TWA Poet: Robert Creeley

1926 - 2005

It’s the birthday of poet Robert Creeley, born in Arlington, Massachusetts (1926). He was two years old, riding in the car with his father, when a piece of coal hit the car and shattered the windshield. A piece of glass entered Robert’s eye, which had to be removed. His father died two years later, and his mother moved the family to a farm in rural Mass…