UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Welcomes Acclaimed Poet Robert Creeley

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host acclaimed “Black Mountain” poet, fiction writer and essayist Robert Creeley on Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in 10 Mary Alston Hall. Creeley also will lecture at noon on Friday, Feb. 21, in 301 Morgan Hall.

He has published more than 60 books including “Echoes, Life & Death,” “Memory Gardens” and “Windows.” During the 1950s, he edited “Black Mountain Review,” one of America’s more innovative literary journals.

Creeley is known for his collaborations with visual artists; Jim Dine, Gary Indiana and Archie Rand are among those with whom he has shared the page.

His academic affiliations have included Black Mountain College, the University of New Mexico, the University of British Columbia and San Francisco State College. He currently is the Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities at SUNY – Buffalo.

His many awards include the Levinson Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal and the prestigious Bolligen Prize in Poetry. He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987 and served as New York State Poet from 1989 to 1991.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s Program in Creative Writing, the department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766 or visit www.bama.ua.edu/~writing.