Robert Creeley

• First Half (29:12): MP3, RealAudio
• Second Half (29:08): MP3, RealAudio

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

1. Heroes for Love (3:06), from recording Creeley sent to Paul Blackburn, 1963: MP3
2. I is the Grandson (1:37), 22 October, 1975: MP3
3. Anger (4:45), 22 October, 1975: MP3
4. "Buffalo Evening" (7:35), a setting of Creeley's poem by composer David Felder, 2006: MP3
5. The Long Road (0:48), from the Clemente Series, "Life & Death," mid-1990s: (RealAudio format)
6. "The Language":
   • University of Arizona, 1963: MP3;
   • Berkeley Poetry Conference, 1965: MP3;
   • S Press, 1975: MP3;
   • MLA, DC 1984: MP3;
   • Germany, 1986: MP3
7. Selected Poems, 1945-1975 (ed. Benjamin Friedlander) linked to PennSound recordings
8. Naropa's Creeley archive

Reading at CUE Art Foundation, January 18, 2005

Full Reading (25:04): MP3
Reading available as streaming video in addition to mp3 audio

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

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

Full Recording (19:35): MP3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Full Reading (59:55): MP3

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

Recording courtesy of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Bookworm interview, March 28, 2002

Compete Interview MP3

Robert Creeley: A Home Movie

A video interview with Ted Pelton, 2002.

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

Full Recording (59:42): MP3
Q&A with Creeley and Katz (10:18): MP3

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

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

©Substance TV

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

1. For Hannah's 14th Birthday (0:54): MP3
2. For Will (1:39): MP3
3. "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" (0:49): MP3
4. "Where late the sweet birds sang..." (1:08): MP3
5. En Famille (4:37): MP3
6. Conversion to Her (2:52): MP3
7. Clemente's Images (8:30): MP3
8. As If (0:53): MP3
9. Possibilities (4:31): MP3
10. Anya (1:17): MP3
11. Thinking (0:54): MP3
12. "When I heard the learn'd astronomer..." (2:36): MP3
13. For the Phi Beta Kappa Ceremony (1:40): MP3
14. Cambridge, Mass 1944 (0:45): MP3
15. 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.

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

At Kelly Writers House, April 10 & 11, 2000

Photographs of the visit

April 10 Reading: Quicktime Video

MP3 singles of April 10 reading

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

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

This recording is courtesy of Jack Krick

1. Introduction by Jorie Graham (5:55): MP3
2. Histoire de Florida (20:54): MP3
3. 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.

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

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

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

For more information, click here

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

Opening event, 3-5pm at UB's Katharine Cornell Theatre. (1:30:20): MP3
Introduction to event by organizer Charles Bernstein; introduction to Creeley by UB President William Greiner; (9:04) Joseph Conte introduction to Gilbert Sorrentino followed by Sorrentino reading; (58:52) Creeley talking; (1:13:28) Creeley reads "Dogs of Auckland"

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

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

Video Recording of Creeley evening reading (Part 1)

Video of Jim Dine conversation (Part) 2

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

• Complete Recording (51:15): MP3
• I Know a Man (0:25): MP3
• The World (1:27): MP3

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

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

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

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

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

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 Sound of Waves" [note filename wrong] (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

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

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

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

©Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

"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

1. Chanson (1:22): MP3
2. The Conspiracy (0:53): MP3
3. The Dissapointment (0:45): MP3
4. A Form of Women (2:47): MP3
5. A Gift of Great Value (1:24): MP3
6. Kore (1:26): MP3
7. The Lady in Black (0:50): MP3
8. The Gift (1:11): MP3
9. For Love (4:26): MP3
10. The Language (1:15): MP3
11. Song (1:00): MP3
12. The Hole (3:05): MP3
13. Enough (7:12): MP3
14. After (1:12): MP3
15. Love (0:56): MP3
16. Erotica (2:25): MP3
17. The Edge (2:40): MP3
18. Oh LOve (0:52): MP3
19. If Happiness (0:54): MP3
20. Waiting (0:27): MP3
21. Song (1:11): MP3
22. Self Portrait (1:37): MP3

Full Reading (25:07): MP3

Reading at the Unterberg Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, New York, NY, 1986

Full Reading (32:41): MP3

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

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

1. Challening the Image of Emily Dickinson as Eccentric, Reactive, and Fragile (11:06): MP3
2. On the Comings and Goings of the Amherst Town and Church, Her Secondary School Education, and Her Daily Interactions (10:39): MP3
3. On Her Family Life (3:34): MP3
4. Reading from Emily Dickinson's Letters (8:28): MP3
5. On the Patterns of her Friends and Family (13:47): MP3
6. Reading from Emily Dickinson's Letters (3:19): MP3
7. On Her Productivity During 1862 (2:39): MP3
8. On Williams and Dickinson, and Not Providing Explanations (4:55): MP3
9. Death and the Civil War in Relation to her Poetry (10:57): MP3
10. Reading "Success is counted sweetest" (0:32): MP3
11. Reading "Ambition cannot find him" (0:17): MP3
12. Her Influences and Reading Interests (8:05): MP3
13. Dilemmas of the Anthology Presentation, Rhythmic Shifts, Metric Variations, and Her Use of the Dash (3:23): MP3
14. On the Notions of Place and Home (14:47): MP3

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

1. Introduction by Diane Wakoski (3:15): MP3
2. Creeley's Thanks and Preface (1:41): MP3
3. The Language (0:33): MP3
4. Don't Sign Anything (1:01): MP3
5. I Know a Man (1:24): MP3
6. A Form of Women (1:34): MP3
7. For Love (4:11): MP3
8. Sitting Here (3:09): MP3
9. Thee (0:58): MP3
10. Situation Of (0:21): MP3
11. Again (0:26): MP3
12. The Which (0:48): MP3
13. Ice Cream (0:46): MP3
14. What (1:12): MP3
15. The News (0:28): MP3
16. Smell of Gum Wrappers (1:14): MP3
17. Where We Are (2:41): MP3
18. Voices from the Silence (4:03): MP3
19. The Creative (7:22): MP3
20. For My Mother: Genevieve Jules Creeley, April 8, 1887 - October 7, 1972 (3:08): MP3
21. Cebu (5:37): MP3
22. So There (4:03): MP3
23. This World (1:24): MP3
24. Later pt. 6 ("Hey, Spot!"): (1:16): MP3
25. Later pt. 8 (1:02): MP3
26. Desultory Days (3:35): MP3
27. Mother's Voice (1:20): MP3
28. Bresson's Movies (2:33): MP3
29. 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

1. Introduction by Reed Bye (1:59): MP3
2. from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:16): MP3
3. Myself (1:07): MP3
4. This World (1:22): MP3
5. Barcelona: February 13, 1977 (0:46): MP3
6. Echoes (incomplete) (2:20): MP3
7. Blues (2:20): MP3
8. The Edge (1:18): MP3
9. Time (2:05): MP3
10. Hotel Schrieder Heidelberg (1:56): MP3
11. Ich Bin... (0:28): MP3
12. Aprés Anders (6:01): MP3
13. The Missing Link (0:57): MP3
14. Shot (0:48): MP3
15. The Old Days (0:17): MP3
16. Lazy (0:11): MP3
17. Paper (0:09): MP3
18. Picture (0:33): MP3
19. The View (0:42): MP3
20. Mush (0:16): MP3
21. Number (1:57): MP3
22. La Cabeza (6:05): MP3
23. Thanks (2:49): MP3
24. Erotica (2:11): MP3
25. from Presences: A Text for Marisol (13:27): MP3
26. 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)

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

1. Myself (1:36): MP3
2. This World (1:10): MP3
3. The House (2:35): MP3
4. News of the World (2:54): MP3
5. The Table (1:37): MP3
6. Four Years Later (1:04): MP3
7. Heaven (0:35): MP3
8. Desultory Days (5:58): MP3
9. Arroyo (1:15): MP3
10. If I Had My Way (2:25): MP3
11. Prayer to Hermes (3:08): MP3
12. The Edge (1:57): MP3
13. Time (2:06): MP3
14. 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

Full Reading (28:40): MP3
Robert Creeley's portion of the recording (9:47): MP3

1. Program Introduction (1:19): MP3
2. Introduction of 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

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.

©Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian

Full Reading (1:26:54): MP3

This recording is from the Robert Creeley Tape Collection.

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

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

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

Full Reading (45:57): MP3

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

This recording is part of the collection Robert Creeley

Recordings from Naropa Poetics Audio Archives (1979-1999)

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

Full Reading (2:12:13): MP3

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

Reading of Just Buffalo, December 1, 1978

Full Reading (35:43): MP3

1. From "Presences" (15:09): MP3
2. Think of the Good Times (incomplete) (4:01): MP3
3. Paterson (incomplete) (3:02): MP3
4. Arroyo (0:52): MP3
5. This Day (1:36): MP3
6. The Last Mile (1:47): MP3
7. 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.

1. Return (0:28): MP3
2. For an Anniversary (0:27): MP3
3. The Europeans (0:16): MP3
4. The Revelation (0:27): MP3
5. Chasing the Bird (0:41): MP3
6. The Changes (0:34): MP3
7. Stomping with Catullus (1:10): MP3
8. The Picnic (0:38): MP3
9. The Sentence (0:27): MP3
10. Preface to "For Love" (1:28): MP3
11. A Song (0:58): MP3
12. The Crisis (0:35): MP3
13. The Innocence (0:36): MP3
14. After Lorca (0:37): MP3
15. The Dishonest Mailman (0:32): MP3
16. The Immoral Proposition (0:33): MP3
17. The Conspiracy (0:29): MP3
18. I Know a Man (0:29): MP3
19. The Disappointment (0:23): MP3
20. Naughty Boy (0:40): MP3
21. The Whip (1:13): MP3
22. All That is Lovely in Mean (0:23): MP3
23. A Form of Women (1:27): MP3
24. Please (1:01): MP3
25. Oh No (0:30): MP3
26. Goodbye (0:41): MP3
27. A Marriage (0:30): MP3
28. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:56): MP3
29. If You (1:00): MP3
30. Heroes (0:59): MP3
31. The Door (4:12): MP3
32. Kore (0:55): MP3
33. The Rain (0:59): MP3
34. Midnight (0:28): MP3
35. Mind's Heart (0:18): MP3
36. Love Comes Quietly (0:23): MP3
37. The People (0:32): MP3
38. The Wife (0:34): MP3
39. For Love (2:31): MP3
40. Preface to "Words" (1:03): MP3
41. The Rhythm (1:11): MP3
42. The Mountains in the Desert (0:34): MP3
43. For W.C.W. (0:35): MP3
44. I (1:31): MP3
45. Something (1:03): MP3
46. Anger (4:55): MP3
47. The Answer (0:28): MP3
48. Some Echoes (0:23): MP3
49. A Prayer (0:17): MP3
50. Joy (0:17): MP3
51. A Picture (0:27): MP3
52. Here (0:13): MP3
53. Intervals (0:35): MP3
54. From "Song" (Allen Ginsberg) (0:12): MP3
55. As Real as Thinking (0:37): MP3
56. The Moon (1:08): MP3
57. Names (0:26): MP3
58. America (0:38): MP3
59. Mazatlan: Sea (1:25): MP3
60. B- (1:36): MP3
61. Four (0:37): MP3
62. Here (8:54): MP3
63. "Do you think..." (2:01): MP3
64. Massachusetts (1:31): MP3
65. For Benny and Sabina (0:51): MP3
66. Rain (0:58): MP3
67. Rain (2) (0:34): MP3
68. As Now It Would Be Snow (1:41): MP3
69. 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

1. Introductions (2:05): MP3
2. The Plan is the Body (from Away) (4:30): MP3
3. Spring (from Backwards) (1:21): MP3
4. But You (from Backwards) (0:30): MP3
5. Oh Mabel (from Backwards) (0:16): MP3
6. Dear Dorothy (from Away) (6:05): MP3
7. Flesh (from Backwards) (1:13): MP3
8. Home Again (Unpublished?) (0:16): MP3
9. Joking with audience (0:57): MP3
10. Away (from Away) (4:44): MP3
11. Faces (for Joe Brainard) (0:58): MP3
12. Berlin: First Night & Early Morning (from Away) (2:32): MP3
13. Places (Uncollected, from The Collected Poems) (3:37): MP3
14. As We Sit (from Thirty Things) (3:39): MP3
15. Every Day (from Away) (1:10): MP3
16. Unknown Short Story (8:16): MP3
17. Unknown Short Story (5:25): MP3
18. Presences: a Text for Marisol (8:02): MP3
19. As Real as Thinking (from Pieces) (3:31): MP3
20. Flowers (from Pieces) (2:51): MP3
21. The Family (from Pieces) (0:32): MP3
22. Kate’s (from Pieces) (0:09): MP3
23. For You (from Pieces) (0:17): MP3
24. Remarks on Gregory Corso (5:27): MP3
25. A Step (from Pieces) (0:58): MP3
26. Having To (from Pieces) (0:51): MP3
27. The Car (from Pieces) (1:32): MP3
28. Pieces of Cake (from Pieces) (0:31): MP3
29. The Finger (from Pieces) (9:04): MP3
30. One Thing (Incomplete) (from Pieces) (0:10): MP3
31. I Cannot See You (Incomplete) (from Pieces) (0:12): MP3
32. Gemini (from Pieces) (1:06): MP3
33. In Secret (from Pieces) (0:26): MP3
34. Time is some sort of hindsight (from Pieces) (0:33): MP3
35. 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

1. Performing Poetry (14:03): MP3
2. The Mediums of Print and Tape (3:38): MP3
3. Space, Linearity, and Puns in Poetry (7:32): MP3
4. Gertrude Stein's Influence (4:38): MP3
5. Stories (6:16): MP3
6. The Format of Poetry Readings (7:50): MP3
7. Voice (10:48): MP3
8. Bookmaking (3:33): MP3
9. Accessibility (1:48): MP3
10. Listening to Recordings of Music versus Poetry (2:01): MP3
11. Intention in Poetry (7:32): MP3
12. Being Attentive to the Page and the Act of Writing (9:04): MP3
13. 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]

1. On traveling and coming to terms with his poetic career (2:24): MP3
2. Return (0:28): MP3
3. The Charm (2:13): MP3
4. Speaking briefly on For Love (0:38): MP3
5. Creeley reads "A Form of Women," from For Love, and discusses his inspirations (2:55): MP3
6. 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.

7. Heroes (0:48): MP3
8. The House (0:25): MP3
9. The People (0:27): MP3
10. For Love (2:05): MP3
11. The Whip (0:35): MP3
12. I Know a Man (0:25): MP3
13. La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche" (0:12): MP3
14. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:31): MP3
15. The Hill (0:39): MP3
16. 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

1. The Messengers (0:53): MP3
2. 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.

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

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

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

Reading at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1969

1. A Tally (1:31): MP3
2. Words (0:47): MP3
3. The Invoice (0:29): MP3
4. The Cracks (0:51): MP3
5. A Reason (0:53): MP3
6. The Name (1:24): MP3
7. The Wife (0:30): MP3
8. Naughty Boy (0:38): MP3
9. A Form of Woman (1:43): MP3
10. Oh No (0:28): MP3
11. The Ball Game (0:52): MP3
12. 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

1. Kate & Lorraine for Sarah; slumber party (2:10): MP3
2. Bobbie Louise Hawkins [Bobbi Creeley]: Cleaning a jacket (0:49): MP3
3. Bobbie to Peter Spackman, Cultural Affairs (NY) publisher (6:53): MP3
4. A phone bill on hold (1:11): MP3
5. Bobbie to John, includes reading Robert's letter to the editor of Albuquerque Tribune on being "beard" profiled (11:41): MP3
6. What's your address? (1:38): MP3
7. Girl Scout pledge (1:16): MP3
8. Bill Katz to Bobbie and Robert ... on publication of Numbers, with Robert Indiana (Stuttgart, Germany: Edition Domberger): MP3
9. A trip to Minneapolis (2:14): MP3
10. Elsa (Ellie) Dorfman (19:30): MP3

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

Full Reading (5:18): MP3

1. Oh No (0:31): MP3
2. A Tally (1:33): MP3
3. Words (0:47): MP3
4. The Invoice (0:34): MP3
5. The Cracks (0:55): MP3
6. A Reason (0:55): MP3

At Harvard University, October 27, 1966

courtesy Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard.

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

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

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

1. Introduction by Ed Sanders (3:00): MP3
2. Some Place (1:34): MP3
3. Song ("I wouldn't") (0:55): MP3
4. Song ("What do you") (0:28): MP3
5. For Helen (0:45): MP3
6. A Night Sky (0:32): MP3
7. The Answer (1:08:40): MP3
8. Dimensions (1:08): MP3
9. A Place (0:39): MP3
10. Some Echoes (0:20): MP3
11. Fancy (0:33): MP3
12. The World (1:29): MP3
13. Going (0:23): MP3
14. The City (0:42): MP3
15. Words (0:43): MP3
16. A Reason (0:55): MP3
17. The Shame (0:28): MP3
18. The Statue (0:51): MP3
19. The Window ("There will be no simple") (0:54): MP3
20. To Bobbie (1:10): MP3
21. They (0:41): MP3
22. A Method (0:50): MP3
23. A Sight (2:11): MP3
24. Pieces (0:19): MP3
25. The Circle ("Houses in") (0:36): MP3
26. The Hole (1:34): MP3
27. The Flower ("Remember the way you") (0:26): MP3
28. Water ("Water drips") (1:02): MP3
29. Intervals (1:03): MP3
30. 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

1. Introduction by Ed Sanders (2:37): MP3
2. Some Place (0:47): MP3
3. Song ("I wouldn't") (0:28): MP3
4. Song ("What do you") (0:23): MP3
5. For Helen (0:32): MP3
6. A Night Sky (0:26): MP3
7. The Answer (0:25): MP3
8. Dimensions (0:57): MP3
9. A Place (0:29): MP3
10. Some Echoes (0:18): MP3
11. Fancy (0:30): MP3
12. The World (1:22): MP3
13. Going (0:18): MP3
14. The City (0:36): MP3
15. Words (0:38): MP3
16. A Reason (0:50): MP3
17. The Shame (0:22): MP3
18. The Statue (0:43): MP3
19. The Window (0:47): MP3
20. To Bobbie (1:03): MP3
21. They (0:34): MP3
22. A Method (0:42): MP3
23. A Sight (2:01): MP3
24. Pieces (0:14): MP3
25. The Circle (0:29): MP3
26. The Hole (2:02): MP3
27. Intervals (0:38): MP3
28. For Joel (1:20): MP3

Reading at SUNY-Buffalo, October 3, 1966

Full Reading (53:10): MP3

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

Watch on Media.sas

"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

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. Water (1:07): MP3
7. Waiting (0:46): MP3
8. The Invitation (0:47): MP3
9. For William Carlos Williams (0:37): MP3
10. Song (0:37):MP3
11. The Fire (0:38): MP3
12. For No Clear Reason (0:29): MP3
13. The Messengers (For Allen Ginsberg) (0:50): MP3
14. I (1:19): MP3
15. Something (1:08): MP3
16. Walking (0:40): MP3
17. The Language (1:07): MP3
18. The Window (0:47): MP3
19. The Chance (2:39): MP3
20. 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

Recordings from Slought Foundation

From the 1963 Vancoucer Poetry Conference:

• 7/24/63: Morning discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg:
1. Part 1 (1:06:53): MP3
2. Part 2 (14:19): MP3
• 7/24/63: Evening discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg
1. Part 1 (1:05:16): MP3
2. Part 2 (34:26): MP3
• 7/26/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg
1. Part 1 (32:08): MP3
2. Part 2 (1:06:11): MP3
3. Part 3 (15:15): MP3
• 7/29/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson, Philip Whalen
1. Part 1 (1:05:42): MP3
2. Part 2 (1:05:51): MP3
• 7/31/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson
1. Part 1 (1:06:07): MP3
2. Part 2 (1:03:57): MP3
• 8/2/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson
1. Part 1 (52:01): MP3
2. Part 2 (45:32): MP3
• 8/5/63: Lecture by Robert Duncan
1. Part 1 (1:38:00): MP3
2. Part 2 (24:37): MP3
• 8/7/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Margaret Avison, Denise Levertov
1. Part 1 (23:49): MP3
2. Part 2 (53:46): MP3
• 8/12/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov
1. Part 1 (39:25): MP3
2. Part 2 (50:52): MP3
• 8/14/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Olson
1. Part 1 (17:33): MP3
2. Part 2 (1:07:39): MP3
• 8/16/63: Discussion featuring Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg
1. Part 1 (21:15): MP3
2. Part 2 (1:00:51): MP3



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

Full Reading (44:06): MP3

1. Archive Introduction (0:14): MP3
2. Hart Crane (3:47): MP3
3. Le Fou (0:55): MP3
4. The Crisis (1:57): MP3
5. The Immoral Proposition (1:33): MP3
6. I Know a Man (2:49): MP3
7. Wait for Me (2:03): MP3
8. The Whip (1:11): MP3
9. New Years (2:53): MP3
10. The Door (4:11): MP3
11. Kore (2:09): MP3
12. The Name (1:13): MP3
13. Fire (2:40): MP3
14. For Love (3:34): MP3
15. The Language (1:49): MP3
16. There Is (0:52): MP3
17. 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

1. A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (1:40): MP3
2. The Innocence (0:33): MP3
3. The Ball Game (1:04): MP3
4. The Carnival (0:28): MP3
5. After Lorca (0:41): MP3
6. The Crow (0:29): MP3
7. The Immoral Proposition (0:35): MP3
8. The Operation (0:43): MP3
9. I Know a Man (1:27): MP3
10. The Lover (0:35): MP3
11. Wait for Me (1:17): MP3
12. The Warning (0:20): MP3
13. A Form of Adaptation (0:51): MP3
14. La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche" (0:31): MP3
15. The Whip (0:15): MP3
16. All That is Lovely in Men (0:25): MP3
17. Juggler's Thought (0:32): MP3
18. 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.

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

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

Full Reading (54:32): MP3

1. Introduction (14:33): MP3
2. A Song (0:50): MP3
3. The Crisis (0:33): MP3
4. The Riddle (0:29): MP3
5. The Rhyme (0:23): MP3
6. The Innocence (0:34): MP3
7. The Ball Game (0:52): MP3
8. The Carnival (0:31): MP3
9. The Charm (0:39): MP3
10. The Dishonest Mailman (0:32): MP3
11. The Immoral Proposition (0:32): MP3
12. The Operation (0:31): MP3
13. Chanson (0:34): MP3
14. The Conspiracy (0:27): MP3
15. I Know a Man (0:27): MP3
16. The Warning (0:23): MP3
17. The Whip (0:42): MP3
18. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:41): MP3
19. If You (0:52): MP3
20. The Tunnel (0:30): MP3
21. The Door (3:38): MP3
22. The Hill (1:06): MP3
23. For Love (2:29): MP3
24. Fire (0:36): MP3
25. The Name (1:18): MP3
26. The Sign Board (1:18): MP3
27. The Awakening (1:34): MP3
28. Kore (0:47): MP3
29. The Rain (0:56): MP3
30. The Woman (0:39): MP3
31. 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

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

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

Full Reading (1:00:29): MP3

1. Hart Crane (1:30): MP3
2. A Song ("I had wanted a quiet testament") (0:44): MP3
3. Le Fou (0:28): MP3
4. The Crisis (0:29): MP3
5. The Riddle (0:24): MP3
6. The Innocence (0:29): MP3
7. The Immoral Proposition (0:29): MP3
8. The Operation (0:26): MP3
9. I Know a Man (0:22): MP3
10. The Lover (0:41): MP3
11. A Warning (1:00): MP3
12. Song ("Were I myself more blithe") (0:36): MP3
13. The Whip (0:34): MP3
14. All that is Lovely in Men (0:18): MP3
15. Please (0:51): MP3
16. If You (0:44): MP3
17. Ballad of the Despairing Husband (2:14): MP3
18. The Tunnel (0:26): MP3
19. Just Friends (0:31): MP3
20. The Friend (0:36): MP3
21. The Invoice (0:24): MP3
22. They Say (0:19): MP3
23. Juggler's Thought (0:23): MP3
24. The Wind (1:11): MP3
25. Saturday Afternoon (0:27): MP3
26. The Interview (0:29): MP3
27. Je vois dans hasard tous les biens que j'espère (0:26): MP3
28. Entre Nous (0:16): MP3
29. The Three Ladies (0:59): MP3
30. New Years 1958 (1:02): MP3
31. The Hill (0:39): MP3
32. A Gift of Great Value (0:39): MP3
33. My Love (0:29): MP3
34. The Names (0:22): MP3
35. Going to Bed (0:52): MP3
36. The Door (3:19): MP3
37. The Snow (0:43): MP3
38. The Awakening (1:24): MP3
39. The End (0:22): MP3
40. For Irving (0:23): MP3
41. For a Friend (0:23): MP3
42. Like They Say (0:18): MP3
43. La Noche *Creeley called this poem "La Noche" here but later changed it to "El Noche." (0:21): MP3
44. The Total Parts of a World (0:23): MP3
45. The Death of Venus (0:32): MP3
46. The Ball Game (0:46): MP3
47. The Carnival (0:26): MP3
48. The Rites (1:07): MP3
49. The Rhyme (0:21): MP3
50. The Charm (0:33): MP3
51. After Lorca (0:25): MP3
52. The Kind of Act of (0:48): MP3
53. Chanson (0:24): MP3
54. 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

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

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

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

1. Read at San Francisco State University, May 20, 1956 (0:28): MP3
2. Read 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
6. 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]

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

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)


Robert Creeley on PennSound Daily

• 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"

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

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