[1] The Foundation presented the Robert Creeley Award to a nationally recognized poet each year, and it had an active role in promoting poetry and the arts in the local community, particularly via close relationships with the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School and Acton Memorial Library.
[2] Robert Creeley participated in selecting the award winners until his death in 2005.
[13] The prize was awarded to one or two Massachusetts high school students each year.
Students received a monetary prize and also the opportunity to read their work as an opener to the Robert Creeley Award winner.
The past winners of the Helen Creeley Student Poetry Prize are:[14]