Coit Tower Poetry Club reads Robert Creely

Join the Coit Tower Poetry Club for the June installment of their First Friday residency on the back lawn of Coit Tower. This month’s featured poet turns toward the spare, searching voice of Robert Creely (1926–2005). A central figure in the Black Mountain poetry movement and a close collaborator of Charles Olson, Creeley wrote with radical economy — short lines, fragmented syntax, and an intense focus on the rhythms of thought and feeling as they unfold in real time. Following the club’s tradition, attendees gather in a circle on the back lawn of Coit Tower, passing around selected works and reading aloud, with the city and Bay spread out below — an open, informal evening of poetry in a neighborhood long shaped by the literary traditions Creeley helped define.