Gallery Talk— Alexandra J. Gold: Creeley and the Art of Collaboration
Photo: Christine Magee Photography.
Scholar Alexandra J. Gold explores Creeley's artist book collaborations, including his 1968 collaboration with Robert Indiana.
Alexandra J. Gold is a Head Preceptor in the Harvard University Writing Program whose scholarship sits at the intersection of postwar American poetry and visual art. Her book The Collaborative Artist's Book: Evolving Ideas in Poetry and Art (University of Iowa Press, 2023)—an honorable mention for the 2024 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars—examines collaborations between poets and visual artists in artist's book form. Her peer-reviewed work includes two studies of Creeley's own collaborative visual practices: "'my eye locked in / self sight': The Self-Portrait Poems of Robert Creeley's Words" (Contemporary Literature, 2021) and "Forms of Accounting: Robert Creeley and Robert Indiana's Numbers" (Genre, 2018).
Creeley was a prodigious collaborator, completing more than a dozen projects with visual artists over several decades. This talk foregrounds Creeley as a creative partner, situating his work within a longer history of artists' books and taking a closer look at his 1968 collaboration with the artist Robert Indiana, Numbers.
The talk and Q&A will run approximately 45 minutes, with additional time to view the exhibition.
This talk is part of For Love: A Centenary Symposium for Robert Creeley, organized by the UB Poetics Program. Full program details and RSVPs are available at buffalo.edu.
Program Date: May 22, 2026