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Robert Creeley
was born in Arlington, Massachusetts. After living in the south
of France in Aix-en-Provence and in Majorca, Spain, where he founded
the Divers Press, he joined the faculty of Black Mountain College
in 1954 at the invitation of Charles Olson. There he founded the
Black Mountain Review. While Creeley left the college itself in
1955, his influence on Black Mountain poetics has been significant.
Associated with the State University of New York at Buffalo since
1966, he was named poet laureate of the state of New York in 1992.
Creeley was also awarded a Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1999,
a Lifetime Achievement Award conferred by the Before Columbus
Foundation in 2000, and a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement
Award in 2001.
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