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Creeley

American  
[kree-lee] / ˈkri li /

noun

  1. Robert, 1926–2005, U.S. poet.


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Decades of legal precedent and a critical 1957 US Supreme Court decision underpin this concept, said Mr Creeley.

From BBC ● May 29, 2025

As Robert Creeley put it, "Thankfully, a plurality of poetries exists."

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2021

He also used literature as inspiration and collaborated on a collection of works with poet Robert Creeley.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018

While studying in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she met the poet Edward Dorn, and through Dorn the writer Robert Creeley and two of his Harvard classmates, Race Newton and Buddy Berlin.

From The New Yorker ● Jul. 28, 2016

It introduced him to like-minded artists, most of them poets including Robert Creeley, Charles Olson and Robert Duncan.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2011

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