CHRONOLOGY

1926	Robert White Creeley born in Arlington, Massachusetts, May 21, to Oscar Slate and Genevieve Jules Creeley.
1928	Left eye injured in accident.
1930	Father died. Family moves to West Acton.
1940	Entered Holderness School.
1943	Entered Harvard College.
1944–45	Served in the American Field Service in India and Burma.
1945	Returned to Harvard.
1946	Published first poem. Married Ann MacKinnon.
1947	Left Harvard without a degree. Son David born.
1948–51	Lived in Littleton, NH, where he bred pigeons.
1950	Son Thomas born. Began correspondence with Charles Olson. Became American editor for Rainer Gerhardt’s Fragmente.
1951	Lived outside Aix-en-Provence, France.
1952	Daughter Charlotte born. Published Le Fou, his first book of poems. Moved to Majorca to establish Divers Press.
1953	Published The Kind of Act of (poems) and The Immoral Proposition (poems).
1954	Published The Gold Diggers (short stories). Taught at Black Mountain College. First issue of Black Mountain Review, edited by Creeley, published in March.
1955	Divorced from Ann MacKinnon. Published All That Is Lovely in Men (poems).
1956	Left Black Mountain College. Published If You (poems). Visited San Francisco. Moved to Albuquerque. Received BA from Black Mountain College.
1957	Married Bobbie Hall. Published The Whip (poems). Daughter Sarah born.
1959	Daughter Katherine Williams born. Moved to Guatemala. Published A Form of Women (poems).
1960	Received MA from University of New Mexico. Received Levinson Prize. Included in The New American Poetry: 1945–1960.
1961	Instructor at University of New Mexico.
1962	Published For Love: Poems 1950–1960. Instructor at University of British Columbia.
1963	Moved to Placitas, NM. Participated in Vancouver Poetry Festival. Published The Island (novel).
1964	Received Guggenheim Fellowship. Received Oscar Blumenthal Prize.
1965	Participated in Berkeley Poetry Conference. Published The Gold Diggers and Other Stories (short stories). Edited, with Donald Allen, New American Story. Published Words (poems). Received Rockefeller Grant.
1966	Featured in National Educational Television Film, Poetry: Robert Creeley.
1966–70	Visiting professor at State University of New York, Buffalo.
1967	Published Words (poems). Edited with Donald Allen The New Writing in the USA. Collaborated with R. B. Kitaj on A Sight. Recorded Robert Creeley Reads (reading).
1967–2003	Named Professor of English at SUNY, Buffalo.
1968	Taught at University of New Mexico. Published The Finger (poems). Published Numbers (poems).
1969	Published Pieces (poems). Published The Charm (poems).
1970	Moved to Bolinas, CA. Taught at San Francisco State University. Published A Quick Graph : Collected Notes & Essays (criticism).
1972	Published A Day Book (journal and poems). Published Listen (radio play).
1973	Edited Whitman: Selected Poems. Moved to Buffalo, NY. Published His Idea (poems).
1974	Published Thirty Things (poems).
1976	Published: Presences: A Text for Marisol (prose); Away (poems); and Selected Poems. Divorced Bobbie Hall Creeley.
1977	Married Penelope Highton.
1978	Published Hello: A Journal (poems). Boundary 2 published a double issue titled Robert Creeley: A Gathering.
1979	Published Later (poems).
1980	First volume of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley: The Complete Correspondence published by Black Sparrow Press.
1981	Son William born. Awarded Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
1982	Received NEA Grant. Published The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley: 1945–1975.
1983	Daughter Hannah born. Published Mirrors (poems). Received DAAD Fellowship in Berlin.
1984	Appointed David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters, SUNY Buffalo.
1985	Awarded Leone d’Oro Premio Speziale, Venice.
1987	Received second DAAD Fellowship in Berlin. Awarded Frost Medal by Poetry Society of America.
1988	Robert Creeley’s Life and Work published. Received Distinguished Fulbright Award as Bicentennial Chair in American Studies, Helsinki University.
1989–91	Named New York State Poet.
1990	Named Capen Professor of Poetry and Humanities, SUNY Buffalo.
1991	Published Autobiography (essay).
1993	Tom Clark’s Robert Creeley and the Genius of the American Common Place published. Received Horst Bienek Lyrikpreis from Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts. Published Tales Out of School: Selected Interviews.
1994	Published Echoes (poems).
1995	Published Loops: Ten Poems.
1998	Published Life and Death (poems).
1999	Elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Received the Bollingen Prize.
2001	Received the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award.
2002	Published If I Were Writing This (poems).
2003	Named Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University. Moved to Providence, RI.
2005	Died at sunrise on March 30, 2005, in Odessa, Texas, from complications from pneumonia.
2006	On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay published. The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975–2005 published.