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Robert Creeley
LINEbreak interview
and reading with Charles Bernstein (1995)
PoemTalk #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
- Heroes for Love (3:06), from recording Creeley sent to Paul Blackburn, 1963: MP3
- I is the Grandson (1:37), 22 October, 1975: MP3
- Anger (4:45), 22 October, 1975: MP3
- "Buffalo Evening" (7:35), a setting of Creeley's poem by composer David Felder, 2006: MP3
- The Long Road (0:48), from the Clemente Series, "Life & Death," mid-1990s: (RealAudio format)
- "The Language":
- University of Arizona, 1963: MP3;
- Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965: MP3;
- S Press, 1975: MP3;
- MLA, DC 1984: MP3;
- Germany, 1986: MP3
- Selected Poems, 1945-1975 (ed. Benjamin Friedlander) linked to PennSound recordings
- Naropa's Creeley archive
Full Reading (25:04): MP3
Reading available as streaming video in addition to mp3 audio
- When I Think (2:22): MP3, YouTube
- War (0:59): MP3, YouTube
- Talking (1:08): MP3, YouTube
- Paul (1:49): MP3
- Old Song (0:53): MP3
- Oh, do you remember (2:22): MP3
- Mediterranean I (1:17): MP3
- Mediterranean II (1:39): MP3
- Jumping with Jackson (1:23): MP3
- Shimmer (4:01): MP3
- Sad Walk (1:32): MP3
- The Red Flower (2:54): MP3, YouTube
- Old Story from The Diary of Francis Kilver (1:13): MP3, YouTube
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
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
More information at Littoral
Full Reading (5:15): MP3
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
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
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
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.
Bookworm interview, March 28, 2002
Compete Interview MP3
A video interview with Ted Pelton, 2002.
Reading and discussing On Art and Collaboration, Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, 2002
with painter and illustrator Alex Katz
moderated by Raymond Foye
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
Creeley and the Persistence of Voice, in conversation with Bruce Jackson for Substance TV, 2001
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©Substance TV
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
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.
- 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
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
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
The Connection, WBUR-FM Boston radio program, January 4, 2000
Reading at Harvard University, 1999
courtesy Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard.
- Introduction by Jorie Graham (5:55): MP3
- Histoire de Florida (20:54): MP3
- Possibilities (10:00): 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.
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
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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
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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)
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Video of Jim Dine conversation (Part) 2
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- 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.
Introduction (2:50): MP3
Histoire de Florida (18:24): 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
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
Reading at Ganz Auditorium, Roosevelt Auditorium, Chicago, April 1, 1993
Complete Recording (32:53): MP3
Courtesy of George Drury
Andrew Kohn Interview with Robert Creeley, December 16, 1992
Full Reading (38:59): MP3
This recording is from the Robert Creeley Tape Collection
"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
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
Creeley on Collaboration at Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, April 8, 1991
Full Talk (1:02:43): MP3
Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, March 20, 1991
Full Reading (48:03): 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 for Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, April 16, 1990
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"Walking the Dog" Lecture Series for the Poetics Program 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 Sound of Waves" [note filename wrong] (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
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
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
At the University of Helsinki, February 14, 1989
Part 1, Full Reading (43:49): MP3
Part 2, Full Reading (27:00): MP3
Creeley by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, 1988
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©Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
Reading for the Friends of the Scranton Public Library Poetry Series, April 13, 1988
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"New Letters on the Air" Reading and Interview, April 1988
Full Reading (29:41): 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
Reading at the Naropa Institute, July 5, 1986
with Ed Dorn
Full Reading (25:07): 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
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
Creeley Interview, 1984 (34:47): .RAM
Courtesy of Wired for Books
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.
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
Reading, The Poetry Project at St. Mark's, NYC, 1984
- Side A (46:21): MP3
- Includes Bernadette Mayer introducing Eileen Myles who introduces "my hero," Robert Creeley, Creeley praises "basic Bostonclarity," reads prose from (at the time) recently-published Collected Prose ("Back to Bolinas..."and "Having Been Wakened by Screams in the Middle of the Night..."), followed by "the poetry sequence," "A Calendar" (including Creeley reading Chaucer, Wyatt), more prose, "The Cabeza" (for Ramon S)," poems again: "Heaven Knows," "New England," "Too Late," "Dogs," Four for John Daley ("Mothers Things," "Echo," "Leaving," "Buffalo Afternoon"), "For Ted Berrigan," "Hotel Heidelberg," "Ich Bin...," reading from Mirrors (from section 2 and 3) including "O Love," "Stone," "Hearts:," "Sad Advice," "Wishes," "Echoes:," "Summer:," "If...," "Some Echo," "Poems Written in Buffalo, February," "Buffalo Evening," "All the Way," "Kid," "Early Reading," "Beside Her to Lie," "Circles," and "On Phrase from Ginsberg's ‘"Kaddish'" - "Eat, drink, be merry, you fink"
- Side B (47:14): MP3
- Includes "So careful of... so slow to move without it..."," "Coming Home," "Be of Good Cheer," "Help Heavens," "She Is Far From Me," "O Like a Bird," "Provincetown:," "North Truro Light:" "1946," "R Had Said," "Tell Story:," RC talks continues (elegiac remarks on Alex Trocchi, "a great Scot maintainer," and notes on Max Feinstein (Poem to MF)
Courtesy of Simon Pettet
Lecture for Poetry 103 Honors Class, February, 1983
- Complete Recording, (1:21:50)MP3
Reading at the San Francisco Zen Center, 1983
Full Reading (30:59): MP3
- Myself (1:36): MP3
- This World (1:10): MP3
- The House (2:35): MP3
- News of the World (2:54): MP3
- The Table (1:37): MP3
- Four Years Later (1:04): MP3
- Heaven (0:35): MP3
- Desultory Days (5:58): MP3
- Arroyo (1:15): MP3
- If I Had My Way (2:25): MP3
- Prayer to Hermes (3:08): MP3
- The Edge (1:57): MP3
- Time (2:06): MP3
- Rachel Had Said (2:34): MP3
Appearing with John Ashbery in "Attitudes Towards the Flame," part of "The Territory of Art" radio series, produced and © by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983
written by Julia Brown, produced by Ara Guzelimian
Full Reading (28:40): MP3
Robert Creeley's portion of the recording (9:47): MP3
- Program Introduction (1:19): MP3
- Introduction of Robert Creeley (1:16): MP3
- Experiences of Despair and the Transformation that Occurs in Writing (1:13): MP3
- Mother's Voice (0:51): MP3
- Didactic Meter and Finding a Rhythm more Particular to Modes of Feeling (1:04): MP3
- The Measure of Time in Jazz (0:55): MP3
- Retrospect (0:23): MP3
- Knowing When a Poem is Done (1:18): MP3
- The Edge (1:27): MP3
- The Different Listening Experiences of Musicians and Formally Trained Critics (0:40): MP3
- Still Dancers (0:35): MP3
Reading in Berlin, November 6, 1983
Full Reading (49:10): MP3
Note: German translation by Klaus Reichert, read until 20:39, then Creeley reads
This recording is from the Robert Creeley Tape Collection.
Willy's Reading by Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, 1982
Watch on Media.sas
©Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian
Talk/Discussion Before and After Seeing Stan Brakhage's film "The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes," April 9, 1982
Full Reading (1:26:54): MP3
This recording is from the Robert Creeley Tape Collection.
Mark Saga Songs of Robert Creeley, Springfield, MA, March 7, 1982
Full Reading (12:56): MP3
This recording is from the Robert Creeley Tape Collection
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.
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
- 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
Concerned Citizens for Cerritos Benefit Reading, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, March 6, 1979
Reading with Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Nanao Sakaki
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
Response to Martin Duberman's interview questions on Black Mountain, from the late 1960's
Full Reading (1:02:07): MP3
Courtesty Jeff Davis. Recording from North Carolina Division of Archives and History.
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
Reading at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969
- A Tally (1:31): MP3
- Words (0:47): MP3
- The Invoice (0:29): MP3
- The Cracks (0:51): MP3
- A Reason (0:53): MP3
- The Name (1:24): MP3
- The Wife (0:30): MP3
- Naughty Boy (0:38): MP3
- A Form of Woman (1:43): MP3
- Oh No (0:28): MP3
- The Ball Game (0:52): MP3
- The Door (4:00): MP3
Complete Recording (14:34): MP3
Robert & Bobbie Creeley: Placitas phone log, late September/early October, 1968
Full Recording (109:38): MP3
- Kate & Lorraine for Sarah; slumber party (2:10): MP3
- Bobbie Louise Hawkins [Bobbi Creeley]: Cleaning a jacket (0:49): MP3
- Bobbie to Peter Spackman, Cultural Affairs (NY) publisher (6:53): MP3
- A phone bill on hold (1:11): MP3
- Bobbie to John, includes reading Robert's letter to the editor of Albuquerque Tribune on being "beard" profiled (11:41): MP3
- What's your address? (1:38): MP3
- Girl Scout pledge (1:16): MP3
- Bill Katz to Bobbie and Robert ... on publication of Numbers, with Robert Indiana (Stuttgart, Germany: Edition Domberger): MP3
- A trip to Minneapolis (2:14): MP3
- Elsa (Ellie) Dorfman (19:30): 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 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
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.
On Olson, in Albuquerque, recorded 1966.
Recordings courtesy of David Levi Strauss
- Full Reading (1:08:40): MP3
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
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.
Richard Moore USA: Poetry Documentary, 1966
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"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 "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
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 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.
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.
"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.
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
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.
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.
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
- 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.
Reading, Date Unknown
- Complete Recording, (47:48)MP3
Reading, Location and Date Unknown
Full Reading (21:49): MP3
Misc. YouTube Video readings converted to audio [date unknown]
Guo Chen-Jia's Chinese Translations of Creeley's Poems, Location and Date Unknown
Full Reading (15:33): MP3
Also of interest
Courage with Robert Creeley, The Way Out is Via The Door (info on CD)
Have We Told You All You Thought To Know? (info on CD)
Home Movies and Oral Histories
Conversation with his mother, Genevieve Jules Creeley, first visit to Gloucester, probably summer 1970. For more info see Jacket 2's feature on this. (Sidney Goldfarb appears near end or recording.)
Full Recording (32:32): MP3
Robert Creeley and Company: Home Movies (1962-1965) [use this link]
by Bobbie Louise Hawkins
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and educational
use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the author. © 2015 The Estate of
Robert Creeley. Used with permission of Robert Creeley. Distributed by PennSound.
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