Robert Creeley

(1) read at San Francisco State University, May 20, 1956 (0:28): MP3
(2) at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, August 12, 1963 (1:27): MP3
(3) read at Harvard University, October 27, 1966 (0:35): MP3
(4) read in Bolinas, CA, July 1971 (0:26): MP3
(5) read in Bolinas, CA, c. 1965-1970 (0:25): MP3

Studio Recording at Black Mountain College, c. 1954
Full reading (9:54): mp3

1. The Rites (1:03)
2. The Crisis (0:26)
3. The Immoral Proposition (0:30)
4. For W.C.W. (0:18)
5. The Carnival (0:24)
6. The Charm (0:33)
7. The Pedigree (0:22)
8. The Dishonest Mailmen (0:26)
9. Apple Uppfle (0:32)
10. The Revelation (0:22)
11. The Operation (0:29)
12. For Irving (0:24)
13. The Disappointment (0:19)
14. El Noche (0:14)
15. The Whip (0:31)
16. Like They Say (0:18)
17. A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (0:44)
18. The Riddle (0:23)
19. The Ball Game (0:45)
20. The Innocence (0:28)
21. Something for Easter (0:20)

At San Francisco State University, May 20, 1956
Full reading (54:17): mp3

1. Hart Crane (1:58)
2. Le Fou (1:30)
3. A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (0:57)
4. The Crisis (0:26)
5. For Ranier Gerhardt (1:41)
6. The Riddle (0:39)
7. The Rites (1:03)
8. The Ball Game (1:03)
9. The Innocence (0:32)
10. Something for Easter (0:37)
11. The Grace (10:18)
12. The Carnival (1:35)
13. The Charm (0:31)
14. The Pedigree (0:17)
15. After Lorca (2:09)
16. For an Anniversary (0:31)
17. The Kind of Act Of (1:03)
18. The Dishonest Mailmen (0:38)
19. The Crow (0:48)
20. For Martin (0:28)
21. The Immoral Proposition (1:46)
22. The Changes (0:31)
23. For Irving (0:37)
24. I Know a Man (0:25)
25. The End (0:27)
26. Death of Venus (0:38)
27. The Lover (0:28)
28. Wait for Me (0:38)
29. For Somebody's Marriage (0:26)
30. The Business (0:23)
31. The Disappointment (0:20)
32. The Warning (0:16)
33. A Form of Adaptation (0:41)
34. Song ("Were I myself more blithe") (0:38)
35. Stomping With Catallus (1:20)
36. The Apology (0:11)
37. Like They Say (0:19)
38. The Whip (0:35)
39. All That is Lovely in Men (0:24)
40. A Dedication (1:18)
41. A Day at the Beach (0:41)
42. The Prejudice (0:23)
43. Naughty Waters (published as "Naughty Boy") (0:34)
44. "To Work is to Contradict Contradictions, to Do Violence to Natural Violence..." (0:59)
45. The Commentary (0:37)
46. Old Song (0:23)
47. A Wicker Basket (1:13)
48. For David (0:27)
49. Lover's Leap (0:27)
50. Hold It (0:34)
51. Goodbye (0:28)
52. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:29)
53. Air: "Cat Bird Singing" (0:41)
54. If You (0:46)
55. For Anne (0:24)
56. A Marriage (0:21)
57. Song ("God give you pardon from gratitude") (0:14)
58. For the New Year (0:40)
59. And (0:48)

At the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, July 16, 1959
Full reading (1:00:29): mp3

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

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

At the Vancouver Poetry Conference, August 12, 1963
Full recording (13:57): mp3

1. A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (1:40)
2. The Innocence (0:33)
3. The Ball Game (1:04)
4. The Carnival (0:28)
5. After Lorca (0:41)
6. The Crow (0:29)
7. The Immoral Proposition (0:35)
8. The Operation (0:43)
9. I Know a Man (1:27)
10. The Lover (0:35)
11. Wait for Me (1:17)
12. The Warning (0:20)
13. A Form of Adaptation (0:51)
14. La Noche (0:31)
15. The Whip (0:15)
16. All That is Lovely in Men (0:25)
17. Juggler's Thought (0:32)
18. A Form of Women (1:07)

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

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.

At the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, December 4, 1963
Full recording (44:06): mp3

1. Archive Introduction (0:14)
2. Hart Crane (3:47)
3. Le Fou (0:55)
4. The Crisis (1:57)
5. The Immoral Proposition (1:33)
6. I Know a Man (2:49)
7. Wait for Me (2:03)
8. The Whip (1:11)
9. New Year's (2:53)
10. The Door (4:11)
11. Kore (2:09)
12. The Name (1:13)
13. Fire (2:40)
14. For Love (3:34)
15. The Language (1:49)
16. There Is (0:52)
17. The Book (9:56)

Recording courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

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

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

• complete recording (1:25:39): MP3

At the Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965
July 22
part one
1.introduction (3:23): MP3
2. The Rhythm (1:58): MP3
3. The Rocks (1:40): MP3
4. Water (1:07): MP3
5. The Mountians in the Desert (0:33): MP3
6. Waiting (0:46): MP3
7. The Invitation (0:47): MP3
8. For William Carlos Williams (0:37): MP3
9. Song (0:37): MP3
10. The Fire (0:38): MP3
11. For No Clear Reason (0:29): MP3
12. The Messengers (For Allen Ginsberg) (0:50): MP3
13. I (1:19): MP3
14. Something (1:08): MP3
15. Walking (0:40): MP3
16. The Language (1:07): MP3
17. The Window (0:47): MP3
18. The Chance (2:39): MP3
19. Hellow (0:18): MP3
part one complete reading(46:16)
part two (33:41)

July 23: part one (1:01:29)     part two (23:17)

At the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y, October 24, 1966
Full reading (23:20) (mp3); rm file

1. Introduction by Ed Sanders (2:37)
2. Some Place (0:47)
3. Song ("I wouldn't") (0:28)
4. Song ("What do you") (0:23)
5. For Helen (0:32)
6. A Night Sky (0:26)
7. The Answer (0:25)
8. Dimensions (0:57)
9. A Place (0:29)
10. Some Echoes (0:18)
11. Fancy (0:30)
12. The World (1:22)
13. Going (0:18)
14. The City (0:36)
15. Words (0:38)
16. A Reason (0:50)
17. The Shame (0:22)
18. The Statue (0:43)
19. The Window (0:47)
20. To Bobbie (1:03)
21. They (0:34)
22. A Method (0:42)
23. A Sight (2:01)
24. Pieces (0:14)
25. The Circle (0:29)
26. The Hole (2:02)
27. Intervals (0:38)
28. For Joel (1:20)

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

• complete recording (1:08:40): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, October 3, 1966
Full reading (53:10): mp3

1. Introduction (2:11)
2. The Rain (1:12)
3. Kore (0:57)
4. The Plan (1:03)
5. The Man (0:46)
6. A Wish (0:39)
7. The Name (1:29)
8. The First Time (1:45)
9. The Rose (1:35)
10. Love Comes Quietly (0:35)
11. The People (0:44)
12. Fire (0:37)
13. For Friendship (0:22)
14. The Gesture (1:36)
15. For Love (8:21)
16. Dimensions (1:04)
17. Distance (3:17)
18. Some Place (0:57)
19. Song ("What do you") (0:27)
20. The Box (0:39)
21. A Piece (1:14)
22. A Prayer (0:24)
23. Here ("What / has happened") (0:36)
24. One Way (1:57)
25. Anger (4:29)
26. A Sight (4:29)
27. The Woman (2:11)
28. from The Dream (0:53)
29. Fragments (0:43)
30. Oh My Love (0:34)
31. A Tally (1:31)
32. A Birthday (1:14)
33. Intervals (0:57)
34. The Hole (1:44)

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.

At Harvard University, October 27, 1966
courtesy Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard.

 
1. Introduction (2:20)
2. Le Fou (0:34)
3. A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (2:36)
4. The Crisis (0:35)
5. The Riddle (0:33)
6. The Rhyme (0:27)
7. The Innocence (0:39)
8. The Ball Game (1:00)
9. The Carnival (0:34)
10. After Lorca (0:46)
11. The Dishonest Mailmen (1:15)
12. The Immoral Proposition (0:36)
13. For W.C.W. (0:29)
14. Chanson (0:34)
15. Don't Sign Anything (0:34)
16. The Conspiracy (2:39)
17. The End (0:29)
18. I Know a Man (0:35) [text-audio alignment]
19. A Counterpoint (1:33)
20. The Warning (0:31)
21. The Whip (0:49)
22. La Noche (0:20)
23. Juggler's Thought (0:32)
24. A Form of Women (1:34)
25. They Say (0:25)
26. The Friend (0:50)
27. The Three Ladies (1:11)
28. Oh No (0:30)
29. Goodbye (0:42)
30. If You (0:58)
31. The Tunnel (0:38)
32. The Names (0:29)
33. A Gift of Great Value (0:52)
34. Somewhere (0:38)
35. New Year's (1:24)
36. Entre Nous (0:27)
37. Sing Song (0:41)
38. The Place (2:08)
39. The Souvenir (0:24)
40. The Door (3:48)
41. Kore (0:59)
42. The Name (1:27)
43. For Love (2:42)
44. The Woman (2:34)
45. The Window (0:57)
46. To Bobbie (1:40)

Robert & Bobbie Creeley: Placitas phone log, 1968

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

Reading in Bolinas, CA, July, 1971
1. The Messengers (0:53)
2. I Know a Man (0:26)

From The Dial-a-Poem Poets (1972)
The Dial-a-Poem Poets at UbuWeb

Listen, 1972
Radio play by Robert Creeley, performed by Robert and Bobbie Creeley.
 
Listen (23:09)

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

1. On traveling and coming to terms with his poetic career (2:24)
2. Return (0:28)
3. The Charm (2:13)
4. Speaking briefly on For Love (0:38)
5. Creeley reads "A Form of Women," from For Love, and discusses his inspirations (2:55)
6. Song ("Those rivers run from that land") (1:32)
7. Heroes (0:48)
8. The House (0:25)
9. The People (0:27)
10. For Love (2:05)
11. The Whip (0:35)
12. I Know a Man (0:25)
13. La Noche (0:12)
14. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:31)
15. The Hill (0:39)
16. The Name (1:13)

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

Edited by Seth Forrest

The Door: Selected Poems, 1975
Full recording (42:14): mp3

1. The Return (partial) (0:22)
2. Sanine to Leda (0:45)
3. An Obscene Poem (0:37)
4. Broken Back Blues (1:07)
5. For Somebodys Marriage (0:32)
6. Le Fou (0:44)
7. The Crisis (0:36)
8. For Rainer Gerhardt (1:06)
9. The Immoral Proposition (0:38)
10. I Know a Man (0:33)
11. The Business (0:36)
12. The Warning (0:23)
13. The Whip (0:49)
14. A Wicker Basket (1:31)
15. The Door (4:11)
16. A Token (0:19)
17. The Gift (0:39)
18. The Name (1:24)
19. Love Comes Quietly (0:23)
20. The Rocks (0:48)
21. I is the Grandson (1:37)
22. The Language (0:40)
23. The Measure (0:26)
24. The Woman (2:12)
25. Distance (3:01)
26. Some Place (0:57)
27. Going (0:22)
28. The Hole (1:36)
29. Intervals (0:42)
30. Numbers (4:52)
31. Looking for a Way (0:19)
32. Persons (0:50)
33. The Act of Love (1:51)
34. Time (1:02)
35. Massachusetts (1:17)
36. For Benny and Sabina (0:51)
37. Smoke (0:53)
38. For the Graduation: Bolinas School, June 11, 1971 (0:44)

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

Reading at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1981
Full reading (1:01:31): mp3

1. Pre-reading conversation (11:25)
2. Introduction (3:34)
3. Describes first reading in Buffalo (2:32)
4. The Immoral Proposition (0:39)
5. The Operation (1:13)
6. Chanson (0:44)
7. The Conspiracy (0:30)
8. I Know a Man (0:34)
9. The Lover (0:43)
10. A Form of Women (2:04)
11. The Name (3:06)
12. The People (1:13)
13. I is the Grandson (3:39)
14. The Teachings (5:06)
15. The Moon (1:27)
16. from Numbers (9:01)
17. from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:58)

written by Julia Brown, produced by Ara Guzelimian

1. program introduction (1:19): MP3
2. introduction to Robert Creeley (1:16): MP3
3. experiences of despair and the transformation that occurs in writing (1:13): MP3
4. Mother's Voice (0:51): MP3
5. didactic meter and finding a rhythm more particular to modes of feeling (1:04): MP3
6. the measure of time in jazz (0:55): MP3
7. Retrospect (0:23): MP3
8. knowing when a poem is done (1:18): MP3
9. The Edge (1:27): MP3
10. the different listening experiences of musicians and formally trained critics (0:40): MP3
11. Still Dancers (0:35): MP3

Complete Program (28:40): MP3

Reading at San Francisco Zen Center, 1983
Full reading (30:59): mp3

1. Myself (1:36)
2. This World (1:10)
3. The House (2:35)
4. News of the World (2:54)
5. The Table (1:37)
6. Four Years Later (1:04)
7. Heaven (0:35)
8. Desultory Days (5:58)
9. Arroyo (1:15)
10. If I Had My Way (2:25)
11. Prayer to Hermes (3:08)
12. The Edge (1:57)
13. Time (2:06)
14. Rachel Had Said (2:34)

At Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, July 1984
Full reading (1:11:25): mp3

1. Introduction by Reed Bye (1:59)
2. from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:16)
3. Myself (1:07)
4. This World (1:22)
5. Barcelona: February 13, 1977 (0:46)
6. Echoes (partial) (1:15)
7. Blues (2:20)
8. The Edge (1:18)
9. Time (2:05)
10. Hotel Schrieder Heidelberg (1:56)
11. Ich Bin . . . (0:28)
12. Après Anders (6:01)
13. The Missing Link (0:57)
14. Shot (0:48)
15. The Old Days (0:17)
16. Lazy (0:11)
17. Paper (0:09)
18. Picture (0:33)
19. The View (0:42)
20. Mush (0:16)
21. Numbers (1:57)
22. La Cabeza (6:05)
23. Thanks (2:49)
24. Erotica (2:11)
25. from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:27)
26. Anger (6:10)

MLA Reading, Washington, D.C., 1984
Full reading (62:30): mp3

1. Introduction by Diane Wakoski (3:15)
2. Creeley's thanks and preface (1:41)
3. The Language (0:33)
4. Don't Sign Anything (1:01)
5. I Know a Man (1:24)
6. A Form of Women (1:34)
7. For Love (4:11)
8. Sitting Here (3:09)
9. The (0:58)
10. Situation of (0:21)
11. Again (0:26)
12. The Which (0:48)
13. Ice Cream (0:46)
14. What (1:12)
15. The News (0:28)
16. Smell of gum wrappers (1:14)
17. Where we are (2:41)
18. Voices from the Silence (4:03)
19. The Creative (7:22)
20. For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887 - October 7, 1972 (3:08)
21. Cebu (5:37)
22. So There (4:03)
23. This World (1:24)
24. Later pt. 6 ("Hey, Spot!") (1:16)
25. Later pt. 8 (1:02)
26. Desultory Days (3:35)
27. Mother's Voice (1:20)
28. Bresson's Movies (2:33)
29. Post-reading conversation with Charles Bernstein and others(1:08)

Creeley Interview, 1984 (34:47) (.ram file) (Wired for Books)

Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss

September 20, 1985

• Lecture on Emily Dickinson, Part I (1:35:46): MP3

September 23, 1985

• poetry reading (complete / not segmented) (53:56): MP3
• Lecture on Emily Dickinson, Part II (1:35:58): MP3

September 25, 1985

• Lecture on Emily Dickinson, Part III (1:56:13): MP3

Bilingual Reading in Germany with Klaus Reichert, September 1986
Full reading (39:50): mp3

1. Chanson (1:22)
2. The Conspiracy (0:53)
3. The Disappointment (0:45)
4. A Form of Women (2:47)
5. A Gift of Great Value (1:24)
6. Kore (1:26)
7. The Lady in Black (0:50)
8. The Gift (1:11)
9. For Love (4:26)
10. The Language (1:15)
11. Song (1:00)
12. The Hole (3:05)
13. Enough (7:12)
14. After (1:12)
15. Love (0:56)
16. Erotica (2:25)
17. The Edge (2:40)
18. Oh Love (0:52)
19. If Happiness (0:54)
20. Waiting (0:27)
21. Song (1:11)
22. Self Portrait (1:37)

"New Letters on the Air" Reading and Interview, April 1988
Full program (29:41)

Graduate Seminar at SUNY-Buffalo, September 13, 1990
Part 1 (1:23:52), Part 2 (57:28)

"Walking the Dog" Lecture Series on Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo

1. September 17, 1990
Part 1 (1:11:04), Part 2 (1:33:04): MP3, RealAudio

2. October 15, 1990
Part 1 (51:45), Part 2 (51:40)

1. on jazz music and prosody in relation to a cluster of Beat and Black Mountain poets (3:23): MP3
2. on Clark Coolidge, Michael Palmer, periodicity, and classic metrics (3:41): MP3
3. on correspondence with Irving Layton on Robert Graves (14:02): MP3
4. on Thomas Campion, weight and duration of syllables, and Michael Palmer's commentary in Code of Signals (5:31): MP3
5. on Robert Lowell, open verse, and Campion's "Follow Thy Fair Sun" (5:48): MP3
6. on rhythm in William Carlos Williams's "The World Narrowed to a Point" (3:37): MP3
7. on Gertrude Stein and Ron Silliman's The New Sentence (8:23): MP3
8. on Michael Palmer's commentary on Clark Coolidge's "A Note on Bop" (7:35): MP3
9. on Robert Graves' thoughts on his contemporaries (5:02): MP3
10. on aural vs. visual experiences of poetry and Louis Zukofsky (2:36): MP3
11. reads William Carlos Williams's "The Dance" (1:07): MP3
12. reads WCW's "Burning the Christmas Greens" (5:38): MP3
13. reads WCW's "History of Love" (0:30): MP3
14. reads WCW's "When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue" (2:05): MP3
15. reads WCW's "The Birth of Venus" (3:04): MP3
16. reads WCW's "The Seafarer" (1:32): MP3
17. reads WCW's "The Dish of Fruit" (0:19): MP3
18. reads WCW's "The Act" (1:26): MP3
19. reads WCW's "Lear" (1:33): MP3
20. on Donald Wessling's The Scissors of Meter: Grammetrics and Reading (1:55): MP3
21. on Ron Silliman, the sentence, and ordered authority in syntax (16:52): MP3
22. 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 One (46:58)                 Part Two (46:50)
Part Three (47:00)             Part Four (33:59)

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

"The Radio Reading Project" with Ernesto Livon-Grossman, 1992
Full reading and interview (59:18): mp3
 
1. Introduction (2:12)
2. Preface to Selected Poems (4:25)
3. The Revelation (1:12)
4. "Guido, i' vorrei che tu e Lapo ed io," from The Charm(1:13)
5. Something for Easter (0:25)
6. The Charm (0:56)
7. Chasing the Bird (1:14)
8. For Somebody's Marriage (0:50)
9. "To Work is to Contradict Contradictions, to Do Violence to Natural Violence . . ." (1:03)
10. The Picnic (0:48)
11. The Skeleton (0:29)
12. Le Fou (1:18)
13. The Innocence (1:55)
14. The Dishonest Mailmen (0:31)
15. The Conspiracy (1:34)
16. A Form of Women (2:57)
17. Oh No (1:24)
18. The Sign Board (1:51)
19. The Rescue (0:48)
20. The House (1:23)
21. A Picture (3:43)
22. A Piece (0:16)
23. Interview with Ernesto Livon-Grossman (26:50)

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.
 
1. Part 1 (40:54)
2. Part 2 (41:13)

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.
MP3 , RealAudio

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

1. Introduction (2:50)
2. Histoire de Florida (18:24)

Reading at SUNY Buffalo, October 11, 1996
Full reading and conversation (2:13:11): mp3

1. Introduction by Susan Howe (14:25)
2. Creeley's preface (5:16)
3. Introduction to Mabel: A Story (8:15)
4. "Four More" from Mabel: A Story (21:36)
5. Histoire de Florida (21:01)
6. Introduction to Jim Dyne by Charles Bernstein (5:04)
7. Conversation between Jim Dyne, Robert Creeley, and Charles Bernstein (57:25)

Reading in Plainfield, Vermont, May 18, 1998

SUNY-Buffalo, November 5, 1999: RealVideo (1:05:40)
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

courtesy Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard.

1. introduction by Jorie Graham (5:55): MP3
2. Histoire de Florida (20:54): MP3
3. Possibilities (10:00): MP3

At Kelly Writers House, April 10 & 11, 2000

April 10 reading (Streaming QuickTime video)

MP3 singles of April 10 reading:
1. Place (0:31)
2. Won't it be Fine? (2:57)
3. Bresson's Movies (1:12)
4. Echoes (0:43)
5. En Famille (5:13)
6. Help (1:03)
7. Love (0:25)
8. Myself (2:02)
9. The House (1:32)
10. There (1:03)
11. Thinking (0:52)
12. This World (0:08)
13. end of Presences: A Text for Marisol (9:07)
14. "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang..." (4:20)

April 11 interview and conversation moderated by Al Filreis
1.introduction (5:45): MP3
2. on using Monologue (6:29): MP3
3. using tools to make objective writing and sound (5:49): MP3
4. poems of memory and assumption (4:46): MP3
5. making it new (6:11): MP3
6. on the impact of William Carlos Williams's angry poetry (3:57): MP3
7. on young poets (2:54): MP3
8. form as an expression of content (4:08): MP3
9. on having few precedents (4:59): MP3
10. on Denise Levertov (4:31): MP3
11. poetry, the internet, and social power (3:35): MP3
12. conversation with Marjorie Perloff about love poetry (7:01): MP3
13. on making objective texts (4:05): MP3
14. on Bob Dylan (3:08): MP3
15. on hearing poetry read out loud (3:24): MP3
16. influences (3:03): MP3
17. reading and discussing A Valentine for Pen (3:55): MP3
complete interview and conversation MP3 (audio only) (1:20:06); Streaming QuickTime video
podcast of the interview and conversation
Photographs of the visit

At the University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson, December 4, 2002
Full recording (59:55): mp3

1. Introduction (5:01)
2. Yesterdays (7:41)
3. Pictures (6:53)
4. "If I were writing this ..." (7:41)
5. Memory ("Somewhere Allen Ginsberg is ...") (4:27)
6. Memory ("Remember when ...") (0:53)
7. Mediterranean II (3:39)
8. War (0:58)
9. Talking ("I was trying to think of when rightly ...") (0:49)
10. Paul (1:55)
11. For John Wieners (3:58)
12. Generous Life (1:13)
13. Q & A (14:38)

Recording courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Reading at the East Vancouver Cultural Center, September 11, 2003
Full reading (45:17): mp3

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

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

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

Complete Recording (28:12): MP3

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

1. Reading: audio (49:15), video
2. Lecture: audio (1:05:35), video

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

1. early advocates of Zukofsky's work (4:43): MP3
2. fragility to the world in Zukofsky's writing (1:50): MP3
3. visiting Louis and Celia in Brooklyn (3:03): MP3
4. promoting and publishing Zukofsky's work after his death (2:10): MP3
5. what Zukofsky's work engages and locates (1:41): MP3
6. with Zukofsky, Borges and Duncan in Austin, Texas (1:14): MP3
7. Zukofsky as an accomplished prosodist (3:33): MP3
8. the personal, intimate, and familial presence of Zukofsky (1:17): MP3

1. When I Think (2:22): MP3, YouTube
2. War (0:59): MP3, YouTube
3. Talking (1:08): MP3, YouTube
4. Paul (1:49): MP3
5. Old Song (0:53): MP3
6. Oh, do you remember (2:22): MP3
7. Mediterranean I (1:17): MP3
8. Mediterranean II (1:39): MP3
9. Jumping with Jackson (1:23): MP3
10. Shimmer (4:01): MP3
11. Sad Walk (1:32): MP3
12. The Red Flower (2:54): MP3, YouTube
13. Old Story from The Diary of Francis Kilver (1:13): MP3, YouTube

Reading available as streaming video in addition to mp3 audio.

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.

1. Return (0:28)
2. For an Anniversary (0:27)
3. The Europeans (0:16)
4. The Revelation (0:27)
5. Chasing the Bird (0:41)
6. The Changes (0:34)
7. Stomping with Catullus (1:10)
8. The Picnic (0:38)
9. The Sentence (0:27)
10. Preface to 'For Love' (1:28)
11. A Song (0:58)
12. The Crisis (0:35)
13. The Innocence (0:36)
14. After Lorca (0:37)
15. The Dishonest Mailman (0:32)
16. The Immoral Proposition (0:33)
17. The Conspiracy (0:29)
18. I Know a Man (0:29)
19. The Disappointment (0:23)
20. Naughty Boy (0:40)
21. The Whip (1:13)
22. All That is Lovely in Men (0:23)
23. A Form of Women (1:27)
24. Please (1:01)
25. Oh No (0:30)
26. Goodbye (0:41)
27. A Marriage (0:30)
28. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:56)
29. If You (1:00)
30. Heroes (0:59)
31. The Door (4:12)
32. Kore (0:55)
33. The Rain (0:59)
34. Midnight (0:28)
35. Mind's Heart (0:18)
36. Love Comes Quietly (0:23)
37. The People (0:32)
38. The Wife (0:34)
39. For Love (2:31)
40. Preface to 'Words' (1:03)
41. The Rhythm (1:11)
42. The Mountains in the Desert (0:34)
43. For W.C.W. (0:35)
44. I (1:31)
45. Something (1:03)
46. Anger (4:55)
47. The Answer (0:28)
48. Some Echoes (0:23)
49. A Prayer (0:17)
50. Joy (0:17)
51. A Picture (0:27)
52. Here (0:13)
53. Intervals (0:35)
54. From 'Song' (Allen Ginsberg) (0:12)
55. As real as thinking (0:37)
56. The Moon (1:08)
57. Names (0:26)
58. America (0:38)
59. Mazatlan: Sea (1:25)
60. B- (1:36)
61. Four (0:37)
62. Here (8:54)
63. 'Do You Think...' (2:01)
64. Massachusetts (1:31)
65. For Benny and Sabina (0:51)
66. Rain (0:58)
67. Rain (2) (0:34)
68. As Now It Would Be Snow (1:41)
69. For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887 - October 7, 1972 (3:13)

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.

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

Recordings from Slought Foundation

From the 1963 Vancoucer Poetry Conference:

7/24/63: Morning discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg
7/24/63: Evening discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg
7/26/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg
7/29/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Philip Whalen
7/31/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson
8/2/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson
8/5/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov
8/7/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov
8/9/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov
8/12/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov
8/16/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg

Recordings from Naropa Poetics Audio Archives

Class by Robert Creeley on the Academy of Practicing Poets (June 19, 1979)
Jack Collom, Carl Rakosi, Robert Creeley reading (June 20, 1979)
Lecture on language poetry - Part 1 (July 9, 1984)
Lecture on language poetry - Part 2 (July 9, 1984)
Lecture on Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Part 1 (June 23, 1986)
Lecture on Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Part 2 (June 23, 1986)
Lecture - Part 2 (June 27, 1986)
Lecture on John Wieners and his poems - Part 1 (June 30, 1986)
Lecture on John Wieners and his poems - Part 2 (June 30, 1986)
Lecture on poetry in motion (July 2, 1986)
Lecture on the imagination of procedure - Part 1 (July 4, 1986)
Lecture on the imagination of procedure - Part 2 (July 4, 1986)
Boulder Theater Naropa Institute reading (July 12, 1991)
Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy panel, Poetry and jazz - Part 1 (July 12, 1991)
Clark Coolidge, Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy panel, Poetry and jazz - Part 2 (July 12, 1991)
Lecture at Boulder High School (July 8, 1994)
Lecture on eco-poetics - Part 1 (June 18, 1997)
Lecture on eco-poetics - Part 2 (June 18, 1997)
Robin Blaser, Robert Creeley, Michael Ondaatje panel (June 17, 1999)

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

• August 18, 2010: "Robert Creeley: Four New Recordings from Video"
• April 8, 2009: "PoemTalk 16: Robert Creeley's 'I Know a Man'"
• August 6, 2008: "Robert and Bobbie Creeley Perform 'Listen' (1972 Radio Play)"
• July 14, 2008: "Two New Recordings by Robert Creeley"
• February 15, 2008: "PennSound Podcast #9 Featuring Robert Creeley"

• Self Portrait: MP3
• The Dishonest Mailman: MP3
• Please: MP3
• After Lorca: MP3
• The Ballad of the Despairing Husband: MP3

• Self Portrait
• The Dishonest Mailman
• Please
• After Lorca
• The Ballad of the Despairing Husband

These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2010 Robert Creeley. Used with permission of Robert Creeley. Distributed by PennSound.