MP3 On hearing poetry read out loud (3:24): MP3 Influences (3:03): MP3 Reading and discussing A Valentine for Pen (3:55): MP3

A selection of uncollected poems read at home in Waldoboro, Maine on June 11, 2000

For Hannah's 14th Birthday (0:54): MP3 For Will (1:39): MP3 "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" (0:49): MP3 "Where late the sweet birds sang..." (1:08): MP3 En Famille (4:37): MP3 Conversion to Her (2:52): MP3 Clemente's Images (8:30): MP3 As If (0:53): MP3 Possibilities (4:31): MP3 Anya (1:17): MP3 Thinking (0:54): MP3 "When I heard the learn'd astronomer..." (2:36): MP3 For the Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony (1:40): MP3 Cambridge, Mass 1944 (0:45): MP3 Place to Be (0:46): MP3

Recorded by Rick Alverson.

Sequenced by Mike Hearst and Ben Swanson.

"En Famille" was first published in En Famille by Robert Creeley (text) and Elsa Dorfman (photographs), Granary Books, New York, 1999. Reading at the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, 2000

with Michael Palmer

Introduction by John Yau

Full Reading (33:28): MP3

Q&A with Creeley and Palmer (10:39): MP3

Recording courtesy of the Unterberg Poetry Center and The Estate of Robert Creeley

Creeley and the Persistence of Voice, in conversation with Bruce Jackson for Substance TV, 2001

©Substance TV

Reading and discussing On Art and Collaboration, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, 2002

Full Recording (59:42): MP3

Q&A with Creeley and Katz (10:18): MP3

Recording courtesy of the Unterberg Poetry Center, Alex Katz, and The Estate of Robert Creeley Robert Creeley: A Home Movie A video interview with Ted Pelton, 2002. Bookworm interview, March 28, 2002 Compete Interview MP3

At the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, December 4, 2002

Full Reading (59:55): MP3

Introduction (5:01): MP3 Yesterdays (7:41): MP3 Pictures (6:53): MP3 "If I were writing this..." (7:41): MP3 Memory ("Somewhere Allen Ginsberg is..."): MP3 Memory ("Remember when...") (0:53): MP3 Mediterranean II (3:39): MP3 War (0:58): MP3 Talking ("I was trying to think of when rightly...") (0:49): MP3 Paul (1:55): MP3 For John Wieners (3:58): MP3 Generous Life (1:13): MP3 Q & A (14:38): MP3

Recording courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Reading at the East Vancouver Cultural Center, September 11, 2003

Full Reading (45:17): MP3

Introduction by Robin Blaser (7:54): MP3 Creeley's Introduction (5:02): MP3 The Door (5:26): MP3 "After School" by Robin Blaser (1:03): MP3 Bresson's Movies (2:05): MP3 Yesterdays (5:32): MP3 Memory (3:19): MP3 Emptiness (4:43): MP3 For John Wieners (3:23): MP3 Paul (1:59): MP3 Ground Zero (2:27): MP3 Generous Life (2:18): MP3

Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series, Beinecke Library, November 13, 2003

Full Reading, introduction by Richard Deming (55:14): MP3

Recording Courtesy of Beinecke; Thanks to Nancy Kuhl

Cross-Cultural Poetics radio program with host Leonard Schwartz, November 24, 2003

Full Transcript of Show from Jacket: Link

Full Reading (28:12): MP3

Introduction (0:56): MP3 Form as extension of content (1:34): MP3 Poem in memory of Allen Ginsberg (3:09): MP3 Discussing Allen Ginsberg (2:07): MP3 Influence of Robert Graves; matriarchy in poetry (4:38): MP3 "Conversion to Her" (2:49): MP3 Presence of rhyme (1:32): MP3 "John's Song" (1:55): MP3 Poetry and language during the Bush administration (2:52): MP3 On repetition (1:35): MP3 "If I Were Writing This" (3:13): MP3 Discussing "If I Were Writing This" (1:50): MP3

Creeley reads Charles Olson's "Maximus, to Gloucester," Key West Literary Seminar, 2003

Full Reading (5:15): MP3

Reading and Lecture - produced by Poem Present, the University of Chicago, April 1 and 2, 2004

Full Reading (49:15): MP3; Video Full Lecture (1:05:35): MP3; Video

Louis Zukofsky Centennial talk , Columbia University, September 17, 2004

Full Recording (19:35): MP3

Early advocates of Zukofsky's work (4:43): MP3 Fragility to the world in Zukofsky's writing (1:50): MP3 Visiting Louis and Celia in Brooklyn (3:03): MP3 Promoting and publishing Zukofsky's work after his death (2:10): MP3 What Zukofsky's work engages and locates (1:41): MP3 With Zukofsky, Borges and Duncan in Austin, Texas (1:14): MP3 Zukofsky as an accomplished prosodist (3:33): MP3 The personal, intimate, and familial presence of Zukofsky (1:17): MP3

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