Robert White Creeley Net Worth
Robert White Creeley Net Worth is
$16 Million
Robert White Creeley Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Robert Creeley (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. He is usually associated with the Black Mountain poets, though his verse aesthetic diverged from that school's. He was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn. He served as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1991, he joined colleagues Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Raymond Federman, Robert Bertholf, and Dennis Tedlock in founding the Poetics Program at Buffalo. Creeley lived in Waldoboro, Maine, Buffalo, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, where he taught at Brown University. He was a recipient of the Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. | Date Of Birth | May 21, 1926 |
| Died | 2005-03-30 |
| Place Of Birth | Arlington, Massachusetts, USA |
| Star Sign | Gemini |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 137, pages 96-106. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. |
| 2 | With his wife, Ann MacKinnon, he set up the publishing company 'Divers Press'. |
| 3 | He has seven children from three marriages, and one stepchild. |
| 4 | Educated at Harvard. |
| 5 | He lost his left eye in accident before he was 5 years old. |
| 6 | In 1944 he spent a year in India and Burma with the American Field Service. |
| 7 | Teacher at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 37 years. |
| 8 | Poet known for his spare use of language and free-form style. Associated with the Black Mountain Poets in the 1950s. |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | 2007 | Documentary | |
| The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation | 1999 | Documentary | Himself |
| No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Beat Generation: An American Dream | 1987 | Documentary | Himself |
| What Happened to Kerouac? | 1986 | Documentary | Himself |
| Kerouac, the Movie | 1985 | Documentary | Himself (poet) |
| Poetry in Motion | 1982 | Documentary | Himself |
| Two: Creeley/McClure | 1965 | Short | Himself |
Known for movies
Two: Creeley/McClure (1965)
as Himself
The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999)
as Himself
What Happened to Kerouac? (1986)
as Himself
Kerouac, the Movie (1985)
as Himself (poet)