DAY TWO * KYLE SCHLESINGER * ROBERT CREELEY *

KYLE SCHLESINGER READS WHAT I THINK BY ROBERT CREELEY

ROBERT CREELEY (May 21, 1926 – March 30, 2005) was an American poet and author of more than sixty books. Robert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University from 1943 to 1946, taking time out from 1944 to 1945 to work for the American Field Service in Burma and India. In 1946 he published his first poem, in the Harvard magazine Wake. In 1949 he began corresponding with William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. The following year he became acquainted with the poet Charles Olson. In 1954, as rector of Black Mountain College (an experimental arts college in North Carolina), Olson invited Creeley to join the faculty and to edit the Black Mountain Review. In 1960 Creeley received a Master's Degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Through the Black Mountain Review and his own critical writings, Creeley helped to define an emerging counter-tradition to the literary establishment—a postwar poetry originating with Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, Edward Dorn, and others.

Robert Creeley published more than sixty books of poetry in the United States and abroad, including If I Were Writing This (New Directions, 2003), Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 (2001), Life & Death (1998), Echoes (1994), Selected Poems 1945-1990 (1991), Memory Gardens (1986), Mirrors (1983), The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982), Later (1979), The Finger (1968), and For Love: Poems 1950-1960 (1962).  (from poets.org)

KYLE SCHLESINGER READS HIS OWN POEM, THIS PASSING THOUGH

KYLE SCHLESINGER is a book artist, fine press publisher, and poet.  He has several books of poetry, including  THE PINK, Kenning Editions, 2007,  Hello Helicopter, BlazeVOX, 2007 and  Moonlighting, Cuneiform Press, 2005.