[Memorial reading for Robert Creeley at the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, April 7, 2005] /

Recorded at the Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo on April 7, 2005 on a 90 minute Maxell sound cassette.

This recording is of a memorial reading for former University at Buffalo professor and poet, Robert Creeley who died on March 30, 2005. The memorial was held in the Poetry Collection and featured readers and speakers from the University at Buffalo community. The participants were: Steve McCaffery, Penelope Creeley, Michael Kelleher, James Maynard, Art Efron, Max Wickert, Jonathan Skinner, James Swan, Robert Daly, Jimmie Margaret [Canfield] Gilliam, Ted Pelton, Barbara Cole (reading on behalf of the absent Susan Howe), William Sylvester, Michael Basinski, Karen Mac Cormack, Eun-Gwi Chung, Morgan Claxton, Robert J. Bertholf, Laurie Dean Torrell, Peter Siedlecki.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

2005

Sound recording

PCR067

Variations (Robert Creeley) /Steve McCaffery reads Creeley --[widow's address to audience] /Penelope Creeley --Numbers: the fool /Michael Kelleher reads Creeley --[reminiscence] /James Maynard --[reminiscence] /Art Efron --[reminiscence] /Max Wickert --[email from Creeley] /Jonathan Skinner --Lunch and after /Jonathan Skinner reads Creeley --Edges /James Swan --You /Robert Daly reads Creeley --Carolina /Jimmie Margaret [Canfield] Gilliam --Oh Max /Ted Pelton reads Creeley --America /Barbara Cole reads Creeley --The heart /Barbara Cole reads Creeley --Good-bye my fancy /Barbara Cole reads Walt Whitman --Echo /Karen Mac Cormack --On a theme by Lawrence, hearing Purcell /William Sylvester reads Creeley --[reminiscence] /Morgan Claxton --[reminiscence] /Robert J. Bertholf --[reminiscence] /Eun-Gwi Chung --[reminiscence]Peter Siedlecki.

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