For Love: A Centenary Symposium for Robert Creeley
Organized by the UB Poetics Program
May 21, 2026 6:00pm — 9:00pm
Free
The UB Poetics Program presents the first evening of For Love: A Centenary Symposium for Robert Creeley, at the Burchfield Penney Art Center on Thursday evening, May 21. Join us for talks, films, live music, art, food, & poetry honoring Creeley as a Buffalo poet on his 100th birthday!
Our evening starts at 6pm with a set of brief, multi-media talks on “Creeley’s Arts”: Jason Camlot, “Robert Creeley’s Intimate Poetics of Performance”; Alexandra Gold, “Seeing Eye / Saying I: Creeley & the Visual Arts”; and Benjamin Friedlander, “Two Lost Poems from the 1950s,” moderated by Stephen Fredman. We’ll break for a reception with food by Roux and a cash bar and return at 8:15pm with a program, co-curated with Black Rock Arts, of brief Creeley-related films by Grayson Goga and Grace Stalley, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian, Gary Doberman, Robert Haller, Stan Brakhage, and Jason Duval, whose new film will be accompanied with live saxophone and winds performance by Steve Baczkowski.
This evening is a collaboration among the UB Poetics Program, the UB Poetry Collection, the UB Art Galleries, Just Buffalo Literary Center, the Buffalo AKG, and Black Rock Arts.
These events are free and open to the public; we’d love an RSVP.