Programs Honor "Creeley at 70"
Three days of poetry readings, lectures and musical performances as well as
an exhibition, honored the 70th birthday of pioneering poet Robert Creeley,
SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry
and Humanities at UB. The events, held Oct. 10-12, which also helped mark
UB's sesquicentennial, included a "Conversation with Robert Creeley," and
readings by the poet, shown above, on Oct. 11 in the Katharine Cornell
Theatre. Celebrated literary, visual and jazz artists and composers
participated in the tribute to Creeley. UB's Poetry/Rare Books Collection
has opened an exhibition, curated by Robert Bertholf, "HERE: Fifty Years of
Poetry in Buffalo," in the Special Collections Poetry Room, 420 Capen Hall,
North Campus. The exhibition features Creeley's work, including the volumes
shown here, as well as important editions, manuscripts and photos of major
poets writing in English who have visited, taught or read at UB.
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