A selective bibliography of open access articles on Robert Creeley, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Adamson, Robert. Robert Creeley. A noted Australian poet writes on his friendship with Robert Creeley, in Jacket Magazine, 26, Oct. 2004
Bezner, Kevin. "A Location Constantly Reoccurring: Creeley, Olson, and the Genesis of Black Mountain Poetry," Oyster Boy Review, 1999
Clark, Tom. "Robert Creeley Stares Straight Into the Mirror of Death," a review of Life & Death (New Directions) Reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, 4/12/98
Creeley, Robert. Complete book The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley (Univ. of California Press, 1989) Essays by Robert Creeley on Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, John Chamberlain, and others. Courtesy of the California Digital Library,
Foster, Edward Halsey. "Approaching the mountain." A review of Foster's Understanding the Black Mountain Poets. (Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1994) Covers Robert Creeley, Charles Olsen, and Robert Duncan. Reviewed in Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 1996, by John Taggart
Gander, Forrest. A review of Creeley's Life and Death. Review by poet Forrest Gander in the Boston Review, Oct/Nov 1998
Kelleher, Michael, ed. Special feature on Robert Creeley includes 15 articles by different poets and critics on Creeley, in the outstanding Jacket Magazine, 31, Oct. 2006
Licata, Elizabeth. "Robert Creeley's Collaborations: A History." On Robert Creeley's fine press books with printers and artists. The essay supports the 1999-2000 exhibition, "In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations" (removed)
McHugh, Heather. Love and frangibility: An appreciation of Robert Creeley. In American Poetry Review, May/Jun 1997
Moramarco, Fred. A lengthy essay has a section on Robert Creeley among other poets who "would move beyond the impersonal, objectivist confines of modernism and toward a poetry centered in the physical self of the poet who produced it. They participated collectively in the mid-century poetic climate that revolutionized poetry and greatly broadened its possibilities." From Moramarco's book Containing Multitudes
Wisker, Alastair. An introduction to Robert Creeley from the Literary Encyclopedia, 31 October 2002
An extended, introductory article on Robert Creeley includes selected poems, a list of his books, and a secondary reading list, from the Poetry Foundation
Obituary for Robert Creeley from the London Times "Black Mountain poet whose voice addressed the reader in the uncompromising accents of felt experience"; More obituaries: from the Guardian Unlimited; from the Washington Post; from the Boston Globe; from the Providence Journal
An introduction to Robert Creeley, plus short excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some of his poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
Issues and questions for teachers and readers of Robert Creeley's poetry from Heath guides
The Robert Creeley page from the Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo (where Creeley was on the faculty) has links to his poems, essays, and interviews
A summary of Robert Creeley's career from the SUNY Buffalo Reporter, 10/3/96
Brief biography of Robert Creeley from the Dia Arts Center
An interview with Robert Creeley in which he talks about his tastes and poetic development, by J.M. Spalding, Cortland Review, April 1998
Loss Pequeño Glazier's breezy account of a poetry reading at Buffalo celebrating Robert Creeley's 70th birthday
A very brief introduction to Robert Creeley from the Academy of American Poets
A biography and bibliography for Robert Creeley, with links to poems and articles by him in Jacket Magazine
A description of the Robert Creeley papers at the Univ. of Conn, along with a bibliography
In the Poets on Poetry teaching series, Robert Creeley talks about his use of long lines in Love & Death (removed)
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